[Recurring Poll:] [Serious] How much do you make a year?

[deadlyapp]

what do you do for work, sounds delicious.

Regional Sales for an equipment OEM, primarily O&G but we're in every industry. Bonus is tied to performance, 30% if I hit 100% of goal with my team, 90% if we hit 300%. I'd say average is between 100-125% of goal (not this year. Fuck this year).

 

[brianmanahan]

Well, back when 100k thing started in 15 yrs ago, it was worth a lot more.

i wonder who started it...

i bet it was alky

 

[FirNaTine]

Just over $100k base, and if I stop taking OT I’ll be in the low $150k range, possibly into $160s if I keep answering my phone.

Pretty good healthcare, 20 year retirement at 50% of my base pay (OT not counted towards pension), with the option to stay additional years at 2% per year maxing at 70% @30 years. So next summer I could potentially retire at 41 years old and make $50k/year to stay home for the rest of my life.... a person at my current level would be a few dollars shy of $80k/yr retirement at 30 years of service. Plus Social Security once eligible for that.

Downside is it’s a stressful job, and hard on the body to keep up the long hours to add 50-60% extra pay each year in OT.

 

[biostud]

~83k before taxes, vice principal at a private school.

Perks: Living in Denmark

 

[VirtualLarry]

I got a "raise"... now making $26.7-30K/yr, or so, apparently. Wonder if I'll still qualify for Food Stamps. My rent will be going up for sure.

 

[purbeast0]

My benefits own.

27 days PTO - i even accrued PTO while I wasn't working from April - July due to covid.
100% company covered health/vision/dental insurance for entire family
2x salary life insurance policy (think this is pretty standard)
Company puts 10% of my salary into 401k regardless of what I contribute (I max anyways)
Can't work more than 40 hours/week
Flex schedule and remote work (due to covid).

I typically work 6am - 4pm or so and go to the gym around 9:30am every day to break it up.

 

[sandorski]

I would love to share this info, but I am being audited.

 

[ArizonaSteve]

My company just slashed benefits for most, with age 50+ being hit particularly hard with changes to the 401K matching.

 

[DigDog]

eh, im in Europe.

I make 24k, but realistically that's more than the most common wage, which is under 20k. "Median", "Average", don't mean ***, what matters is the wage that the largest nunber of people are earning, and i'm above it. So, i should be in the $50k bracket.

 

[rh71]

We have unlimited vacation days and I've used like 4 all year. Nowhere to go that's not expensive and work from home F/T anyway. At my previous company I had 6 weeks and I ended up taking most of December off a lot of years.

 

[Red Squirrel]

i wonder who started it...

i bet it was alky

Lol probably. I recall him saying something to the effect that if you don't make 100k you're a nobody lmao. Not sure if he was trolling or really that full of himself, it was comical and entertaining really.

 

[EliteRetard]

I got a "raise"... now making $26.7-30K/yr, or so, apparently. Wonder if I'll still qualify for Food Stamps. My rent will be going up for sure.

That's the huge flaw in basically all assistance programs, they are literally designed to keep you poor.

If you make any money at all, even poverty level, you loose all benefits which can put you worse off.

So you either stay poor, or you magically get a high level position in a company.

Technically there is a third option:
Accept the loss of benefits and lie/cheat/steal/screw people over and do whatever to claw your way out.
This also requires massive luck, and you'll be fighting millions of others who'll do anything to climb up too.

 

[EliteRetard]

Lol probably. I recall him saying something to the effect that if you don't make 100k you're a nobody lmao. Not sure if he was trolling or really that full of himself, it was comical and entertaining really.

Oh he really was that full of himself...

I recall having several entertaining "debates" with him.
If he had no real argument, no facts, no logic or reason left, he would just call you a straw man.

"I'm rich and amazing, so obviously I'm correct."

Yeah but I'm elite and you're not.

"STRAW MAN! OMG Strawman argument!"

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

We have unlimited vacation days and I've used like 4 all year. Nowhere to go that's not expensive and work from home F/T anyway. At my previous company I had 6 weeks and I ended up taking most of December off a lot of years.

Oh god, please don't tell me you have that new "unlimited vacation" that I made a post about....

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

That's the huge flaw in basically all assistance programs, they are literally designed to keep you poor.

