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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #350 on: February 19, 2016, 08:47:29 AM »
I get to update mine.  Alerted that I was given a 3% raise, and then a $6300/yr "market adjustment" to compensate for them bringing in lower-level people at a pay close to mine, so I needed to be "Caught up".  So now I'm at $114,450, which is pretty sweet.  And bonus payout was at ~130%.  Nice.

130% of what? Base pay??

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #351 on: February 19, 2016, 09:02:29 AM »
I get to update mine.  Alerted that I was given a 3% raise, and then a $6300/yr "market adjustment" to compensate for them bringing in lower-level people at a pay close to mine, so I needed to be "Caught up".  So now I'm at $114,450, which is pretty sweet.  And bonus payout was at ~130%.  Nice.

130% of what? Base pay??

Target.  Target is 10% of base pay.  So target was $10,500, payout is 130% or $13,650.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #352 on: February 19, 2016, 09:40:18 AM »
Job1 Software Developer for Big Company with TPS reports and stuff
Salary: 220k
Age: 38
Experience: 19y
Education: 2 year community college

Job2 Software Developer contractor for another company
Hourly based on work: about 80k this year

Software developer here too, and salaries for software devs top out at around $130k. The only way get it higher is to become an architect or move into a management role. What part of the country are you in? What are some companies that offer these high salaries to software devs?

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #353 on: February 19, 2016, 09:42:50 AM »
Target.  Target is 10% of base pay.  So target was $10,500, payout is 130% or $13,650.

Gotcha.

We're lucky to get 1% as feds... still, good bennies otherwise. It's interesting to see the differences in pay structures between industries.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #354 on: February 19, 2016, 10:20:37 AM »
Job Title: Program Analyst / Project Manager (Healthcare research)
Age: 28
Salary: $64k + private stock
Experience: 4 years
Education: BA in Philosophy (not that it makes a difference what you study).

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #355 on: February 19, 2016, 12:25:55 PM »
Age: 28
Job Title: Estimator
Salary: $55K
Experience: 6 years
Education: Bachelors in Civil Engineering

Side Hustle: Blog/craft business - $1-2k/year
Thinking of starting a catering business to up the side hustle

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #356 on: February 19, 2016, 12:31:13 PM »
Job Title:  Sr. Web Business Analyst / Management Consultant
Age:  as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
Salary:  $170k = $146k billable hours + $24k salary
Experience:  just under 3 deca-years
Education:  BS in Computer Science

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #357 on: February 19, 2016, 01:02:44 PM »
Job title: financial consultant, global Corp

Age:44
Experience: 16 years
Total comp c.$160k
Stem bachelors and masters - no debt

Not as high given my age as some of you young guns with some fantastic salaries.

But
- 5 weeks paid vacation
- NEVER work weekends or on vacation
- 35ish hours per week for the most part
- very family friendly, can come and go as I please
And
I love what I do but don't feel very stretched professionally. Beginning to think I'm getting comfortable and settled (the horror!!)



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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #358 on: February 19, 2016, 02:05:22 PM »
Job1 Software Developer for Big Company with TPS reports and stuff
Salary: 220k
Age: 38
Experience: 19y
Education: 2 year community college

Job2 Software Developer contractor for another company
Hourly based on work: about 80k this year

Software developer here too, and salaries for software devs top out at around $130k. The only way get it higher is to become an architect or move into a management role. What part of the country are you in? What are some companies that offer these high salaries to software devs?

Big company near Seattle. The Salary includes my cash "bonus" which pretty much is the same every single year so I consider it Salary. I'm not sure how it's extra motivation if it is always the same lol... whatever. After reading Living FI's story (Dr Doom on this forum), I take my job a lot less seriously as we have had nearly the same exact experiences in tech it is comical.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #359 on: February 19, 2016, 02:09:36 PM »
Job1 Software Developer for Big Company with TPS reports and stuff
Salary: 220k
Age: 38
Experience: 19y
Education: 2 year community college

Job2 Software Developer contractor for another company
Hourly based on work: about 80k this year

Software developer here too, and salaries for software devs top out at around $130k. The only way get it higher is to become an architect or move into a management role. What part of the country are you in? What are some companies that offer these high salaries to software devs?

