What's your job title and how much do you earn?

[Padonak]

What do you churn @dizzy ? Credit card sign up bonuses, bank sign up bonuses, anything else? Can you give some examples of recent bonuses you received, especially those that were not available to public.
I got approved for a new IHG Chase card recently. Seems like a good deal: 170K points for 3K spend plus a free night every year and some other benefits.

[charponnaise]

Hey there... new here and this seemed like a good thread to post in for the first time...

I'm a 'communications officer' (I write website content and manage social media for a university), and I earn £34k a year. I live in London which eats a chunk of it up but I manage.

I also do some cat-sitting on the side (it's quiet right now but in the warmer months when folks are off on holiday it brings in a little extra money - I started last May and made a few hundred from it in 2022).

[vand]

Fancy job titles have basically grown from corporate one upmanship bullshit.  A better title for this thread is "what do you actually do and how much do you earn."

[dandarc]

Fancy job titles have basically grown from corporate one upmanship bullshit.  A better title for this thread is "what do you actually do and how much do you earn."

Stare at an array, or sometimes two arrays of tiny lights. From time to time, push some buttons from another array but of buttons or move a small piece of plastic around - both of these things change how the lights blink for me and sometimes even for other people who are looking at their own array of lights every day. Nominally, I'm trying to get the array of lights to blink the way those people tell me they want the lights to blink, but in practice doesn't really matter much how my button pushing impacts the lights for other people. I get paid to do this about 24 hours per week. Works out to about $120K (gross revenue to my LLC) depending on exactly how many hours I do this in a given week.

Of course I also stare at arrays of tiny lights for free a lot of the time too, but these particular 24 hours each week are special so they pay me for them.

[GuitarStv]

I press buttons to make pixels dance on a screen for a living.

[GilesMM]

Fancy job titles have basically grown from corporate one upmanship bullshit.  A better title for this thread is "what do you actually do and how much do you earn."

I had a (terrible) boss who wanted to make himself look important.  He even went so far as to make local business cards showing him as the "CEO" of the local office, haha.  He insisted I was to be titled "General Manager", even though that title elsewhere in the corporation was a couple pay grades above me.  I went along with the ruse when he was in the room, but otherwise, I was just "Manager".

[Tyson]

I press buttons to make pixels dance on a screen for a living.

I was just thinking the other day how cushy our jobs are nowadays compared to almost any time in the past. 

[Steeze]

I press buttons to make pixels dance on a screen for a living.

I was just thinking the other day how cushy our jobs are nowadays compared to almost any time in the past.

Sometimes the thermostat in my private office is finicky. There is also not always milk / half & half in the office kitchen and I am forced to drink oat milk in my coffee.

[GuitarStv]

I press buttons to make pixels dance on a screen for a living.

I was just thinking the other day how cushy our jobs are nowadays compared to almost any time in the past.

Sometimes the thermostat in my private office is finicky. There is also not always milk / half & half in the office kitchen and I am forced to drink oat milk in my coffee.

You should refuse to drink oat milk.  Oat nipples are far too sensitive to be milked, it's cruel.

[Alfred J Quack]

Current salary: around 37k
Age: 38
Job: Systems administrator for a non-profit organisation

Couple of years later, promotion to application integrations specialist 😂

Salary: ~49k
Age: 41
PTO: 5 weeks coming in juli/august

[RetireOrDieTrying]

Cloud Architect. Abt. $220k. Fully remote.

[Hall11235]

Got a Promotion!

Title: Director of Systems integration and Connectivity (not my first choice, but I don't make the rules).
Comp: 120k base with 10k in bonus incentives. 23 days PTO annually, 4% 401k match.
Ed: BA in History and a BA in Education
Age:29
Years in Field: 8

What I do: Well, most of the last 4 years was spent developing and mentoring my team into a razor sharp outfit. They are compentent enough now that I might have trained myself out of a job. I really just mentor and coach, while handling emergencies or delicate matters.

[Alchemisst]

Cloud Architect. Abt. $220k. Fully remote.

What experience/ qualifications are needed for this type of job?

[Alfred J Quack]

Cloud Architect. Abt. $220k. Fully remote.

What experience/ qualifications are needed for this type of job?

Lots of hot air, probably ;)

[GuitarStv]

Cloud Architect. Abt. $220k. Fully remote.

What experience/ qualifications are needed for this type of job?

Lots of hot air, probably ;)

But you can't have a dry sense of humour.  Clouds just don't architect properly dry.

[RetireOrDieTrying]

Cloud Architect. Abt. $220k. Fully remote.

What experience/ qualifications are needed for this type of job?

Eh, in my case it's been kinda organic. I've been in IT for about 25 years, both on the technical and management sides. TBH I had no certifications, no formal training, no college degree, and no HS diploma nor GED. I just simply enjoyed the work and played with everything I could get my hands on. Over time you get good at a lot of things, and because of my management stint I can talk to both the fellow nerds about techno-babble, and to the executives, who are interested in practical questions like cost, time, maintainability, and barrier to entry.

One plus is that I can easily pass background, credit, and drugs tests, so I'm typically engaged for projects involving the healthcare and financial industries. A number of otherwise fine technical types are eliminated because of past indiscretions, poor personal financial management and/or ongoing inability to pass a pee test.

My previous job was at a customer of my current employer. I was approached a number of times, and at one point the time was right. They have treated me very well, and I feel fortunate.

I have started to take some certification exams, not because I need them, but because as a VAR (value-added reseller) our slice of a given sale is better when as a company we're at a higher tier as a partner of the vendor. This involves a number of hoops to jump through, but one of the hoops is X number of the technical staff need to possess a certain level of vendor certifications. Usually my employer will throw in some side bonus as a thank-you for passing these tests, because it makes the company more money overall.

That might be a much longer answer than you're looking for, but it's not exceptionally exciting; just being dependable, professional, proficient, personable, and enjoying the heck out of what I do. <shrug>

[pdxvandal]

[Update from 5 years ago.]

Title: Senior Marketing Coordinator
Experience: B.A.; 25 years
Age: 48
Salary: $107k + 10% employer contribution (same company as 5 years ago)
Easy side hustles: $10k

Could easily bring the side hustle income to $15k, but won't do that until I fully FIRE. Just raking in the extra income/retirement contributions for the next 12-18 months and we'll see where I stand.

Title: Marketing Coordinator
Experience: B.A.; 20 years
Age: 43
Salary: $72k
Easy side hustles: $5k

I'm not even at the salary I was at 4 years ago after a layoff, but inching closer, and just got a somewhat surprising $7k bump. My work-life balance is way better today, though. I show up and leave whenever I want (usually 9-3 in the office with telecommuting mixed in daily) and able to put away 40k of my salary pre-tax into a 457, 401 (includes 8% matching) and HSA (employer contributes $1.5k annually). I'm grateful. Not sure when FIRE will happen, as there have been some financial setbacks with my spouse, but hopefully in 2-4 years. I could probably retire today and live very frugally, but would rather create a larger cushion especially with a young-ish child.