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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #850 on: April 22, 2019, 11:12:42 AM »
Administrative Specialist w/ State government
$55k salary
Health Benefits, 30 year retirement (26 of which I have in)
High School diploma
Will retire with full pension at age 49

Wow, full pension at age 49 is excellent!  I work for the California State Government and we don't receive until you have BOTH at least 40 years of service and are at least age 67.  This was recently changed, if you were hired before 2013 I believe your requirements were age 62 and 40 years of service.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #851 on: April 22, 2019, 06:42:02 PM »
Yep, I work for the State of MD and am in the "old" system, which is a straight 30 year plan.  They've since changed it for anyone hired after 2011.  But, I'm grandfathered in.  I'll be able to retire with the full State health benefits package, too.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #852 on: April 22, 2019, 07:52:11 PM »
Bail Agent In California
72K

Moved to Montana
Detention Officer
31K

No regrets

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #853 on: May 28, 2019, 02:45:33 PM »
Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $82k + 10% bonus
Experience: 3 years
Education: BS Engineering Physics
Age: 26

An update upon getting my new position. I'm about a year of experience short of a major title change (Salesforce Architect), so hopefully, I can get that through my new job.

Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $85k + 10%
Experience: 4 years

Another update:

Title: Senior Product Support Technical Advisor (lol, it's the same as before but the company is crazy)
Salary: $50/hr [$100k/yr] but with no benefits as I'm a contractor. it'll be 90k next year with benefits.
Experience: 5 years

Contract ended, got a salaried position lined up:

Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $115k + 10%
Experience: 6 years
Age: 29

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #854 on: June 05, 2019, 10:43:53 PM »
Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $82k + 10% bonus
Experience: 3 years
Education: BS Engineering Physics
Age: 26

An update upon getting my new position. I'm about a year of experience short of a major title change (Salesforce Architect), so hopefully, I can get that through my new job.

Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $85k + 10%
Experience: 4 years

Another update:

Title: Senior Product Support Technical Advisor (lol, it's the same as before but the company is crazy)
Salary: $50/hr [$100k/yr] but with no benefits as I'm a contractor. it'll be 90k next year with benefits.
Experience: 5 years

Contract ended, got a salaried position lined up:

Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $115k + 10%
Experience: 6 years
Age: 29

Damn, 36.3k more (115k*1.1 - 82k * 1.1), a 40% increase, in the span of 2 yrs, 9 months?

Well done!

If your lifestyle hasn't inflated, your savings rate must have shot up like crazy.
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #855 on: June 05, 2019, 10:52:19 PM »
Job Title: Legal Counsel
Salary: $154,000 + 6% 401K match+ 10% employer contribution to a different retirement account (no employee contribution required) +  25% of base salary bonus based company performance + 35% Long Term Incentive bonus with 3 year vesting period + ESPP with 50% match on shares held for two years.
Age: 28
Experience: 2.5 Years (my position required 5 - 7 but I weaseled my way in )
Education: Bachelors + JD

Just curious how many hours on average you work per week?

I work around 40 hours a week. Every once in a while it'll be around 50 + travel. My office is in the U.S. but the company is Scandinavian. So the work life balance reflects that culture.

Great, sounds like an awesome job with heaps of work-life balance.

Did you go to a top law school and get very impressive marks? I am wondering otherwise how you weaselled your way in.

Here in Australia, I don't know of anyone under 30 in the legal industry who would be making more than AU$200k a year (US $130,000 a year). It just doesn't happen unfortunately. Our law salaries are much lower. The top end doesn't really come around till you're 35 or 40 years old.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #856 on: June 06, 2019, 01:06:37 PM »
Licensed Practical Nurse
$23/hour
I work 84 hours a month, only 9 months/year.
I have summers off.
After taxes and mandatory pension deductions,
I keep $1000/month

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #857 on: June 06, 2019, 01:35:33 PM »
Licensed Practical Nurse
$23/hour
I work 84 hours a month, only 9 months/year.
I have summers off.
After taxes and mandatory pension deductions,
I keep $1000/month

Your job and username are quite the combo. I'll be chuckling about that all afternoon.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #858 on: June 06, 2019, 01:54:42 PM »
Job Title: Legal Counsel
Salary: $154,000 + 6% 401K match+ 10% employer contribution to a different retirement account (no employee contribution required) +  25% of base salary bonus based company performance + 35% Long Term Incentive bonus with 3 year vesting period + ESPP with 50% match on shares held for two years.
Age: 28
Experience: 2.5 Years (my position required 5 - 7 but I weaseled my way in )
Education: Bachelors + JD

Just curious how many hours on average you work per week?

I work around 40 hours a week. Every once in a while it'll be around 50 + travel. My office is in the U.S. but the company is Scandinavian. So the work life balance reflects that culture.

