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A portion back, we wrote astir the various salaries radical were earning from their work. Then, a TON of readers shared their own, and it was conscionable arsenic fascinating. Here are immoderate of those responses:
1. "I marque $105,000 gross annually arsenic a Salesforce Administrator for a privately funded non-profit. There’s a ton of perks and benefits, too. I person a Bachelor’s successful Women’s Studies and a Master’s successful Education due to the fact that I had a drastically antithetic vocation way successful mind, but this is overmuch easier and acold little stressful."
—Anonymous, 37, Massachusetts
2. "I’m the works sanitation manager for a ample ESL dairy manufacturer. I’m successful complaint of processing our cleaning and sanitation program, consulting connected CIP programme development, and each aspects of the plant’s cleaning chemic purchasing and use. I person been with the institution for astir 8 years, and astir 1.5 years successful this job. I marque $108k basal with a 3-4% yearly raise. With a bonus of astir $120k this year."
—Anonymous, 29, Virginia
3. "$63,000 arsenic an ADME Scientist successful a screening laboratory. Grossly underpaid, but moving connected a master’s successful machine science."
—Anonymous, 29, Indiana
4. "I bash AI research. I unrecorded successful the Bay Area and marque 280k cash. I started successful a large tech institution moving connected distributed systems and near to articulation an AI startup six months ago. I’ve been learning ML done my ain applied projects for the past 2 years."
—Anonymous, 24, CA
5. "I’m a retail front-end manager and I marque $73,000 a year."
—Anonymous, 28, New York
6. "I'm a video and photograph editor. I marque $430,000 a twelvemonth aft taxes."
—Anonymous, 22, Dallas, TX
7. "Retail Store Director here! $135k a twelvemonth with $35k bonus imaginable that tin scope up to 200%. 401k institution match. $13.5K yearly banal options that vest aft a year."
—Anonymous, 37, Washington
8. "I americium a tenured prof successful cognitive neuroscience. I person a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degree. I americium a published writer and person presented astatine events each implicit the country. I make…63k. It’s bittersweet however breached the strategy is. Education is not valued astatine all. I was offered $150k for an manufacture position, but I emotion science, and I emotion teaching. It’s bittersweet I won’t person arsenic large a status arsenic my friends simply due to the fact that I chose to proceed academia."
—Anonymous, 34, Florida
9. "Got my commencement successful the backstage manufacture arsenic a information manager doing operation safety, making $88k aft 7 years with the company. Just started with the authorities arsenic an subordinate information engineer, wherever I commencement retired astatine $114k."
—Anonymous, 35, Clovis, CA
10. "I’ve been successful instrumentality enforcement for 14 years and started erstwhile I was 25. My basal wage is astir $105k a year, and I get a 3.4% rise each 2 years. Last twelvemonth with OT, I was astir $124k, and I’m connected gait for $130k this year. I tin discontinue successful 11 years with 75% of the mean of my highest 8 years portion lone contributing 3% of my cheque to my pension plan."
—Anonymous, 39, FL
11. "District manager for a billion-dollar institution focused connected sports brands crossed a ample territory. No grade started retired making $12 an hour, worked my mode up, and present marque $114,000 positive bonuses."
—Anonymous, 34
12. "I’m a VP astatine a snack shaper overseeing accounting and finance. I marque $195K earlier $10-30k bonus."
—Anonymous, 35, Chicago
13. "I person a four-year grade from a maritime academy, and a USCG licence to run what's called 'Unlimited Tonnage, Any Ocean' — cargo ships, arsenic large arsenic they get, wherever they go. I spent astir 20 years astatine sea, distant from location for anyplace from 60 to 140 days astatine a time. I sailed astir the satellite doubly and reached the fertile of Captain connected a 1,000-foot vessel for the past 5 years, earning astir $325,000. Now I’m a Harbor Pilot bringing ships successful and retired of the larboard — I enactment successful a rotation for 2 weeks, person 2 weeks off, lone enactment erstwhile it’s my crook to determination a ship, and that could beryllium a 10-hour move, oregon 20 minutes. It’s 24/7 successful rotation, and the hours are wildly unpredictable and irregular, but I marque astir $900 now, and I’m location each day."
—Anonymous, 39
14. "I'm a medicare cause and gain $82k base."
—Anonymous, 31, CA
15. "I’m a Senior Business Analyst with a inheritance successful systems medication and process investigation implicit the past 8 years. Nearly 15 years successful tech, though, starting successful lawsuit service. I marque $150k salary. Adding successful banal and bonus, it’s person to $200k full comp."
—Anonymous, 37, Detroit
16. "Field Superintendent. $97k basal with bonuses astir $107k a year, precocious schoolhouse grad, nary college."
—Anonymous, 39, Florida
17. "I'm a claims advocator successful commercialized insurance, making $120k a year."
—Anonymous, 39, San Diego
18. "I person a bachelor's degree, and I enactment successful assemblage admissions. Essentially, I question and enlistee students to be my institution, earning astir $45,000 per year. Last year, I received a 1% raise."
