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01-04-2017, 03:42 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
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Pay
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01-04-2017, 04:29 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Michigan
Posts: 5,003
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My pay is a little over average, but only for 3 more months!
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01-04-2017, 04:37 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
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That's interesting. I looked up my old job, and even accounting for the exchange rate, my earnings six years ago were close to the 95th percentile of these 2016 data. Maybe I should have worked OMY......nah!
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01-04-2017, 05:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Colorado
Posts: 8,971
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I am above even the highest mean and those are doctor/dentist positions that had to pay a boatload for their education. I think I leveraged my state school business degree very well.
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01-04-2017, 05:34 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2008
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Sorry, but if you wo*ked in a relatively high COL area, your actual pay was much better than this stats show.
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01-04-2017, 05:35 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 380
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadbh
That's interesting. I looked up my old job, and even accounting for the exchange rate, my earnings six years ago were close to the 95th percentile of these 2016 data. Maybe I should have worked OMY......nah!
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I don't remember your specialty but the numbers look low for an internist to me. Granted, I practiced in a high COL area and had a busy practice but still....
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01-04-2017, 05:47 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Greenville
Posts: 653
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Live in the South. Salary is well above that shown. I question this data.
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01-04-2017, 05:50 PM
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I've never ever made the median, always less.
I don't care, I'm retired -
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01-04-2017, 11:19 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Central Coast, California
Posts: 923
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I'm at the median, in the highest step level for my position (public sector job), and live in a very HCOL area.
And the powers that be wonder why we have such a hard time recruiting...
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01-05-2017, 01:24 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Midwest
Posts: 1,795
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I was tempted to peek, but as a former boss once said, "that's now ancient history"!!
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01-05-2017, 04:43 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Oregon Coast
Posts: 16,483
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Urchina
I'm at the median, in the highest step level for my position (public sector job), and live in a very HCOL area.
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But how are the benefits and the security? Those are worth something -- sometimes a LOT -- and don't show up in the salary statistics. There's more to compensation and attracting applicants than base salary.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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01-05-2017, 04:57 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2008
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When I see the ave pay of the various careers (we weren't even close to reaching the ave of ours and they were on the low end of most career paths) I am flabbergasted that so many people in this country have financial difficulties and have not saved sufficiently for retirement. I understand that life can throw you an unexpected curve but it has a few times for us as well and we found ways to adjust and still prepare for a retirement without relying on others. Makes it difficult for me to have sympathy for the great number of people who had the means but didn't prepare.
Cheers!
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01-05-2017, 05:03 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Oregon Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger
Makes it difficult for me to have sympathy for the great number of people who had the means but didn't prepare.
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Not everyone was blessed with the ability to make the right decisions the first time or even the second time.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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01-05-2017, 06:11 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Location: Leeward Oahu
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More significant to me, now 12 years post FIRE, our @70 SS and pension are nominally more than my monthly base as I left. True, "bonuses" swelled that base amount most - but not all years. Sometimes it swelled a lot, but there were a couple of times that "bonuses" were zero. Considering the generous employee health insurance and generous 401(k) contributions, FMLA, stock options, etc. etc. I was very well paid for my chosen profession. I would have needed to go into management to receive more - and I had no interest in that c@reer path. YMMV
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01-05-2017, 07:19 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Alberta/Ontario/ Arizona
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Something wrong with the data re CFO's. Not even close to my experience. Even when I put NY, late stage career. Need a way to scale for size of employer? Out by more than an order of magnitude.
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01-05-2017, 07:35 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Danmar
Something wrong with the data re CFO's. Not even close to my experience. Even when I put NY, late stage career. Need a way to scale for size of employer? Out by more than an order of magnitude.
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You are probably right about the size of the company. I once went for a job interview at a small startup, and everyone was a director and all looked to be in their 20's.
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01-05-2017, 08:23 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Out of curiosity, I looked up both Electrical Engineer and Aerospace Engineer. AE's salary range is higher than EE's. Interesting.
Anyway, my pay was way above both, and comparable to a middling family doctor. Can that be right?
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01-05-2017, 12:00 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 3,408
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ziggy29
Not everyone was blessed with the ability to make the right decisions the first time or even the second time.
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What you say is true although it is often used as an excuse too. However, when someone makes 3-4X my annual income or more and continues to borrow to live large there comes a time when you have to be responsible for your decisions. A previous thread about the Grasshopper and the Ants fable in it's original version comes to mind. I'm all for giving folks a helping hand but there is a limit.
Cheers!
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