how much money do you make?

by Alison Green on January 10, 2017

It’s hard to get real-world information about  what jobs pay, especially tailored to a particular industry or geographic region. Online salary websites are often inaccurate, and people get weird when you ask them directly.

Two years ago, in an effort to take some of the mystery out of salaries, I ran a post asking people to share how much money they make, their job, and their geographic region. It ended up being one of the most popular posts on the site, so let’s do an updated version.

If you’re willing to play, here are the rules:

1. Put your job title in the “user name” field, which will make it appear in bold, which will be easier for people to scan.

2. List the following info:

  • your job (the more descriptive the better, since job titles don’t always explain level of responsibility or scope of work)
  • your geographic area
  • your years of experience
  • your salary
  • anything else pertinent to put that number in context

(And assuming you want to be anonymous, don’t put your email address in the email field if you don’t want it linked to your Gravatar, if you have one.)

Obviously, no snarking on anyone’s salary, because that is rude.

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    1. Copyright Permissions Person Lead*

      I didn’t want to put my real title because it’s specific to my organization.

      I obtain copyright permission to use third party materials in our publicatoins. I also oversee others who do my job, create processes, and take on special SharePoint projects in my division (Legal) of a big company.

      New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia region

      almost 6 years

      ~$72,000 plus 3 weeks vacation and 7 personal days, 1 community service day, great health insurance including vision and dental, pension, 401(k) match. I know I get paid very well for what I do.

    3. Environmental Educator*

      Environmental Educator
      I am responsible for assisting in developing and leading field trips aligned to state curriculuum, lead overnight camping trips, work with Scout groups, manage our animal collection, oversee weekend programming.
      Texas
      In this position: 3 years. In this field: 10 years
      $17.50/hr ( This is the highest I have ever made in this field. My last position I made I earned $10/hour and I have a Master’s degree!).
      Full benefits, health insurance, vacation, personal days, sick time and able to earn comp time

      1. Environmental Educator Supervisor*

        WOW that’s fantastic! Good for you! I’m in Environmental Education as well. Our pay scale for our educators is $10-$12 an hour so for someone with their masters we would pay $12. And like you said that’s pretty good. I’ve seen as low as $8 an hour before.

        Environmental Educator Supervisor
        I don’t have my exact title listed bc it would be too specific to my organization but I supervise environmental educators who do field trips and summer camps. I hire, train, and schedule the educators and coordinate the school field trip details (time, program, cost, etc.) with the schools.
        North Carolina
        In this position: 1 year. In this field: 5 years
        I have a M.Ed. in Teaching and Learning and B.S. in Biology
        $37,000/ year. I was originally offered $35,000 but negotiated (thank you Alison!)
        Health insurance, 3 weeks vacation (include sick days in that). Sadly no 401k match

      2. AlsoEnvironmentalEd*

        I am also an Environmental Educator! I’m so glad to see there are a few of us!
        Location: Southwest
        In current position: less than a year, 2 years experience plus Bachelors degree in a related field.
        Pay: $18/hr, part time, no benefits.
        I create ecology based workshops, lead hikes, do presentations for school groups and the public.

    4. Mortgage Paralegal*

      My position exists solely to track upcoming legislative and regulatory changes that may impact my company (and affiliates), summarize these changes and send the summaries out to various people within the company, and then track any policy/procedure changes that arise as a result of these changes. I do not project manage for these changes, but follow up to ensure that any changes deemed necessary (by someone else, not by me) to remain in compliance are actually implemented.

      Orange County, Southern California
      A little more than a year
      43,500/year

    5. Non-profit paralegal*

      Paralegal for complex litigation

      Support multiple attorney’s (3 to 5) for the small Chicago office of a National non-profit law firm. I do legal research, case information research, put exhibits together, manage/organize files, cite check briefs, run ToA ToC, some IT support, and other miscellaneous tasks.

      $32k/$14.8 hr (hourly plus RARE overtime)
      Fully paid health PPO/vision/dental coverage for all dependents.
      20 days PTO 25 after 5 years (UpTo 10 days of carry over)
      12 paid holidays
      403-b
      Company paid Life/disability insurance

      6 months paid (70% salary) paternal/maternal leave.

      Experience: 8 months current job and 2 yrs 3 months total experience as paralegal/legal secretary

    6. Community College Faculty*

      A full-load would be 5 sections per semester, but I currently have administrative duties as well. My salary included 3 sections in the summer.

