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I do tech work for law firms, hospitals, and schools. I make about $150k/yr, but I'm bored out of my skull. I'd like more of a challenge but I'd have to give up my cush to get it.

Program coordinator with the local government (civil servant). $65k a year, which I still can't believe I got. It's 15k more than what the previous person in my position was getting. I simply asked if it was possible to go higher, and that's the offer they came back with.

Everyone tells me this means I could've asked for much more, but I feel that's about fair for what I bring to the table. I overperform in entry-level jobs, but I don't have the time management skills and emotional resilience to do well at higher levels. I'm already hitting my limit barely one year in - but this time, I've got a good team, a great manager, and will hopefully have my meds adjusted so I can keep going.

Microsoft 365 Administrator, $130k USD. I only have an Associate's degree but I have over a decade of experience in the field. Most of my day is spent coordinating with cybersecurity, compliance, and lawyers to ensure our data practices are sound. It's a constantly-moving target.

Apartment superintendent. $62k plus free rent and utilities.

That's, what, $107k/y? That's a good, solid middle-class income in the US, unless you live in an expensive area. E.g., it's a great salary if you live in Manhattan, Kansas; it's not a lot if you live in Manhattan, New York. What's the cost of living where you live?

I'd go by the price of eggs, but they're outrageously expensive under our current regime.

Electronics Engineer, UK (in the North), £39,000 after 5 and a half years of experience.

My field pays about the middling amount for the engineering profession. If I were to move overseas I could expect a 50% to 100% increase in pay.

Though my current company is great because they treat me very well. Hybrid work on offer with a minimum of 2 days in the office but since my job requires being in the office I don't use that except for Fridays or when I'm not feeling great but still able to work, flexible working hours as long as I'm available during core hours of 10am to 4pm and Fridays are usually a half-day unless I'm very busy. There's a pay-adjusted profit share bonus (the lower your salary is, the more you get from the bonus) and they try to match inflation with automatic pay rises.

Much better than my previous place which gave me suicidal depression, anxiety, and workplace-stress-induced PTSD where raised voices and slamming doors trigger an anxiety attack.

Software engineer. £75k a year, plus bonuses - last year got £13k (pre-tax) which was nice. Based in the north of England.

Digital forensics in a European country. My monthly salary is enough to buy 15000 eggs, or live comfortably within the urban area of a large city and buy a reasonable amount of eggs.

I'm a waitress, I make about 60K USD give or take 5K. It varies significantly throughout the year, though. In Chicago, that's enough to support a family of five.

Currently an intern in IT getting paid 17/hr. Pretty much everybody is telling me I'm getting paid shit. However, I'm very inexperienced, even though I'm taking comp sci classes, I don't feel nearly knowledgeable enough or productive enough to justify getting paid more.

Eventually I hope to be some server admin or some kind of security analyst. Maybe I'll jump ship after a year or two but so far, any experience is good experience for me.

If you guys have any career advice lmk.

IT help desk (combined L1/L2 ish) in education. Pull in a smidge under $70k plus bennies/pension/etc. Live comfortably enough and have some leftover to treat myself reasonably.

Bit concerned what happens with the US DoE though...

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Pharmaceuticals in the US. Fairly early in my career, get paid just short of $100k/year. All it took was getting a doctorate and selling a little bit of my soul.

Sometimes I miss academic research. But at the end of the day I'm getting paid about 4x as much while working 1/2 the hours, by my estimate I'm 8x as happy now. Plus, there's something to be said for working on projects that actually affect people's lives instead of overstating the impacts of my research to compete for a dwindling pool of federal grants. Seeing the policy changes in the US this year, I'm very glad I left academia but I'm not convinced I'm 100% safe from changes made at the FDA.

Mechanical engineering lead, and I'm at ~130k. About double the median in my area, so pretty comfy. I develop new technologies from initial concept to final products that can be brought to market.

I've been in engineering leadership in early and mid stage start ups in San Francisco for a number of years. Comp varies a bit (the earlier stage the company the more ISO equity I get - for anybody not familiar these are options that are basically worth nothing but in the event of an exit opportunity might be worth tremendously more - vs working for a public company you'd often get RSUs that you could immediately sell or divest) but base in the low 300s. This is in the bay area, so actual purchasing power when compared to cost of living is more like mid 100s elsewhere in the US.

Software engineer in the UK, currently 9 months into making a big fat zero cos nobody's recruiting, and those that are have stupidly inaccessible offices in city centres.

Regional Head, working on collaborating Technical operations with work systems (no software), make about 85k EUR +18% bonus a year currently in fmcg industry.

IT, vulnerability management, just under $80K USD. Judging by other comments im solidifying my opinion that im underpaid, although ive heard thats pretty common for gov IT work.

Union electrician in a strong Union city in the north east part of the USA. Make 100k a year just working 40hrs a week, but work has been slow the past few years so I've made under that the last 2 years. The money is good for sure, but the retirement and health coverage for my whole family is the real reason for the career

I'm a production artist working for a small production studio. I work from home and my hours are super flexible. So long as I get my work done they don't care how long and when I start work. The pay kinda sucks since it's about $30k a year but I'm a recent graduate so I understand.

Marketing Director for a company that hosts in person conferences. $105 base with around 15k in bonus per year. I work remote from home. I enjoy the flexibility it gives me. Health insurance for me and my wife is like 14k a year though, so don't like that.

IT Networking in Healthcare. Used to be administration side but recently moved to networking a year ago. Had the same job now for 19 years and it was my first job out of tech school where I worked help desk for the first 5 years. Used to do a lot on the telecom side but now it's mostly setup firewalls, program switches, and know cloud services to setup virtual networks. I know I am underpaid at 87k, I am being promised a raise soon with hopes of getting to 95-100k but even that is below what I should be around. I may have a new opportunity later this year which looks to be around 110-120k if I can pull it off. I want to move on not only because the pay but also because going 19 years at a place that's 24/7 with bare minimum holidays takes its toll on you since your basically on call all the time. Outside that the job it's self is fine and challenging at times.

$60k USD as a "supervisor" of sorts in a factory, more hands on work than hands on coffee type of supervisor.

Very high cost of living where I am so that salary has me renting someones garage "apartment" to live in just so I can have some sort of a savings otherwise I'd be living paycheck to paycheck.

I'm a part-time janitor. The pay sucks.

I'm a Scrum Master working in Financial Technology. I made $145k last year although that was because I worked a ton of overtime. My base is closer to $130k. Although I do have to provide all my own benefits

I do physical therapy with school kids with disabilities. Almost $60k but only paid for 190 work days. People think we get paid for all those holidays and breaks, but we don't - only paid for the days that we work plus five sick and vacation days. My husband makes a few times what I make as an engineer and my kids are grown (but not entirely off the payroll), so I feel pretty lucky to have the life that we do.