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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #400 on: June 09, 2016, 01:57:19 PM »
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
I got $146k, but it's probably more than that because I'm underpaid.  $146k is actually probably where i should be, so in San Fran that's a bit more, 30% higher I think.

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« Reply #401 on: June 09, 2016, 02:04:01 PM »
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.

I was at $48k + OT when I left NH in 2011. I was looking at TN in ~2006...$28k. Nope...

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #402 on: June 09, 2016, 03:14:25 PM »
Job Title: Whatever made up term the company came up with to make it seem like I matter
Salary: Enough to pay rent, $1,250 a month extra on debt and still feel like I'm going nowhere
Experience: That depends - are we counting each of my 9 6-12 month positions as one long 6 year experience, or just the current 8 month stint?
Education: B.S. in Statistics from UCLA - really putting that money to good use


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #403 on: June 10, 2016, 09:48:14 AM »
Since I no longer work, I'll go ahead and post my husband's information (with enough vagueness to assure anonymity).

Job Title: Full Professor/Department Chair in a STEM field at a large, public university
Experience: About 25 years in field
Age: Late 50s
Education: PhD from a top program
Salary (including base pay, retirement matching program,  travel reimbursements from grants; outside consulting & speaker fees): $240,000-$245,000/year.


I ran the salary through the CNN cost of living calculator. This income supports a lifestyle that $545,000/year would support in Manhattan. This is totally theoretical though because from what I've heard professors living in major metropolitan areas are rarely compensated at rates that make up for huge differences in COL. I'm glad we're living where we are!


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #404 on: June 10, 2016, 10:13:00 AM »
Title: Office Manager/Executive Admin
Salary: 39K + 4-7% bonus (if I'm not shit)
Age: 27
Education: College Degree (4 years)
Update: Same job title, Salary is now 42K with the same bonus potential (this year it was 4K, next year will be lower just due to company forecast)

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #405 on: June 10, 2016, 10:30:02 AM »
Job Title: Project Manager - Commercial Construction Company
Experience: 5+ years in field/office
Age: 31
Education: BS in Civil Engineering/Construction Management, Minor in Business Admin
Salary: $80,000/Year Base + $6000/Year Vehicle Allowance, Gas Card & Cell Phone, Med, Dental, Vision, 401k

Working in Northern California.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #406 on: June 10, 2016, 01:05:24 PM »
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.

I was at $48k + OT when I left NH in 2011. I was looking at TN in ~2006...$28k. Nope...


Yeah it's crazy how different the pay is in different parts of the country. My Sgt. has a FAT pension from NYC, bought a $650k house here when he came down; on the flip side, I know guys out in the sticks that barely make $30k.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #407 on: June 10, 2016, 08:15:58 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)

Added - I am at the office 40 hours per week, but I only put in about 7 hours of actual work per week.  That is not  a joke.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #408 on: June 10, 2016, 08:31:12 PM »
Title: Surgical specialist (don't want to list my job title here due to it being a very small recognizable field)
Salary: $133k
Hours: Days plus on call
Experience: 12 years

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #409 on: June 10, 2016, 08:40:10 PM »
High School Teacher: $58,000. Total household income between the two of us plus our side hustles: $118,000. I am not complaining. Life is easy compared to when I was a kid.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #410 on: June 12, 2016, 05:12:04 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)

Added - I am at the office 40 hours per week, but I only put in about 7 hours of actual work per week.  That is not  a joke.

What do you do during the other 33 hours?

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #411 on: June 12, 2016, 06:39:19 PM »
Supportive Living Supervisor- Averages to $15+ per hr (wages + my own income streams). Or $28,850 per year. Paid .54 cents mile to drive to work,not factored in. I live in California

Two 18 hr shifts per week.8 hrs of each 18 hr shift is paid sleep time. Midweek. 20 hrs paid by the County, 17 paid by a Vendor of the State= 37 hrs per wk + my own income streams worked while on the clock. I also make $150-$100 a month selling on Craigslist but haven’t done it long enough to rely upon that as regular income to factor in. Shop for items to sell online while on the clock. Job Pays me to drive to work and paid to shop at nearby thrift stores (with my client). Wage + .54 cents per mile. Paid to sleep 8 hrs of my 18 hr shifts, not factored into the wage above.

