In the thread about unconventional advice, Chefguy contributed this:
Made me wonder what are the most high paying and / or prestigious jobs that still require wearing a name tag? Let’s not count IDs on lanyards and such, because these days it seems everyone from emotional support hamsters and up have to wear those. I’m thinking clip-on name plates or stitched names on shirts and jackets.
My thoughts so far:
Doctor? Do they still wear name plates in hospitals?
High ranking military officers like generals and admirals. Name plates are part of the uniform, no?
Airline pilot. That’s usually, but not always, part of the uniform (my company issues them).
Possible winner - real estate agents. Wearing your nametag AT ALL TIMES is a must for top producers, since it leads to questions from strangers and is a great way to passively prospect for clients. Income? Well, the average for all agents is about $40,000 a year, but if you’re wearing your name plate all the time, as all the top producers do, you’re looking at probably $150,000 - $300,000 year.
Any secure facility is going to require everyone to have badges at all times. I doubt that engineers and their managers at nuclear facilities are pulling down chump change.
Yes but a security badge serves a different purpose. A name sewn onto a uniform or worn as a plate is to identify the person to the public. A security badge serves as a way to distinguish between authorized and unauthorized occupants of a given area. Almost nobody uses them to learn the badgeholders name. Heck most security guards can hardly be bothered to look at the name on a badge. They’re usally looking for things like color and possibly the picture.
My first thought was the professional athletes, already mentioned.
Growing up, my father was the General Manager for a nice beachside resort in North Miami Beach, Florida. He made well into the six figures, and he wore a nametag when he walked around the hotel.
How much does FLO make? (Annoying insurance commercial) she wears a name tag, right?
2 Do name tags at conventions count?
Lotsa people who don’t wear a name tag everyday get stuck in meeting, conventions, seminars, training classes, fundraisers… Some times more than once a month.
Hell I’ve seen a few guys , and wondered if their job title was “V.P. of never being in the office and sucking up all the free food and drink”
I wear a lanyard to work every day. Most of our clients require everyone to wear a picture ID card which also serves as an access badge. I have a stack of them in my truck.
Astronauts are civil servants, their salary set by the General Schedule. It’s not a very high-paying job compared to others mentioned in the thread. I believe the starting pay grade is GS-12, which is about $82k with locality adjustment for Houston.
When I act as Duty Counsel at the local courthouse (i.e. if you have a criminal matter before the Court, but do not have a retained lawyer, I as Duty Counsel, will be your “lawyer for the day” at no cost to you), I wear a nametag on the breast pocket of my suit jacket. It helps unrepresented accuseds identify me, if they want my services.
I used to do consultancy work for a major UK supermarket chain, with very swanky offices in central London (ok, it was Sainsbury’s for the Brits amongst us).
In a bid to improve head office and store relations, the new CEO made everyone in head office wear a name badge with just their first name, every day, so they understood what it felt like for store staff. He also wore one.
So I’m naming him, as he was the CEO of a Major Corp and earned millions.
Do you have a cite for that? I worked for Realtor.com fifteen years ago and the average then was quoted as $8,000 a year.* There’s been a lot of real estate inflation since then (even with the bust of 2008) but I imagine there’s a lot more competition as well.
*Of course that was quoted by the company itself which was trying to inveigle Realtors into the then-new concept of having an online presence.