LyleLanley
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I remember hearing stories of what interns were making in NYC back before 2008. It's such a ridiculous industry.
GAF, how much do you make?
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I remember hearing stories of what interns were making in NYC back before 2008. It's such a ridiculous industry.
PeakPointMatrix
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95-101k depending on overtime/bonuses in animation. I'm 25.
EYEL1NER
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28yo, pulling somewhere around $65K, maybe including bonuses, no degrees or certifications. All of the income qualifies for foreign earned income exclusion though and I only have state taxes taken out (which I get back at the end of the tax year anyway).
It is hard to pin down because I know what I should be getting based on working a 72hr week but if I want an extra day off a week or want to take a couple months of vacation in a year, I will end up getting less. I think I was on vacation for about three months this year and have taken a second day off every week since mid-August.
I also have a little under $2000 coming in at the beginning of every month to total ~$21,100/year but it is not anything related to employment or considered income.
I'll be done working my current job soon and will be seeking employment elsewhere, so I will have a move ahead of me. For a while though, I will be relying on savings and that just-under-$2000-a-month (which should take care of all bills and necessities) while unemployed. While applying for work, I might go out and take a couple exams for certs, get a Sec+ or something.
It is hard to pin down because I know what I should be getting based on working a 72hr week but if I want an extra day off a week or want to take a couple months of vacation in a year, I will end up getting less. I think I was on vacation for about three months this year and have taken a second day off every week since mid-August.
I also have a little under $2000 coming in at the beginning of every month to total ~$21,100/year but it is not anything related to employment or considered income.
I'll be done working my current job soon and will be seeking employment elsewhere, so I will have a move ahead of me. For a while though, I will be relying on savings and that just-under-$2000-a-month (which should take care of all bills and necessities) while unemployed. While applying for work, I might go out and take a couple exams for certs, get a Sec+ or something.
What's an "insane amount"? I've always been curious about how much Wall Street people work.
True Savior
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12-13 K (euros) .Im a researcher at a university. I dont pay taxes of it , so its net salary.
I always feel like shit reading this threads on gaf. I have no debt though.
I always feel like shit reading this threads on gaf. I have no debt though.
RedNumberFive
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35 years old and I make around $90K doing logistics work. I'm looking to increase that to $100K later this year, and if that doesn't work out, I might start looking for a new gig.
PipefishUK
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I remember one of these threads a while back - can't remember the results.
I kind of expected a lot of a GAF to be what I consider really well off, this has made me feel a bit better!
I'm on £26,500 ($40,730 / €37,520), I'm 34 - I was managing the Sussex and Surrey region for a mobile response/keyholding (security) company. But decided I couldn't be fucked with management and working 24/7 and would rather have a life and be happy.
So ditched it and went back to the bottom with a different company (I now drive around all night responding to alarms and locking up buildings/patrolling around the south coast of England - just like when I first started in this kind of work) - but now I earn more than I earned in management and am much happier - I can boost it by a hell of a lot by doing a few extra shifts a month and can actually earn a hell of a lot more than I did when I was in management, on a salary, and working double the hours with triple the stress.
(This isn't the norm in this line of work - most pay an absolute pittance for their workers on the ground, like not much more than minimum wage, but because of my experience I can basically pick and chose which company to work for and found one with very high pay for the job.)
I spent years working my way up in various companies and I was getting higher and higher up my previous company and had been promised the divisional manager's (my boss) job when he retired (he was about a year or two off), had the phone, the laptop, was offered a car and bonuses when I said I was leaving, was told I was being an idiot and would regret it.
It's actually the best thing I've ever done, so much happier, so much more free time and (at the moment) more money.
Money/status isn't everything.
I kind of expected a lot of a GAF to be what I consider really well off, this has made me feel a bit better!
I'm on £26,500 ($40,730 / €37,520), I'm 34 - I was managing the Sussex and Surrey region for a mobile response/keyholding (security) company. But decided I couldn't be fucked with management and working 24/7 and would rather have a life and be happy.