      Minnesota
      15 years
      $85,000

    7. Process Chemist*

      $53K
      Process chemist. I could describe my job more, but a process chemist does the same, widely varied work. Scaleup, process development, route scouting, occasional deliverables, safety assessment, etc.
      Albany, NY (that will make it obvious where i work, but whatever)
      19 years experience after getting an M.S. after a B.S.

      And yes, we know full well here we are getting paid well below industry standards. It’s the price we pay for living in this fabulous, relatively low-cost city. I made $85K at the same level in Cambridge, MA, 10 years ago.

      1. Process Chemist*

        Should have clarified: Most of our work is on pharmaceuticals, though a small percentage is components of medical devices, analytical standards, monomers, i.e. non drug product chemicals. But our forte is definitely APIs.

    8. Medical Group Manager*

      I manage several departments within a mixed (primary care and specialty) medical group – approx. 200 physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. I do not manage a physical clinic location, the departments I manage impact all providers and departments (customer service, referral optimization, and a few other smaller responsibilities). I oversee 30 associates, mostly nurses.
      Iowa
      Master’s Degree in a medical field and practiced for 15 years. Four years in current management position.
      $75,000

    9. Legal Assistant*

      Intellectual property work, including preparing documents from a template, client correspondence, drafting documents for attorneys, etc
      NYC
      Less than 1 year
      44,500/year, rare overtime

    10. Library Specialist*

      Library Associate for specialized university library
      Texas
      Less than 2 years
      30,000/year

      I have 4 years of library experience.

  2. Development Associate*

    your job: I support an executive in the development department of a large nonprofit, facilitate fundraising processes including project management, tracking, data entry and scheduling
    your geographic area: DC
    your years of experience: 5
    your salary: $47,500

    1. (also) Development Associate*

      your job: I support all of the private foundation and corporate communications for a relatively small nonprofit arts organization. I mainly do grants research, writing, and reporting, but I also help out with annual funds and special event planning.
      your geographic area: New York Metro area
      your years of experience: 2 (1 year as an unpaid intern, 1 year working in fundraising, both at different organizations)
      your salary: $38,000

    2. another Development Associate*

      your job: I support the development director (and sometimes the executive director) of a small nonprofit, which provides education services. I process and track donations and acknowledgements, light social media strategy and implementation, grant writing and research, event and fundraiser planning, eventually will include website maintenance.
      your geographic area: NY Metro area
      your years of experience: 1 year cumulatively (6 months at another organization, 6 months at this organation)
      your salary: $30,900

      1. Non Profit Operations Manager and Jack of all Trades*

        Job: Manage and operate a small nonprofit, which provides arts and education services. Manage a downtown location, give tours, track donations and acknowledgements, social media, grant writing and research, scheduling, bookkeeping, hr, website maintenance.

        Geographic Area: Rustbelt

        Years of experience: 5 (6 months at current job, 4 and a bit at other locations)

        Salary: $18,000 (sob)

      2. development adjacent*

        your job: I do donation processing, gift acknowledgments, and data management for a large national nonprofit.
        your geographic area: Midwestern United States
        your years of experience: about 4 years
        your salary: $40,000

    3. Development Specialist/event planner*

      Job: Coordinate and execute all fundraising events for a hospital as part of the annual giving office.
      Geographic area: New Hampshire
      Years experience: 10 total – took three years off to be a stay-at-home mom.
      Salary: $53,500

    4. Communications & Fundraising Coordinator (Nonprofit)*

      Job: Social media and website management, content writer for appeals, monthly columns, newsletters, etc., track and thank donors for individual fundraising, some event planning
      Geographic area: MN
      Years of experience: 2
      Salary: $36,000

    5. Development Database Admin*

      your job: I handle the donor database of a medium-sized nonprofit, reporting on giving trends, handling database queries for things like mailings and programs, and prospect research
      your geographic area: Austin, TX
      your years of experience: 2.5 (one was a fellowship at a related institution)
      your salary: $43,500

    6. Development & Communications Associate*

      Job: I support a development director of a small/mid sized nonprofit. Being a two person department I do a bit of everything, but primarily grant research and reporting, process and track donations, manage our donor management software, social media, and email communication

      Geographic Area: Chicago

      Years of Experience: 1.5 (following 4 years in the private sector in a role with equivalent duties)

      Salary: $32,000 (hourly, not salaried)

      1. Communications & Development Associate*

        Job: I support a Deputy Director of PR & RD as well as a Development Officer for a mid/large nonprofit. I handle almost all of the financials for the department, including cash handling, data entry, reporting, reconciliation, for all restricted funds. I also have a hand in all design work in the office and am responsible for several electronic communication pieces, both internal and external. Copy editing, copy writing, event planning/implementation and other general development duties. Fielding angry PR phone calls and sending to the appropriate person.

