thirtysomethings with terrible salaries?

[Anonymous]

I make $50k as a risk analyst, not in DC. I have 10 years experience. I'm underpaid too OP

[Anonymous]

That sounds like a normal salary especially at your young age. Not terrible at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make $50k in a public policy job. Since I work somewhere with a well known name people think I make much more. It makes things tight with 2 kids in daycare and a husband who makes $80k. I’m 36.

I think most people overestimate how much other people make.

Most people on the real Estate forum are saying they make 300k.

[Anonymous]

I am in my mid 30s and make about $60k as an academic but can make usually up to $10k more doing light work in the summer. Will probably never crack $90k. Lucky to be able to afford to do work I love.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make $50k in a public policy job. Since I work somewhere with a well known name people think I make much more. It makes things tight with 2 kids in daycare and a husband who makes $80k. I’m 36.

Brookings without a PhD or Pew without being a lawyer or lobbyist?

Np. I'm thinking Brookings. Pew pays better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make $50k in a public policy job. Since I work somewhere with a well known name people think I make much more. It makes things tight with 2 kids in daycare and a husband who makes $80k. I’m 36.

Brookings without a PhD or Pew without being a lawyer or lobbyist?

Np. I'm thinking Brookings. Pew pays better.

What jobs can you get w/a social science or liberal arts BA/MA with little to no work experience that pay more substantially more than $50K? Do entry level jobs elsewhere in DC for the average polisci grad really pay that much more?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make $50k in a public policy job. Since I work somewhere with a well known name people think I make much more. It makes things tight with 2 kids in daycare and a husband who makes $80k. I’m 36.

Brookings without a PhD or Pew without being a lawyer or lobbyist?

Np. I'm thinking Brookings. Pew pays better.

What jobs can you get w/a social science or liberal arts BA/MA with little to no work experience that pay more substantially more than $50K? Do entry level jobs elsewhere in DC for the average polisci grad really pay that much more?

CIA analyst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make $50k in a public policy job. Since I work somewhere with a well known name people think I make much more. It makes things tight with 2 kids in daycare and a husband who makes $80k. I’m 36.

I think most people overestimate how much other people make.

Most people on the real Estate forum are saying they make 300k.

And I make 750K, except not really because this is an anonymous forum and I can say whatever I want

[Anonymous]

So much of this is field dependent and there’s only so much you can do if you’re in a crappy paying field and not willing or able to move elsewhere.

I was in a similar position in my mid 30s at an NGO. I hustled and pushed the last few years and now at 39 make $85k with a good growth potential. Two years ago though I was making just over $60k without great options and started looking to change sectors. I knew I was worth more than I was getting paid (top performing employee, top college and grad degrees, etc etc) but accepted it given mommy-tracking and the associated benefits, until I wasn’t able to accept it anymore. I didn’t want to leave (I’m pretty passionate about my work) and am glad I didn’t have to but at some point if you’re a highly competent employee and trying to support a family, putting up with being underpaid gets really old.

[Anonymous]

If it makes you feel better, I'm 45 and make $60k. I work in communications at a nonprofit. I was a journalist before that and made about the same.

If you have what you need, and enjoy your life, it's good.

That said I do regularly search job boards for jobs that pay $20k more - I think $20k more for our household would make a huge difference. Haven't found good listings yet that leave me with the impression I could keep the same plus sides to my current situation. We shall see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it makes you feel better, I'm 45 and make $60k. I work in communications at a nonprofit. I was a journalist before that and made about the same.

If you have what you need, and enjoy your life, it's good.

That said I do regularly search job boards for jobs that pay $20k more - I think $20k more for our household would make a huge difference. Haven't found good listings yet that leave me with the impression I could keep the same plus sides to my current situation. We shall see.

You are working at the wrong non profit. I know director of comms at non profits that make 90-120k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If it makes you feel better, I'm 45 and make $60k. I work in communications at a nonprofit. I was a journalist before that and made about the same.

If you have what you need, and enjoy your life, it's good.

That said I do regularly search job boards for jobs that pay $20k more - I think $20k more for our household would make a huge difference. Haven't found good listings yet that leave me with the impression I could keep the same plus sides to my current situation. We shall see.

You are working at the wrong non profit. I know director of comms at non profits that make 90-120k

At mine, too. Except I'm not the director of comms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just depends on your degree. I made more than that in 2000 (my second year out of school) with an accounting degree.

It actually doesn't depend on your degree. It depends on your hustle. At the age of 32, I was making $85,000 a year and was managing three people with an English undergraduate degree. Now, I will admit, at the age of 23, I was making $30K. But I am a hustler, and I'm very talented and professional. It's not the degree. It's how you present yourself, what opportunties you make for yourself, and how you get along with other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It just depends on your degree. I made more than that in 2000 (my second year out of school) with an accounting degree.

It actually doesn't depend on your degree. It depends on your hustle. At the age of 32, I was making $85,000 a year and was managing three people with an English undergraduate degree. Now, I will admit, at the age of 23, I was making $30K. But I am a hustler, and I'm very talented and professional. It's not the degree. It's how you present yourself, what opportunties you make for yourself, and how you get along with other people.

But a degree in something useful also helps. I don't know what year you were 32, but at 32 I was making $140k and I didn't have to "hustle".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make $50k in a public policy job. Since I work somewhere with a well known name people think I make much more. It makes things tight with 2 kids in daycare and a husband who makes $80k. I’m 36.

I think most people overestimate how much other people make.

Most people on the real Estate forum are saying they make 300k.

And I make 750K, except not really because this is an anonymous forum and I can say whatever I want

My husband makes 1 million, I SAH and pay our nanny 75K.