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

[Anonymous]

We are both 32

DW- owns a small business ($155k)
DH- director of operations at an EV company ($170k)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agency legal recruiter, former BigLaw. I will clear 7 figures this year. Make more as a recruiter than I did as a lawyer, easily.

Are you hiring?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yep, Texas Techie same here. I browse/post and answer the College and University boards, travel and money and finance. However, I think majority of all the non-local posters who come in, also have a high income. I can think of only SFO and NYC with a COL significantly higher than DC.

[Anonymous]

$200k

highly niche admin with a good book of business, work 3-4 hrs per day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:150k as a police officer, but that includes working double shifts twice a week.

I know it's the DC area, but lots of outliers IMOH. A teacher making over 200k and a real estate agent making a mil...crazy. Even the under 40 GS-15s is somewhat surprising. I used to work for a fed agency and I swear the average 15 had to be 70 yrs old.

Average age is getting younger and younger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Escort here. 230k

You must be good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:150k as a police officer, but that includes working double shifts twice a week.

I know it's the DC area, but lots of outliers IMOH. A teacher making over 200k and a real estate agent making a mil...crazy. Even the under 40 GS-15s is somewhat surprising. I used to work for a fed agency and I swear the average 15 had to be 70 yrs old.

Average age is getting younger and younger.

I'm the teacher making 200K. My teaching salary is 130K. (But I have 30+ years in and I do a ton of committee work) I make another 70K doing private tutoring, with more than half of that happening during the summer. I basically work two jobs to make that much. But, my house is paid off, I have my pension and I max out my 403b each year, I'm able to cash flow my kids' college costs out of pocket (they got a lot in merit aid, so that helps) and I also contribute to an IRA.

[Anonymous]

Your headline says $150 but your question $200K.

[Anonymous]

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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!

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These responses are not even close to being representative of the real world.

4% of the federal workforce is 80K people. There are also agencies like FDIC, CFPB, and OCC that pay above GS scale. For attorneys and economists at well-managed agencies, it's common to be GS-15 after a few years of experience. The agencies would not be able to recruit and retain such staff absent promoting them as fast as possible.

[Anonymous]

DH is a fed at $170k. I'm a web developer at $160k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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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!

+1
These responses are not even close to being representative of the real world.

4% of the federal workforce is 80K people. There are also agencies like FDIC, CFPB, and OCC that pay above GS scale. For attorneys and economists at well-managed agencies, it's common to be GS-15 after a few years of experience. The agencies would not be able to recruit and retain such staff absent promoting them as fast as possible.

So roughly 96% of feds are GS-14 and below.

[Anonymous]

Fed $175K WFH. Only Fans $250K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Real estate agent (31)- makes up to 1 mil a year

Mortgage loan officer (31) makes up to 400k

VP in investment banking (30) makes up to 400k

Tech sales exec (31) 250k

Crisis comms manager (28) 300k
Just in my social circle.

This makes me laugh. 30 year old VP.

I was in IB for a while and that's the path: analyst right after college for 2-3 years, Associate 2-3 years, and then if you are good, you get promoted to a VP. Most people, myself included, made VP before they turned 28-29. A successful acquaintance of mine was an MD at 29. He is very wealthy and semi-retired now, in his early 40s.

[Anonymous]

DH - remote regulatory attorney - $300k
Me - nonprofit executive director $160k

I work double what he does. Life is not fair in that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The assumption in a thread like this should still be that you are DC metro, and if otherwise, it's incumbent on you to say otherwise.