Big company near Seattle. The Salary includes my cash "bonus" which pretty much is the same every single year so I consider it Salary. I'm not sure how it's extra motivation if it is always the same lol... whatever. After reading Living FI's story (Dr Doom on this forum), I take my job a lot less seriously as we have had nearly the same exact experiences in tech it is comical.

I wish I was interested in software dev -- salaries seem much higher than in the infrastructure world. Maybe I'm just not in the right places yet. :P

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #360 on: February 19, 2016, 02:17:36 PM »
Job Title: Digital Marketing Specialist for a nonprofit
Age: 25
Salary: $50k
Experience: 3 years
Education: BA in Anthropology

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #361 on: February 19, 2016, 02:23:41 PM »

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I wish I was interested in software dev -- salaries seem much higher than in the infrastructure world. Maybe I'm just not in the right places yet. :P
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But - boring, boring, boring

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #362 on: February 19, 2016, 03:07:53 PM »


I wish I was interested in software dev -- salaries seem much higher than in the infrastructure world. Maybe I'm just not in the right places yet. :P
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But - boring, boring, boring
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That's probably true. I got to stay at work for 22 hours last night...definitely not boring, heh.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #363 on: February 19, 2016, 03:17:07 PM »
I took a few programming classes during my EE degree, and I had fun with basic C++ but was never any good at complex logic. Shame, that.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #364 on: February 19, 2016, 05:49:17 PM »
Wow, after reading all these, I feel like I'm really behind the curve.  Looks like I need to go get a JD or a software engineering degree to catch up.  It's not a race, I know, but I want to FIRE really bad.

Currently:

Title: Advanced Distributed Learning Specialist (I make e-learning courses for the military as a contractor)
Salary: $64,000
Education: BA in English, MA in Education
Age: 28
Experience: <1 year

Also, I'm an Air Force Reservist
Title: 1st Lieutenant, Public Affairs Officer, USAFR
Salary: ~$15,000 per year for the minimum 12 weekends plus 2 weeks during the summer, then some intangibles on top of that
Experience: 3 years

Here are past numbers, just for kicks:

Title: High School English Teacher in Rural Missouri
Salary: $36,000
Experience: 2 years

Title: Staff Sergeant, Air National Guard Munitions Systems
Salary: ~$10,000, plus benefits for 12 weekends and 2 weeks during the summer
Experience: 5 years

In the past, I've also worked at Domino's Pizza, worked at a hardware store, worked at the supermarket, worked on campus during college, do farm work during the summer, and publish on Amazon KDP and do some other online stuff, and all of those were in the $20,000-$30,000 range, tops.  Domino's was a decent $15 per hour, which was nice as a college student.  Still feel like I'm scraping by, although my savings rate is around 75%.
ADLS! You bastard! ;)
I'm a GS-12 paper pusher for the Army and a cyberspace engineer in the AL ANG. Is there anything you can do to cut out all the pretty graphics and other overhead so we can get through a 30-minute class in under 3 hours? It's hard sharing a T1 with 100 other people on a drill weekend.
Have you considered going semi-FIRE and keeping your reserve job? Lifetime cost savings are huge, and it could cut your initial NW requirement in half.
I'm looking at quitting FT work next year and drilling for another 6 to make 20.

Awesome suggestions - I've actually thought the semi-FIRE idea before since it takes such a big bite out of the NW needed, but I'd like to have a bigger 'stash before I pull the plug.  I figure that even if I reach FIRE before I hit my 20, I'll continue to drill anyway.

And right there with you on the ADLS - I've dealt with ADLS constantly in my 8 years in the ANG and USAFR and I've hated how poorly designed the materials on there are too...  Cyberawareness Challenge is everybody's terrible perennial fave to hate on since the material is common sense and the videos hog so much bandwidth.  No telling how many hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent designing and developing that damn useless thing.

That said, I think the general trend is positive - a lot of the old first-generation CBTs were made by the lowest bidder (apparently with PowerPoint '98) and are reaching the end of their "serviceable lifecycles," and new stuff should be rolling out over the next few years, course by course.

