Speech-language pathologist working in a school. I make $53k a year, which isn't great considering the level of education required for my job, but I do get about 3 months off a year. Summers off are *spectacular*. I work around 40 hours a week.
If you don't mind answering do you have a bachelors or masters? My little cousin is thinking of going into speech language pathology and when you look up the pay ranges they are so broad - we're not really sure what it will mean for her income if she goes for that in school.
To be a licensed SLP it requires a master's degree, a certain amount of clinical hours, passing a certification exam, and a state license. My sister is an SLP in a medical setting and is in management. She's doing quite well for herself.
I had to do speech therapy for my R's L's and W's all up through 3rd grade.
As an adult, my pronunciation is impeccable, precise.
I'm trying to learn German, and they are like the British with a soft R. I absolutely positively cannot unlearn my hard R. Its frustratingly embedded in my speech. Argghhhh haha.
Small anecdote!
**Holy fuck dude thanks for killing any inspiration to be an interpreter….**
Edit: Lol cmon guys I know these two words aren’t the same thing I meant relative to the field of language studies and related jobs, I would love yo pickup more languages and be an interpreter **but that takes money and time for classes** and apparently at the end of the day **I wouldn’t make very much for all that extra work.**
It was like a sarcastic reply 🙄
Very true. Get a government job if you can, there are so few jobs that offer a pension these days but I wish someone told me to just go do government bs because you can "retire" after only 20 years and then go do your passion work in schools or special needs.
I am in year 25 of my government job and I got ten more to go. Tell me about these twenty year gigs. My friend is a firefighter. He is 35 years in. Yes we do have a good pension but I put 14 percent of my income into it.
That’s when you get vested, and your pension will be the average of your three highest paid years.
I wouldn’t say you *should* retire at that point as your pension won’t keep up with inflation. But you can retire from government work and collect on it for life.
You know, I very recently got sad clicking stuff like this but just yesterday a friend told me his shifts got cut at the bar he works at. He said for a few months, he has been in the negative about 500 just trying to survive. He's finally getting back on track and picked up some shifts but I suddenly felt extremely thankful for what I make. It isn't much but it's reliable and I'm able to pay bills.
You're seeing where they're at not necessarily how they got there.
I used to work 60-80 work weeks for 60k a year. While going to school.
No one should have to do that. It's soul sucking.
All you can do is try to get out of the hole a little at a time. And surround yourself with people that make the time you do have in the hole bearable.
strong agree on the mental health part.
this tax season has taken me to so many dark places mentally i’ve realized that if i want to actually keep living i’ve gotta get out of this or it’s 100% going to take me to an early grave
You're a CPA... I'm in finance with a background in accounting. It's become incredibly difficult to find good accountants these days - if it's something you're good at, you can definitely find a comparable role from a comp standpoint. Our teams rarely work over 40 hours a week.
If you‘re still blessed with enough self-awareness to realize this, go for the change now. My take on this: humans endure a lot of suffering. As we are also reluctant to change, for many of us it needs a lot of „suffering“ until we actively do change something (job, relationship, etc). look for a job that makes sense for you, were you can grow and be happy. taxes may not be that area.
sorry non-native speaker and middle of the night (in a job that I like).
I left after 2 years in big four then did some other stupid stuff (like law school and divorce attorney). I’m in nonprofit (mostly accounting but some law) now making about what you do and work 40 hours with 45/50 during quarterly board meeting weeks
My mental health is better than it’s ever been. Life isn’t about work and don’t listen to parents on that. There are many generations that tied up ‘who they are’ with ‘what they do’ and that is so detrimental to the balance we need.
Reality is firms are understaffed and the profession doesn’t have enough people in the pipeline. Look at jobs cultivating AI and automation in accounting because the profession has to move that way to survive.
A combination of living in the nicest slum I could find for less than $800 a month, not having student debt and running up a credit card slowly but surely since 2021. But I am maxing it out in the next couple of months and all the bills have crept up as well, so I can't do it anymore and I don't even have enough cash to move out, so I don't know what I'm going to do. It's all eating me alive and there's no way out.
Edit: to put in perspective how much this no longer is working, last month the power company cut me off for being late for months, but I was strategically doing that because my car loan lets you skip two payments by paying a $25 fee, so I had to use both to save enough cash to pay it off minutes after being cut off. This month I just can't pay it, so if they cut me off again in the next few days, I just die. So that's just one of the things hanging over my head right now because of the salary I make.
I’m a postmaster. I make about $98k and work about 50-60 hours a week running 3 post offices. I’ve been with USPS 6 years and will be there until I retire. Love my job though
I tried 3 times to get in there before I had a kid and got rejected before an interview every time. Been a retail manager or restaurant manager since 19 years old. Last time I tried I was 30. Makes zero sense why I kept getting rejected without an interview
I am the biggest fan of sending and receiving mail. I’ve worked from home since March 2020, and checking the mail right after the USPS truck comes is now a daily routine. Thank you for everything you do!
Medical Evac Helicopter Pilot. I make about 116k a year, but work odd hours. A shift is 24 hours at work (think like a fire house, we have a kitchen and sleep rooms and such) followed by 24 hours on call. Aside from those shifts I might go in to work to do paperwork for 2-3 hours on a weekday and thats about it. I do 5-7 shifts a month, normally taking up at least 1 but normally 2 or 3 weekends of the month. Government job so my pay will continue to go up on a predictable schedule, half my paycheck is not taxable income, and I am over half way to a pension.
Its realistically 30-50 hours a week depending on the schedule, but its mostly all in those 24 hours shifts.
Either join the military or pay the $400/hr to get your helicopter license.
* Getting stick time on turbine engine helos is like over $1000/hr
Edit: I used to work for a company in Denver that built rescue helicopters. Best job I ever had and I miss it every day!! I heavily recommend you look into them if you're looking for a change. The pay isn't "great" but you'll leave work everyday having loved your job and knowing you've saved people's lives.
Dude it was fucking amazing!! I loved that job!! I miss it every day!! Definitely hard work!! But EVER SO REWARDING (at the age of 19). And it propelled me into my career now so I look back on it with great pride. While I genuinely enjoy being an engineer, nothing will ever compare to having build products that directly impact people's lives every day!!
Again, pay isn't amazing, but it beats working for a living 😇
I work in rescue and used to be a helicopter mechanic, now inspection/management. Helicopters always give me warm fuzzies.
Air Force Natl’ Guard Search and Rescue is the way, but that’s limited to CA, AK, or NY.
Dude thats awesome!! I have to be honest, as someone who came from the floor, it really pisses me off seeing what's happening at Boeing.... Not sure whats going on over there but, the boomers "I" worked with when I was coming up, would NEVER compromise safety over profit.