If you make any money at all, even poverty level, you loose all benefits which can put you worse off.

So you either stay poor, or you magically get a high level position in a company.

Technically there is a third option:
Accept the loss of benefits and lie/cheat/steal/screw people over and do whatever to claw your way out.
This also requires massive luck, and you'll be fighting millions of others who'll do anything to climb up too.

Exactly correct - a system to help support people shouldn't be a safety net that is cast above you to prevent you from advancing. If anything the support programs should almost support you MORE the more you climb to entice climbing. Instead we have the opposite. Humans are just like electricity in that it will take the path of least resistance. Which one sounds least restrictive: Continuing the same job - working less hours to stay under a certain threshold to continue benefits... or go to nightschool to learn new skills to get paid $40k+ in the future?

Hence the driver for UBI. Eliminate literally THOUSANDS upon thousands of local, state and federal government positions that we pay for - the costs of the UBI would simply be the management and distribution of the checks. Should take no more than 5-10 people to manage the means of setting up and entering information (e.g. addresses, bank account deposit info, etc..) instead of huge offices of government oversight, budgeting, auditing, enrollment, etc... for hundreds of programs that we have today.

Everyone gets the same amount - obviously the tax amounts to pay for it would be progressive though.

The main driver though is reduction in cost. Of course, everyone will cry foul and say some people need more than others, so it's just likely not ever going to happen. Gotta keep the poor fighting amongst eachother.

 

[RPD]

$290k+, varies depending on commission.

Perks-
-Wine and dine clients
-They pay for my phone (when I want to upgrade, they pay a base amount, I pick up the rest if I want something better), otherwise no out of pocket
-Extremely flexible hours, take work from home when I want as needed
-I get a auto allowance and turn in mileage

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

$290k+, varies depending on commission.

Perks-
-Wine and dine clients
-They pay for my phone (when I want to upgrade, they pay a base amount, I pick up the rest if I want something better), otherwise no out of pocket
-Extremely flexible hours, take work from home when I want as needed
-I get a auto allowance and turn in mileage

Consulting or Sales? Curious of more details.

 

[RPD]

Engineering sales.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Engineering sales.

Interesting... Like... architecture/building engineering? Or IT Engineering? Or "systems engineering"? or other?


(Sorry for proding you more, just genuinely curious as someone that has recently entered the sales realm that came from the technical side of things.

 

[RPD]

Kinda, the simplest of terms is I sell air conditioning equipment.

 

[rh71]

Oh god, please don't tell me you have that new "unlimited vacation" that I made a post about....

Not sure what you said, but hell I don't care. I changed to this company knowing I won't get paid out... the salary makes up for it. And like I said, I barely need them.

 

[brianmanahan]

Not sure what you said, but hell I don't care. I changed to this company knowing I won't get paid out... the salary makes up for it. And like I said, I barely need them.

in 2020 vacation doesn't mean anything anyway

heck even for the last 3 years, basically all i've done for vacation is sit at home and work on side projects to try to make more money

 

[Red Squirrel]

I work shifts which is great, my vacation weeks are basically just bonus time off to add to the time off I already get lot of lol. Same with floaters. I usually save those for when I'm scheduled to work like 1 single 8h shift somewhere, so I can extend a stretch of time off.

There's also an unwritten rule that when you take a week vacation you are not scheduled to work either weekends so you are guarantee at least 7 days, but it tends to end up being more than that. I've had it where I end up with 2 weeks off when I only used one week of vacation. I have over 10 years at the company so I get 4 weeks now. I forget when I get 5, I think it's at the 15 year mark. 6 is the max I believe.

 

[repoman0]

We were just informed that work is closed from Dec 24 — Jan 1 from this year on. That makes ~17 annual holidays with four weeks of vacation, and I would never get crap for using my entire seven week bank at once if I wanted to. 5% 401k match as supplement to pension. I’ve worked long weeks before due to test events in various locales and am always told to take extra days off in compensation. I don’t get paid as much as I could elsewhere but it’s more than enough, the work is the most interesting there is and work life balance is unbeatable. Plus my fiancée makes the real money anyway. She doesn’t have it bad either.

 

[dasherHampton]

I get about $60,000 worth of investment income.

Trading income varies. Last year it was like $47000. This year I might break $70,000.

I get about $25000 from side projects.