So ditched it and went back to the bottom with a different company (I now drive around all night responding to alarms and locking up buildings/patrolling around the south coast of England - just like when I first started in this kind of work) - but now I earn more than I earned in management and am much happier - I can boost it by a hell of a lot by doing a few extra shifts a month and can actually earn a hell of a lot more than I did when I was in management, on a salary, and working double the hours with triple the stress.
(This isn't the norm in this line of work - most pay an absolute pittance for their workers on the ground, like not much more than minimum wage, but because of my experience I can basically pick and chose which company to work for and found one with very high pay for the job.)
I spent years working my way up in various companies and I was getting higher and higher up my previous company and had been promised the divisional manager's (my boss) job when he retired (he was about a year or two off), had the phone, the laptop, was offered a car and bonuses when I said I was leaving, was told I was being an idiot and would regret it.
It's actually the best thing I've ever done, so much happier, so much more free time and (at the moment) more money.
Money/status isn't everything.
kevo_huevo
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True. I was working in HR doing HR systems work, but now I'm in IT doing HR systems work and nearly doubled my salary.
wandering goat
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I'm in my early 30s living in Canada, make $42,000 / year. It's paid by the hour though, so if I work more, I make more (usually just an hour or two more a month though unless something crazy happens). Living alone with a mortgage and payments on a new car, I get by but don't have all that much left over to save after budgeting for everything else.
LegendofLex
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27 years old
$52k/yr + $25/hr (or add'l time off) for time worked above 40h/wk
BA in English
Sales writing (mostly proposals) for an established software company
2 years full-time experience
Less than $2k student loan debt
Pretty satisfied: at my current rate of income growth I'll be making more than $70k by the time I'm 35 (2023).
Wife makes about $55.5k/yr (salary's boosted by about 3.3% by her MA)
MEd w/ multi-subject teaching credential
First-year teacher
About $20k student loan debt, almost 100% from the year she got her MA/teaching credential
If she stays in her current district, she'll also be making about $70k by the time she's 35. She's hoping to get her music credential and switch to music teacher, though, because this district is really challenging and she kinda got screwed over with a horrible class after coming in one month into the year this year.
So combined we make about $107.5k/yr, and will make about $140k/yr combined by 2023. We're hoping to buy a house in a couple years - the market's pretty expensive out here and I don't wanna go in until we have a solid liquid savings (we only had a couple thousand dollars prior to existing college and the cost of renting in our area is pretty high, so traditional saving was slow going until she got her first full-time teaching gig; I've been investing steadily in my retirement savings in the meantime).
$52k/yr + $25/hr (or add'l time off) for time worked above 40h/wk
BA in English
Sales writing (mostly proposals) for an established software company
2 years full-time experience
Less than $2k student loan debt
Pretty satisfied: at my current rate of income growth I'll be making more than $70k by the time I'm 35 (2023).
Wife makes about $55.5k/yr (salary's boosted by about 3.3% by her MA)
MEd w/ multi-subject teaching credential
First-year teacher
About $20k student loan debt, almost 100% from the year she got her MA/teaching credential
If she stays in her current district, she'll also be making about $70k by the time she's 35. She's hoping to get her music credential and switch to music teacher, though, because this district is really challenging and she kinda got screwed over with a horrible class after coming in one month into the year this year.
So combined we make about $107.5k/yr, and will make about $140k/yr combined by 2023. We're hoping to buy a house in a couple years - the market's pretty expensive out here and I don't wanna go in until we have a solid liquid savings (we only had a couple thousand dollars prior to existing college and the cost of renting in our area is pretty high, so traditional saving was slow going until she got her first full-time teaching gig; I've been investing steadily in my retirement savings in the meantime).
