GAF, how much do you make?

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Faiz said:
Just over 50k

I'm 39. Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering, 15 years experience.

Yep, you read that right. Because state employees don't deserve to be paid what they are worth, despite court rulings that pay shall be commensurate with education and experience.
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The Lamp said:
Good grief, please go work in the private sector. You don't solve Navier-Stokes transport phenomena problems to make $50k a year with 15 years of experience.
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Yup. We have PhD Chemists working here who we pay $100,000-$120,000. We actually had to offer the $120k recently because we weren't getting good enough resumes by "only" offering $100k.
 
kaioshade said:
As far as hobbies go, you can enjoy something without being able to completely indulge on it. i love my gaming, but nowhere near the status of some other posters here that i can even get some of the gaming gear i want.

This thread is depressing.



THIS is why this thread is depressing, and how much luck plays into it. Someone worked hard with no certs and is doing well (which is awesome), i murdered myself in shit jobs WITH certs, and im making literally HALF of some other posters here.
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Sorry for your experience.

Most people I talk to though value experience over certs. A while back there was a time where certs were easier to get and you had soccer moms sitting in these classes getting Microsoft certs looking for IT jobs and then when you put them in IT and they couldn't do shit.

It also matters what certs you have. IMO A+ certification is worth less than the paper its printed on.

valuable certs + valuable experience is the best though.
 
I bring home around 56k a year (with a 401k savings). Sole provider of a family of five. Living fairly comfortably in central Florida.

Once kids are in JR. highschool wife will be working again, so we'll be sitting pretty. Outside like, some tech stuff, I'm not a big baller spender.

Only debt is some hospital bills (2k) and my best buy card (1k). Meh.
 
If anyone made a point of answering even half of the GAF, what your favourite ____, how tall are you, are you married etc threads you could compile a lot of information on individual posters.
 
I'm a designer.

Just switched companies and was going through a hard time unemployed, but just landed another spot with a ~45k base plus commission, so average after a year of business is around 70k.
 
A little more than $50,000 in my first job out of college. Also in the midwest. I work in local government so I make a little less than average but I have a nice benefits package with steady increases. I could have gotten more in the private sector but my commute is like 5 minutes, nice benefits, and great co-workers so it all worked out wonderfully. I'm about to pay off my students loans within the month and can buy all the things I want so life's good.
 
20, student. I work as a pharm tech part time at $14.25/hr, and I keep my hours low (10/wk generally) because I can't make more than 10k without provincial loans telling me to pay up. I sit at about 7k/yr, live at home rent free.
 
American, 38 married w/ 1 kid - less than 35K a year working full time. My wife makes the same.

Edit: Wow at seeing people having a hard time making more than I do. Then again I suppose where you live makes a difference.
 
captive said:
Sorry for your experience.

Most people I talk to though value experience over certs. A while back there was a time where certs were easier to get and you had soccer moms sitting in these classes getting Microsoft certs looking for IT jobs and then when you put them in IT and they couldn't do shit.

It also matters what certs you have. IMO A+ certification is worth less than the paper its printed on.

valuable certs + valuable experience is the best though.
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Ive been in the field about 10 years at this point (MCITP was in 2006)

I am way past A+ at least. I have Apple certs (ACMT and ACTC), MCSE (im renewing it when the win10 one comes out), MCITP (retired), and working on MCSA to replace MCITP.

I should be doing a lot better than I am, going by some of the posts here.

Thats why reading some of this is frustrating.
 
31, I make 29k a year without overtime, upwards of 40k on an average year. Going to school currently to become an engineer, and looking for work in the Solar field.

My company has absurdly good benefits, and my wife and I just had a child, so it's probably why I'm not feeling that fire under my butt. But only making $14 an hour blows lol.

Edit: Technician for a stage lighting company.
 
I cant tell you how much i earn(because i dont have a job) but i can tell you i spend between 250k and 300k a year.

25 years old, psychologist
 
I'm 38. I make around $40,000 before profit sharing. This year's profit sharing bonus should be around $30,000.

I run a small tour/rental company in Arkansas, where the cost of living is absurdly low. :)
 
kaioshade said:
Ive been in the field about 10 years at this point (MCITP was in 2006)

I am way past A+ at least. I have Apple certs (ACMT and ACTC), MCSE (im renewing it when the win10 one comes out), MCITP (retired), and working on MCSA to replace MCITP.

I should be doing a lot better than I am, going by some of the posts here.

Thats why reading some of this is frustrating.
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I can totally get your frustration. I wasn't trying to imply you had A+ cert though.

Are you doing anything more specialized though? That's where the money is. Beyond that consulting pays more than being in operations. At the hospital I mentioned that I started out at, I was on call 24/7 1 to 2 times a month for an entire week. I got paid nothing extra for this. I was on call at the second job too. When in operations people want highly skilled people, but they don't want to pay for them. Now i'm never on call.

Send me a PM if you want and we can chat more.
 
I started my own business about 6 months ago and have yet to actually pay myself a wage. So £0.00 right now. I have been lending money to myself via a directors loan account so I owe the business some money out of any potential future wage when I do get paid.
 
I'm 30, a Technical Support Engineer. Just got promoted to that position and I make $50,000/year with a bump potentially to $55,000 if I fully transition roles.
 