Great, sounds like an awesome job with heaps of work-life balance.

Did you go to a top law school and get very impressive marks? I am wondering otherwise how you weaselled your way in.

Here in Australia, I don't know of anyone under 30 in the legal industry who would be making more than AU$200k a year (US $130,000 a year). It just doesn't happen unfortunately. Our law salaries are much lower. The top end doesn't really come around till you're 35 or 40 years old.

Pay for lawyers in the US tends to be a reverse bell curve. A number of very highly compensated, a number quite lowly compensated, and relatively few in-between. It's a major reason I didn't shift to that career after my time in the military despite have interest in the field.  Here's an interesting article on the situation https://www.biglawinvestor.com/bimodal-salary-distribution-curve/

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #859 on: June 06, 2019, 02:09:14 PM »
Job Title: Legal Counsel
Salary: $154,000 + 6% 401K match+ 10% employer contribution to a different retirement account (no employee contribution required) +  25% of base salary bonus based company performance + 35% Long Term Incentive bonus with 3 year vesting period + ESPP with 50% match on shares held for two years.
Age: 28
Experience: 2.5 Years (my position required 5 - 7 but I weaseled my way in )
Education: Bachelors + JD

Just curious how many hours on average you work per week?

I work around 40 hours a week. Every once in a while it'll be around 50 + travel. My office is in the U.S. but the company is Scandinavian. So the work life balance reflects that culture.

Great, sounds like an awesome job with heaps of work-life balance.

Did you go to a top law school and get very impressive marks? I am wondering otherwise how you weaselled your way in.

Here in Australia, I don't know of anyone under 30 in the legal industry who would be making more than AU$200k a year (US $130,000 a year). It just doesn't happen unfortunately. Our law salaries are much lower. The top end doesn't really come around till you're 35 or 40 years old.

It is an awesome job. I did NOT go to a top law school but I was at the top of my class. I leveraged an internship into my first job. I formed really good working relationships with my coworkers there. When one coworker got a job at my current company and a position was available there he recommended me as a "training" opportunity. This company favors people who stay for a long time and they see training someone as a way to achieve that goal- also reflected in the long term incentive program.

The post below about bimodal compensation for U.S. lawyers is 100% reflected with my classmates from law school. It is pretty weird. Our culture presents lawyers as people who make a lot of money. Many law students are disappointed when they graduate.


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #860 on: June 06, 2019, 06:53:57 PM »
Well done - sounds like you seized the initiative, rode your luck and made good choices.

The reverse-bell curve is fascinating. Here in Australia, it is unfortunately just a normal bell curve. I would much rather have a bi-modal distribution since then at least the ones in the top quartile or quintile would be earning big bucks. In Australia that only applies to probably the top 10% and it's much more heavily stacked in favour of seniority.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #861 on: June 08, 2019, 07:42:15 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
Update time-
Age- 27YO
Job title- corrections nurse
Education- still the associates degree in nursing, started a bachelors then decided against it.
Experience- almost 4 years
Pay- I am now at the top of the pay scale, base pay of 96k per year- the union is working on increasing this because market rates are about 20% higher then our pay scale. I expect this to increase 8-12% after negotiations are done.
Benefits- health insurance 95% covered by employer, Cadillac plan
PTO- 3 weeks vacation, 2.4 weeks paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, and normally a couple of extra “personal business days.” Depending on what the union negotiates.
Retirement- pension that will equal 45% of final average salary and a 457 account.
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #862 on: June 09, 2019, 06:55:21 PM »
Job Title - Presales Systems Engineer
Salary - 180k base, 50k commission target, 50k RSU vest. Made 280k last year, will do better this year (already made 72k in commission). I think I will come in at 300 - 330 if the stock stays the same for a few more months.
Education - Associates in Networking, BS in IT, MBA International Business
Experience - 20 years in IT, 5 in presales
Age - 40

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #863 on: June 10, 2019, 11:18:52 AM »
Job Title - Presales Systems Engineer
Salary - 180k base, 50k commission target, 50k RSU vest. Made 280k last year, will do better this year (already made 72k in commission). I think I will come in at 300 - 330 if the stock stays the same for a few more months.
Education - Associates in Networking, BS in IT, MBA International Business
Experience - 20 years in IT, 5 in presales
Age - 40
Wow.  Very nice, especially if it is a role you can enjoy and does not place a lot of stress on you every day. 

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #864 on: June 10, 2019, 07:53:55 PM »
It has bursts of crazy stress (8 figure deal in jeopardy), but is an overall enjoyable job.