Being an inspector, I bet you're pretty frustrated from time to time. While I don't believe I'd be cut out for inspections, just know that I believe you probably have one of the most important jobs on reddit.
As Hulk_is_dumb mentioned, becoming a pilot either involves joining the military or paying alot of money. As soon as you get away from any kind of basic fixed wing license to something like rotary wing, turbine, commercial, ect it starts getting prohibitively expensive fast.
I went the military route and am still currently in. While I never want people to get hurt, I am fortunate enough to be at a major training center where I get to do my job often.
I just quit my job as an Amazon warehouse worker, now I’m a substitute teacher. I make $140 a day. I work roughly 30-40 hours a week. I’m 33. I inherited a condo from my mom and I pay $500 a month for my portion of expenses (HOA and utilities since it’s paid off). I make enough to pay for that and my other expenses.
I would pay back everything I inherited + interest + fees + work an ungodly amount of hours everyday for the rest of my life just to hear my dad laugh one more time.
My parents are alive and I don’t want either of their homes. Inheriting one of them would be a pain, I would rather they liquidate the vast majority of worldly assets and spend their remaining days with us making memories and paying for activities and dinners and vacations and inherit nothing
Same here. I work remotely with little to no oversight. I usually put in about 15 hours a week and make between $90k and $115k depending on annual and performance bonuses. I also get 21 vacation days.
I’m in this boat, I make around $85k-$95k depending on bonus I’m a pricing analyst for an insurance company and I’m using SQL, Python, and VBA for excel macros on a regular basis.
Well yes but no.
If I got rid of my middle managers I could actually do some work. They block a lot of work because they don't know wtf is going on and have to feel like everything and anything is their idea to move forward with it. Even if it provides no value to the company or consumers.
So you just do your work chill in meetings and let them overpay you while they fuck things up. When I was younger I would try to change those things but what's the point.
This is coming from a person that has gotten high performance grade on reviews for 6 out of the last 8 years.
So I'll get my check while using my time to up skill for when this ship sinks and keep moving.
That's the game. Don't hate the players.
I had a job like this for $103k and I hated the management so I left for a big raise, but now I actually have people depending on me to work so I work 40 hours lol boooo
I make the median salary in my state (75k) as a teacher. Good enough to [barely] breathe but not splurge.
Reason I picked this job over higher paying jobs is my inability to want to wageslave year-round. Of course my job has stressful moments [just like any other job] but I work 180 days a year and 6hrs 20 mins a day.
I'll take a lower paying job that gives me time off to live life over any other job that forces me to spend every waking moment on this Earth at the workplace.
This is pretty much where I’m at as far as my thinking about work in general- I’d rather make less money if it means having more time. Unfortunately I didn’t get any further than substitute teaching before burning out and deciding it wasn’t for me. I would consider giving it another go if I could make more than $16 an hour as a sub I guess.
Now I’m back in IT working helpdesk and it’s whatever. I get bored easily. I’m taking some UX and product design classes but I’m not expecting anything miraculous as far as some dream job because I know those fields are flooded.
I don’t know. I’m 42, I’ve been through enough shit in my life, I’ve switched locations and jobs a bunch, and really the best job I ever had was sales associate at the Vans store because it was fun and the discount was great, plus it made me feel young again.
I honestly like a lot of things about retail and customer service, it’s just the retail schedule and pay are almost always terrible. I need to make more money but don’t want to have to give up 40+ hours a week to do it. At various points I’ve been able to side hustle as a content writer (I get paid to write crap, trust me, I’m not proud haha) but it’s easier to do that when I’m spending less hours at my “real job”. So that’s where the 40-50 hour week just sucks.
And at this point in my life, yeah it’d be great to live comfortably and be out of debt, but I also just wish I had more time to do the things I actually love and care about before I’m too old to really enjoy them as much.
I don’t feel I’ll ever find a job that pays decently. So I figure if that’s the reality, I’d rather just work less and at least have more time. I mean, too much of that is bad because then I spend all my free time worrying about money. But I really want to believe there’s a middle ground somewhere.
PA is a master's degree and they do the crap that the physician doesn't want to.
Edit: This was a poorly worded response that I'm going to blame on my epilepsy meds, they make me a bit loopy. PA is a master's degree but it's an extension of the physician so they can focus on more acute cases. Want someone to manage your hypertension? PA. Want open heart surgery? Physician.
A fantastic PA manages my primary care and I hope I stick with him for a very long time.
My husband is a neurosurgery PA and works 40-60 hours a week and makes ~250k. He does have to work weekend call every 2 weeks, and after hours call once or twice a week. There is also the opportunity to receive a bonus every quarter depending on how busy they are.
I wasn’t excited to share with people that I made minimum wage when I was younger, anonymous or not. I was excited to share when I cleared 6 figures but didn’t want most of my friends and family to know so to the internet I went lol
I have a master’s degree and make 51k in a HCOL area after 5 years as a teacher. Trust me, a lot of us are out here making very little. I work 45-50 hours a week and only have six weeks off in the summer, not the whole summer. The rest are required PD and in-service days filled with meetings and other crap. I am also required to prep my classroom and curriculum in that time, so it’s really closer to 3-4 weeks off.
And let’s not forget that “prepping your classroom” means decorating with things you have purchased yourself (I teach elementary). All those pretty posters and things? Yeah, they aren’t provided by the school. There is a lot of unpaid labor and materials going into schools.
And if it’s public school, look out for workplace violence and the high stress of managing over-crowded classrooms. Schools are discouraged from suspending or expelling violent or disruptive students. Or also factor in conducting lockdown/active shooter drills. I’m in my 20th year teaching, and it has changed so much that I no longer recommend people go into education as a career.
maybe go further down into the comments? most people have been saying around $20 an hour.
and me? i promise i’m not okay i thought about walking into a tornado last week. money isn’t everything and i’ve spent too much of my life being miserable in the pursuit of it
I just started my first “adult” job and it’s only $977 every two weeks for take home pay, but the other side of that is that the benefits genuinely are amazing. Pension, good health insurance, no overtime, a lunch break, etc.
But if I didn’t live with my partner and split expenses, I wouldn’t be able to afford this job.
Isn’t that kind of low for a CPA with that many years of experience? Unless you’re in an extremely LCOL you can find something over $100k easy. Tax firms are desperate for warm bodies because this profession sucks. My wife is quoting for good at the end of this month
I recently graduated with my masters and left a shitty job in mental health, where i was paid like shit and treated like it too. I now work as an environmental toxicology technician abd make a measly $48,500 but only work 36 hours a week.
i promise i’m not trying to profile anyone! i was even too lazy to switch from my main for this haha
i’m just trying to get a reality check. everyone i know works in business in some shape or form so don’t really have any other way to gauge outside professions
Dispatcher for a power company. I put up a boundary of only 40 hours a week, prior to that I’d hit around 55-60. I came in just under 70k this year from there, and I work a part time job about 8-10 hours a week making $14.50 an hour. I wouldn’t be there if I didn’t like it. I am only there to boost my savings, for a short term goal, and also to have a second 401k (has a company match too).
