What is your job and salary?

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Anonymous wrote:Age 32. State government attorney - $72k, 3 years experience (second career)

DH 33, architectural designer at a small firm, $50k

Why is that other govt artorney making 225k to uour 72k? Whose telling the truth?

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Anonymous wrote:Age 32. State government attorney - $72k, 3 years experience (second career)

DH 33, architectural designer at a small firm, $50k

Why is that other govt artorney making 225k to uour 72k? Whose telling the truth?

Not the PP but the one making $72k is a state employee, which probably factors in. Plus they only have 3 years of experience since it's their second career.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't believe my first post here in the forum is to disclose my salary.

DH and I both went to top journalism school. He has a BA, and I have a master's degree. When he and I graduated in 2010, he found a entry level TV producer job in Florida, work hour is 11pm-7am. Yes, the grave yard shift. And the best part? The salary--22K. To make things worse, I couldn't even find a job over there. I ended up working in another city 8 hours driving distance away and lived separately with DH for 2 years. I didn't get a job in journalism simply because the pay is too low. I found a job in an import/export company instead.

Now fast forward to 2015. DH found a job in DC. I am still working with my first employer. I got to work from home but the salary is only 40k. With an infant I only works part time so the pay is now down to less than 20k. DH's salary is much better than before (we are talking about 40k with 4 years of grave yard shifts) but it's still only 80k.

I am looking for a job right at the moment, that's how I ended up here on this post. Please, anyone tell me how to land on a job that pays as well as you do?

Much of it is the industry, some jobs will never pay 100k+

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Anonymous wrote:Can't believe my first post here in the forum is to disclose my salary.

DH and I both went to top journalism school. He has a BA, and I have a master's degree. When he and I graduated in 2010, he found a entry level TV producer job in Florida, work hour is 11pm-7am. Yes, the grave yard shift. And the best part? The salary--22K. To make things worse, I couldn't even find a job over there. I ended up working in another city 8 hours driving distance away and lived separately with DH for 2 years. I didn't get a job in journalism simply because the pay is too low. I found a job in an import/export company instead.

Now fast forward to 2015. DH found a job in DC. I am still working with my first employer. I got to work from home but the salary is only 40k. With an infant I only works part time so the pay is now down to less than 20k. DH's salary is much better than before (we are talking about 40k with 4 years of grave yard shifts) but it's still only 80k.

I am looking for a job right at the moment, that's how I ended up here on this post. Please, anyone tell me how to land on a job that pays as well as you do?

Well if you graduated in 2010, I am going to guess you are significantly younger than the majority of the people posting. By 2010, I had been working for nearly 15y. But like you, I also chose a profession that doesn't pay terribly well (I make well under 100k.) It takes time to build up your career and income! Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:Age 32. State government attorney - $72k, 3 years experience (second career)

DH 33, architectural designer at a small firm, $50k

Why is that other govt artorney making 225k to uour 72k? Whose telling the truth?

Not the PP but the one making $72k is a state employee, which probably factors in. Plus they only have 3 years of experience since it's their second career.

The federal financial regulatory agencies pay on their own compensation schedule (the non-financial agencies pay on the standard schedule). The 225k prob works for SEC or FDIC or OCC. The 72k person is neither on a federal financial agency payroll nor on the standard federal schedule as he works for a State government not the federal government. State government typically pay less than the fed government.

PS: A top non-financial agency fed attorney maybe makes $165k max; the max for the financial agencies is around $235k

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Anonymous wrote:The comment about military spending being too high is laughable.

Why?

I agree that military spending is generally too high, but military salaries are not. Look up what an E-2 or E-3 is making. These are the men and women who put their lives at risk and they make less than if they'd chosen to work at McDonalds. They also are not the recipients of pensions (have to committ to 20 years for a pension, only 17% across the military do that) or any sort of retirement matching. But BAH (housing allowance), salary freezes, commissary privileges, medical care, etc. are always first on the defense budget chopping block rather than their wasteful contracts for equipment that will never be used. It's shameful.

The actual salary # might not be too high, but the tax benefits, housing allowance, food, etc add up to a cushy situation for some.

If it was so cushy, there would be a lot more than 17% of military members across the board staying for a 20 year career. The housing allowance just makes up for the shamefully low salaries that we pay our military members. I find the separate BAH insulting, actually. What other job dictates how much you should be spending on housing? My BAH with dependents for the DC region is $2400 a month - that is supposed to cover housing, utilities, food, etc. Yeah right in this area with a family of 4! But we make it work because I love my job and think it is important. A large chunk of my salary makes up the difference.