29, base $89.3k this year, after overtime and bonuses it amounted to over 100k last year (went to Afghanistan for 2 months). This year probably $95k with OT and bonuses and a good performance review should put me around $97-98k next year. Live in upstate NY so it's a great salary for the cost of living, pretty much in luxury apartments and can do whatever I want. Systems Engineer with a masters in Biomedical Engineering and a bachelors in ECE. My company does unheard of matching as well they put in 10% into my 401k no matter what I put in, I put in 10% of my own anyway.
What kind of technologies?
dragonflys545
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$40K Product Development and Operations Coordinator. Doing two jobs while getting paid 1 salary... Will be searching for new opportunities soon.
in Microsoft world, System Center, hyperv, azure, office 365, powershell.
in other areas, VMware, Amazon web services. Generally, automation and virtualization is where its at.
75 - 110 hrs/week is the norm for junior bankers (analysts, associates). A really tough week would be 115+. That said, the industry has put more focus work/life balance and hours have generally come down in the past 5 years.
Holy shit.
thestopsign
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So I hope that is seven days a week? Because even then, that leaves just about eight hours a day left at the top end. I thought working 60-65 hrs/week was pretty draining.
It is.
Blackstarhat
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Im not telling
thestopsign
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I've wondered what it felt like to have an actual 40 hr work week. It is odd to consider when working more than that has been the norm for me.
Thanks I'll keep this in mind.
It's glorious. I have all sorts of after work activities like basketball, softball, golf. The weekends are mine, I don't even think about work. I have to put in the OT now and then on weekends, but that's a once or twice every couple months type of deal.
My girlfriend is an attorney working in the public sector and she has a 36 hour work week. Makes half what most attorney's make but has better benefits and works half as much.
I'd take a 20% paycut to go from 40 hours to 32 if I could.
£40k including bonus, so that's around $61k.
I'm 35 and a chartered architectural technologist. It's a good salary for what I do, I really love my job and have been lucky to fall into a company that values me.
I also have a company car which is a hell of a perk for me, £25k car changeable every 3 years.
Salary will theoretically go up in the next few years if I can get the promotion I have my eye on.
I'm 35 and a chartered architectural technologist. It's a good salary for what I do, I really love my job and have been lucky to fall into a company that values me.
I also have a company car which is a hell of a perk for me, £25k car changeable every 3 years.
Salary will theoretically go up in the next few years if I can get the promotion I have my eye on.
Frankenstrat
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Enough to pay rent, buy food, and learn programming so I can do something else. AKA: barely anything.
ChaosZeroX
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26 making 35k a year. Kinda sucks :/
User 479360
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Nearly thirty. I make about $2400/year, and am going on disability which would only pay about $13-14K per year.
I'm scared
I'm scared
Sports. My main client is PGA Tour, but I've worked just about every sport that's ever been televised (aside from bowling..)
I live in Orlando but travel around the country for my work.
Liquidsnake
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70K
39.
I have failed in life.
39.
I have failed in life.
No thanks. I'll take my poverty lol
Really? Over $500k? Holy shit. Well good for you! I think doctors deserve every penny they earn. How long does it take to become an attending surgeon after you finish your fellowship (which I assume you started after your residency)?
What are your weekly hours like?
Turning 26 this month.
About 450k after tax withholding (IRS are nothing but vampires). I stand to make more with every new release, but I've gotten extremely lazy now that I'm back on the Witcher 3 horse.
Still, it does inspire plenty of good stories for when I eventually shift to fantasy.
About 450k after tax withholding (IRS are nothing but vampires). I stand to make more with every new release, but I've gotten extremely lazy now that I'm back on the Witcher 3 horse.
Still, it does inspire plenty of good stories for when I eventually shift to fantasy.
Yeah, bankers have it rough, despite the insane pay. None of my banker friends are happy. When I was at my firm, I had weeks where I billed 100 hours and I was pretty sure I was going to die. No thanks.
Life ain't about money dude. I'd give up my career and money in an instant if I knew I could still live comfortably and happily with my family.
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