Excellent Medical & Dental Benefits, Some Life insurance & D&D
Doc visits-$5 co-pays/$15 Specialist
 $50 ER visits up to 4 days per yr then no cost.
$5 generic/ $15 brand name drugs. $10 X rays. $25 Cat Scans/MRI etc..
NO DEDUCTIBLE PLAN.
DENTAL- Free Cleanings and X rays. No co pays or deductibles. Everything free except orthodontics where they pay $500 towards braces

-50,00 Life Insurance+ 50,000 AD&D up front then 50% of wages paid until ages 65 if disabled.

Other Perks while on the clock-

-Paid to sleep 8 hrs of each shift (or surf online).
-Showering at work while on the clock in private bath. Blowdrying my hair. Two hours a week saved from doing it at home right after shift.
-Washing one set of clothes in bathtub(worn at the prior shift) hanging to dry then fold in the morning. Less laundry to do at home.
-Exercise each shift. Run pretty hard for 30 min of each shift. Not much but helps my cycling.  Run alongside my Client who cycles (on the level road) for 30-40 min of each shift.
-Plenty of time to eat healthy while on the clock-Juice my organic veggies and such.
-Paid .54 cents a mile to drive to work (one way) each week (an extra $125-$150 re-imbursement check per month)
-Twice as many paid sick days than Calif law requires

Potential Advancement- They've offered me a better job a few times. A higher up Supervisor Position but it requires working 4 more hrs per week +being on call at least 1, sometimes 2 two days per week. Includes better Life Insurance + other little perks. I'd only make $10,000 more per year. Not worth it. So this arrangement works fine. We live in Northern California
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #412 on: June 12, 2016, 07:24:55 PM »
Job Title: Senior Environmental Advisor for a company in the mining/chemical manufacturing industry.
Salary: $127.5k (AUD)
Years’ experience: 10 years


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #413 on: June 13, 2016, 06:26:47 AM »
Amazing the Salaries of alot of young people on here. Practice the MMM principles and your future will be what you want it to be.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #414 on: June 13, 2016, 08:04:47 AM »
Age: 33
Job Title: Senior Compliance Analyst
Salary: $91k
Experience: 11 years
Education: Master’s degree


Holy shit, I could be making $241,274 in San Fran. Thanks for the COLA comparison link (http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/)!

That one is crazy compared to the CNN calculator.

CNN says I should be at $196k in San Fran
Best Places says I should be at $292k in San Fran.

One of them is likely a bit off.

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« Reply #415 on: June 13, 2016, 11:17:02 AM »
^ Ha! Thanks for CNN comparison, http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/index.html. Yes, I can now temper my reaction a bit since San Fran is only $160k compared to the insane $241k at Best places COL.

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« Reply #416 on: June 13, 2016, 04:29:29 PM »
Amazing the Salaries of alot of young people on here. Practice the MMM principles and your future will be what you want it to be.

I feel very blessed to make what I do (and I'm not close to some folks my age or younger here, either).

Even more blessed to be smart enough to not be immediately parted with what I make, too! :-)

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #417 on: June 16, 2016, 12:51:21 PM »
Age: 27
Marketing Analyst
Salary: $76k + 4-10% bonus
B.A. in Psychology, up to about 4 years experience now

To those talking about COL adjustments, I think most places drastically overstate them, particularly for Mustachians. I spent ~$18,000 living in NYC last year, on pace to spend about $15,000 this year. How could I possibly be saving much more by living in St. Louis?

It is fairly easy to eliminate most of the COL difference if you really want to. So I would advocate not adjusting for COL on a forum like this. Someone making $100,000 in a HCOL area has the opportunity to save much more than than another person making $60,000 in a LCOL area.
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #418 on: June 22, 2016, 12:57:16 PM »
Hey I have a new job! I'm revisiting!

