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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an aerospace engineer from up thread working at a govt contracting body shop working with NASA. Make about $120k but would like to ramp that salary up so my DW can SAH. We have friends who were govt lawyers who want private and tripled salary. Don't know of any engineering routes that would be similar? Maybe starting own contracting company but seems very risky?[/quote]

For technical people, it is much harder to get the big bucks.  (I am 615 from upthread).   The problem is there is not significant demand for our skills outside of gov't, and gov't sets the rates.  In your case, there are other companies (e.g., orbital, spacex, etc.)  Starting your own company is very risky; most fail.  But the way to make real money is to start a company, and get people working for you.  If you have people earning about 100K working for you, you should be able to get 10-15K/person profit.  If you can grow to 100 people, figure you are clearing 1 mil/year.  But, you have to find the work.  And that is hard.    [/quote]

I have talked to a few of the aerospace startups and mid size firms like orbital and salaries were only about $20k more, though stocks options may yield a big bump of $500k or so down the road IF rosy projections hold true. Bit of a gamble and doesn't help in current hope for SAH.

What about other technical industries like data operations at google or something? Would pay be much higher or really it's business owner or nothing?

What are top technical salaries at a NG or Lockheed going to be? [/quote]

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