Lot of travel in my role though, flying 150k miles a year. There are jobs in the same family that are less stressful and less travel than mine, I may seek one out in a few years if I'm unable to advance from my position to a presales director role.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #865 on: June 11, 2019, 02:25:33 PM »
Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $82k + 10% bonus
Experience: 3 years
Education: BS Engineering Physics
Age: 26

An update upon getting my new position. I'm about a year of experience short of a major title change (Salesforce Architect), so hopefully, I can get that through my new job.

Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $85k + 10%
Experience: 4 years

Another update:

Title: Senior Product Support Technical Advisor (lol, it's the same as before but the company is crazy)
Salary: $50/hr [$100k/yr] but with no benefits as I'm a contractor. it'll be 90k next year with benefits.
Experience: 5 years

Contract ended, got a salaried position lined up:

Title: Salesforce Administrator
Salary: $115k + 10%
Experience: 6 years
Age: 29

Damn, 36.3k more (115k*1.1 - 82k * 1.1), a 40% increase, in the span of 2 yrs, 9 months?

Well done!

If your lifestyle hasn't inflated, your savings rate must have shot up like crazy.

Thanks! It was 42k 6 years ago when I got my first real job. Lifestyle has not changed a ton in the last 3 years when we moved to NC. We're spending about $60k/yr +/- variability. My wife started working again after our kid turned 1 so there's a bit more income on top of just me now :).

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #866 on: June 11, 2019, 02:36:01 PM »
Title: Asset Manager
Salary: $96,856 currently, goes up to $125,910 with time in grade (gov't GS-13)
Experience: 6 months in this position, 7 years with this agency
Education: BA in Economics, BS in Math, and MA in Economics - we all have either MBA or MA in Economics
Age: 29

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #867 on: June 13, 2019, 04:06:13 PM »
Title: Senior Software Developer
Rate: £650 p/day (about £145,000 p/year after factoring out holidays)
Age: 32
Experience: 15+ years (yes, I started work at 17)
Education: Not much... a vocational course, a 1-year grad cert at a good university and sprinkling of vendor certs

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #868 on: July 02, 2019, 05:26:30 PM »
Been awhile since I've updated this. Just got a new position at my current company, here's the most up to date info with my new role that I start next week:

Job Title: Operations Manager
Experience: no experience in this new role, 6 years in related roles at same company
Age: 33
Salary:  $72k base. Last year I made close to $100k with RSUs and ESPP on $66k base, so, presumably at least that this year?
Education: Bachelor's

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #869 on: July 02, 2019, 07:54:23 PM »
Job 1:
Paralegal: $71,000

Job 2:
Adjunct Prof: $17,000 in 2018
                    $9,600   in 2019


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #870 on: July 02, 2019, 09:16:00 PM »
@conwy, how did you get your salary so high? When I look on Glassdoor I never see salaries like that in the UK. Because of this I assume that I will work my whole career in the US even though I'm a UK citizen and would love to make it back to Scotland one day.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #871 on: July 02, 2019, 10:30:22 PM »
I got a new job with higher compensation. It's probably going to be a lot more work, but it will undoubtedly be more interesting and lead to growth. Technically it is a title demotion (from a Senior role to a mid-level role), but this kind of work is usually done by people with graduate degrees, so I'm ok with it.

Mechanical Engineer  - $120k - Seattle Area
Bonus: 0-15% depending on performance.
Profit Sharing - 8-10% each year paid out over 3 years (30%-30%-40% over the three years).

So potential for making up to $150k, more likely around $135k. This is an increase from $107k base and usually around 6k in bonus.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #872 on: July 03, 2019, 12:48:42 AM »
@conwy, how did you get your salary so high? When I look on Glassdoor I never see salaries like that in the UK. Because of this I assume that I will work my whole career in the US even though I'm a UK citizen and would love to make it back to Scotland one day.

This is a typical day rate in london for experienced good contractors. The key is to move regularly, maintain your professional and personal network, work in a sought after discipline and don’t be a dick.


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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #873 on: July 03, 2019, 12:54:18 AM »
Title: Agile Delivery Lead / Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Rate: £600 to £650 p/day

Age: 46

Experience: 24 years, started out as a software developer, realised I was never going to be great at it, moved into project management ending up as operations director before going contracting and focusing on helping teams and companies with their agile implementations.

Education: Degree Level

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #874 on: July 03, 2019, 09:37:33 PM »
Sales 150-200k

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #875 on: November 17, 2019, 03:34:00 PM »
Hello MMM forum! I am a long time lurker, and have posted a couple dozen times under a different handle. I created this new handle to be more anonymous when sharing salary data, etc.

Process Engineer
Age: 35
Education: BS Chemical Engineering, MBA
Experience: 13 years (10 with current company), PE License
Salary: $78,000 (just received promotion, was low 70’s). 3.5% 401k match. Company wide $250 holiday bonus (seems to go down each year…). Recent bonus for milestone anniversary.
PTO: 24 days /yr (for both sick time and vacation).
Location: LCOL rust belt city with hopeless sports teams.