Age: 28
Title: Digital Director
Field: Politics
Location: Portland, OR
Salary: $49K + bonuses (~$3,000 depending on election results)
Education: BA in Economics
Experience: 10 years experience in closely related field, first year in politics

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #419 on: June 22, 2016, 01:10:36 PM »
Here to update!

Age: 27
Title: Staff Accountant
Location: Piedmont Triad, NC
Salary: $35K
Experience: 1 year
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #420 on: June 27, 2016, 11:09:34 AM »
Project manager at a large IT company.  $120k per year.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #421 on: June 27, 2016, 12:44:16 PM »
Age: 28
Title: Member Services and sales
Field: Major med insurance
Location: Montana
Salary: $46K + 6-8% bonus
Education: BA in Business Management
Experience: 3.5 years
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Wife and I started a graphic design business this year- she has 6+ years designing, BA in Graphic Design
~looking like $8-10k this year
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #422 on: June 28, 2016, 05:14:02 AM »
Job Title: Creative Designer
Salary: $69k

Years of experience: 1.5

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #423 on: June 28, 2016, 07:04:40 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.

I was at $48k + OT when I left NH in 2011. I was looking at TN in ~2006...$28k. Nope...


Yeah it's crazy how different the pay is in different parts of the country. My Sgt. has a FAT pension from NYC, bought a $650k house here when he came down; on the flip side, I know guys out in the sticks that barely make $30k.

How much time did y'all have on?
Me:
Job title: police officer
Age: 31
Time on: 9 years
Pay: 85k ish with ball park 8 hours per week overtime.
Location: Texas, super low cost of living.
Education requirements:  45 college credits or military experience I believe.
Extra pay for: masters degree/ bachelors degree, bilingual.
Perks: 55% pension at 25 years

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #424 on: June 28, 2016, 07:54:50 AM »
Title: Front Desk Jockey
Total Compensation: Around $61k
Years of Experience: Several
Training/Education: OTJ is all that is necessary, however a BA was 'highly desired'. I happened to have one.

I have one of the easiest jobs for the money in the world. Some days I just sit here like '...really? They are happily shelling out $61k a year for this?".

Damn, how lucky! But what part of the country?

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« Reply #425 on: June 28, 2016, 11:02:53 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.

I was at $48k + OT when I left NH in 2011. I was looking at TN in ~2006...$28k. Nope...


Yeah it's crazy how different the pay is in different parts of the country. My Sgt. has a FAT pension from NYC, bought a $650k house here when he came down; on the flip side, I know guys out in the sticks that barely make $30k.

How much time did y'all have on?
Me:
Job title: police officer
Age: 31
Time on: 9 years
Pay: 85k ish with ball park 8 hours per week overtime.
Location: Texas, super low cost of living.
Education requirements:  45 college credits or military experience I believe.
Extra pay for: masters degree/ bachelors degree, bilingual.
Perks: 55% pension at 25 years

I started part time in December 2006, full time in September 2007, and left in October 2011 - 4yr 10mo total, just over 4 years full time.

It was fun and I have no regrets, but I am really enjoying having nights and weekends off now. Stay safe!

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #426 on: June 28, 2016, 12:40:41 PM »
Title: Property Administrator (administrative assistant-like job in commercial property management)
Years in: 6
Age: 33
Education: Bachelor of Arts - English
Salary: $40,000

This is by far the highest paying job I've ever had, and I get great benefits and bonuses on top of my base. However, I'm hoping to explore options and find a new career path eventually as I'm getting very bored with this. I'm not sure what I could do from here, but I do want to make over $50K.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #427 on: June 28, 2016, 12:57:57 PM »
Title: Property Administrator (administrative assistant-like job in commercial property management)
Years in: 6
Age: 33
Education: Bachelor of Arts - English
Salary: $40,000

This is by far the highest paying job I've ever had, and I get great benefits and bonuses on top of my base. However, I'm hoping to explore options and find a new career path eventually as I'm getting very bored with this. I'm not sure what I could do from here, but I do want to make over $50K.