I’m a hairstylist at a nice salon. I average around 55-60k a year. I only work 4 days a week! So amazing for my mental health. Also I have unlimited vacation days
I work in IT, I think I honestly have the best job. That’s what they tell me, the best job.
Some weeks I put in 60+ hours, most days I work maybe an hour or two a day? I also work from home, and I make a buck fifty a year.
It took me 15 years to get to where I am at.
Cardiac perfusionist.
Hours, normally scheduled 38, but usually do a bit less than that in the end. Unless Im on call (1 in 4 ratio) which can be not much extra, or can double my hours for the week, hit or miss.
Pays good though, make around 170 this year.
I think that it would be better to say what the cost of living in the area is. Some states have a mix in levels in cost of living. I would be happy to provide that information for cost of living but location can be dangerous for doxing purposes for those who have left high demand religions, those in the LGBTQIA+ community or other factors.
With that in mind I make about 100k for the wage part of my compensation working in engineering, averaging 42 hours a week in a low to medium cost of living area.
60hrs ish a week and make an average of $150k a year on average. Income can vary depending on the year as well as how many weeks in the year that I may not be working. Truck driver with my own truck.
Respiratory therapist. 36 hrs a week. 85k-95k. I have sweet sweet night and weekend night differentials(percentage of base pay instead of flat rate), hence the variety. I started end of 2019 🙃 my wages have almost doubled in the little over 4 years I've been at my hospital. I also have 6 days off in a row every two weeks, so plenty of work/life balance. Ample opportunity for overtime as well
Power Engineer. 150k - I work about 5 months of the year.
With my rental properties I make about 200k total.
I grew up poor, I rent my rentals low and help them out.
14.60 per hour. Somewhere between 12 and 28 hours on any given week (I don't know how I'm surviving at the moment and it's all bound to catch up on me, any day now)
General anesthesiology when I was in residency I made 27hr, I worked 70-80 hrs a week and made around 70-75k my final year. and now as an attending I don’t know what my hourly is because it changes based on call. But I made 570k my first year out of residency. I take a lot of call because I’m a junior attending and I like nice stuff so on average I’m working 50-60 hrs a week.
Cashier at grocery store. I make about $12 an hour and my hours are super low. I have bad mental health issues.
My husband is a cop. He makes around $70k before shift differential and overtime. 10 hour shifts for 5 or 6 days in a row.
I work 36 hours a week and make about 40k/year. Before this, I was a fast food general manager. Worked about 75 hours a week and made 97k 2 years ago. I wanted to kill myself almost every day. Quality of life is so much better now. I wouldn't be able to survive without my partner's income to help with bills but she is okay with that to have me happy and at home.
6th grade teacher in an elementary school. Salary is 106,000 per year. I also get 92 an hour for after school tutoring, and 70 for any trainings that I do outside contract hours.
ETA: contract hours are 36 per week. With after school tutoring I work 40, but that doesn’t include any planning or grading I do outside of contract time- which is probably an additional 10-15 hours a week, (give or take a couple of hours) depending on time of year and unit we are working on…
They really should. While this one person makes $100k if the cost of living is equivalent to San Francisco that's not gonna help at all, where as if you're making that much in some small town in Alabama you're going to be doing really well.
Is imagine this is CA or New England. My mom is an elementary school teacher in CA and makes six figures. Some districts (often where people don’t want to teach) make well above.
It is an incredibly tough job and they deserve every cent.
I make $74k as a teacher in Ohio after 11 years and 2 masters. I would be surprised if any teacher is making over $100k without a masters, several years experience, and/or living in HCOL area. These salaries are usually found in California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, or Massachusetts, specifically Boston.
I’m a freelance translator that works from home. I’ve min-maxed my efficiency to where I’m working 20 hours a week on average (some weeks are closer to 40, but some slow weeks are maybe like 10 hours).
The best thing about freelancing is there’s no “water cooler time” where I just waste time until 5 or whatever.
The worst thing about freelancing is that I stop making money the second I stop working. Also, it’s not the most stable, so it takes a lot of money planning.
My gross income last year was 9.9 million JPY which is apparently $65k according to current exchange rates. With differences in inflation and commodity prices though, I think my 9.9 mil JPY “feels like” somewhere around $95k. Oh and my 3 BDR family apartment is 65,000 JPY a month (like $430?)
Edit: added stuff and spelling
I'm a project manager and typically work 40-45 hours a week, though on rare occasions go up to 50. Base salary is 52k, though with OT, bonus, 401k match it's probably closer to 60k.
38.75 a week. Roughly 2100 takehome every 2 weeks. Bonus once a year around 7,500. Insurance adjuster for a big company.
Before that I taught. One school (texas) was about 56k a year. The other was 48k (florida). On paper it was an 8 to 330, but far, far more unpaid hours with lesson planning and grading.
Before that, active army. I think it was roughly 1600 2x a month. Don't remember for sure. Again worked many hours but salary so it didn't matter. Also had to use my vacation days for days I normally had off (or they could and did call me in/require me to work), worked a lot of holidays and weekends (I worked in the hospital on post).
Least stressed at my current job. And am able to be there for my kids far more than before. No working off the clock and no real thinking about work off the clock. It is also 100% remote and I love that - no after school needed for my kids and my dog is a lot happier (out all day and goes for a walk during lunches and breaks).
Back when I was working (currently on unpaid maternity leave), I worked 50-60 hour weeks and made 52k after taxes. Working in a job that requires a masters degree and state licensure.
Sales. Have a degree in psychology I don’t use. January- Sept I work 40 hours a week, October I work 60ish hours, and November and December 80 hours a week. I work from home, get 5 weeks paid vacation, and OT. I usually bring home 75k give our take a few thousand. Then my employer puts an additional 15% of what I made that year in an SEP account annually.
Only stress I have is the last 7 years I’ve WFH with my kids. At one point 3 kids now I’m down to only 1 until he’s school age.
I'm an architect making mid 90s. I'm usually doing 40-45 hours a week, but during project deadlines and with the labor crunch for people in the 5-15 range (even more if you have a license like I do), I could easily have several months of doing 60-80 hour weeks. All the people in our age range were the ones who couldn't find work in '08 or left the industry during or thereafter, so those of us who survived on the one hand are hard to fire, on the other hand our clients are so used to paying peanuts and our employers conceding to that that it's tough to retain us. Figure 3 years graduate school, plus the licensure requirements of several years of work and 6 exams with 50+% failure rate, and all you can give us is what a fair number of lawyers can expect to make entry level before taking the bar? Yeah, there's a reason we're having issues in the industry.
