# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![acaveman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@acaveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acaveman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/101 "2004-03-15T05:01:12Z")
I had a 1440 (even) 720 math 720 english Took it in 1992. I work for union pacific, and earn 65,000 dollars a year. Could I have made more if I had finished college? Sure. This is all arbitrary. (I don’t spell well. 🙂 ) All in all, the SAT’s and ACT’s are a crock of shit. I test well but lack the motivation to do much else. Ok, 65K and whatever I make setting marble tile on the weekends is fine with me. Honestly, I could make more putting in $14 dollar a sq. foot marble in your house. I should but I am lazy. Test scores mean nothing, ( I have ALWAYS come out 98% on Iowa test of basic skills.) I work at a railroad, set tile on the side, had a 1440 S.A.T., and will still retire by 50. I know plenty of people that didn’t go to college and make more than the educated ones. Common sense rules. How do you think we score so well on the test? ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/102 "2004-03-15T15:07:03Z")
$72.40 per point. Never graduated. 36 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/103 "2004-03-15T17:04:36Z")
0 Unemployed (1 3/4 years Network Engineer) Never took SAT’s ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/104 "2004-03-16T00:48:16Z")
$97.48 Patent attorney - 2 years full-time and 3 years half-time as patent agent, then 1.5 years as attorney. SB and PhD from MIT (materials engineering), JD from Harvard ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/105 "2004-03-16T01:31:17Z")
Computer software sales - 120 to 320 a point, depending on what kind of year I’m having. Took SATs in Sophomore year of HS, scored well, dropped out of high school _immediately_, graduated from Bard, went into computers in the late 70s. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/106 "2004-03-16T01:40:02Z")
#DIV/0! Whoops. Never took my SATs. Currently a Business Analyst/Project Manager for a major financial institution. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/107 "2004-03-16T01:45:22Z")
$32.14/pt, adjusted. Spent a total of 5 years with a legal publisher, 2 years FT then 3 years PT while I worked on my second B.A. (Hey **jeevmon** - got any Matthew Bender books on your shelf? 😃 ) Grad student for 7 years, post-doc for 3 years, now finishing up first year as a FT geologist with a small consulting company. B.A. (communications), Fordham University B.A. (geology), Hunter College, CUNY Ph.D. (geology), Columbia University ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/108 "2004-03-16T03:14:44Z")
$27.08/SAT point. Middle school English teacher, 4 yrs. experience. Check out my ratio and make the usual commentary about teacher salaries… ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/109 "2004-03-16T03:15:59Z")
Oh, and forgot to mention, that’s with a BS from Cornell and two Masters degrees from Binghamton. I really took a beating on those, huh? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/110 "2004-03-16T03:34:31Z")
I took my SAT so many years ago, I can’t remember what it was. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/111 "2004-03-16T03:39:12Z")
SAT scores: I don’t know my individual scores, so I had to divide by 2, then adjust, then add back together. That’s an estimate, folks! Ratio: On that scale, I’m at about $75 per. College + experience: I dropped out of college to go on the rock & roll road, then went back to get my degree, then quit to do music again, then went back into business. Total computer geek experience, about 12 years, total R&R experience about 12 years, too. My major before I dropped out was Math/Physics. My degree is a BS in Business. ---
**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/112 "2004-03-16T04:52:44Z")
> [@ENugent](#): > > $97.48 > > Patent attorney - 2 years full-time and 3 years half-time as patent agent, then 1.5 years as attorney. > > SB and PhD from MIT (materials engineering), JD from Harvard I’m a patent attorney too. My annual take flucuates, but based on '02 AGI, I’m in at $105/SAT point (adjusted to current numbers per the table). But I’ve just got the BS & JD (plus an unrelated MA), with 15.5 years of experience. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/113 "2004-03-16T05:42:50Z")
~$48.28 per point, depending on how my bonuses come out this year, using the adjusted numbers. (I’ve never actually seen the chart before - I would have had an 800 verbal if I had been born a few years later?!? No fair!) Graduated from Alfred University in 1998 with a BS in Management (MIS concentration), Comp Sci minor. Five+ years as… a pretty straightforward job that’s hard to sum up into a nice little title. You could probably call me a combination programmer / benefits analyst / client team tech manager for a major HR outsourcing company. ---
**Author:** ![iamme99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/57b2e6/32.png) [@iamme99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamme99)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/114 "2004-03-16T08:57:56Z")
0 right now (umm, “between engagements” 😉 ) Last full year I worked = 66.88 Career best = 165.22 Software sales B.S. CompSci ---
**Author:** ![LtningBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@LtningBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LtningBug)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/115 "2004-03-16T09:18:05Z")
$51 per point. About 2 years experience in software development. BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Univ. CO. in Boulder. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/116 "2004-03-16T10:57:06Z")
$3.55 per point. I’m not salaried but per hour, so I figured that the past three weeks will be more average than the first four weeks were, when I was just starting to get hours. Plus I test extremely well for being apathetic (1350, so you can figure out my projected yearly if you’re bored). When I get into grade school teaching, I should be “charging” about $22 per point. Meantime, anyone who wants to make donations to the iampunha scholarship and general well-being fund is more than welcome:D ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/117 "2004-03-16T14:22:09Z")
If some of you folks deducted cost of college, college, more college, graduate school and so on, would you still be a ‘plus’ anything?! It’s depressing to see some people who’ve poured mind numbimg numbers of hours into educations and not set the world on fire. ---
**Author:** ![ContumeliousBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@ContumeliousBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ContumeliousBob)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/118 "2004-03-16T15:44:09Z")
☹ Gots 1300. -\> “ajusted” -\> 710+650 =1360. Makes $8500. Gots a B.A. in German Language and Literature. Currently ‘stuck’ in college job, only allowed to work part-time. Plan on taking over the world. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SilentButDeftly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SilentButDeftly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SilentButDeftly)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/119 "2004-03-16T17:48:16Z")
Base salary: $24.58/point salary + bonuses: $106.76/point Lordy lordy I loves my job! 🙂 Data Analyst/programmer at a financial software company, 2 years experience BS in Economics, MIT ---
**Author:** ![AZCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@AZCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AZCowboy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217/120 "2004-03-17T02:51:47Z")
$94 (not recentered) $88 (best guess of recentered - don’t remember my math/verbal breakdown) Both are base salary only. 16 years experience in telecom/data networking BS Management Science, Georgia Tech [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-annual-salary-divided-by-your-sat-score/227217.md?page=7)