I work for a national general contractor. We have project admins that process all the submitals, drawings, reporting, supply ordering, etc. They are paid $20-$35/hr. A few have gotten a masters in Construction Management and moved up into the technical ranks.

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« Reply #428 on: June 28, 2016, 02:46:32 PM »
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?"

Using... http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/

I make 160 to 200 a year as a .NET consultant in MN, apparently I need OVER $300,000 to go to SAN FRAN

Amazing...

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #429 on: June 29, 2016, 06:45:29 AM »
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)

Ballpark of annual revenue of the company?  I am assuming less than 500M annual at the above comp for VP finance.  Is there a CFO as well or are you as high as it gets on the Finance side?

Awesome work life balance though, you hit the jackpot there :)


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #430 on: June 29, 2016, 05:34:47 PM »
Senior Accoutant for University
Base Salary: $80k
Bonus: ~5%
Vacation: 20 days
Holiday: 13 paid days
Experience: 1.5 years public. 3.5 years private.
Age: 29

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #431 on: June 30, 2016, 09:16:24 AM »
Title - Programme Officer (at an international nonprofit)
Age - 24
Salary - 28k USD
Location - China

Gotta love that low CoL though!

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« Reply #432 on: June 30, 2016, 10:41:19 AM »
Title: Support Associate II
Age: 44
Salary: 71k
Location: US



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« Reply #433 on: July 01, 2016, 05:47:33 AM »
Title: Community Construction Liaison
Age: 23
Salary: ~75K before any OT.
Education: Finishing up undergrad.
Experience: First year doing this, 5 years of various fundraising, non-profit, etc. before.

HCOL area though!

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« Reply #434 on: July 08, 2016, 09:08:42 AM »
Title: Property Administrator (administrative assistant-like job in commercial property management)
Years in: 6
Age: 33
Education: Bachelor of Arts - English
Salary: $40,000

This is by far the highest paying job I've ever had, and I get great benefits and bonuses on top of my base. However, I'm hoping to explore options and find a new career path eventually as I'm getting very bored with this. I'm not sure what I could do from here, but I do want to make over $50K.

I work for a national general contractor. We have project admins that process all the submitals, drawings, reporting, supply ordering, etc. They are paid $20-$35/hr. A few have gotten a masters in Construction Management and moved up into the technical ranks.

That's cool, but I'd honestly like to do something less administrative as a different career. I would probably fit better in a teaching or creative career, but not sure how to break into that without amassing student debt or having to deal with the state education systems.

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« Reply #435 on: July 14, 2016, 09:55:49 PM »
My Job Title: SSD Firmware Engineer
Experience: 1 year
Education: BS in Computer Science
Salary: 72k + ~10% bonus + $750 HSA contribution + 2.5% 401k match + whatever ESPP ends up being worth

Cost of living from this chart is 99.2/100, so very average cost of living area.

Started at 71k, got a raise a couple months in as a thanks for being awesome ;)

My manager says I will be getting a promotion in the next round (February) even though it typically takes 3-4 years. Should come with about a 10% raise.

The work environment is awesome. Really laid back and supportive. Take as much vacation as you want policy with no keeping track of work, sick, and vacation hours, etc. I would have to get a super big raise to consider working elsewhere.

DW Job Title: RN
Salary: ~70k + small pension + 2% 403b match
Experience: 5 years
Education: BS in Dietetics, BS in Nursing

She started out getting a degree in dietetics but that didn't work out due to requiring an internship to get certified and there not being enough to go around (something that if she had known me prior to starting the program she would have thoroughly looked into and chosen something different or studied harder). Went back after the Dietetics degree and did an accelerated BSN program and now is very happy.

Updating because I just got a promotion and a 15% raise!!!!