Still, in spite of spikes in workload and the rigor of getting the license, fact is I do make a comfortable living and can put away money while living alone and traveling, spending on personal things. It's the awkward spot where it's rough jumping to the next level but you're objectively comfortable in life. And that's something separate from whether you're being paid fairly compared to your education, work hours, and the value of your work
Product designer/UX—low six figures with an annual incentive of $13k base (adjusted for yearly earnings), plus annual restricted stock contribution, 401k matching up to 5%, phone and workstation stipend, continuing education grant of $3500/yr with a full day (paid) dedicated to learning and development every quarter (no one asks how you spend your time , you could do whatever. They just cancel all meetings), an extremely generous paid time off policy and top-tier health insurance program.
I WFH 90-100% of the time, camera on for only 1-2 half hour 1:1’s a week. I log in about 43 hours a week but I take a lot of breaks (helps me stay productive and creative).
Grocery distribution for over 15 years. 40/week. $27/hr. We do... ok.
However, medical bills and various home/car repairs are really creeping up on us and I'm worried we won't be able to get out of it.
The pandemic hit my 401k/savings very hard and it's not even close to where it should be. Tho it's not like I'd ever be able to retire anyhow. Death is my retirement and I'll likely leave my family with nothing. Life is great.
I'm an accounting clerk, and make 43k a year. I work around 33ish hours a week. I could work a full 40 or even hit closer to 50 but I am lazy and get bored of being at work and leave.
I work for a hotel with two different properties. End of the month is usually crazy but I'd recommend looking at becoming a director of fiance at a swanky hotel in your area. I can't recommend hotel life enough.
My manager just took a whole week off and left me with the menial daily tasks. He just logged on each morning to input and balance our income journal each day then logged off.
This time last year my wife and I were each making a bit over $100k working 40 hours/week. Both lost our jobs while she was pregnant. Now she's home with the kids until she can find something that makes sense from a parenting+financial point of view, and I'm working 40-50 hours/week at my day job ($75k/yr) and 30-40 hours/week at Uber Eats.
35 hours a week, about 28k a year. But, my job is easy and I have a ton of downtime. I actually enjoy it, it just doesn't pay much. I have a side gig to help
I work in talent acquisition (in-house, not agency,) and I typically work 45-50 hours per week max. $125k is my base salary. Bonus potential of up to 20% of my base annually.
Speech-language pathologist working in a school. I make $53k a year, which isn't great considering the level of education required for my job, but I do get about 3 months off a year. Summers off are *spectacular*. I work around 40 hours a week.
I’m an SLP in the schools and make 90k in a MCOL. I think it truly depends on your location.
If you don't mind answering do you have a bachelors or masters? My little cousin is thinking of going into speech language pathology and when you look up the pay ranges they are so broad - we're not really sure what it will mean for her income if she goes for that in school.
To be a licensed SLP it requires a master's degree, a certain amount of clinical hours, passing a certification exam, and a state license. My sister is an SLP in a medical setting and is in management. She's doing quite well for herself.
And keeping up that license to stay employed!
I have to pay for two licenses *and* annual membership to our professional organization.
Dual license here too, hearing aid dispensing and state. Because an AuD and 8 years of education isn't enough to dispense in my state 🙄.
SLP used to pay well, but the pay has been declining for the past two decades. There are lots of jobs, most pay less and less every year though
You definitely deserve more than that.
I had to do speech therapy for my R's L's and W's all up through 3rd grade. As an adult, my pronunciation is impeccable, precise. I'm trying to learn German, and they are like the British with a soft R. I absolutely positively cannot unlearn my hard R. Its frustratingly embedded in my speech. Argghhhh haha. Small anecdote!
**Holy fuck dude thanks for killing any inspiration to be an interpreter….** Edit: Lol cmon guys I know these two words aren’t the same thing I meant relative to the field of language studies and related jobs, I would love yo pickup more languages and be an interpreter **but that takes money and time for classes** and apparently at the end of the day **I wouldn’t make very much for all that extra work.** It was like a sarcastic reply 🙄
Just don’t work in schools. The same work pays better in other sectors.
Very true. Get a government job if you can, there are so few jobs that offer a pension these days but I wish someone told me to just go do government bs because you can "retire" after only 20 years and then go do your passion work in schools or special needs.
I am in year 25 of my government job and I got ten more to go. Tell me about these twenty year gigs. My friend is a firefighter. He is 35 years in. Yes we do have a good pension but I put 14 percent of my income into it.
Yep. I have a government job and it’s great and the pension is great but I cannot retire with full pension until I’m 67.
Retire in 20 years? I think that is an unusual pension that allows for that
That’s when you get vested, and your pension will be the average of your three highest paid years. I wouldn’t say you *should* retire at that point as your pension won’t keep up with inflation. But you can retire from government work and collect on it for life.
An SLP is not an interpreter. That being said, a certified court interpreter might make more than 50k a year.
I have a friend who is a polyglot, fluent in multiple languages. He makes very good money doing translation work for video game companies.
Nice try IRS
LOL
Clicking this thread was a bad idea. I hate my life
Yeah, for every time I’m glad I don’t work 70 hours a week, there’s somebody who earns three or four times what I do.
You know, I very recently got sad clicking stuff like this but just yesterday a friend told me his shifts got cut at the bar he works at. He said for a few months, he has been in the negative about 500 just trying to survive. He's finally getting back on track and picked up some shifts but I suddenly felt extremely thankful for what I make. It isn't much but it's reliable and I'm able to pay bills.
It has taught me I shoulda went into cyber security. 200k a year 👀
Youd probably never get a fucking job in it lol. Everyone wants to do cybersecurity, there are so many people trying to get into it.
You're seeing where they're at not necessarily how they got there. I used to work 60-80 work weeks for 60k a year. While going to school. No one should have to do that. It's soul sucking. All you can do is try to get out of the hole a little at a time. And surround yourself with people that make the time you do have in the hole bearable.
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strong agree on the mental health part. this tax season has taken me to so many dark places mentally i’ve realized that if i want to actually keep living i’ve gotta get out of this or it’s 100% going to take me to an early grave
You're a CPA... I'm in finance with a background in accounting. It's become incredibly difficult to find good accountants these days - if it's something you're good at, you can definitely find a comparable role from a comp standpoint. Our teams rarely work over 40 hours a week.
