all of the people making 250k, 300k, 500k - what do you do?!

[Anonymous]

No, but it's in the top 5% and will net you no financial aid at the majority of colleges and universities.

[Anonymous]

I'm currently working in government and make no where near any of these figures. For those of you who are in IT and/or in business for yourselves, how did you get started? What route did you take? ... If you don't mind lending some career advice.

[Anonymous]

GS14 federal drone and physician. HHI $320k.

[Anonymous]

FoxEmerson wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is nearly everyone Anonymous on this site?

I'm an ex-IT Project Manager - 200k. Now I write books, nowhere near that figure yet but I'm a lot happier!
I also moved to Italy which is a lot less expensive to live in.

I guess you don't have any children? Otherwise, you wouldn't have left the US.

I don't have kids. Yet. So kids trap you? You can't move overseas without kids? I have friend from Australia who has moved to France with her two lovely kids and husband and she seems to have coped ok with it.

You can, but it's much harder as you have to worry about a lot more things than if it were just you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GS14 federal drone and physician. HHI $320k.

This is pretty much us too. Make about the same, too.

[Anonymous]

I'm in Tech and DH is a GS15. We're $255k combined.

[Anonymous]

Are you a gov employee or a gov consultant

Whatever you are switch to the other side and you can bump your salary then switch back and bump your salary again

Start treating your client/gov contractor head as your boss instead of your consultant PM or Gov manager as your boss

For the big salaries you do have to start your own firm or practice

Another route is to go to a small firm and share your networking contacts. If the small business gets a contract out of it you should be rewarded fairly well

[Anonymous]

2 gov engineers + investment income=300k

[Anonymous]

Two pharmacists about 300/year

[Anonymous]

Biglaw and IT - HHI around 400k

[Anonymous]

Investment Banking + Consultant. Base salaries are 400k. With bonuses our HHI is over 500k. How much over depends on the year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two income household. HHI is $321,00 from salary and investments. Occupations: Foreign Service Officer and Paralegal/Interpreter for a BigLaw firm.

This are solid middle class professions, goes to show that 300K isn't rich.

Um, no. Just no.

[Anonymous]

A middle manager in a gov contracting shop is pulling down around 150k * 2= 300k tons of people around here like that

That's rich in other parts of the country but not here

[Anonymous]

Two government lawyers: approx. $326k

[Anonymous]

Mid-late 40s

Manager at IT company, working on gov't contracts - 180
Non profit program manager, currently working 70% time - 70K-ish

If I worked full time I'd be at 105, so our HHI would go from 250 to 280. Life is easier with part-time work, although I'm way mommy tracked and not sure I can ever get off that track at this point.