My Job Title: Senior SSD Firmware Engineer
Experience: 1.5 years
Education: BS in Computer Science
Salary: $83,000 + 10% bonus target + $750 HSA contribution + 3% 401k match + whatever ESPP ends up being worth
San Francisco Salary: $198,578 (my city is 101.4 on CoL Index)
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #436 on: July 15, 2016, 03:25:11 PM »
2 jobs

Age: 29
Title: Business Analyst
Salary: $69K
Education: BS in Finance, a year of MBA down
Experience: 5 years

National Guard
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« Reply #437 on: August 07, 2016, 09:42:08 PM »
Title: Federal Government GS-1811-13-5 ("I'm with the government. I'm here to help")
Salary: $113,000
Age: 34
Education: BA CLJ from Penn State
Experience: 12 years
Location: Philadelphia

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« Reply #438 on: August 07, 2016, 10:16:35 PM »
Age: 41
Title: Union Electrican
Pay: $62000 + 12.5% 401K + fully paid family medical insurance + pension
Education: 5 year apprenticeship
Experience: 10 years

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #439 on: August 08, 2016, 04:28:27 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.

I was at $48k + OT when I left NH in 2011. I was looking at TN in ~2006...$28k. Nope...


Yeah it's crazy how different the pay is in different parts of the country. My Sgt. has a FAT pension from NYC, bought a $650k house here when he came down; on the flip side, I know guys out in the sticks that barely make $30k.

How much time did y'all have on?
Me:
Job title: police officer
Age: 31
Time on: 9 years
Pay: 85k ish with ball park 8 hours per week overtime.
Location: Texas, super low cost of living.
Education requirements:  45 college credits or military experience I believe.
Extra pay for: masters degree/ bachelors degree, bilingual.
Perks: 55% pension at 25 years

I started part time in December 2006, full time in September 2007, and left in October 2011 - 4yr 10mo total, just over 4 years full time.

It was fun and I have no regrets, but I am really enjoying having nights and weekends off now. Stay safe!

Yeah the nights and weekends suck sometimes. I've been on 10 years; did corporate asset protection work for 11 years before that (actually liked it better than police work). Man you guy in Texas get paid well; I've talked to a couple of Texas LEO's, and they all were paid well.


Update: Got a promotion

Police Sergeant
60k+
10 years service
41yo
Some college, lots of in-service training
Location, central NC
My COL is almost nothing, house paid for, no debt.




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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #440 on: August 11, 2016, 05:21:29 PM »
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.

I was at $48k + OT when I left NH in 2011. I was looking at TN in ~2006...$28k. Nope...


Yeah it's crazy how different the pay is in different parts of the country. My Sgt. has a FAT pension from NYC, bought a $650k house here when he came down; on the flip side, I know guys out in the sticks that barely make $30k.

How much time did y'all have on?
Me:
Job title: police officer
Age: 31
Time on: 9 years
Pay: 85k ish with ball park 8 hours per week overtime.
Location: Texas, super low cost of living.
Education requirements:  45 college credits or military experience I believe.
Extra pay for: masters degree/ bachelors degree, bilingual.
Perks: 55% pension at 25 years

I started part time in December 2006, full time in September 2007, and left in October 2011 - 4yr 10mo total, just over 4 years full time.

It was fun and I have no regrets, but I am really enjoying having nights and weekends off now. Stay safe!

Yeah the nights and weekends suck sometimes. I've been on 10 years; did corporate asset protection work for 11 years before that (actually liked it better than police work). Man you guy in Texas get paid well; I've talked to a couple of Texas LEO's, and they all were paid well.


Update: Got a promotion

Police Sergeant
60k+
10 years service
41yo
Some college, lots of in-service training
Location, central NC
My COL is almost nothing, house paid for, no debt.

Congrats on the promotion! yeah, we just got a pretty sweet new contract too. Officers with 17 years on will be getting around 90K in 2018 with a degree... We're hiring!