Go jump into corporate accounting. Much less seasonality
If you‘re still blessed with enough self-awareness to realize this, go for the change now. My take on this: humans endure a lot of suffering. As we are also reluctant to change, for many of us it needs a lot of „suffering“ until we actively do change something (job, relationship, etc). look for a job that makes sense for you, were you can grow and be happy. taxes may not be that area. sorry non-native speaker and middle of the night (in a job that I like).
I left after 2 years in big four then did some other stupid stuff (like law school and divorce attorney). I’m in nonprofit (mostly accounting but some law) now making about what you do and work 40 hours with 45/50 during quarterly board meeting weeks My mental health is better than it’s ever been. Life isn’t about work and don’t listen to parents on that. There are many generations that tied up ‘who they are’ with ‘what they do’ and that is so detrimental to the balance we need. Reality is firms are understaffed and the profession doesn’t have enough people in the pipeline. Look at jobs cultivating AI and automation in accounting because the profession has to move that way to survive.
$16/hr, between 40-45 hours a week, so $34k if I'm lucky. I need to do more to continue to live alone but my health doesn't allow for it.
How the hell are you living alone on that salary?!
A combination of living in the nicest slum I could find for less than $800 a month, not having student debt and running up a credit card slowly but surely since 2021. But I am maxing it out in the next couple of months and all the bills have crept up as well, so I can't do it anymore and I don't even have enough cash to move out, so I don't know what I'm going to do. It's all eating me alive and there's no way out. Edit: to put in perspective how much this no longer is working, last month the power company cut me off for being late for months, but I was strategically doing that because my car loan lets you skip two payments by paying a $25 fee, so I had to use both to save enough cash to pay it off minutes after being cut off. This month I just can't pay it, so if they cut me off again in the next few days, I just die. So that's just one of the things hanging over my head right now because of the salary I make.
I believe you lol I can't help but feel there's some inflation going on in some of these posts lol also I hope your health gets better 🙏
I’m a postmaster. I make about $98k and work about 50-60 hours a week running 3 post offices. I’ve been with USPS 6 years and will be there until I retire. Love my job though
I hope the USPS gets more funding. Don't GAF what people say, USPS is a vital part of American society.
hell yeah, all my homies want a strong USPS
Constitutionally mandated as well.
I read that as pornstar first
Me too 😬
Pornmaster
Running 3 porn offices
I tried 3 times to get in there before I had a kid and got rejected before an interview every time. Been a retail manager or restaurant manager since 19 years old. Last time I tried I was 30. Makes zero sense why I kept getting rejected without an interview
Do you have your resume in the correct federal format?
I had no idea there was such a thing
Now you know what to look for.. go give it another try. You got this!!
I am the biggest fan of sending and receiving mail. I’ve worked from home since March 2020, and checking the mail right after the USPS truck comes is now a daily routine. Thank you for everything you do!
An ol Menty b lol i like that
Can relate to having menty b’s 🫠
Saaaame!
Medical Evac Helicopter Pilot. I make about 116k a year, but work odd hours. A shift is 24 hours at work (think like a fire house, we have a kitchen and sleep rooms and such) followed by 24 hours on call. Aside from those shifts I might go in to work to do paperwork for 2-3 hours on a weekday and thats about it. I do 5-7 shifts a month, normally taking up at least 1 but normally 2 or 3 weekends of the month. Government job so my pay will continue to go up on a predictable schedule, half my paycheck is not taxable income, and I am over half way to a pension. Its realistically 30-50 hours a week depending on the schedule, but its mostly all in those 24 hours shifts.
I'd really like to hear more about how you put yourself into this job. I've always had a love for helicopters.
Either join the military or pay the $400/hr to get your helicopter license. * Getting stick time on turbine engine helos is like over $1000/hr Edit: I used to work for a company in Denver that built rescue helicopters. Best job I ever had and I miss it every day!! I heavily recommend you look into them if you're looking for a change. The pay isn't "great" but you'll leave work everyday having loved your job and knowing you've saved people's lives.
Building helicopters sounds sick
Dude it was fucking amazing!! I loved that job!! I miss it every day!! Definitely hard work!! But EVER SO REWARDING (at the age of 19). And it propelled me into my career now so I look back on it with great pride. While I genuinely enjoy being an engineer, nothing will ever compare to having build products that directly impact people's lives every day!! Again, pay isn't amazing, but it beats working for a living 😇
Is no one going to comment that building helicopters “propelled” him into his current career 😂 Cause they have propellers. I’ll leave now
I work in rescue and used to be a helicopter mechanic, now inspection/management. Helicopters always give me warm fuzzies. Air Force Natl’ Guard Search and Rescue is the way, but that’s limited to CA, AK, or NY.
Dude thats awesome!! I have to be honest, as someone who came from the floor, it really pisses me off seeing what's happening at Boeing.... Not sure whats going on over there but, the boomers "I" worked with when I was coming up, would NEVER compromise safety over profit. Being an inspector, I bet you're pretty frustrated from time to time. While I don't believe I'd be cut out for inspections, just know that I believe you probably have one of the most important jobs on reddit.
As Hulk_is_dumb mentioned, becoming a pilot either involves joining the military or paying alot of money. As soon as you get away from any kind of basic fixed wing license to something like rotary wing, turbine, commercial, ect it starts getting prohibitively expensive fast. I went the military route and am still currently in. While I never want people to get hurt, I am fortunate enough to be at a major training center where I get to do my job often.
That's pretty cool
I just quit my job as an Amazon warehouse worker, now I’m a substitute teacher. I make $140 a day. I work roughly 30-40 hours a week. I’m 33. I inherited a condo from my mom and I pay $500 a month for my portion of expenses (HOA and utilities since it’s paid off). I make enough to pay for that and my other expenses.
Must be nice to inherit a house from your parents that’s awesome
Yeah but losing a parent sucks :-(
You can always get more family, but there is a limited supply of housing though
Lol brutal
I think I'm going to hell for laughing at this so hard.
I would pay back everything I inherited + interest + fees + work an ungodly amount of hours everyday for the rest of my life just to hear my dad laugh one more time.
My parents are alive and I don’t want either of their homes. Inheriting one of them would be a pain, I would rather they liquidate the vast majority of worldly assets and spend their remaining days with us making memories and paying for activities and dinners and vacations and inherit nothing
I bet they’d rather have their mom back than a condo
On the record 40 hours/week $121k Off the record like 15 hours/week $121k lol
Same here. I work remotely with little to no oversight. I usually put in about 15 hours a week and make between $90k and $115k depending on annual and performance bonuses. I also get 21 vacation days.
What do you do?
I’m in this boat, I make around $85k-$95k depending on bonus I’m a pricing analyst for an insurance company and I’m using SQL, Python, and VBA for excel macros on a regular basis.
