# What's your annual salary divided by your SAT score? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 2, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217 "2004-02-02T19:17:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/21 "2004-02-02T20:51:14Z")
I win! (or lose?) $0 per point! I’m a stay at home mom…no income. I did get a pretty good SAT score though (1350) and I have a BA in Secondary English Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/22 "2004-02-02T21:08:09Z")
Somewhere around $29 per point. I can’t figure it comfortably with the scale adjustments. I was an English lit major and psych minor who’s now a UNIX sysadmin. Considering the amount of alcoholism I managed to fit into four years of college, I think I’m doing remarkably well. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/23 "2004-02-02T21:18:27Z")
If I maxed on the SAT, my ratio would not be less than $48/point. If I scored minimum, it would be ~$190/point. As I didn’t take it at all, however, it’s undefined, like **Who\_me?**'s. B.A. from UC Berkeley in Biology, 5+ years working in I.T. as an “applications analyst”. ---
**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/24 "2004-02-02T21:21:50Z")
$134.75, seven years experience as a trademark/ copyright attorney. ---
**Author:** ![smcio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@smcio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smcio)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/25 "2004-02-02T21:23:31Z")
I think I have one of the lowest: 3.7/point. I’m still in high school and making about a dollar over minimum wage. ($5200/1420) ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/26 "2004-02-02T21:23:39Z")
I’m retired now, but immediately before, I was earning $68.35/point. That was as a VP of Human Resouces with a law degree. The company treated me very well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pablito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@Pablito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablito)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/27 "2004-02-02T21:40:35Z")
$41.21 per point; 7 years experience at current job; Davidson College, then an MA and then a PhD in literature (current job is totally unrelated to degrees). How about this scale: divide current salary by number of years of post-secondary education? For me, let’s see, that’s a measly $6,100 per year. Or salary divided by number of degrees: $20,300. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/28 "2004-02-02T21:43:15Z")
Hmmm. This won’t be as good as it should be, because I was sick when i took the SAT, and should have been at home in bed. But here goes: My last salaried job as a project safety manager and architechtural superintendant for a construction management firm: $30.74 After quitting to become a pilot, and working as a flight instructor: $7.40 Current, based on the business project I am working on, and extrapolated out, since I only started in January: $45.19 ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/29 "2004-02-02T21:52:06Z")
$68.70 per point. 5 Years experience in Corporate Finance. Rice MBA. ---
**Author:** ![mercaptan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@mercaptan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mercaptan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/30 "2004-02-02T22:34:00Z")
$44.24 per point, 18 years past Ivy League liberal-arts BA, controls manager for a electric utility project group (six years in this field.) The thing I studied which has been extremely useful was contract law. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/31 "2004-02-02T23:12:26Z")
$91.91/point; B.A. from The University of Texas; 23 years experience; geophysicist. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/32 "2004-02-02T23:25:41Z")
$51.49 / pt (estimated). I took the ACT, not the SAT, so had to convert. BS in Biochem and MBA (both from the Univ of Wisconsin). 10 years in my field, sort of. I changed paths when I got my MBA, from the bench to business development. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/33 "2004-02-02T23:30:34Z")
$0 per point, so far this year. About $3 per point, last year. My peak income was a bit over $40,000, or about $30 per point. So you see SATs aren’t a very good predicter of future success. Just look at the President. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/34 "2004-02-02T23:41:36Z")
$51.6/point, with an adjusted score. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/35 "2004-02-02T23:43:33Z")
Wow. If I adjust my scores for the “recentering,” I make $28.80 per point. Six years experience (in web development and marketing communications), Drake University with Public Relations major. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/36 "2004-02-02T23:44:47Z")
Dubya comes in at $313.48. ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/37 "2004-02-02T23:47:32Z")
$11.84 here. Temp customer service worker, desperately hoping for a real job. Got a 1520 on the SAT, fat lot of good it did me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/38 "2004-02-03T00:10:54Z")
$74.07 15 years Engineering college prof. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/39 "2004-02-03T00:23:30Z")
$52.44 per point, Colorado State University, BSCE went directly into programming, then webmastering, now internet securitying (er, english was lower than math. 😉 ) That was about 13 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/40 "2004-02-03T00:31:38Z")
$90.23 (after recentering) CIO of an insurance company 23 years BS in Finance and 6 hours remaining on an MS in IS/Acctg [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217.md?page=3)