I’m a Purchasing Assistant for a major Wine Company, which means I get paid to shop, and in the wine industry no less. Mostly I deal with packaging vendors; glass, corks, labels, tissue paper, stuff like that. It’s pretty cool, I’ve learned alot about wine, not a stressful job at all.
They pay me $32K/yr and lots of super benefits. My personal favorite is the 50% off wine hiccup.
Web Developer.
About $60k/year.
Wow, we’ve got a lot of talent here.
I’m just a lowly P.R. so-called specialist for a city just west of St. Louis. $35K/yr.
I’m asst. community Manager at a large website. I make about $40,000 a year, plus stock options, 401k etc.
Just a little encouragement to Tripler. I’m also a military officer and I make about 72,000 of which about a third is tax free.
Don’t worry…it’ll come.
Attorney. $165-190k/year, depending on bonus.
Sua
- and will someone PLEASE post quickly who has a higher salary!!
Sorry Sua, but this gal works in education, so there’s no way I’m making more than you …
I’m a program director at a private university. If they were going to hire a brand new person to do my job, I believe the salary would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $40,000. However, due to senority and a bunch of truly bizarre circumstances, I make quite a bit more than that (although not as much as Sua ;)). I am very nervous about ever changing jobs, because no one in their right minds would ever pay me the salary I currently pull in for the work that I do. Not that $40,000 is poverty or anything, but it would still be an adjustment.
Oh, I also live in New York City, so those numbers are a bit inflated compared to similar jobs in most other parts of the country.
Exploration Geophysicist with an NYSE-traded drilling and exploration company. Low six figures (not as much as Sua, but a damn sight better than the ten years I spent running my own geophysical company). If you had told me, even in my last semester, before graduating from college that I’d spend a career in geophysics I would have hardly believed you. It is interesting.
I am a production & shipping mgr for a small co. We make telecommunication equipment.
I’m asking for a raise!
Glazer (not doughnuts) 37k a year
Medical resident, about 35K (cdn) for a 90 hour week. Not complaining, but also don’t want to know what that is hourly… they say on my pay forms I work 40 hours a week!
Zappo said:
Whoo! Your profile says you’re in Southcentral Pennsylvania. I don’t know what you felt you had to do, but with all the insurance they could sell us I managed to maintain a 2000 ft² office with a nice conference room and reception area and offices for me, my partner and our sales rep, as well as file areas and a large workroom, for <$3000/month max, in an economically hot area (Houston). I have no doubt that lawyering expenses can be vastly different from those of geophysicing (I’ve never ever attempted that usage before).
So I understand that a lot of our expenses were ones we where we had precommitments (or cash calls) from clients that we knew would cover them, and just briefly glancing at your post I would guess that you did some personal injury work on a contingency basis where the upfront came out of your pocket. Still, that seems like high overhead.
Dinsdale said:
Yeah, me too, pal.
Treycal reported in as Supervisor, Energy Forecasting for an electrical utility…
That’s interesting to me…
I mold the minds of the li’l ones who will one day lead our country. Yes, they’re only 7-8 years old right now, but this stuff takes time.
This is my sixth year of mind molding, and I make $34,000-ish/yr plus some great benefits – including summers and holidays off.
Oh, and the best bonuses in the world are those hugs at the end of the day. Priceless 
Well, Sua, not that close, but not that far…
115k or so after bonuses & all as a VP in software development at an extremely large financial svcs company.
Once you subtract $100k/year for NYC harship pay, it does not seem very high.
I’m a student, but I’ve got a scholarship that pays me about $1300 a semester. Other than that unemployed.
-Lil
QA analyst for a webcast ratings firm.
$42,500 a year, plus bonus.
Magazine copy editor.
I make $32,000, which is below market for the job. But it kind of evens out because my health insurance is free.
I also get a ton of time off since my employers are great believers in compensating people with time rather than money. If I weren’t too busy to take time off, this would be a better deal 
Sheesh…my salary is so small compared to some of you. I only made $15K this last year. Fortunately, my husband made $55K this last year, so we are still doing okay.
I’m a rocket scientist. Really.
$71,500/year, but I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where high school kids who know HTML make that much on their summer vacations. I drive a Honda Civic with 115,000 miles on it while the code jockeys leave me in the dust of their Acura NSXes.