I am a high school technology teacher and I make about 61K (32 years old). I get a nice raise when I complete my masters (about 5k) which should happen this summer. Additionally I get yearly raises of about 3k or so until I reach my 10th year (currently in my 8th year. In about 3 years I will be making about 77k. I live in Connecticut where cost of living is on the higher side but the higher teacher pay more than makes up for it.
 
25 year old student. Working part time at my internship where I manage data. During the summer, I intern somewhere else and make about $1,100 a week. During the school year, it's like $15 an hour.

Software Developer, aspiring, at least.
 
23, only $13 an hour as an accounting clerk on contract. Hoping this contract can extend so I can get more experience and then move on to a company that will at least pay $15 to $17 an hour. Working on a CPA designation and doing my PREP modules.

Comes to about $24000 a year, but lol Canadian taxes.
 
I am paid script to script, rewrite to rewrite, etc, so it's all over the place, but last year I made around 100k. I'm 21.
 
knicks said:
I'm 23, and three of my friends who are also my age are software developers and get paid around that. It's fucking crazy. And they work at very laid back places. They don't even have to get into their office until 10-10:30 and it's not like they are there until 8 PM either.

That field is crazy.
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I would definitely get into that field if it was as lucrative/respected in my country, but it's a very limited field with small chances of growth, and I don't feel like moving elsewhere for a job. Finance or Electrical/Mechanical/Petroleum Engineering is where you get the highest pay in my country, and I chose to go the Finance route because the workload for an Engineering degree is too much when I can breeze through Finance and get similar pay.
 
33 year old in the telecommunications industry, with a salary in the ballpark of $80 - 85K annually. My "official" job title is Sr. Process Analyst, but my actual responsibilities are a bit more complicated, more closely resembling that of a Project Manager.
 
I was making roughly $8k-$12k/year working part-time in retail between ages 18-26 and going to college part-time, then quit my job and was unemployed for two years in order to FINALLY finish college. I started my current job last year as a systems engineer at 28 with a salary around $55k, and have since been bumped up another $10k.
 
23 year old and just got my first real job in advertising for a large car dealership in the northwest. I spend all day driving nice cars and taking pics of them.

Starting salary is $10.50 an hour here, 40 hours a week, so I make about 20k a year.

Note that I'm still a student in Journalism/Video Production, so once I graduate I'm gonna be looking to get into another position that offers a little more. But for now, I'm making enough that I can live with some room mates and more than afford living. And the job is really really fun.
 
mhayes86 said:
I was making roughly $8k-$12k/year working part-time in retail between ages 18-26 and going to college part-time, then quit my job and was unemployed for two years in order to FINALLY finish college. I started my current job last year as a systems engineer at 28 with a salary around $55k, and have since been bumped up another $10k.
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If my Wife would just hurry up and make a ton more money, I'd love to quit work and just dedicate to finishing school lol. I'm looking at my horizon and it's sooooooooooooooo far away.
 
I'm 31 and work in the nonprofit sector (fundraising/development which is not an industry you see discussed here much) at a very large university in the Boston area. I make around $75K a year in a management role.
 
37, married and have a 3 year old son....THEY make over $120,000. What's hers is hers and whats mine is theirs...
 
Graphic Artist for a decent sized local Screen Printer I am 33. Been working here for 10 years...

Make around 42k a year. It's just OK for my area. I don't live in a big city but we have tons of Military in the area so housing is rather expensive.
 
dcassell said:
23 year old and just got my first real job in advertising for a large car dealership in the northwest. I spend all day driving nice cars and taking pics of them.

Starting salary is $10.50 an hour here, 40 hours a week, so I make about 20k a year.

Note that I'm still a student in Journalism/Video Production, so once I graduate I'm gonna be looking to get into another position that offers a little more. But for now, I'm making enough that I can live with some room mates and more than afford living. And the job is really really fun.
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I'd do it for free, sounds fun.
 
ChronotriggerJM said:
If my Wife would just hurry up and make a ton more money, I'd love to quit work and just dedicate to finishing school lol. I'm looking at my horizon and it's sooooooooooooooo far away.
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That's what my fiancée and I would like to do for her situation. She is trying to start school again in the Spring, but quitting entirely in order to focus on it isn't feasible right now with her bills and us trying to save for the wedding next year. The only reason I was able to quit my job and focus on school was due to receiving enough financial aid to support myself while living with my parents.

Good luck!
 
113k is base salary plus I get 20k annual retention bonus guaranteed for not leaving and plus another possible 10k but that's based on how well the company does and lately it's been like 6-7k.

I'm screwed if I get layed off though. No college degree. I worked my way up. Been here 14 years.

40 years old.
 
From 21-27 or so made $50-$80k then jumped way up at 28 to around $200k. Earned that or more for a decade or so; currently making a bit less since I quit doing some of my supplemental income contracts.

But I'm home from work at 3pm every day and work from home Thursday's and Friday's so I can't complain.
 
I'm 18 years old, make 11.75 an hour with 35-40 hours per week. So thats $22,600-26,000 per year, using my very rough math skills (Google).
 
400k+ (includes bonus). Investment banker in NYC, early thirties. Yes we work an insane amount of hours per week, but we're still overpaid for what we do (my personal opinion).

And what's crazy is someone in my position was getting paid 50-100% more during the pre-2008 boom.
 
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