I work for a medium sized engineering firm. My work includes process design for industrial wastewater, groundwater remediation, chemical plant, and oil and gas pipeline. Great boss. Usually 40 hour workweek. Travel is < 10%, although I like some travel. The actual process engineering / technical work, which I enjoy, is fairly light. I end up coordinating the design work of other engineering disciplines for design projects, which I enjoy much less.

They say comparison is the thief of joy. I can’t help but think I am missing the boat on my career when I see the engineer salaries posted here, especially the folks in Houston. I would love to hear from the ChemE’s on the forum on their career paths!

Edit: Added PTO time.
So after writing my previous post, I updated my resume and got out networking and applying for interesting positions. I could afford to take my time and be choosey. I ended up with not one, but two six figure offers in my city! 100k plus 9% 401k contribution, matching my PTO, and much better health plan compared to my current employer. I see more VTSAX in my future!!!

I was amazed at how hot the engineering job market is right now. I think many companies are realizing that a whole generation of senior level talent is on the verge of retirement, and they may only have very junior folks under them on the depth chart. Therefore they are willing to pay for 10-15 yr level folks with good experience.

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What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #876 on: November 17, 2019, 04:44:39 PM »
Job Title: Sales
Experience: 10-15 years
Location: Canada
Age: mid-40s
Salary:  $150k/yr + company car + free meals
Education: Bachelor (engineering)
« Last Edit: November 17, 2019, 08:34:29 PM by nancyfrank232 »

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #877 on: November 17, 2019, 07:58:16 PM »
Job Title: Operations Specialist
Location: San Francisco
Experience: 1 year of civilian experience, 3 years of previous military experience that is semi-relatable
Age: 33
Salary:  $100k base + 16k RSUs, + 2-3k benefits (free meals, stipends, etc.)
Education: Bachelor's

I feel like I really lucked into this position, and can't believe that opportunities like this even exist for generalists like myself. I've never been a top student, over-achiever, or ladder-climber but am somehow making six figures at a cushy tech job with great benefits and work-life balance. This sounds like a fairly rare combo based on what I've heard from others' experiences.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #878 on: November 17, 2019, 09:15:37 PM »

More updates - MBA is done and new job, Medical Device industry.

Title: Lead Engineer (~7 direct reports)
Salary: 120K + 5-10K bonus
Age: 30
Experience ~8 years
Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, MBA

Wife is unchanged.

Where do you live? You seem underpaid for a lead engineer with an MBA. Are you on a management track at your new job? Otherwise why did you get your MBA? A lead engineer in the cities I've lived in (HCOL, but not NY or SF) would be making 150k+, especially in medical devices. I used to work in medical devices and they paid leads about 150k and it was considered relatively low in the market (in Seattle).

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #879 on: November 18, 2019, 02:09:00 PM »
Me:

Job Title: Industry Sales Manager/Biotech
Salary: 150K + 30% bonus + 9% 401k match + stock options+ company car/home office allowance
Age: 37
Experience: 15 years
Education: BS Biology, MBA

Pros: Remote home office, good work/life balance graded on the sales scale
Cons: 50% travel 

DW:

Job Title: Project Manager
Salary: 79k (32hr/wk, no fridays) + 12% bonus + 5% 401k match+ Pension
Age: 35
Experience: 13 years
Education: BA Business

Pros: Stable employer, little stress
Cons: Would rather stay home with 3 kids
« Last Edit: November 19, 2019, 07:43:14 AM by knigry01 »

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #880 on: November 19, 2019, 05:58:40 AM »
Me
Title: Lead Auditor
Salary 93k per year, 5 to 10% bonus, 8% match 401, 3 weeks vacation and 15 holiday and off between Christmas and New Years
Experience: 20 plus years
Age: 57
Education: BA in Business with a minor in HR

Husband
Title: Dairy Manager
Salary 35k per year
Experience: 20 plus years
Age: 52
Education: High school

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #881 on: November 19, 2019, 06:21:27 AM »
Fun reading these, though they aren't really helpful as the same jobs can have wildly different incomes based on where they are.

Me
Title: Information Systems Auditor (for state government)
Salary: 53k per year, plus $50 per month 401(k) match, 5% pension with 5 year vesting period, 12 days vacation, 12 sick days, 13 holidays
Experience: 2 years
Age: 32
Education: BBA in Accounting, CPA
Extra: 37.5 hour workweek, flexible hours (I work 4 day week), and excellent healthcare

Wife
Title: Elementary Teacher
Salary: $44,580, plus 5% pension with 5 year vesting period, a lot of days off
Experience: 5 years
Age: 28
Education: BS in Elementary Education
Extra: No healthcare premium (just $500 deductible)

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #882 on: November 19, 2019, 03:09:28 PM »
chasefish - I'm curious, as so many titles are only somewhat descriptive (i.e., can have a lot of latitude to what they do), but what does a regional corporate banker do in your neck of the woods?

