I did. My “Woo-hoo” referred to the stock options.
Sua
Ornithologist. Almost 50k plus benefits (TIAA/CREF, whoohoo!).
If I could get my dad to post he’d have you beat by more than double. 
Title is Human Resources Administrator (for a manufacturer of laundry appliances).
Salary is $32,500 (matching 401-K and almost free medical helps). In rural Iowa, that’s not too bad (no degree or special training).
There’s also a pension from my first husband (who died) of about $7,000 a year, so I don’t have to take the calculator with me to the grocery store.
I’m a bit surprised that people are so free with this kind of information. But it’s interesting.
Thank you for a couple of observations, Auntie:
Anybody read Bonfire of the Vanities? In it Tom Wolfe’s stockbroker character muses that he could maintain a lifestyle similar to that which costs him a million dollars a year in Manhattan for about $100K in…Nashville(?).
That’s been addressed a couple of times in this thread so far; in retrospect I’m surprised at myself for posting because I live in that corporate world of don’t ask, don’t tell.
General Internist-I make 6 figures, but less than Sua, even including benefits which include my pension, malpractice insurance, and productivity bonuses. Besides, it still works out to Taco Bell wages if you include time on call. Damn, I KNEW I should have gone to law school!!!
Somewhere in this land fill that I call my bed room is a few copys of Parade Sunday magazine. They have an annual issue of “What people earn” How do I go about figuring out what I want to be, what job is right for me. I am all ready old just not grown up enough.
beatle – I accidentally skipped page 2, missed those comments. Normally I read everything before posting. (Oops.)
Tom Wolfe was right. My daughter rents a nice two-bedroom house here for $300, utilities are low too, and since there’s nowhere to shop and nothing to buy, a little goes a long way.
There’s a 23-year-old where I work who is buying his own home and a rental property on an income of $25,000 a year.
That’s just disgusting! Somebody should take that kid and forcibly move him to a big city so he can be miserable with the rest of us. Honestly!
Med/Grad Student: 20K/annum
Too old to still be thinking of IKEA as a high class joint IMO.
I write software documentation and business procedures for companies installing new computer systems or upgraded/enhanced systems. Am an independent consultant and charge 50USD per hour plus expenses, work about 20-25 hours a week. This is probably the most boring work imaginable but can be lucrative – most companies can’t determine their own procedures so after the initial struggle to complete boring computer manuals or even more boring online text, I get to sit around while they make up their minds how to handle it all. The employers prefer their documents to be boring - more ‘business-like’ is what they say.
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I’m another government drone–except that I actually love my job. I work for EPA.
At the moment I’m making $36,656/yr. Don’t mind telling you all since govt salaries are published on the web and anyone who knew me would be able to figure out what grade level I was and therefore how much I make. I also get $800/yr tax-free towards commuting if I use public transportation (which I do). It sucks when I compare my salary to what my friends make-but it has some nice perks, great job security, my salary is adjusted for cost of living every January and I get a step increase every August. I’ll never get rich but I make more than enough to live on right now.
I work as an infection control practioner in a VA hospital. Many thanks to all taxpayers for the immense 63K. This, after 23 years of gov’t. service.
Apparently, they do not pay me to spell. Or preview.
Make that “practitioner”.
Former attorney, current project manager for a defense & government contracting firm… mid 100’s, depending on bonuses and incentives. Never hit the 190 mark yet, though, Sua!
By way of contrast: as a public defender, I made about $55K my best year.
- Rick
I hope you had enough training on the ground to know that Close Air Support and DANGER CLOSE in the Marines are very different from those terms in the Army or Air Force. And let me know if you dust off those world domination plans, I may be enticed with leadership of a small continent, say Australia. What does the Iron Fisted Dictator of Australia pay?
OK. You said stock options were OK to count in, so I figured it out. I took the 52 week low and high and factored that in with my salary, and I make somewhere between 212K - 454K/year, depending on what the market is doing on a given day. Given that in my early 20’s I thought that if I made around 50K/year I’d be livin’ large, I’m doing pretty well.
Unlike you though, Sua, this money is no reflection on my education, intelligence, or work ethic. I got lucky. They didn’t know those options were gonna be so valuable when they gave 'em to us peons.
72K as a computer programmer. No stock options, maybe this year, prolly not. No bonuses either, they used em for new Lexus’s for upper management. Great way to piss off your whole company.
Bastard. I’m 24 and have no hope of buying a house anytime soon unless I a) move way out in BFE, or b) get married.
$76K - Financial/Treasury Analyst
But because of my B-school loans, credit card bills, working in NY, living in NJ and not being able to cook, some bums eat better than me.
On the other hand, I drink better than them, AND I have 80 channels on my TV.