My understanding is that at each level/promotion up, some people don't make the cut and have to leave the military. So a lot more people would stay in 20 years for that sweet retirement if they were allowed to.

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Just wondering, how much is a military salary of 32k plus $2400 in non taxed BAH plus all the other benefits (health care, cheap childcare, shopping at the PX etc) worth in "regular people" salary?

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Anonymous wrote: it was amusing to see people bash those who pay their housekeeper 55,000 in the other thread

Do they even know their are postdoc slaves that work at least 60 hours a week for 35,000 without benefits???

Ok where can I find this housekeeping job? Ill evem wear a french maid uniform

Well? job, uniform, rich family? where are these jobs at? lol

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Librarian - $125,000

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Anonymous wrote:Age 32. State government attorney - $72k, 3 years experience (second career)

DH 33, architectural designer at a small firm, $50k

Why is that other govt attorney making 225k to uour 72k? Whose telling the truth?

Not the PP but the one making $72k is a state employee, which probably factors in. Plus they only have 3 years of experience since it's their second career.

The federal financial regulatory agencies pay on their own compensation schedule (the non-financial agencies pay on the standard schedule). The 225k prob works for SEC or FDIC or OCC. The 72k person is neither on a federal financial agency payroll nor on the standard federal schedule as he works for a State government not the federal government. State government typically pay less than the fed government.

PS: A top non-financial agency fed attorney maybe makes $165k max; the max for the financial agencies is around $235k

This exactly. State vs. fed. Years of experience and federal financial agencies which get fees versus others (that max at around $158k for non SES). And to those who think the federal government should not pay such dollars to experienced lawyers, doctors, chemists, engineers, economists etc, consider that the vast majority of those people take big pay CUTS to work for the federal government to do jobs that provide a great service to people--medical research, healthcare, prosecuting crime and corruption, fighting corporate tax evasion etc. If you drastically cut salaries for these people, you will lose a wealth of talent. Many (I have lots of federal employee friends) enjoy and want to work in public service but it's not volunteer work--you'll see them leave for more money in the private sector or similar reduced money in nonprofit/legal aid etc.

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Age 30, fed gov attorney, GS-13/2

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Anonymous wrote:Just wondering, how much is a military salary of 32k plus $2400 in non taxed BAH plus all the other benefits (health care, cheap childcare, shopping at the PX etc) worth in "regular people" salary?

Please factor in the closing costs from buying and selling every time we move, the lifetime salary repurcussions on the non-military spouse, the non-covered moving expenses like shipping 2nd cars and pets cross country, trips to visit family, paying for support networks, etc. Clearly we are coming out ahead.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wondering, how much is a military salary of 32k plus $2400 in non taxed BAH plus all the other benefits (health care, cheap childcare, shopping at the PX etc) worth in "regular people" salary?

Please factor in the closing costs from buying and selling every time we move, the lifetime salary repurcussions on the non-military spouse, the non-covered moving expenses like shipping 2nd cars and pets cross country, trips to visit family, paying for support networks, etc. Clearly we are coming out ahead.

Military people buy and sell every time they move? That seems foolish, with closing costs and realtor fees.

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Anonymous wrote:Librarian - $125,000

Wow. Is this standard or are you really really really experienced?

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Anonymous wrote:Age 32. State government attorney - $72k, 3 years experience (second career)

DH 33, architectural designer at a small firm, $50k

Why is that other govt attorney making 225k to uour 72k? Whose telling the truth?

Not the PP but the one making $72k is a state employee, which probably factors in. Plus they only have 3 years of experience since it's their second career.

The federal financial regulatory agencies pay on their own compensation schedule (the non-financial agencies pay on the standard schedule). The 225k prob works for SEC or FDIC or OCC. The 72k person is neither on a federal financial agency payroll nor on the standard federal schedule as he works for a State government not the federal government. State government typically pay less than the fed government.

PS: A top non-financial agency fed attorney maybe makes $165k max; the max for the financial agencies is around $235k

This exactly. State vs. fed. Years of experience and federal financial agencies which get fees versus others (that max at around $158k for non SES). And to those who think the federal government should not pay such dollars to experienced lawyers, doctors, chemists, engineers, economists etc, consider that the vast majority of those people take big pay CUTS to work for the federal government to do jobs that provide a great service to people--medical research, healthcare, prosecuting crime and corruption, fighting corporate tax evasion etc. If you drastically cut salaries for these people, you will lose a wealth of talent. Many (I have lots of federal employee friends) enjoy and want to work in public service but it's not volunteer work--you'll see them leave for more money in the private sector or similar reduced money in nonprofit/legal aid etc.

Spouse, Member of Congress: $174 K, highly qualified!! Earning MUCH less than potential.