Hell, I don’t care if people know how much I make and never got why it was such a taboo to begin with. I am a network admin for a medium sized music company and make about $45,000 a year. I’m really curious to know what other admins in similar positions earn. I deal with Novell Netware, Windows, a little AIX, phone support, applicaiton support, and hardware support (PCs, printers, routers, hubs and switches etc).
But Hey you! Knowing that, you would be in a better position in negotiating with your employer for a higher wage. You would have evidence that jobs exist that you are capable of doing and that pay better. Secondly it makes it impossible for the Doe’s to stiff you socially, claiming they can’t afford to pay there share of a bill for instance.
I am not sure that the money people earn shouldn’t be public domain. It would I believe be a good way of promoting fareness in the job market place.
I am the INS/BCIS’ bitch. I am not legally allowed to work. My current salary is $0.
$13,500, work for a non-profit (3/4 time).
Bongmaster, I did about 50K at a 50 person, 4 office company that basically processed paper. We ran 1 Netware Server 2 Windows Terminal Servers, 2 Linux Servers. 3 T1 Lines, and a DSL. All the boxes were 98. Started at 36K, went to 50 over 5 years. Owner stole 8M customer funds and now I am a consultant to the same industry. I make a bit more, but work alot more.
32k Las Vegas Accounts Receivable supervisor
Poop sorru- its 35k
I’ll bite, 25K as a tech support. It’s halfway embarrassing since I busted my hump through years of education, and finally got a job because my friend was hiring. Although, to be fair, in college I was at the top of my class, and he was in the middle, so he knew I was qualified.
Plus, I told him I’d be his bitch, and when you’re working with computers and the class geek says that, it’s got to be rewarding. 
Marketing Manager for a financial services company. My base salary is just under $80k ($79,9??) and I get an annual bonus of between 0% and 18% of that base. Last year it was 17%.
I’m a Nursing Orderly and make about 25k Aust, so half that for you 'merkins. Hopefully once I get qualified to be a Nurse it’ll go up to 35k.
Altogether, about JPY7,500,000/year, which is a little over US$60,000.
$40,000 from my full-time job as a copywriter, and $20,000 from part-time acting.
Undergrad student. Usually around $2000/yr including summer jobs but it was more like $3500 this year cause of my research stipend. I can’t wait till school is over and my loans are paid off so I can stop being poor.
If you’ll reduce it to $500K a year, I’ll sing “Hey, Jude!” while waving a rolled up New York Times around like it’s a giant penis.
That’s my best offer.
just under $39K gross.
I’m a UNIX sysadmin in a governmental job.
I was left a boatload of cash by many dead relatives, so I never have to worry about money again. I manage a restaraunt though, but I don’t consider it work. I get paid $38,000 a year in salary, and it all goes towards various organizations and causes that I have a soft spot for.
I’m a geophysicist with 20+ years experience in oil and gas exploration. With a little looking on the 'net you can get a rough idea of what I make, if you care. It’s funny how most salary survey sites that even bother to take in experience stop at 20 years. Presumably I’ll be making more, if I’m still employed, 6-8 years from now.
And I wouldn’t really know what to say anyway, as incentive pay operates in my profession. In the three and a half years I’ve worked for my current corporate mother ship I’ve received bonuses ranging from 6% to 30%. The theoretical max is 50%.
And I don’t really know how to evaluate stock options. The 401K I just think of as a voluntary 6% deferred raise.
And it is definitely written policy at my employer that discussing compensation with other employees is a big boo-boo.
Before I came here I ran my own company for over a decade. There I just made my share of whatever we made, after we decided how much Nutri-Gro to leave in the fields.
Thinking of Bippy’s post: When this company offered to hire me away from my own company, I wasn’t looking for a job and was a bit nonplussed when they came to me, and the salary bit was something I was completely unprepared to respond to, folks (Whew! Dodged that preposition.).
A funny thing about being independent for a long time is that you tend to become somewhat disconnected from what salaries are running for the otherwise employed. You make what the market allows you.
So I called six guys I knew in the business for many years, and knew well enough to ask, in a context that involved no other ears, and with experience commensurate with mine, and asked’em what I should ask for. I was truly surprised at the consistency of the responses. About a $5K range for base salary, so I gave the prospective employer that range.
Predictably, they came in on the bottom end of that range. I was happy with that.
So now I’ve given a somewhat detailed response without giving a number. Are ya happy with that, hilltopper?
Currently, nada. For the last two years I worked part-time at a library and made about $2k yearly. Hardly worth the stupid quotient I had to put up with.
My parents (who I live with) make >$150k in combination. My mom’s a teacher and gets about $35k, while my dad owns a construction company and co-owns a real estate investment company, which pull in about $130k plus benefits. He just retired as Exec. Director of a rehab clinic, which pays our medical insurance and his vehicle insurance for a couple of years, which, while not cash, is really nice to not have to mess with.
Forgot to answer the location question: NE Oklahoma, town of about 18k people.
I’m in Hernando County, Florida. I work for (and own 10% of) a small (8-person) company. My job title is Chief Technical Officer, but that translates to “guy who does damn near everything having to do with computers.” I spend most of my time doing web and database work. I make $60K a year, and I’m damned glad to be makin’ it, too, with so many other computer geeks being unemployed these days.
So, how much does it matter? We’ve a lot of posters who don’t harvest much in the way of dollars who contribute much to the board. While I’m doing OK now, I’ve been dirt poor.
And it swings around. I might do well for a couple of years, but I know humility.