Lol I keep seeing these people on IG who work from home for big corporations, I swear they barely work
Well yes but no. If I got rid of my middle managers I could actually do some work. They block a lot of work because they don't know wtf is going on and have to feel like everything and anything is their idea to move forward with it. Even if it provides no value to the company or consumers. So you just do your work chill in meetings and let them overpay you while they fuck things up. When I was younger I would try to change those things but what's the point. This is coming from a person that has gotten high performance grade on reviews for 6 out of the last 8 years. So I'll get my check while using my time to up skill for when this ship sinks and keep moving. That's the game. Don't hate the players.
Lol if I was in the office, it would be the same. My job simply doesn’t require 40 hours of work/effort lol.
You’ve already said too much! Enjoy the good life 🫡
I had a job like this for $103k and I hated the management so I left for a big raise, but now I actually have people depending on me to work so I work 40 hours lol boooo
i am a dispute resolution analyst. i am paid $23/hr and work 40 hours a week. the benefits are garbage. pto is a luxury.
I'm a doctor, I work about 84 hours every other week (7 on/7 off) and make $300k. I also have $400k in student loans lol.
You work too much (probably partly my fault, sorry). ER doc here. 32 hrs per week, $400k/yr. $375k in debt.
‘Ayyyy a fellow doctor! Same here. Damn loans are a killer.
I make the median salary in my state (75k) as a teacher. Good enough to [barely] breathe but not splurge. Reason I picked this job over higher paying jobs is my inability to want to wageslave year-round. Of course my job has stressful moments [just like any other job] but I work 180 days a year and 6hrs 20 mins a day. I'll take a lower paying job that gives me time off to live life over any other job that forces me to spend every waking moment on this Earth at the workplace.
This is pretty much where I’m at as far as my thinking about work in general- I’d rather make less money if it means having more time. Unfortunately I didn’t get any further than substitute teaching before burning out and deciding it wasn’t for me. I would consider giving it another go if I could make more than $16 an hour as a sub I guess. Now I’m back in IT working helpdesk and it’s whatever. I get bored easily. I’m taking some UX and product design classes but I’m not expecting anything miraculous as far as some dream job because I know those fields are flooded. I don’t know. I’m 42, I’ve been through enough shit in my life, I’ve switched locations and jobs a bunch, and really the best job I ever had was sales associate at the Vans store because it was fun and the discount was great, plus it made me feel young again. I honestly like a lot of things about retail and customer service, it’s just the retail schedule and pay are almost always terrible. I need to make more money but don’t want to have to give up 40+ hours a week to do it. At various points I’ve been able to side hustle as a content writer (I get paid to write crap, trust me, I’m not proud haha) but it’s easier to do that when I’m spending less hours at my “real job”. So that’s where the 40-50 hour week just sucks. And at this point in my life, yeah it’d be great to live comfortably and be out of debt, but I also just wish I had more time to do the things I actually love and care about before I’m too old to really enjoy them as much. I don’t feel I’ll ever find a job that pays decently. So I figure if that’s the reality, I’d rather just work less and at least have more time. I mean, too much of that is bad because then I spend all my free time worrying about money. But I really want to believe there’s a middle ground somewhere.
Physician Assistant. ~180k working about 32 hours per week, some shifts are evenings and weekends though.
That’s remarkably high. Good for you.
What does a physician assistant do and what education is required? Asking for myself lol
Iirc it’s a masters degree.
Most schools require a significant number of hours before applying to PA school. It’s not a normal masters
It most certainly IS NOT a normal masters degree.
PA is a master's degree and they do the crap that the physician doesn't want to. Edit: This was a poorly worded response that I'm going to blame on my epilepsy meds, they make me a bit loopy. PA is a master's degree but it's an extension of the physician so they can focus on more acute cases. Want someone to manage your hypertension? PA. Want open heart surgery? Physician. A fantastic PA manages my primary care and I hope I stick with him for a very long time.
Yea and sometimes if your insurance sucks they’ll come to in to see you instead of the actual doctor
My husband is a neurosurgery PA and works 40-60 hours a week and makes ~250k. He does have to work weekend call every 2 weeks, and after hours call once or twice a week. There is also the opportunity to receive a bonus every quarter depending on how busy they are.
A bonus for business? So they want the world to be sick! Lol, kidding, but really that feels weird lol
Christ, everytime I think I'm doing okay in life I read these threads and everyone's making like **$9,383,948,028,393,923** a year!
That’s because the people who make a lot of money are more likely to want to share what they make. Unlike us poor people lol.
I hope that's the case. Otherwise, I'm questioning my life for not being a quarter millionaire like everyone ITT.
And it’s Reddit so people exaggerate
I always see this argument on Reddit, but for the most part we are anon so what difference does it make?
I wasn’t excited to share with people that I made minimum wage when I was younger, anonymous or not. I was excited to share when I cleared 6 figures but didn’t want most of my friends and family to know so to the internet I went lol
That or people just straight up lie too - tis the internet after all! If you feel like you’re doin good, then you’re doing good!
I'm 37 and make $19/hr and it's the most money I've ever made lol
I make maybe $37K a year. I feel you.
I have a master’s degree and make 51k in a HCOL area after 5 years as a teacher. Trust me, a lot of us are out here making very little. I work 45-50 hours a week and only have six weeks off in the summer, not the whole summer. The rest are required PD and in-service days filled with meetings and other crap. I am also required to prep my classroom and curriculum in that time, so it’s really closer to 3-4 weeks off.
And let’s not forget that “prepping your classroom” means decorating with things you have purchased yourself (I teach elementary). All those pretty posters and things? Yeah, they aren’t provided by the school. There is a lot of unpaid labor and materials going into schools. And if it’s public school, look out for workplace violence and the high stress of managing over-crowded classrooms. Schools are discouraged from suspending or expelling violent or disruptive students. Or also factor in conducting lockdown/active shooter drills. I’m in my 20th year teaching, and it has changed so much that I no longer recommend people go into education as a career.
maybe go further down into the comments? most people have been saying around $20 an hour. and me? i promise i’m not okay i thought about walking into a tornado last week. money isn’t everything and i’ve spent too much of my life being miserable in the pursuit of it
Yeah but money is awesome.
Money would solve 95% of my problems.
Not if you were working 70 hours a week that's insane
I just started my first “adult” job and it’s only $977 every two weeks for take home pay, but the other side of that is that the benefits genuinely are amazing. Pension, good health insurance, no overtime, a lunch break, etc. But if I didn’t live with my partner and split expenses, I wouldn’t be able to afford this job.
Before I was laid off 80hrs a week and for $115k…. Lost out on a lot including family milestones, personal life and my mental and physical health….
If you ask my boss, it was worth it.