As for me:

Title: Senior Manager in public accounting
Age: Late 30s
Salary:  Base in the low $80s, with some potential for a small bonus
Years' experience: 14ish
Education: Bachelors & Cert
Location: LCOL
Late follow-up but have you thought about internal audit. Manager at my public company makes about $125k in a mid-tier/LCOL city.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #883 on: November 19, 2019, 04:44:43 PM »
Title: Reservoir Engineer
Age: 28
Experience: 3.5 yr industry, 2.5 yr research
Education: BS/MS
Salary: $121k + 20% cash bonus + 20% RSU bonus + 6% 401k match
Area: MCOL

Update upon some raises over the last couple yrs

Title: Sr. Reservoir Engineer
Age: 31
Experience: 6 yr industry, 2.5 yr research
Education: BS/MS
Salary: $170k + 30% cash bonus + 6% 401k match + 0.5% equity
Area: MCOL
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #884 on: November 19, 2019, 05:19:19 PM »
Title: Project Lead - Engineer
Salary: $200K+
Age: 29
Experience: 8 years (O&G construction industry - field and office)
Education: B.Sc in Engineering

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Salary: $270K+ CAD
Age: 32
Experience: 13 years
Education: B.Sc in Engineering
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #885 on: November 20, 2019, 08:43:10 AM »
Title: Software Developer
Salary: $85k
Age: 30
Experience: ~5-6 years

My career had a slow start. Non-CompSci background, first job was a good company without the experience you really need to succeed in software. I would say that it slowed me down, except that it's actually how I got started, so I can't complain too much. Finally getting things on track :)

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #886 on: November 20, 2019, 09:24:39 AM »
Hello MMM forum! I am a long time lurker, and have posted a couple dozen times under a different handle. I created this new handle to be more anonymous when sharing salary data, etc.

Process Engineer
Age: 35
Education: BS Chemical Engineering, MBA
Experience: 13 years (10 with current company), PE License
Salary: $78,000 (just received promotion, was low 70’s). 3.5% 401k match. Company wide $250 holiday bonus (seems to go down each year…). Recent bonus for milestone anniversary.
PTO: 24 days /yr (for both sick time and vacation).
Location: LCOL rust belt city with hopeless sports teams.

I work for a medium sized engineering firm. My work includes process design for industrial wastewater, groundwater remediation, chemical plant, and oil and gas pipeline. Great boss. Usually 40 hour workweek. Travel is < 10%, although I like some travel. The actual process engineering / technical work, which I enjoy, is fairly light. I end up coordinating the design work of other engineering disciplines for design projects, which I enjoy much less.

They say comparison is the thief of joy. I can’t help but think I am missing the boat on my career when I see the engineer salaries posted here, especially the folks in Houston. I would love to hear from the ChemE’s on the forum on their career paths!

Edit: Added PTO time.
So after writing my previous post, I updated my resume and got out networking and applying for interesting positions. I could afford to take my time and be choosey. I ended up with not one, but two six figure offers in my city! 100k plus 9% 401k contribution, matching my PTO, and much better health plan compared to my current employer. I see more VTSAX in my future!!!

I was amazed at how hot the engineering job market is right now. I think many companies are realizing that a whole generation of senior level talent is on the verge of retirement, and they may only have very junior folks under them on the depth chart. Therefore they are willing to pay for 10-15 yr level folks with good experience.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #887 on: November 20, 2019, 12:56:54 PM »
Title: Guidance Counselor
Experience: 5 Years
Age: 34
Salary: $62k (add another $8k for part time work)
My pay scale is mapped out based on education and years of experience, so as of now I'll be making $95k after seven more years in this position.  We renegotiate the contract every three years so that number will go up with inflation and other factors.  Definitely not a very impressive number compared to some other responses, but I like what I do and I get a taste of FI in July and August, so I'm happy.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #888 on: November 20, 2019, 02:14:45 PM »
Sr Petroleum Engineer
Age 40
Houston, TX
180K 40% Bonus

Pros-Salary, reasonable hours and working environment
Cons-Job has gotten really, really repetitive.  Living in Houston.  I feel the mountains of Colorado or Montana calling me. 