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #441 on: August 12, 2016, 09:25:22 AM »
Age: 43
Title: Auditor
Salary: 78K
Education: BS in nuclear engineering
Experience: 3 years
Location: Bremerton, WA

Prior job: 22 years active duty Navy enlisted, retired as an E-8. Worked on submarines running the engineroom.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #442 on: August 12, 2016, 10:00:22 AM »
Account Manager

Salary $52K
Quarterly Bonus: Average $2K (about 3K gross)take home net each quarter last 4 quarters
Annually Profit Sharing: depending on the year appx. $7K
4.5% 401 k match
pretty decent medical benefits

2 years in job

age 33

feeling underpaid vs many I see here...
Happy I am focusing on both increasing savings rate as well as increasing pay :)

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #443 on: August 13, 2016, 06:08:47 PM »
Job- E-Discovery Consultant
Salary - 87,500 plus bonus ~4% per quarter based on company performance
Experience/Ed - 10+ years, BA/JD

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #444 on: August 14, 2016, 08:44:06 AM »
Expat Oil Field Trash (expecting to be laid off soon = forced into RE)
Super low cost of living with exchange rate
North of $350k compensation + 8% base salary match 401k + pension

10 years in industry 4 years outside experience Engineering degree and Professional Engineering license.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #445 on: August 14, 2016, 10:52:05 AM »
Job: Customer Service Rep
Age: 28
Less than 1 year in this job
~ $35K, plus benefits and matching 401k

No degree (hoping to finish up this year once tuition benefits kick in), but I have lots of customer service experience. Hoping to move into a new role in my organization after a year or so in this role so that I can make/save more.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #446 on: August 14, 2016, 07:55:16 PM »
Title: Pharmaceutical Fluid Bed Operator
Age: 29
Experience: 5 years
Education: BS in Biology/Chemistry (Job requires only HS Diploma =P)
Salary: $68,000 Base (*80k-100k typically with OT)
401k match: Flat rate of $4490 (~6.6% of base salary)
Vacation: 160 Hours Paid
Work Hours/Week: 36  (Weekend shift though so not all ice cream and rainbows)

Sad thing is I get paid more than Chemists/R&D/Supervisors at the company or I would leave the union and take one of those jobs.  Glad I didn't go to pharmacy school and take on the $160k of school tuition debt + living expenses for 4 years. 


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #447 on: August 14, 2016, 09:12:20 PM »
Title: Pathology Resident
Age: 30
Experience: 5 (PGY5 in the jargon)
Education: MD
Salary: $61,800 Base ($500 BS bonus, contract disallows outside gigs for the most part), good health insurance
401k match: Ha!
Vacation: 15 days
Work Hours/Week: 60ish Plus occasional at home call (reasonable for a resident)
Current City: Denver

Next year I will be a "fellow" in NYC with ~$82-85K salary.  After training salary depends on type of practice (academic, private practice or industry) and desirability of city (you can make 2-3x in places that docs don't want to live).  Ballpark first year salary in my ultimate field (Molecular Genetic Pathology/Clinical Informatics) is $200,000-$250,000 in a major city outside of the South and Midwest.  Depending on partnership/academic structure, 3-6 years in, one can probably expect $225,000-$350,000 but it is widely variable, that range probably captures 1.5 SDs (assuming mediocristan). 

As you might imagine, this field (like all of medicine) puts one way behind in savings, because one does not start saving in earnest until 28-35 years old.  Most people, like myself, have $100,000-300,000 in medical school debt at graduation that grows during residency because salary is not sufficient in higher COL cities to even pay down interest on this debt (6+% interest is the norm).

Fortunately, the end game salary more than makes up for the years of poor pay and what some would consider being overworked during residency.  The trick is realizing one is not rich when you are 32 years old with $300K education debt and minimal retirement savings. This is where most fail. :)


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #448 on: August 14, 2016, 09:15:40 PM »
Fortunately, the end game salary more than makes up for the years of poor pay and what some would consider being overworked during residency.   The trick is realizing one is not rich when you are 32 years old with $300K education debt and minimal retirement savings. This is where most fail. :)

I don't want to burst your bubble. I really don't.

So I won't and will just say, I hope you make more than $225k and work a normal workweek when you graduate into your non-residency!

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #449 on: August 15, 2016, 06:57:59 AM »
My San Francisco salary would be around $115k.  With out getting specific, I work in IT, get a very generous 28 days of vacation a year and 3-3.5% profit sharing 401k.

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!