Who are all these people making over $150k a year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Consultants, apartment brokers, swindlers, marriage therapists, rapscallions, money-goblins, gamestoppers, cheroot-vendors, wedding organizers, cattle-wranglers, larcenists, bitcoin traders, nickel-and-dimers, recyclers, yoga teachers, mentors, and carpet-baggers, for the most part.

What is an apartment broker?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You say $150 in your subject so that is all GS-15s and GS-14 step 4 in the federal government.

For context only around 4% of the federal workforce is GS15 - they can’t all be married to each other and posting on dcum!

Exactly. This is what is so mind blowing to me about this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t break $200k as an analyst at a big bank. I make $170k.

DH is a marketing exec and makes $335k with an additional roughly $700k in stock and bonus-based compensation.

Both of us are mid-30s.

What are your degrees in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Living in downtown dc. Spouse makes less than $100k and is in sales.

What kind is sales? Because thats terrible. My base pay in sales is 180k and I’d be fired if that’s all I hit. A bad year puts me at 250k.

If your DH actually has the ability to seek he’s selling the wrong thing.

[Anonymous]

Data scientist making 200k, fully remote. DH is director at a tech company making 250k, also fully remote

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Consultants, apartment brokers, swindlers, marriage therapists, rapscallions, money-goblins, gamestoppers, cheroot-vendors, wedding organizers, cattle-wranglers, larcenists, bitcoin traders, nickel-and-dimers, recyclers, yoga teachers, mentors, and carpet-baggers, for the most part.

What is an apartment broker?

A person who gets paid to find apartments for clients to rent in NYC.

[Anonymous]

Foreign Service

[Anonymous]

Journalist. $165k

[Anonymous]

Escort here. 230k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why DH wants me to leave teaching - he says he works with so many lazy do-nothings making mid to upper 100’s.

Does DH say what jobs teachers could transition into? Teacher here who would love to leave.

My kids elementary school teacher left for a learning & development, new hire training sort of role in tech.

[Anonymous]

Editor 180k (not common)

[Anonymous]

GS 15 step 5 lawyer and a non profit VP. The latter makes about $50k more than the former, but both over $150k for quite some time now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these salaries are really about where you live too. In lcol areas and small markets they could be making a fraction of the salary for the exact same job just because of their zip code. There are regular cops in California who make 200k plus a year. School librarians on Long Island who are making 150k a year. Move their job to Alabama or Mississippi and see how their salaries are slashed.

But this is.. [checks notes].. DC Urban Moms... I think it's safe to assume the large majority of posters are in the DC Metro area and that is the context of the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these salaries are really about where you live too. In lcol areas and small markets they could be making a fraction of the salary for the exact same job just because of their zip code. There are regular cops in California who make 200k plus a year. School librarians on Long Island who are making 150k a year. Move their job to Alabama or Mississippi and see how their salaries are slashed.

But this is.. [checks notes].. DC Urban Moms... I think it's safe to assume the large majority of posters are in the DC Metro area and that is the context of the question.

We are two techies in Texas (posted way up in the thread) and certainly in Tech especially for remote jobs, $150K is pretty common by late 30's and early 40's in MCOL (we are at ~$250K and ~$350K in mid 40's)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these salaries are really about where you live too. In lcol areas and small markets they could be making a fraction of the salary for the exact same job just because of their zip code. There are regular cops in California who make 200k plus a year. School librarians on Long Island who are making 150k a year. Move their job to Alabama or Mississippi and see how their salaries are slashed.

But this is.. [checks notes].. DC Urban Moms... I think it's safe to assume the large majority of posters are in the DC Metro area and that is the context of the question.

I think this board is now filled with non-local posters. I'm one of them. This board draws UMC people because it has so much feedback on issues which apply to that socioeconomic class of people. Been coming here off and on for over a decade. Google has brought me here when I search stuff about...fertility treatments, nannies, earning and managing a high income, private school, cosmetic procedures, etc.