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

[Anonymous]

Lobbyist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Engineer at 160. Wife makes 90 doing part time consulting. And we make about 200 to 300 from investments in a typical year, but last year and this are not typical.

How do your investments throw off $200k???

[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.

As a journalist in my late 40s who makes about 60 percent of what your 28-year-old "crisis comms manager" pal does, I find this reply to be rather depressing.

PP, props to you -- $180 k in journalism is quite good, as I'm sure you know. And most journalists I know really like their work, even if they don't always love their employer.

[Anonymous]

Independent financial planner. $800k. Age 45.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both in tech mid management (not software engineers) 250k and 350k salary, mid 40’s

What kind of companies in DC pay this?

We are actually in TX, legacy IT companies.. think HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco, Lenovo. Both have remote WFH jobs, occasionally travel for work. There are many friends in tech industry in TX who earn similar or more- salesforce, amazon, apple, google.

[Anonymous]

HR Director in local government, making 160k, WFH 3-4 days/week. Typically, 4-5 hrs of works in a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As a journalist in my late 40s who makes about 60 percent of what your 28-year-old "crisis comms manager" pal does, I find this reply to be rather depressing.

PP, props to you -- $180 k in journalism is quite good, as I'm sure you know. And most journalists I know really like their work, even if they don't always love their employer.

It's true, and I'm glad to be making what I do for work I love. It's just wild to think someone with a fraction of my work experience is making so much more doing PR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tenured professor in the social sciences. 210k base. Make another 50-70k per year depending on grants, honoraria, summer salary, consulting, etc.

This is only at wealthy schools. Tenured professor in social sciences making $125k base.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

lawyer- $245K

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

As a journalist in my late 40s who makes about 60 percent of what your 28-year-old "crisis comms manager" pal does, I find this reply to be rather depressing.

That crisis comms job at 28 is INSANE. Would love to know where she works.

Yeah that's a real outlier. I wonder if the job is defending something indefensible.

Probably. I know a real piece of work who defends the oil companies for a living and she cleared over 1M/year in her 30s. People who do crisis comms probably also work 80 hour weeks.

[Anonymous]

165k as a research director in my early 50s

[Anonymous]

Lawyers, doctors, executives, contractors, government workers (local and federal), IT, RNs, etc.

A lot of various jobs.

[Anonymous]

Lead a profitable division of a consulting firm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You say $150 in your subject so that is all GS-15s and GS-14 step 4 in the federal government.

Np, agreed. GS-14/7 @158k