I actually do ADLS strictly for the Coast Guard, though, so I won't be able to improve any of the AF or DOD courses :(

If only I could get one of those cush GS jobs... :D

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #365 on: February 19, 2016, 08:03:03 PM »
Job Title: Clinical Research Manager
Salary: $105,000 + yearly bonus
Experience: 8 years in various clinical research roles
Age: 33


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #366 on: February 20, 2016, 12:11:31 AM »
Job Title: Electronic Engineer
Salary: $154 + bonus ($26k in 2015)
Experience: 29 years
Education: BS in Electronic Engineering
Age: 53

Essentially FI now, but it is hard to tune off that money/insurance coming at me, plus the gym at work is great.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #367 on: February 20, 2016, 12:13:42 AM »
Job title: Associate director of communications
Salary: $230 ($150K salary + $70K bonus + $10K adjunct professor salary)
Education: BA, MPhil in literature
Experience: 20 years
Age: 45

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #368 on: May 24, 2016, 10:40:00 PM »
It's good to know whenever I want to feel like crap I can come here and see how much big money nearly all of you are making.

I think I posted in the winter that I was making 45k at an accounting job. I was going insane it was so boring so I left after 3 months.

Most recently I was a courier for the on demand app Postmates, and made what equals about a salary of $25k. That was until the past few weeks when work load has fallen to almost nothing and I'm lucky to make $30 a day.

I have the best wife though. She is okay with me being a poor bloke as long as I meet my financial obligations (I do).

Yesterday I had an interview which used up 3 hours of my life. Hell no.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #369 on: May 24, 2016, 11:13:43 PM »
Doctor.
Plenty.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #370 on: May 24, 2016, 11:28:13 PM »

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #371 on: May 25, 2016, 05:23:23 AM »
Job Title: Data Analyst
Salary: $60k
Job Experience: 3 years
Education: BS in Mathematics/Statistics
Age: 26

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #372 on: May 25, 2016, 06:45:36 AM »
City/County Planner
$42,000

Side hustles are short story author (Link: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1?ie=UTF8&text=Anna+Muir&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Anna+Muir&sort=relevancerank  ) and BBQ sandwich maker. Brings in roughly an additional $1,000 a year.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #373 on: May 25, 2016, 06:45:45 AM »
Interesting seeing that so many MMM members are high earners. 

After BS biochem.  $55k starting at pharmaceutical company. Hated it.

Back to school for PharmD  now $108,000/yr hospital pharmacist. Love it.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #374 on: May 25, 2016, 08:10:29 AM »
Age: 22
Job: Associate at a boutique consulting firm
Salary: 62,500 + 3% automatic 401(k) contribution (not a match, gets deposited regardless of what I contribute)
Experience: 1 year, first three months were as intern
Education: BA in Chemistry and Spanish

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #375 on: May 25, 2016, 12:56:22 PM »
Recently changed jobs, so here's an update:
Age: 29
Job: Communications and Content Marketing Manager at a start-up Saas (software as a service) company
Salary: 50k - underpaid but hopefully it will increase along with the company
Experience: 8 years since coming out of uni, a rather windy path to where I am now
Education: BA in Anthropology, several administration masters courses, going back for my MBA in the fall (part-time, partly funded by my company, so score on that front)

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #376 on: May 25, 2016, 01:20:20 PM »
Title: Senior Applications Analyst
Experience: 9.5 years
Age: 35
Salary: $82K


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #377 on: May 25, 2016, 02:31:57 PM »
Title job #1: Auditor Federal Government
Pay: $80k

Title job #2: Tax advisor (4 months out of the year while working 9-5 job) 6-10pm during the week and 10 hour days on weekends
Pay:$20k

Also do taxes on he side $5k year and I have rental property with no mortgage that brings in another $10k a year.
  B.S. Math, M.S. Taxation, CPA of course ( no student loans)

Looking for adjunct position for summer and fall. Retiring from government right at 20 year mark just for measly pension.

Experience 10 years tax, 3 years Audit

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #378 on: May 25, 2016, 02:39:27 PM »
Title: Paramedic
Experience: Two years as a medic. Five total in EMS.
Age: 28
Salary: I will probably gross between $40K-$45K this year. I work in an ER. It pays better than working on the streets did. I hope to complete a medic to RN bridge program in the next couple of years and get a nice salary bump.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #379 on: May 25, 2016, 03:04:17 PM »
Age: 54
Job: Economist (federal government)
Salary: $135,000 + health benefits, pension, 401k with 5% match.
Any salary increases require Congressional approval
Experience: 24 years
Education: BA in biochemistry, MA in area studies + lots of econ courses

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #380 on: May 25, 2016, 10:00:41 PM »
I think it would make more sense to express earning in terms of dollars per hour instead of a yearly salary.