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #889 on: December 28, 2019, 08:26:32 AM »
Title: Manufacturing Manager
Salary: $178k (includes base pay and bonus)
Age: 36
Experience: 19 years
Education: High School diploma
Location: Massachusetts

Update:
Title: Manufacturing Manager
Salary: $205k (includes base pay and bonus)
Age: 37
Experience: 20 years
Education: High School diploma
Location: Massachusetts

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #890 on: December 28, 2019, 08:23:34 PM »
Job Title: CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist)
Salary: 200k, 8% to 401k, 8 weeks vacation
Experience: 3.5 years
Education: Doctorate of Nursing Practice

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #891 on: December 29, 2019, 09:18:36 AM »
Job Title: Assistant Athletic Director at a College (full time). Remote QE Assistant (part-time)
Salary: 66.5k, 5% match from full-time. ~10k, 2% match plus small profit sharing from part-time job
Experience: 6 years
Education: Bachelors in Sport Management, Masters in Criminal Justice

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #892 on: December 29, 2019, 01:28:29 PM »


Job Title: Self Employed Small Biz Accountant (CPA providing tax, accounting, and payroll)

Net Income: Roughly $150k/yr

Experience: 11ish years

Education: bachelor's degree in accounting. Took extra classes to get 150 hrs to sit for CPA exam (didn't want to pay for a master's degree).

Benefits & Work Life: Extremely low cost health insurance via ACA subsidies. 401(k) with profit sharing plan for my wife and I (we pay her through the biz). Work about 40 hrs a week from January to April and 25ish a week the rest of the year.

I'm thankful for the life we've been blessed with, although I would not recommend this career to my sons. I am contemplating working more (taking on more clients) in order to accelerate FIRE, but am cautious due to some health issues. Stress seems to contribute to the health issues.

Great thread. Mustachians are definitely a high earning subset of society.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #893 on: December 29, 2019, 07:25:00 PM »
Title: case worker/manager
age: 38
experience: 13 yrs at current employer
Salary: $16.50/hr (I'm at the top of the pay scale for this position)
Experience: for this job, bachelor's is perferred, but will take experience as a trade off.  I myself have a Bachelor's in Social Work and am working on my Master's in Applied Behavioral Analysis and Autism.

My current schedule is one 14 hour shift and one 24 hour shift with a 2 hour meeting a week.  I am able to sleep on the longer shifts for 3 hours on the overnight.  The schedule works great as I am able to be at home with my kids during most of the week.  My plan was to step back up into a regular, higher paying, day job once my youngest is in school full time.  I live in a HCOL area.

Update:
Title: Autism/ABA Program Clinical Supervisor
Age:42
Salary: $77000
Requirements: BCBA and State Licence, plus OBM experience.

Since my first post, I finished my Master's degree, passed my BCBA exam and got my State License.  Started working as a part time BCBA for another agency in 2017 and went full time with them in September 2019 and left the company I was working at after 17 years of employement. Still live in a HCOL area.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #894 on: December 29, 2019, 11:07:05 PM »


Job Title: Self Employed Small Biz Accountant (CPA providing tax, accounting, and payroll)

Net Income: Roughly $150k/yr

Experience: 11ish years

Education: bachelor's degree in accounting. Took extra classes to get 150 hrs to sit for CPA exam (didn't want to pay for a master's degree).

Benefits & Work Life: Extremely low cost health insurance via ACA subsidies. 401(k) with profit sharing plan for my wife and I (we pay her through the biz). Work about 40 hrs a week from January to April and 25ish a week the rest of the year.

I'm thankful for the life we've been blessed with, although I would not recommend this career to my sons. I am contemplating working more (taking on more clients) in order to accelerate FIRE, but am cautious due to some health issues. Stress seems to contribute to the health issues.

Great thread. Mustachians are definitely a high earning subset of society.

Do you mean you would not recommend own business or accounting in general? Do you mind sharing why

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #895 on: December 30, 2019, 09:33:04 AM »
Do you mean you would not recommend own business or accounting in general? Do you mind sharing why

TLDR Version: I would recommend self employment and/or business ownership to my sons if they had the personality and skills to make it viable.

Due to market forces, SAAS, the poor corporate work culture for accountants, the high stress in public accounting, and the compression at the self employment level, I would not recommend accounting to my sons unless they somehow just love the work itself. 

Longer Versions:

I would (will) 100% recommend owning a biz (or self employment which is different IMHO) to my sons IF they have skills/career that would be a good fit as well as having the personality/drive to make it happen. It is hard to describe precisely what makes some cut out for business ownership and others not, but some general indicators would be:

1. A curiosity and natural bent to learn/study/research when they don't necessarily have to.
2. A consistent pattern of being able to follow through and get tasks accomplished even when they don't feel like doing it.
3. An understanding and ability to market and sell. Without a sale, no one has a business. This one can obviously be learned, but if you're too scared to try to sell someone on your idea, product, or service, probably better for you to stay an employee.