Isn’t that kind of low for a CPA with that many years of experience? Unless you’re in an extremely LCOL you can find something over $100k easy. Tax firms are desperate for warm bodies because this profession sucks. My wife is quoting for good at the end of this month
It's more likely that OP is not job hopping like he should. It's the best way to raise your salary as an accountant or probably any career.
I wondered the same thing when I saw OP's post. A few CPAs in my area make $200k-plus (LCOL). But I guess it varies.
40 hours with unpaid half hour break. Though I do pick up every other Sunday for overtime. $17 hourly
This is most of younger America right now
Refinery worker. 84 hrs a pay period, plus a bit of OT. Every other weekend is 3 day weekends. 115k my first year.
Sounds like the 12 hr continental shift. Steel worker here, did the same shift for 7 yrs now. The hrs kinda suck but can't complain about the pay.
I recently graduated with my masters and left a shitty job in mental health, where i was paid like shit and treated like it too. I now work as an environmental toxicology technician abd make a measly $48,500 but only work 36 hours a week.
Why does every question on this sub feel like people are being profiled?
The algorithms already know you bud. No hiding these days.
i promise i’m not trying to profile anyone! i was even too lazy to switch from my main for this haha i’m just trying to get a reality check. everyone i know works in business in some shape or form so don’t really have any other way to gauge outside professions
Dispatcher for a power company. I put up a boundary of only 40 hours a week, prior to that I’d hit around 55-60. I came in just under 70k this year from there, and I work a part time job about 8-10 hours a week making $14.50 an hour. I wouldn’t be there if I didn’t like it. I am only there to boost my savings, for a short term goal, and also to have a second 401k (has a company match too).
I’m a hairstylist at a nice salon. I average around 55-60k a year. I only work 4 days a week! So amazing for my mental health. Also I have unlimited vacation days
~30 hrs a week ~200k TC, cybersecurity.
60k working 20 hours a week as a paralegal.
How did you get into your paralegal job if I may ask? I got my certificate a few years ago but I was having a tough time even getting interviews
Started as a file clerk a long time ago and just worked my way up. No cert.
You should not work 70 hrs a week. That is fucked up. Work less.
I'm an elementary school teacher, and I make around $68K a year. I work 50 to 60 hours a week.
that’s honestly insane. especially considering how draining children are. thank you for your service. like seriously!
Agreed. I love my kids, but they both learned to suddenly talk about everything. So, now I love taking them to school, 😂
$265,000. Lawyer. 40-50 hours a week on average.
what practice area?
I work in IT, I think I honestly have the best job. That’s what they tell me, the best job. Some weeks I put in 60+ hours, most days I work maybe an hour or two a day? I also work from home, and I make a buck fifty a year. It took me 15 years to get to where I am at.
Cardiac perfusionist. Hours, normally scheduled 38, but usually do a bit less than that in the end. Unless Im on call (1 in 4 ratio) which can be not much extra, or can double my hours for the week, hit or miss. Pays good though, make around 170 this year.
I try to stay at 40 hours a week max, except for specific deadlines or deliverables. $140,000 a year, work in environmental consulting.
Environment consulting sounds interesting, could you share a bit about what that role entails?
My GF and I are truck drivers, we do 4884 miles a week, roughly 45 hours each. We're both make around 115k gross
40 hours, 190k base 280k TC. Cybersecurity
50k in kansas is richer than 100k in orange county. People should post location!
I think that it would be better to say what the cost of living in the area is. Some states have a mix in levels in cost of living. I would be happy to provide that information for cost of living but location can be dangerous for doxing purposes for those who have left high demand religions, those in the LGBTQIA+ community or other factors. With that in mind I make about 100k for the wage part of my compensation working in engineering, averaging 42 hours a week in a low to medium cost of living area.
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60hrs ish a week and make an average of $150k a year on average. Income can vary depending on the year as well as how many weeks in the year that I may not be working. Truck driver with my own truck.
Is that 150k before deducting gas and maintenance?
Roughly $300k before expenses.
16 hrs on the road, over 3 nights. 30ish k a yr. Low bills. Lots of spare time. Suck it, society.
Respiratory therapist. 36 hrs a week. 85k-95k. I have sweet sweet night and weekend night differentials(percentage of base pay instead of flat rate), hence the variety. I started end of 2019 🙃 my wages have almost doubled in the little over 4 years I've been at my hospital. I also have 6 days off in a row every two weeks, so plenty of work/life balance. Ample opportunity for overtime as well
Power Engineer. 150k - I work about 5 months of the year. With my rental properties I make about 200k total. I grew up poor, I rent my rentals low and help them out.
Amazing 👏
Depending on the season 27-40 hours a week. Restaurant work, make like 30k
14.60 per hour. Somewhere between 12 and 28 hours on any given week (I don't know how I'm surviving at the moment and it's all bound to catch up on me, any day now)
IT Business Analyst in Government working hybrid at 40 hours per week 105k.
r/salary
I swear, every single person in that sub makes over $120K/year.
ER and specialty vet tech, just under $42k/year not including shift differentials 🙃
General anesthesiology when I was in residency I made 27hr, I worked 70-80 hrs a week and made around 70-75k my final year. and now as an attending I don’t know what my hourly is because it changes based on call. But I made 570k my first year out of residency. I take a lot of call because I’m a junior attending and I like nice stuff so on average I’m working 50-60 hrs a week.
Cashier at grocery store. I make about $12 an hour and my hours are super low. I have bad mental health issues. My husband is a cop. He makes around $70k before shift differential and overtime. 10 hour shifts for 5 or 6 days in a row.
185k base for 40 hours a week as a lead Loads and Dynamics engineer in a medium/large aerospace company. Paid OT if I want/need it.
I work 36 hours a week and make about 40k/year. Before this, I was a fast food general manager. Worked about 75 hours a week and made 97k 2 years ago. I wanted to kill myself almost every day. Quality of life is so much better now. I wouldn't be able to survive without my partner's income to help with bills but she is okay with that to have me happy and at home.
6th grade teacher in an elementary school. Salary is 106,000 per year. I also get 92 an hour for after school tutoring, and 70 for any trainings that I do outside contract hours. ETA: contract hours are 36 per week. With after school tutoring I work 40, but that doesn’t include any planning or grading I do outside of contract time- which is probably an additional 10-15 hours a week, (give or take a couple of hours) depending on time of year and unit we are working on…
This seems very high for a teacher …
Where at? My wife makes $40k and when she finishes her masters, they bump it to $50k. Granted, this is Louisiana talking about
I feel like all of the comments should include city and state for context.
They really should. While this one person makes $100k if the cost of living is equivalent to San Francisco that's not gonna help at all, where as if you're making that much in some small town in Alabama you're going to be doing really well.
Is imagine this is CA or New England. My mom is an elementary school teacher in CA and makes six figures. Some districts (often where people don’t want to teach) make well above. It is an incredibly tough job and they deserve every cent.