For example someone in "big law" may earn 300k a year but work 80 hrs/week while another lawyer may earn 150k a year but work 40 hrs/week.

It would also be cool if people posted their real income and their income adjusted for cost of living in a specific city. I see a ton of 6 figure or near 6 figure incomes. There is a huge difference between 100k in San Fran and 100k in Des Moines, Iowa IMO.

Using KC, MO would be a great standardized COL.

For example, if I live in San Francisco and make $105k my standardized income for KCMO would be ~60k.

So true re: cost of living.  I live in a state that most would consider the lowest of the low,,,Mississippi. But you can still do well, it just takes a while.

Me: Sports Medicine Coordinator for a physical therapy company but I'm not a PT.
Salary: 101k, started at 27k in 1997
Age: 41
Education: BS, MS

Wife: Quant Analyst
Salary: 100k
Age: 36
Education: BS

I've worked for the same company for 19yrs and the wife has been with her company for 13yrs.


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #381 on: May 25, 2016, 10:25:09 PM »
Title: Tax Accountant
Salary: $70k but with O/T and perks probably closer to $80k. 
Hours: Pretty laid back, 9-5 type of job
Age: Late 20s. 
Experience: 6 years


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #382 on: May 27, 2016, 07:39:05 AM »
Education-associates in nursing, took 5 years total because it is competitive to get into a program in my state, especially community colleges.

Salary 75k base +OT/shift differentials (1-3$/HR)(I have room for up to 15% in raises to reach the top of the pay-scale plus differentials if I chose to get a BSN or learn another language)

Experience <1 year

Age 24

Title- corrections nurse

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #383 on: May 27, 2016, 10:04:15 AM »
Age 39
Occupation: Senior DBA
Salary: $130,000 year
Hours: Laid back work-week...but on-call can be crazy.
Experience: 15 years
Education: BS

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #384 on: May 27, 2016, 12:54:47 PM »
Title: Budget Analyst
Age: 27
Experience: 6 years
Education: BA, History
Compensation: $67k/year
Hours: 9:00 - 5:30 with no evening/weekend work for most of the year. Crazy hours for one to two months but no overtime.
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« Reply #385 on: May 28, 2016, 07:50:05 AM »
Age: 33
Experience: 11 years
Education: BS, CS
Comp: ~$400K/yr
Hours: 9:30-5

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #386 on: May 29, 2016, 08:47:16 AM »
It would also be cool if people posted their real income and their income adjusted for cost of living in a specific city. I see a ton of 6 figure or near 6 figure incomes. There is a huge difference between 100k in San Fran and 100k in Des Moines, Iowa IMO.

Or make everything based on San Fransisco.  For me to go to San Fransisco requires that I have a salary of about $175k based on what I make now (in Iowa) :-)

It's more fun to go that way for us LCoL folks.

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« Reply #387 on: June 01, 2016, 11:56:14 AM »
Title: Content Marketing Manager
Industry: large nonprofit in Saint Louis
Age: 27
Experience: 5 years
Education: BS, BA
Comp: ~$51K/yr
Hours: 8:30-5

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« Reply #388 on: June 01, 2016, 02:15:54 PM »
Title: Freelance test automation consultant
Age: 36
Experience: 10 years
Education: MSc. in CS
Revenue: Around $120k before taxes
Hours: generally 7.30-16.00 but I have all the flexibility in the world as long as my clients remain happy

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« Reply #389 on: June 02, 2016, 01:53:12 PM »
Really depends on what the boss feels like calling me that day...

Title: Product Training Specialist, IT Specialist, Lead Install Technician (I work for a mid-sized copier firm)
Age: 22
Experience: 1 year
Salary: 50,000

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #390 on: June 09, 2016, 06:33:23 AM »
Cop 50k (about to get a 20-30% raise), excellent benefits, early retirement. No degree besides police academy (most Officers have a degree these days, I'm an exception). Our pay varies wildly throughout the country. My Sgt. made well over 100k in NYC; some  police in rural areas only make mid 20's to low 30's.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #391 on: June 09, 2016, 09:08:12 AM »
It would also be cool if people posted their real income and their income adjusted for cost of living in a specific city. I see a ton of 6 figure or near 6 figure incomes. There is a huge difference between 100k in San Fran and 100k in Des Moines, Iowa IMO.