—Anonymous, 26, Iowa
19. "I’m a civilian litigation paralegal with 12 years of experience, making $85K basal positive a important magnitude of overtime for trials."
—Anonymous, 37, Austin
20. "I gain $74k moving arsenic a programme supervisor for a nonprofit. I person a master's successful nationalist health."
—Anonymous, 35, Central Coast California
21. "Omnichannel Operations manager astatine a section store. I started astatine $8.30 per hr 17 years agone astatine the lowest presumption successful the company. I present marque $65k per twelvemonth aft holding galore antithetic positions with precise small wage summation passim the years, with nary grade astatine the aforesaid company."
—Anonymous, 39, Georgia
22. "I’m a assemblage professor. I clasp a PhD and 2 master's degrees. I’m successful my sixth twelvemonth of full-time teaching, and I marque $57,000."
—Anonymous, 35, Missouri
23. "I marque $80K arsenic a nationalist mediate schoolhouse subject teacher with my master’s and besides my fertile 1 (basically a 2nd master’s degree) with 11 years of experience. It’s a hard job, but ace fulfilling and tons of clip disconnected with my ain children."
—Anonymous, 38, Louisville, KY
24. "I'm a firefighter and paramedic. I marque $120k a year."
—Anonymous, 35, Texas
25. "Multi-skilled attraction technician. Make $34/hr. With overtime, I wide $100k annually. The champion twelvemonth was past twelvemonth astatine $120k. On way this twelvemonth to marque the aforesaid oregon a small spot much this year."
—Anonymous, 35, Midwest
26. "I enactment part-time arsenic a doctor. I enactment astir 30 weeks of the twelvemonth and marque C$300,000 (approximately $213,859.50 USD)."
—Anonymous, 36, Ontario, Canada
27. "I’m the AGM for an 83-room 'select service' edifice that is simply a franchise of a nationally recognized brand. I marque $60k wage and up to a 10% bonus for gathering oregon exceeding definite benchmarks."
—Anonymous, 38, Michigan
28. "I went to schoolhouse to survey journalism conscionable arsenic newspapers were dying, and I struggled arsenic a freelancer for years. But present I americium an exertion astatine a immense instrumentality firm, my wage is $93k positive yearly bonuses, and I americium a hybrid with 3 bureau days wherever we get each the escaped drinks, snacks, toiletries, and bureau supplies. Plus, of course, I person 22 days of PTO and large wellness care. I consciousness spoiled."
—Anonymous, 37, Philadelphia
29. "I person a STEM PhD, I got straight retired of undergrad successful portion to support my subsidized loans from accruing interest. Now, I enactment from location arsenic a advisor successful biotech, making $105k from home. I paid disconnected my loans rapidly by going to a authorities schoolhouse successful a debased CoL country and ever having roommates."
—Anonymous, 32, Midwest
30. "I americium a retail territory manager, my basal wage is $140K per twelvemonth with yearly raises of 3-5%, and an yearly bonus that ranges from $10-$25k, depending connected however good my stores bash that year. I enactment mostly from home, but bash request to spell sojourn my stores arsenic clip allows, which I person a institution conveyance for. I person worked for the aforesaid institution for 20 years, moving my mode up from associate. I’ve done beauteous good considering I lone person a precocious schoolhouse diploma. Oh, and I’m besides preapproved for the pension programme that was eliminated implicit 15 years ago. I’ll beryllium afloat vested successful 5 years."
—Anonymous, 39, Massachusetts
31. "I enactment arsenic a bundle developer making $1,000 a week, having 14 years of acquisition and a Master's degree."
—Anonymous, 37
32. "I’m a idiosyncratic shopper astatine a section store. Last twelvemonth with bonuses, I made $225k."
—Anonymous, 36, New York City
33. "I'm a owe broker and my archetypal twelvemonth I made $176k, 2nd twelvemonth $250k, 3rd twelvemonth $360k. This is my ninth twelvemonth successful the industry, and I volition marque astir $1.5M."
—Anonymous, 38, Southern California
34. "I’m a preschool teacher for Head Start, a government-subsidized preschool for low-income families. I person a bachelor's grade and implicit 10 years of experience, and I marque $16.72 an hour."
—Anonymous, 33, VA
35. "$210,00 basal wage successful bundle engineering. Previously, I was successful music, making $25k a twelvemonth portion besides moving successful retail."
—Anonymous, 38, Atlanta
36. "Postdoctoral (not yet licensed) objective scientist (PhD) astatine a assemblage intelligence wellness session that services underserved groups. I got a flimsy wage bump for being trilingual and besides conscionable got a rise to $31/hour. The benefits are beauteous bully and I emotion what I do, but erstwhile I’m licensed, I’ll astir apt permission due to the fact that my full wage lone covers my childcare and car."
—Anonymous, 32, Western NY
37. Lastly, "I americium a Certified Veterinary Technician, I person been a tech for 8.5 years, and marque $28/hr."
—Anonymous, 30, Massachusetts
Responses person been edited for length/clarity.
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