What do you all do to have hhi over $250k+?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is an eye opener. Congratulations to all of you hard working people.

I agree. Eye opening for sure! Seems like there are many over $250k. DW and I have each been at our jobs for 26 years and are about $70k under the 250k mark.

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Anonymous wrote:There are wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too many govt dependent employees here. No reason why a fed and college professor should be making 500k

whats wrong with that? And if I'm not mistaken the college prof mentioned a side hustles making money as a consultant, which could mean patents or anything - sounds smart to me. Don't hate...

There are professors making $400 k plus per year in this area. Some of the Computer Science professors and Business School professors are exceptionally well compensated due to research grants, consulting fees, etc.

Just because these packages are not common knowledge does not mean they don’t exist.

True, but there are relatively few professors who make anywhere near that.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is an eye opener. Congratulations to all of you hard working people.

I agree. Eye opening for sure! Seems like there are many over $250k. DW and I have each been at our jobs for 26 years and are about $70k under the 250k mark.

Holy crap, 26 years! Yea, I would be nowhere near my high income

if I had keeps the same job for 26 years. My biggest jumps in income have been due to job changes.

You must really like your job. I always get restless after a few years and need a change of scenery every few years. Also I'm always chasing the next best RSU offering. After 4 years I am fully vested not much motivation to stick around.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is an eye opener. Congratulations to all of you hard working people.

I agree. Eye opening for sure! Seems like there are many over $250k. DW and I have each been at our jobs for 26 years and are about $70k under the 250k mark.

Holy crap, 26 years! Yea, I would be nowhere near my high income

if I had keeps the same job for 26 years. My biggest jumps in income have been due to job changes.

You must really like your job. I always get restless after a few years and need a change of scenery every few years. Also I'm always chasing the next best RSU offering. After 4 years I am fully vested not much motivation to stick around.

PP here. That’s 26 years teaching in an elementary school. Changing jobs to bump pay isn’t really an option and switching after a district’s maximum entry step would result in a pay cut.

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Anonymous wrote:Sales, both of us big swings 500k-1.2M.

We live off our base salaries and were looking forward to retirement at age 50 (had our kids mid 20s), but recently at ages 41/43 adopted a siblings baby (deceased mother, brother incapable) so we are starting all over again as older parents.

What type of industries pay that for sales? Not doubting, just wondering where my next job should be.

Generally speaking any sort of sales environment when your average sale is 300k+ you will be making good money.

We are both in IT sales. My personal sales goal is 20M. Just closed a large enterprise deal for just over 5M, that is one transaction. So to say the least we're not selling laotops and monitors.

Put it this way, you won't make much money selling homeowners insurance, but you will make good money selling multi-million dollar policies to fortune 500 companies. You won't make any money selling cars at Koons Ford, but you will make a ton of money selling cranes to Bechetel.

BTW, sales is not a job, it is a career. The money is great, but I have seen countless people fail. You need a certain type of personality and for technology sales, you need to know your technology in and out. I'm not selling to stupid people.

#respect to you for taking in your brother's child. It's incredibly generous and selfless of you.

Oh we didn't think twice! My brother is an addict and we were terrified he wouldn't give up parental rights. I would have died a thousand deaths watching that baby be destroyed in that environment. Plus after already raising 2 boys we knew what another crazy boy would be like. Not gonna lie, it is pretty nice to have a 3rd chance at a kid. Really put a wrench in our plans of leisure and travel, but cool to do it again with all the lessons learned. Sometimes the best blessings in life aren't apparent at first.

what happened with your first two?

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Federal contractor in international development. Spouse is employee of the army doing scientific work. Spouse has climbed the government ladder over more than a decade. I experienced several big layoffs due to the nature of contractor work shifting. Got a lucky break on my last job making nearly double what I made in prior jobs. At a good place now but it hasn't been steady or high paying on my side until recently.

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Fed lawyers and local government employee

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Corporate lobbyist: $225K plus stock
Corporate strategy/data analytics: $240K plus stock

Both been working 20 years.

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Pain Doc: 350k
Community Medicine:160k

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This is the most honest tread I have see here for a while.
Both IT consulting 150 + 145

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Federal Agent - $134k
CTO - $300k

Both in our 40s

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Fed - 130
IT consulting (but not technical) - 200

We both are able to be home in the evenings and have been there long enough to have the flexibility to take off for kid events, etc. Someone mentioned leaving money on the table earlier. We are both absolutely doing that. We are comfortable and able to save enough. We have good reputations and resumes, so maybe we will kick things into high gear when the kids are older. But I won't be heartbroken if that doesn't work out.