Or make everything based on San Fransisco.  For me to go to San Fransisco requires that I have a salary of about $175k based on what I make now (in Iowa) :-)

It's more fun to go that way for us LCoL folks.

Woah! I just ran the numbers based on bestplaces.net COLA calc. No wonder why Quora has questions like "Is 120K enough to live on in San Fran?"

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #392 on: June 09, 2016, 09:42:11 AM »
$97K + 15% bonus target (or, you know, over a quarter million + bonus if I lived in San Francisco :)

I'm a manager of marketing analysis for a F500, though I earned almost as much as a statistical analyst with considerably less hassle, though I like my current job a bit better.  A BA is a prerequisite and a masters is greatly preferred (almost required) for both jobs.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #393 on: June 09, 2016, 10:06:13 AM »
It would also be cool if people posted their real income and their income adjusted for cost of living in a specific city. I see a ton of 6 figure or near 6 figure incomes. There is a huge difference between 100k in San Fran and 100k in Des Moines, Iowa IMO.

Or make everything based on San Fransisco.  For me to go to San Fransisco requires that I have a salary of about $175k based on what I make now (in Iowa) :-)

It's more fun to go that way for us LCoL folks.

Woah! I just ran the numbers based on bestplaces.net COLA calc. No wonder why Quora has questions like "Is 120K enough to live on in San Fran?"

This is hilarious.
I'm a 22 y/o excel monkey, soon to be a Certified Public excel monkey
Experience: 1 year
Education: BS in Business Administration and MS of Accounting
Salary: ~135K in San Francisco adjusted dollars.  I'm going to be using this number whenever anyone asks me how much I earn and I'm not comfortable enough to tell them directly

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #394 on: June 09, 2016, 10:21:41 AM »
Title: Controller
Age: 38
Experience: 12
Education: BS Business Admin - Accounting
Certification: CPA
Salary: $120K, ($155K = adjusted for San Fran)

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #395 on: June 09, 2016, 11:23:28 AM »
Title: Account Executive
Salary: $47k base salary + $50k incentive comp @ quota (Going to hit ~$112k total for FY16)
Experience: 1 year
Age:28
Education:Some college

I want to update this and note that I actually ended up hitting $184,000 total comp for FY16 :)

Promotion in January has me at a $57k Base + $65k Incentive Comp @ Quota
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #396 on: June 09, 2016, 12:06:34 PM »
Title:  Vice President of Finance
Experience: 25 years
Education: Undergrad in Finance + MBA
Location: Chicago
Base Salary: $160K
Car Allowance: $8.4K
Target Bonus: $40K (it can be more or less than $40K based on company performance)
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #397 on: June 09, 2016, 12:10:34 PM »
Commenting to follow.

I'm a middle manager at a bookstore and am making $42,000 + bonuses based upon the store's performance.

I'm not at all satisfied with this level of pay considering that I have a BA in English Lit and a Master's of Library and Information Studies. This thread is inspirational! Thanks!

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Title:  Manager
Experience: 1 year in this job
Education: Undergrad in English Lit and MLIS
Location: Canada
Base Salary: $42k
Target Bonus: $10k

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #398 on: June 09, 2016, 12:41:43 PM »

And you just jumped from 90k to 280k for job #4? Teach me your secrets.

Haha, that part might be a less interesting than you think. By the end of job 3 I was in a "senior-level" position, but it was at a small company in Boston that couldn't afford to pay market rates (which I think would have been around $120k for that city). The new position is at a giant company in Silicon Valley that can, and chooses to, pay above market rates.

Sounds like Netflix.

Title: SW Engineering Director
Compensation: ~300k
Years experience: 10

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #399 on: June 09, 2016, 12:57:34 PM »
Title: Quality Engineer
Age: 44
Experience: 23 years
Education: BS ChE
Certification: CQE
Compensation: $103,500/yr + $3k-$5k bonus
Hours:  8-4:30