# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/61 "2004-02-03T23:59:23Z")
$86.20 (recentered). Systems Analyst, 28 years exp. BA (Comp Sci) from Berkeley. I had no idea geophysicists made such good bux. ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/62 "2004-02-04T01:38:55Z")
$74.62 (Recentered, salary only) BS Computer Science, Appalachian State Univ 16 years experience Managing consultant with a small IT consulting firm Jammer ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/63 "2004-02-04T03:56:16Z")
$25. Not recentered, because I took my test after the recentering (Sorry). 1 year experience, Masters in Library Science from UNC, B.A. Political Science from Guilford, corporate librarian in the nonprofit sector. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/64 "2004-02-04T04:04:19Z")
$52.44 per point. Biologist with a BS from SUNY Buffalo, 17 years experience in my field. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/65 "2004-02-04T04:18:21Z")
$78.01 B.S. Meteorology, Wisconsin-Madison. I’m in software sales. Never worked a day as a metorologist. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/66 "2004-02-04T06:00:21Z")
$58.22, recentered, straight salary $61.64, recentered, including bonuses, most recent 12 months Software consultant, 12 yrs exp. B.A. English, 3 semesters of Ph.D. program coursework in English lit. ---
**Author:** ![Dogman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dogman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/67 "2004-02-04T07:27:56Z")
My score is $110.55 per point, without bonus. 21 years, accounting, Oregon State University. To be fair, I turned out to be much better at making good career moves, getting things done and negotiating than taking tests. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/68 "2004-02-04T07:41:27Z")
$93.96 recentered based on last year’s W2. This year it will be much lower to zero due to “corporate restructuring”, maybe about $30/point. Unless some deals go well, then it could be much higher. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/69 "2004-02-04T09:22:15Z")
> [@Bill H.](#): > > **Ringo** wrote > > Why it shore nuff (approximately) is. My apologies. > > Signed in by Mr. Clinton Dec 21, 2001, I’m surprised it didn’t get more press. (Or, I suppose it’s more likely I didn’t read about it, barely literate as I am). Sorry to keep picking at nits, but the presidency had passed from Clinton to Bush well before that date. Is the date off, or was 12/21/01 when it was slated to come into effect? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/70 "2004-02-04T11:04:31Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > $19.41 > > I’m a writer. ☹ $16.00 I’m an actor, should start on some more writing! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/71 "2004-02-04T14:34:17Z")
$31.62 7 years in my current field. I did go to college but never finished. The area I studied has nothing to do with my current job. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/72 "2004-02-04T21:10:18Z")
I did some statistics for everyone who posted at least $/point based on actual SAT scores so far, excluding the students, who, let’s face it, don’t count. N=45. The distribution looks fairly normal, but there is a large standard deviation and a long tail to the right (high $/pt). The mean was $54.09/pt, the median was $44.63/pt, and the standard deviation was $26.56/pt. Scientific/technical workers: N=17, mean=$57.78/pt, med=$61.64/pt, sd=$19.38/pt Nonscientific/technical workers (including those who did not give an occupation): N=28, mean=$51.86/pt, median=$43.18/pt, sd=$30.23/pt. The high sd is due to the attorneys and captains of industry on one end and the starving artists on the other end. For those who attended private colleges, N=10, mean=$47.57/pt, med=$42.73/pt, sd=$20.91/pt. For those who attended state schools, N=19, mean=$55.95, med=$52.44, sd=$24.74. The correlation between years of experience and /pt was poor (R[sup]2[/sup]=0.29). For what it's worth, the best linear fit was /pt = (2.04 X years of experience) + 33 Overall, **jeevmon** had the highest ratio, $134.75/pt, while poor **c\_carol** had the lowest, at $11.84/pt. (good luck in that job search) Again, I didn’t count the students or those who didn’t take the SAT. ---
**Author:** ![jeevwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/73 "2004-02-04T21:38:07Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > I did some statistics > > For those who attended private colleges, N=10, mean=$47.57/pt, med=$42.73/pt, sd=$20.91/pt. > > For those who attended state schools, N=19, mean=$55.95, med=$52.44, sd=$24.74. So that’s one for us state schoolers, I suppose. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/74 "2004-02-04T21:51:44Z")
$21.91/point B.A.S. UofMinn-Duluth Brand spankin’ new paramedic. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/75 "2004-02-04T23:03:14Z")
I don’t remember my SAT score, exactly, but it was somewhere in the 1500 range. That puts me at $13.84/pt, annually. BS in biology from the University of Kentucky, five years experience as a veterinary technician ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/76 "2004-02-05T18:14:58Z")
$39.16 / SAT point (1983 test, [unadjusted](http://www.greenes.com/html/convert.htm)), $1516.12 / ACT point. Urban planner, AICP certification and nine years of experience. B.S. Urban and Regional Planning and Analysis, SUNY Buffalo State College Master of Urban Planning., SUNY University at Buffalo. I did _much_ better on the ACT than the SAT. Unfortunately, few people become wealthy by becoming an urban planner. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/77 "2004-02-05T18:40:52Z")
This is going way back for me. But let’s see: I’ll admit right out that my math score wasn’t that great, and my verbal was better; beyond that I just don’t remember exactly. But using a ballpark figure, I think I come out at $55.00/point, not including the bonus I got. My GRE went much, much better. Using those results, with the analytical third omitted, my salary ratio is $47.14. Make of it what you will. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/78 "2004-02-05T18:51:36Z")
Oh I fogot… BA, UC San Diego MLS, UCLA. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/79 "2004-02-06T02:20:02Z")
35.97 with recentered SATs. I teach at a state university. I went to a private liberal arts college. My highest degree is a doctorate. 37.87 calculated by my GREs. Care to post a formula for Miller Analogies Test scores? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/80 "2004-02-06T02:28:32Z")
Oh–years of experience: It’s hard to count, but 8-ish 3.5 years asst prof including summers, university (Psychology) 3 terms, teaching assistant, community college (career development) 1 term instructor, university (coping skills) 11 summers instructor, institute at university (EFL) 1 semester instructor, college (grammar a/k/a So You Failed the Test of Standard Written English) 1 trimester, instructor, trade university (freshman seminar) 1 year, instructional teaching assistant, university (fiction writing) Plus a number of years teaching middle and high school T&G, etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217.md?page=5)