Software Engineer:
Started in Oct. 07 at 55,100 and i'll prob get a bonus of a couple k. Putting a large chunk of it a side so i can retire as early as possible.
Software Engineer:
Started in Oct. 07 at 55,100 and i'll prob get a bonus of a couple k. Putting a large chunk of it a side so i can retire as early as possible.
I'm in my fourth year. I started off part-time at $8,000. Next year went to $15,000. Third year my position went full time and I got $37,000. Now I get the standard 3-5% raise and this year (#4) I'm at $38,800. Raises could be bigger in the future depending on our success.
Our head men's basketball coach started 10 years ago as the assistant men's basketball coach and assistant tennis coach for something like $6,000. Two years later he got the head men's basketball job. Now he's in his eighth season as the head coach and closing in on $100,000 a year. But, he's worked his butt off and he's been very succcessful.
In college coaching, you have to pay your dues for a while but if you work hard and have some success, generous pay raises can follow. Almost every successful college coach has stories from their early years when they were some low-level assistant living in a roach-infested appartment. It seems to be a rite-of-passage.
pwn3d wrote:
EliteFitnessJogger wrote:Newly licensed attorney.
Started June, 2007: 38,500
Now: 41,500
Not a lot considering $120k student loan debt, but I love my job.
Attorney, started Sept. 07 - $160,000
Handle/Post of the day!
social sciences=no money. 3.71 gpa, sociology major, biology minor. best i could get is 28k!! but its okay because i'm just taking the year off before pharmacy school (i deferred admissions) so i'll be making a lot more when that's done with.
kiril wrote:
coursenot wrote:OK kiril whats up?
i dont get it. have fun nonner.
i will save you the embarrassment of having your name googled - it's enough that we ridicule your times on the team
Wow you sound like a prick.
Graduate 2007 work for WisDOT
Start with $43,219 with increases every 6 months. Not that great but I get 33 days vacation including holidays plus ~12% employer contribution to retirement account and full family medical coverage for $68/month (they pay approximately $15,600 a year for my insurance and $5,000 for retirement) Total compensation is around $63,000. Besides my wife will be a dentist in a years time with 0 debt.
you guys need to post where you live rather than just the number. 100k in Alabama means something, 100k in the Bay Area means that you might be able to afford a 2br/2ba condo in a couple of years.
First job after college in 89: Engr at detroit automaker - $31K
Got an MBA at night in 95
Now (still in the big motor): Director of Ops at auto supplier - 160K base, 25% bonus, stock, car
Automotive is a great but it is going through a lot of change. I am ready to go back down south.
5K time now -- (have not run one in several yrs)
-- did Freep half at 7.30ish pace last fall
pwn3d wrote:
EliteFitnessJogger wrote:Newly licensed attorney.
Started June, 2007: 38,500
Now: 41,500
Not a lot considering $120k student loan debt, but I love my job.
Attorney, started Sept. 07 - $160,000
be interested to hear what firm you work for. unless you're in dallas, LA or NYC at a top 20 firm you're full of it. either way your life is a nonstop whirlwind of document review and email. and sucks.
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attorney, started 2007: $75K
exactly the response that I expected ... not much.
100k in the bay area, socal, nyc, maybe portland or seattle will have far less purchasing power than 40-50k in most "normal" areas of the country. of course, since these people make 2x what others do - they automatically have an attitude, even though they can't afford a place to live.
K - Dawg wrote:
Hey, I said I lived in a small rural community close to nothing and that $70K here is good. I know you people from the East Coast can't fathom open land... but in the West there are plenty of "boonies" if you will. In places like Burns, Oregon (100 miles away from the closest town) the wealthiest person makes like $50k annually. It is totally back woods and farming or federal is the only profession. Btw, I do not live in Burns. It's an example.
Also, in case you didn't link up another thread to this one... I only work 30 hours a week MAX. So $70k at 3/4 work time (although I hear most of you guys work more than 40 hours in a week which is pathetic, you weren't put on this world to work man!) is the equivelant to $93,333 annually at full time pay. Once again, I'm happy and can spend a lot of time with my family, which is way more important than working all the time and making a lot of money.
For those of you who work a lot of hours to make the money... what are your kids names? Or have you forgotten you legacy?
Well, brother, then you are in the Peoria, Ill. of Oregon. $70,000 is good then. Also, you didn't provide the 3/4 working time before (at least I missed it if you did). I agree with spending time with family. I could make 50% again my income if I were to work more. I just don't want to and fortunately don't need to work like that.
Graduated in May of 2006, started working for a regional insurance company shortly after making $40,000 a year, a year later I got bummped up to $46,000. I find out in 2 weeks what my next raise will be - should be bumped to about $50,000.
kiril, what team? and what school?
im not a collegiate runner.
enlighten me.
Graduated from college in 1983 with a B.S. in English, then took a proofreading job for $7.00/hour.
Left that gig in 1985 and got into low-level accounting for 10 years; I worked my way up to about $55K/year.
After having been figuratively lobotomized by Corporate America, I finally returned to my passion and wrote screen plays while supporting myself as a grunt in a running specialty shop. ($10 per hour at the latter.)
I eventually sold the rights to a screen play for $6500. Nothing ever came of the screen play, but it connected me to my current network employer where I've been a co-writer for three soaps and two primetime dramas. The salary fluctuates, but I've average $425K for the past six years.
Entertainment; it's good work if you can get it.
Computer Engineering
Started in '96 @ $42k
Current salary @ $90k
A while back I made the choice to not make my work my life, so the salary has plateau'd a bit of late. But I'm a specialist at what I do and the work is challenging yet manageable. I'm pretty efficient so I average about 35 hours per week, which leaves lots of time to play.
My wife's Environmental Engineering salary is about $80k, so we live very, very comfortably... especially considering zero debt, a variety of investments, and living well beneath our means. We are big on traveling, though, which can be spendy.
Oh, my running sucks but then I'm still pretty new at it. I'm a strong cyclist (and new tri-geek) though, if that counts for anything! =)
Bend, Oregon.
spankymccranky wrote:
you guys need to post where you live rather than just the number. 100k in Alabama means something, 100k in the Bay Area means that you might be able to afford a 2br/2ba condo in a couple of years.
spankymccranky wrote:
exactly the response that I expected ... not much.
100k in the bay area, socal, nyc, maybe portland or seattle will have far less purchasing power than 40-50k in most "normal" areas of the country. of course, since these people make 2x what others do - they automatically have an attitude, even though they can't afford a place to live.
Urban living is not about owning a two car garage and an acre of land. You can't make an apples to apples comparison.
As for attitude, well that's because where we live is 10x more interesting than where you live. You call it attitude, I call it swagger.
Salaries are high the Silicon Valley and the rest of California because people want to live in good weather all year around. Prices should be higher in Southern California because it has the most fantastic weather all year around. But there is so much empty space in Riverside, Imperial counties that the law of supply and demand keeps the Frisco Area prices a bit higher, given the geography is locked in by mountains. You couldn't pay me to live in Oregon, Nebraska, Boston, Atlanta, etc. because of the weather. People also consider safety and living conditions, like my daughter who first went to Japan as a USAF officer, then after her contract was up moved there permanently, got a 2nd college degree, and a good job. She loves it there since Japan is the only country in the world where young women can walk around alone safely 24 hours a day virtually anywhere in the country.
Started at 2.87 per hour(did get time and a half after 44 hours). 750k to 850k now depending on year.
Started at $5/hr unloading airplanes with a forklift right out of high school 35 years ago (was a card-carrying Teamster).
Now make 91K/yr as a linguist. Love it. Get to travel and see the world at my employer's expense.