Foreign Service Officer. $131K with incentives and differentials. Hard language incentive pay gives me 10% bonus. Could make more doing extreme hardship tours in difficult to fill assignments. I absolutely love my job, but as I tell my friends I have more of a lifestyle than a job.

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Anonymous wrote:Which are the big corporates in this area besides Capital One and Marriott?

There's a surprising number actually. AOL, Hilton, Ritz, SAIC, CSC Corp, Etrade has an office in Arlington I think. Corporate Executive Board and the sister company whatever its called. Blackboard and Google too. Rosetta Stone. AES. Comscore. GEICO. Verizon i think has an office in VA. Volkswagen has something somewhere too - cause they keep calling me about some job. General Dynamics and Danaher pop to mind. There's also a lot of corporates that do a lot of government business (Lockheed)... if you count those I imagine its another 10 or 20.

You forgot Exxon Mobil. VW has their North America HQ here.

38. Director at a software firm. 220k.

I have 15 years experience in PR and recently returned to work after a layoff - forced to take a job way below my pay grade and making $80k/year, same as my "peers" with 2-3 years experience. Very depressing but soon I have baby #2 and will be a SAHM and it will be very easy to quit this crap job.

I meant live close in above.

Probably not. For the type of work that I do $120K is typical but I don't like close in. I'm guessing you work close in.

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Anonymous wrote:39 financial manager with MBA 92k

With an MBA? Feels like you are getting the shit end

Absolutely agree looking for another job. Btw I had 3.6 GPA too. Small kids and no commute have made me a sucker for a long time.

I sometimes wonder if I'm also stupid to stay where I am. at $190 .... which ain't bad obviously ... sounds himblebrag but my friends are at $250k to $300k which is a ton more. I'm on the fence but you should abso-fucking-lutely quit.

I appreciate the support. I applied for two jobs today. Message boards have been inspiring. I know that I should easily be at 120k but job needs to be close to home. Percentage wise you are worse off. Look too. I'm assuming you are in law.

No... general finance work. MBA as well. you and I may be in similar fields?

Ivy League undergrad and top 10 MBA and JD. $55K and loving life!

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Anonymous wrote:39 financial manager with MBA 92k

With an MBA? Feels like you are getting the shit end

Absolutely agree looking for another job. Btw I had 3.6 GPA too. Small kids and no commute have made me a sucker for a long time.

I sometimes wonder if I'm also stupid to stay where I am. at $190 .... which ain't bad obviously ... sounds himblebrag but my friends are at $250k to $300k which is a ton more. I'm on the fence but you should abso-fucking-lutely quit.

I appreciate the support. I applied for two jobs today. Message boards have been inspiring. I know that I should easily be at 120k but job needs to be close to home. Percentage wise you are worse off. Look too. I'm assuming you are in law.

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Anonymous wrote:32, journalist, $40K. FML.

I feel you. 41, journalist, $73K. I feel stretched at my salary so I know it's worse for you. Ever dream of going to the "dark side?"

I'm curious, what's the dark side for a journalist? Fox?

PR, I'd say. I'm the editor/journalist ($83k) from way back on this thread. I have applied for several PR jobs but haven't gotten them.

i went to the dark side and make $175k. Am in mid-40s. Still miss journalism like crazy, except for the tight deadlines.

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Anonymous wrote:39 financial manager with MBA 92k

With an MBA? Feels like you are getting the shit end

Absolutely agree looking for another job. Btw I had 3.6 GPA too. Small kids and no commute have made me a sucker for a long time.

I sometimes wonder if I'm also stupid to stay where I am. at $190 .... which ain't bad obviously ... sounds himblebrag but my friends are at $250k to $300k which is a ton more. I'm on the fence but you should abso-fucking-lutely quit.

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Anonymous wrote:39 financial manager with MBA 92k

With an MBA? Feels like you are getting the shit end

Absolutely agree looking for another job. Btw I had 3.6 GPA too. Small kids and no commute have made me a sucker for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:Computer programmer. Mid-30s. $170K.

Just as a programmer? That seems quite high for that kind of role, no? Are you dumbing your title down a bit?

No. But some companies realize that a really good programmer is easily 10x more productive than an average programmer. It's a no brainer. They're just hard to find. Of course, it's a different calculus if you're just billing bodies to the government.

We hire computer programmers at this rate but I would say they are more computer architects who can design as well as program.

We have techs, who do predefined work. We have engineers, 120k range that do work that is not predefined and have to have high level skills. We have architects that plan out for 5 year, design, understand the industry, the clients needs and creates the design. They will be highly involved at the begining and middle of a project then hand off to engineers and technicians in the end.

Much better explained than I did earlier on (the sysadmin). I am probably more engineer than technician, although that line seems to be differently defined for different shops.

To me an "operator/technician" is someone that just does predefined steps every day/night and has little capability of deviation from the steps (unless he/she has seen that happen before). An "engineer/administrator" is someone capable of/required to have independent action/thought -- for example, the server is down, what now -- and possibly be able to make changes -- "Well the database does not come up cleanly post-reboot, let me change the startup scripts and the such" or "Let me build a small VM to monitor the other systems and alert everyone if something is going wrong."

Architects to me would be someone who can take a client's needs/limitation and work out a solution for a large-scale project, not just a small solution.

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Anonymous wrote:Computer programmer. Mid-30s. $170K.

Just as a programmer? That seems quite high for that kind of role, no? Are you dumbing your title down a bit?

No. But some companies realize that a really good programmer is easily 10x more productive than an average programmer. It's a no brainer. They're just hard to find. Of course, it's a different calculus if you're just billing bodies to the government.

We hire computer programmers at this rate but I would say they are more computer architects who can design as well as program.

We have techs, who do predefined work. We have engineers, 120k range that do work that is not predefined and have to have high level skills. We have architects that plan out for 5 year, design, understand the industry, the clients needs and creates the design. They will be highly involved at the begining and middle of a project then hand off to engineers and technicians in the end.

Anonymous wrote:I am not the realtor but my guess is upwards of 2.5-3 million

Doubt it. Would imply $120,000,000 or so in transactions. That's an awful lot for one realtor.