Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother frames houses. He basically quit school around 8th grade. He makes over $250K/year and made close to $1M during the boom.

How did he do starting around 2008?

I don't know the exact years. Two years ago he had to cut the number of crews after paying them even though he did not have enough work.

At one point he told me he was making close to $1M a year for a while. So 2008 - sounds about right.

I would like to point out that he did not make this much at the beginning. He worked his hands raw (literally) from 25-40 to build skills, trust and respect.

I'm a real estate broker. I dropped out of school in 9th grade. Went back when I was 20 to get my GED. That was much harder than getting my broker's license. Thank god I did well in math.

My mother made about 80K in the 1990s as an executive assistant in the defense industry. She always sought out jobs with the higher ups. Left at 5 everyday and brought no work home. I assume 80something k then is like 100k now.

I do pension work and have access to thousands and thousands of employees' compensation figures. The highest "non-educated" (I use quotes since I mean the traditional degrees) wage earners are anesticians (I have no idea how to spell this, but it's the people who do facials), hair dressers, produce company owners and union construction workers.

In general, Cardiologists are the highest paid "educated", then with a huge drop, come physicians, financial managers, and engineers.

The highest comp I ever saw was a guy, who at the time was exactly my hubby's age (28), and made $42 million. He was a real estate broker in the southwest during the real estate boom. He was our city's bachelor of the year and quite handsome. My boss, who was good friends with him, said he was a huge druggie and into orgies. I wonder what ever happened to him (we lost the plan when the RE market collapsed) and if that $42 mil has carried him through. Anyway, I also wonder if he had a degree.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I host a net radio show. I make over 100k but less than 150k.

How did you get there?

I started a show. It didn't work, I quit. Waited a bit and tried again-new topic, new strategy. I hit a few bumps but promoted the hell out of it, invested $, made lots of contacts, worked hard, and doors opened.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother frames houses. He basically quit school around 8th grade. He makes over $250K/year and made close to $1M during the boom.

How did he do starting around 2008?

My brother is also in construction. He runs a small biz, not making as much as the PP, but he works in the DC area and makes anywhere from 200-400K. At least in the NoVA area he still has more business than he can handle. He struggled to graduate high school, but sure does know how to run a company and knows how to bark orders at subcontractors. It takes a tough person to successfully navigate and manage a construction site.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My brother frames houses. He basically quit school around 8th grade. He makes over $250K/year and made close to $1M during the boom.

How did he do starting around 2008?

I don't know the exact years. Two years ago he had to cut the number of crews after paying them even though he did not have enough work.

At one point he told me he was making close to $1M a year for a while. So 2008 - sounds about right.

Anonymous wrote:I host a net radio show. I make over 100k but less than 150k.

How did you get there?

I host a net radio show. I make over 100k but less than 150k.

Software developer.

Anonymous wrote:My brother frames houses. He basically quit school around 8th grade. He makes over $250K/year and made close to $1M during the boom.

How did he do starting around 2008?

Never finished my undergrad.

Inside sales-variable income....ranges from 130k-165K. I've hit 152K as per my last paystub...probably will hit 165K this year,

I have a BA and a Master's degree and...oh, wait. I make 62k. What was the question?

Anonymous wrote:I modeled as a teenager and into my early 20's, then went into interior design. I got a BA, but that's it.

Just want to clarify, I got the BA after I'd already had two careers where I earned over 100k.

I modeled as a teenager and into my early 20's, then went into interior design. I got a BA, but that's it.