I probably will not recommend accounting as a profession for a few reasons:

1. Most accountants either work in public accounting and/or corporate accounting. There are not a lot of good paying, low stress accounting opportunities except for maybe government work, but the boredom factor is strong for those people I know working in those positions. Public accounting at the regional firm size and larger is extremely competitive and a complete rat race. Corporate accounting can be a better pace of life, but I don't know many who would say they enjoy their work. In corporate accounting, usually the better the pay, the more stress and hours needed.

2. At the self employment/firm ownership level, the market continues to change rapidly. There is a lot of corporate growth (which usually means the work is reserved for larger firms or internal employees) and a ton of growth in the self-employment/gig/freelancer economy. There is not a lot of growth/stability in the in between markets. This is just my opinion and I'm sure there are CPAs on this forum who would say otherwise, so don't take my thoughts on this point as the gospel. Because the middle market continues to shrink, the opportunity for good paying, stable businesses to serve shrinks as well.

3. Intuit and other software providers continue to sell their software to the public as a DIY solution to cut the accountant out of the equation all together. Even though software definitely reduces the time necessary to do accurate accounting, I believe it is not a proper substitute nor a true DIY option for 99.9% of the small biz owners out there. But that is obviously just my opinion, and the "market" is saying otherwise at this point.

To elaborate further on why I believe that to be a problem, now many SMBs bring their QuickBooks file to their tax person to prepare a return from. Without accurate data inputs, the tax person has absolutely nothing to base the creation of the tax return data on. So that either means the accountant spends time (or pays staff) to clean up the file during their busiest time of the year, or they hold their breath and try to create a return knowing that faulty data supports the tax return. Because the IRS is vastly underfunded, they do not tend to audit a lot of these small biz owners. They just don't have the resources or manpower. In a lot of ways, the entire concept of proper accounting and tax returns is being turned upside down in the small biz market and most people don't seem to care. 



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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #896 on: January 07, 2020, 04:35:36 AM »
Do you mean you would not recommend own business or accounting in general? Do you mind sharing why

TLDR Version: I would recommend self employment and/or business ownership to my sons if they had the personality and skills to make it viable.

Due to market forces, SAAS, the poor corporate work culture for accountants, the high stress in public accounting, and the compression at the self employment level, I would not recommend accounting to my sons unless they somehow just love the work itself. 

Longer Versions:

I would (will) 100% recommend owning a biz (or self employment which is different IMHO) to my sons IF they have skills/career that would be a good fit as well as having the personality/drive to make it happen. It is hard to describe precisely what makes some cut out for business ownership and others not, but some general indicators would be:

1. A curiosity and natural bent to learn/study/research when they don't necessarily have to.
2. A consistent pattern of being able to follow through and get tasks accomplished even when they don't feel like doing it.
3. An understanding and ability to market and sell. Without a sale, no one has a business. This one can obviously be learned, but if you're too scared to try to sell someone on your idea, product, or service, probably better for you to stay an employee.

I probably will not recommend accounting as a profession for a few reasons:

1. Most accountants either work in public accounting and/or corporate accounting. There are not a lot of good paying, low stress accounting opportunities except for maybe government work, but the boredom factor is strong for those people I know working in those positions. Public accounting at the regional firm size and larger is extremely competitive and a complete rat race. Corporate accounting can be a better pace of life, but I don't know many who would say they enjoy their work. In corporate accounting, usually the better the pay, the more stress and hours needed.

2. At the self employment/firm ownership level, the market continues to change rapidly. There is a lot of corporate growth (which usually means the work is reserved for larger firms or internal employees) and a ton of growth in the self-employment/gig/freelancer economy. There is not a lot of growth/stability in the in between markets. This is just my opinion and I'm sure there are CPAs on this forum who would say otherwise, so don't take my thoughts on this point as the gospel. Because the middle market continues to shrink, the opportunity for good paying, stable businesses to serve shrinks as well.

3. Intuit and other software providers continue to sell their software to the public as a DIY solution to cut the accountant out of the equation all together. Even though software definitely reduces the time necessary to do accurate accounting, I believe it is not a proper substitute nor a true DIY option for 99.9% of the small biz owners out there. But that is obviously just my opinion, and the "market" is saying otherwise at this point.

To elaborate further on why I believe that to be a problem, now many SMBs bring their QuickBooks file to their tax person to prepare a return from. Without accurate data inputs, the tax person has absolutely nothing to base the creation of the tax return data on. So that either means the accountant spends time (or pays staff) to clean up the file during their busiest time of the year, or they hold their breath and try to create a return knowing that faulty data supports the tax return. Because the IRS is vastly underfunded, they do not tend to audit a lot of these small biz owners. They just don't have the resources or manpower. In a lot of ways, the entire concept of proper accounting and tax returns is being turned upside down in the small biz market and most people don't seem to care.

