Thanks for asking, JuanitaTech! I’m still pregnant, due in October, and on modified bedrest, probably until then, just for my sake. I’m fine in every way but my blood pressure, which keeps going ridiculously low, causing me to pass out at inopportune moments.
As a tie-in to this thread, after I posted this afternoon, I talked with my boss about my situation. While I’m not really working at the moment, instead of quitting altogether, once I’m medically improved and/or after the baby is born, I’ll be doing some consulting which will keep my incomce from this company around $48,000 a year. Even though we can live on Mr. tlw’s salary and our investment income, this will be a welcome addition to our budget after we move, since we’ve decided that we want to make some not-so-cheap additions and improvements to our new house. Whee! I love my boss.
User Support Specialist for a hospital. I’ve been getting about $37K/year. I currently work at an Ace Hardware getting around $15K/year.
When i switch back to dayshift at the hospital it will only get $30K/year. That means i can only work at Ace on Sunday and will only get about $4K/year.
I make, after taxes/take home, about $24,000 a year. In Texas, that isn’t bad; since I bartend, that’s the equivalent of about $30,000 if I were in a “salaried” job. Mr. Levins makes about the same, give or take (bartending being a hit-and-miss business) so we don’t do too badly. Around $45,000 a year for the both of us, give or take?
Which is kind of funny, given that so many people ask me why I don’t get a “real job.”
Um, I’m sorry, but you might be surprised what I take home slinging whiskey.
I recently started working for a government agency as a health economist. Previous to that I worked 6 months in Parliament and almost three years as a consultant.
I currently make 44K, just had to take a 10K hit when I got laid off from a previous job. I was desperate for another job, so the first real interview I had I heavily low-balled on the minimum salary requirements, and they took my word for it! So they’re getting a really great deal for a software developer, but I don’t mind because I love my job!
I’ve never understood why people are so uptight about their salaries, either. I suppose it comes from a military upbringing…everyone knew what everyone else made, so there wasn’t a great big issue made about the fact.
Now, in my last job, I did development on the HR database and would occasionally see other people’s salaries or bonuses. That seriously sucked, to see people you knew were completely useless getting huge amounts of money.
I make just under 34K at a small non-profit in Kansas, and considering the kinds of salaries I was seeing when I was looking for this job, I’m doing pretty well.
I’ve got student loans (undergrad and grad school) out the tooter, however, so I still feel mighty poor. Sure, my bills are paid and the pups are fed, but for instance there’s this great skirt at the Guess outlet, and it’s on sale, but still outta my price range . . .
. . . but I digress.
I have never been particularly sensitive about my salary, but I have a hard time with being broke. Not broke in the way about which I’m complaining right now, where I’ve been forced to think twice about buying a new Guess skirt, but so broke that I’m forced to think twice about buying, say, a magazine or a latte. Granted, those aren’t things I need either, but when I’m having to mentally rearrange finances to make a $3 purchase, it just kind of sucks.
My ex-GF and I don’t exactly do the same thing. She does video graphics for NBC Sports in New York City, wheras I’m designing print in Kansas City. Clearly, she has been stewarding her career more than I and in my opinion SHOULD be making more than me. Incidently, I am making more than the typical graphic designer of my experience in the Midwest region makes (according to the Aquent/AIGA annual salary survey) so I am in no position to complain.
Production Supervisor/Reliability Engineer/Test Engineer (basically I get passed around to whatever is most urgent in the plant). $85k plus stock options.
I guess all that book learnin’ was worth it, and I’m almost done paying off my student loans.
70K-ish, gross, depending on bonuses. It sounds like a lot until I reveal that I live in a large, expensive city on the West Coast. It’s astonishing how quickly the money can go.
Less than 22K. I’m an Office Bitch for a general contracting firm. My hubby makes 35K as IT support for a not-for-profit.
BUT - we get free benefits (medical, dental, vision, etc.) from my job, which is wonderful, because we spent $4200 on that crap for the year we were both self-employed.
Here in a one of the major cities in New England I’d always thought I’d been doing okay. Between 50 and 60K over the last 4 years (with 15 loooong months of unemployment in there). Then I started looking at property.
Effing yikes!
Then I began to wonder, who’s buying these half million dollar 3BR ranch houses? What the hell is everyone else making? So thanks for asking the question?
I recently had a conversation with a woman who was sending her daughter off to college and that years tuition of 19K was her years salary PLUS 1K.
Double Effing Yikes!
It goes to show that no matter, we all get by as best we can.