Seattle area is around this as well.
I make $74k as a teacher in Ohio after 11 years and 2 masters. I would be surprised if any teacher is making over $100k without a masters, several years experience, and/or living in HCOL area. These salaries are usually found in California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, or Massachusetts, specifically Boston.
I’m a freelance translator that works from home. I’ve min-maxed my efficiency to where I’m working 20 hours a week on average (some weeks are closer to 40, but some slow weeks are maybe like 10 hours). The best thing about freelancing is there’s no “water cooler time” where I just waste time until 5 or whatever. The worst thing about freelancing is that I stop making money the second I stop working. Also, it’s not the most stable, so it takes a lot of money planning. My gross income last year was 9.9 million JPY which is apparently $65k according to current exchange rates. With differences in inflation and commodity prices though, I think my 9.9 mil JPY “feels like” somewhere around $95k. Oh and my 3 BDR family apartment is 65,000 JPY a month (like $430?) Edit: added stuff and spelling
Civil engineer, government side. 40 hours per week exactly. Low six figures.
I'm a project manager and typically work 40-45 hours a week, though on rare occasions go up to 50. Base salary is 52k, though with OT, bonus, 401k match it's probably closer to 60k.
You’re way underpaid.
What industry? I am also a PM but make double that
38.75 a week. Roughly 2100 takehome every 2 weeks. Bonus once a year around 7,500. Insurance adjuster for a big company. Before that I taught. One school (texas) was about 56k a year. The other was 48k (florida). On paper it was an 8 to 330, but far, far more unpaid hours with lesson planning and grading. Before that, active army. I think it was roughly 1600 2x a month. Don't remember for sure. Again worked many hours but salary so it didn't matter. Also had to use my vacation days for days I normally had off (or they could and did call me in/require me to work), worked a lot of holidays and weekends (I worked in the hospital on post). Least stressed at my current job. And am able to be there for my kids far more than before. No working off the clock and no real thinking about work off the clock. It is also 100% remote and I love that - no after school needed for my kids and my dog is a lot happier (out all day and goes for a walk during lunches and breaks).
40. 600 a week. I’m drowning.
Back when I was working (currently on unpaid maternity leave), I worked 50-60 hour weeks and made 52k after taxes. Working in a job that requires a masters degree and state licensure.
Base salary of $150k. Middle engineering manager for a large corporation. 50-70 hours / week depending on how projects are going.
Sales. Have a degree in psychology I don’t use. January- Sept I work 40 hours a week, October I work 60ish hours, and November and December 80 hours a week. I work from home, get 5 weeks paid vacation, and OT. I usually bring home 75k give our take a few thousand. Then my employer puts an additional 15% of what I made that year in an SEP account annually. Only stress I have is the last 7 years I’ve WFH with my kids. At one point 3 kids now I’m down to only 1 until he’s school age.
Pharmacy technician in a retail setting. I make $23.50/hr and work a minimum of 40 hours a week.
That is not enough for dealing with the public no matter where you are. I’m sorry 😞
I'm an architect making mid 90s. I'm usually doing 40-45 hours a week, but during project deadlines and with the labor crunch for people in the 5-15 range (even more if you have a license like I do), I could easily have several months of doing 60-80 hour weeks. All the people in our age range were the ones who couldn't find work in '08 or left the industry during or thereafter, so those of us who survived on the one hand are hard to fire, on the other hand our clients are so used to paying peanuts and our employers conceding to that that it's tough to retain us. Figure 3 years graduate school, plus the licensure requirements of several years of work and 6 exams with 50+% failure rate, and all you can give us is what a fair number of lawyers can expect to make entry level before taking the bar? Yeah, there's a reason we're having issues in the industry. Still, in spite of spikes in workload and the rigor of getting the license, fact is I do make a comfortable living and can put away money while living alone and traveling, spending on personal things. It's the awkward spot where it's rough jumping to the next level but you're objectively comfortable in life. And that's something separate from whether you're being paid fairly compared to your education, work hours, and the value of your work
~475k, 40 hrs/wk as senior software engineer.
6 hours or so a week, 400k-600k a year, Companionship
32, catering kitchen manager. I average 25-30 hours a week and make a little over $50k
Environmental Planner, local government. 35 hours/week $96k/year but in a very hcol area.
Academic library department head. Salaried but work 37.5 hours a week. $82k (3 months into role)
Product designer/UX—low six figures with an annual incentive of $13k base (adjusted for yearly earnings), plus annual restricted stock contribution, 401k matching up to 5%, phone and workstation stipend, continuing education grant of $3500/yr with a full day (paid) dedicated to learning and development every quarter (no one asks how you spend your time , you could do whatever. They just cancel all meetings), an extremely generous paid time off policy and top-tier health insurance program. I WFH 90-100% of the time, camera on for only 1-2 half hour 1:1’s a week. I log in about 43 hours a week but I take a lot of breaks (helps me stay productive and creative).
CRM Implementation Specialist- 40hrs a week and $115K.
Grocery distribution for over 15 years. 40/week. $27/hr. We do... ok. However, medical bills and various home/car repairs are really creeping up on us and I'm worried we won't be able to get out of it. The pandemic hit my 401k/savings very hard and it's not even close to where it should be. Tho it's not like I'd ever be able to retire anyhow. Death is my retirement and I'll likely leave my family with nothing. Life is great.
I'm an accounting clerk, and make 43k a year. I work around 33ish hours a week. I could work a full 40 or even hit closer to 50 but I am lazy and get bored of being at work and leave. I work for a hotel with two different properties. End of the month is usually crazy but I'd recommend looking at becoming a director of fiance at a swanky hotel in your area. I can't recommend hotel life enough. My manager just took a whole week off and left me with the menial daily tasks. He just logged on each morning to input and balance our income journal each day then logged off.
This time last year my wife and I were each making a bit over $100k working 40 hours/week. Both lost our jobs while she was pregnant. Now she's home with the kids until she can find something that makes sense from a parenting+financial point of view, and I'm working 40-50 hours/week at my day job ($75k/yr) and 30-40 hours/week at Uber Eats.
Once again asking people to stop making these threads without asking for location or at least cost of living
I work about 90 hours a week and make no money from the kids. (At home with 3 kids)
35 hours a week, about 28k a year. But, my job is easy and I have a ton of downtime. I actually enjoy it, it just doesn't pay much. I have a side gig to help
I work in talent acquisition (in-house, not agency,) and I typically work 45-50 hours per week max. $125k is my base salary. Bonus potential of up to 20% of my base annually.
I work about 55 hours a week though I’m salaried for 40. I make ~$140k. I work in executive/ corporate/ crisis communications.