Interesting, however it seems most of these problems such as longer hours, lower pay, automation seem to be across a lot of industries these days as I have heard similiar from others in different  industries. Doesn't seem like their are many "good" options left these days apart from medicine, dentistry etc.

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #897 on: May 12, 2021, 12:36:14 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)

Was a weird year. We bought out another big company, my project got cancelled and we were in flux for awhile, and then my manager quit abruptly and it took 6+ months to replace him.

Only got a 3.5% raise this year, but also was granted ~$17k in RSUs that vest over 4 years. Not sure what to think of the golden handcuffs, will have to cross that bridge if I ever think about leaving.

My Job Title: Senior SSD Firmware Engineer
Experience: 2.5 years
Education: BS in Computer Science
Salary: $~86,000 + 10% bonus target + $750 HSA contribution + 3% 401k match + ~$17k RSU + whatever ESPP ends up being worth

Just took a job with a new company (along with a nice promotion), and will be moving from a MCOL area with a COL score of 99.2 to a HCOL area with a COL score of 146.4 (MN to Orange County, scores from this chart).

I think I am doing pretty well, as the job is 3 promotions above entry level out of college position and I only have 3.5 years of experience. This job would normally take 8+ years of experience to reach. As a result I am pretty sure my salary is near the lower end of the band, so plenty of room for growth even if I don't get any further promotions for a few years.

My Job Title: Staff SSD Firmware Engineer
Experience: 3.5 years
Education: BS in Computer Science
Salary: $135000 + 10% bonus target + $4000 401k match + ~26k RSU + whatever ESPP ends up being worth (15% discount, two year lock, can put in 15% of salary) -- I would say financial compensation is ~$175,000 annually.

Just got a raise, which was nice as I was only here ~6 months when review time came and wasn't sure I would get one. Ended up getting 4% raise bringing my base salary to $140,400.

Our stock is also doing quite nicely and is up 46% since our ESPP lock so if it stays up for the next couple of years should be getting a nice return on ESPP shares.

My biggest regret about taking this job (going from flexible "unlimited" vacation policy to 3 weeks vacation policy) was also recently rectified as the new company has now also adopted flexible vacation.

A lot has happened since my last post. I moved back to MN in March of 2020 and took a job at my old employer again.

Experience: 5+ years at time of hire
Job title: Principal Engineer
Location: MCOL (Minnesota)
Comp: $115k base + 12% bonus target + 3% 401k match + RSUs.

Things in the org aren't going well and a lot of people are leaving.

I just got an offer for a full time remote position.
Experience: 6+ years at time of offer
Job title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Remote from Minnesota
Comp: $155k base + 18% bonus target + 5% 401k match + RSUs (got $25k signing bonus + $110k initial RSU grant)

My biggest advice for a tech worker is to switch companies often. It's by far the best / fastest way to increase comp!


DW is now making $82,500/yr as an RN and working M-F day hours. She will be finishing up her Master's in Nursing in January and wants to find a job managing a nursing unit which should come with about a $20k/yr raise or so.
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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #898 on: May 12, 2021, 12:50:24 PM »
Been awhile since I've updated this. Just got a new position at my current company, here's the most up to date info with my new role that I start next week:

Job Title: Operations Manager
Experience: no experience in this new role, 6 years in related roles at same company
Age: 33
Salary:  $72k base. Last year I made close to $100k with RSUs and ESPP on $66k base, so, presumably at least that this year?
Education: Bachelor's

Huh been awhile since I've updated as well. I'm in the same role, and got a small increase to my base salary in 2020 (raises were paused during COVID) but still got new RSU grants both in 2020 and 2021. Additionally, my company paid out a bonus this year which is new for non-commission employees.

Job Title: Operations Manager
Experience: 2 years in this role, 8 years total at same company
Age: 35
Salary:  $74,500k base, 10% bonus for 2021. In 2020 I had $45k of RSUs that vested, and between RSU and ESPP shares I sold about $80k. I'm on track (based on current stock price) to receive about $60k of vested RSUs for 2021, so I'll probably sell at least as much as I did last year.
Education: Bachelor's

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Re: What's your job title and how much do you earn?
« Reply #899 on: May 12, 2021, 01:17:32 PM »
Job Title: Research Scientist for a major US Food Company
Experience: 2.5 years
Age: 24
Salary:  $60k plus ~$2k in bonus
Education: Bachelor's in Chemistry

Hopping on the update wagon after a promotion last week-

Same Company
Title: Sr. Research Scientist
Salary: $80k, 10% target bonus ($8k, usually more).

Pretty satisfied with this, TBH. With my education and niche experience, there's not much higher I'd expect to go without making a significant career shift. With annual COLA raises, I will be making $100k (salary+incentive) in 5 years.