        Geographic Area: Alaska

        Years of Experience: 4

        Salary: $40,000 (hourly, not salaried)

    7. Development Officer*

      Job: I run both the Membership program and Annual Giving campaigns. My title has manager in it, but I am both program manager and fundraiser.
      Geographic area: Western NY
      Years of experience: 3 years in non-profits (previously I put in 6 years in for-profit marketing)
      Salary: $45,000

    8. Senior Development Director*

      Job: drive national development and marketing initiatives, provide fundraising and development support to field offices across the country
      Area: Southeast
      Experience: 8 years in non-profit
      Salary: $88,000

    9. J*

      For the new job
      job: Development officer (mid-career, higher ed)
      area: CT
      yrs of experience: 10+
      salary: $67,500
      other: 15 days vacation, 9 sick days, very generous 403b program

      For the job I had this time last year
      job: Membership officer (mid-career, arts organization)
      area: Chicagoland
      yrs of experience: 10+ (same experience for both)
      salary: $47,000
      other: 30 days PTO, very generous 403b program

    10. development director*

      development director
      your job: manage development operations for nonprofit ($2.7M budget) – all aspects of fundraising including grants, major gifts, admin, annual campaign, donor relations/communications, drives, and event.
      your years of experience: 6
      your salary: $83,000

    11. Advancement Associate*

      your job: general support for the advancement office of an independent high school, with a special focus on improving database processes and data health
      your location: Houston, Texas
      years of experience: 5 years (all in advancement services, some of it freelance)
      your salary: $50,000
      I think this is a little inflated for my title and job description, but I have some higher level donor database experience that this org really needs.

    12. Dir. of Institutional Giving*

      your job: Lead fundraising from corporate, fdn, and government sources for a large ($25 million budget) non-profit arts organization (lots of grant writing). Supervise 1 FT Mgr and 1 FT intern, responsible for raising about $2.5 million annually.
      your geographic area: NYC
      your years of experience: 12 years in the field
      your salary: $90,000
      Nonprofit salaries vary a fair amount by subject area (arts are not the most lucrative) and particularly by organizational budget size. My job would not exist at a smaller organization though; I would be more of a generalist.

      1. Director of Development*

        your job: Lead fundraising effort for Museum ($6 million budget + in an $18.5 million capital campaign). Supervise 4 FT Development Officers and 1 PT Development Officer, and 1 FT assistant, responsible for raising about $4 million annually.
        your geographic area: Central California
        your years of experience: 22 years in the field
        your salary: $112,000; 6 weeks vacation

        1. Director of Development*

          Years: 1 in Development, 10 in Nonprofit Sector
          Area: Midwest
          Salary: $45,000, 3 weeks paid vacation

    13. Development Services*

      your job: prospect research, prospect management, major gift stewardship, campaign strategy, reporting & analysis, functional database administration for a K-12 independent school

      your geographic area: mid-size metro area in the South

      your years of experience: 15+ in the industry, 4.5 in this job (wow I’m old)

      your salary: $54,000 plus 4 weeks paid vacation, sick time, & all school holidays (fall/winter/spring breaks/etc adding up to another 4 weeks/year), 403(b) with match, health/dental/vision/etc.

      I’m a little overqualified for what I do, but I have the luxury of not being the breadwinner and the incredibly generous time off alone makes it more than worth it for the time being.

      1. Alumni Relations/Development*

        your job: manage development efforts and alumni efforts for a school within a larger University. This includes planning, organizing all alumni events, and mid-level giving.

        Geo area: midwest

        Years of Experience: 11

        Salary: $51,000 (plus tuition remission, and great benefits. Seriously, work at a University!!)

    14. jrpm*

      development director
      your job: manage development operations for nonprofit ($4.8M budget) – all aspects of fundraising including grants, major gifts, admin, donor relations/communications, and events.
      your geographic area: NYC
      your years of experience: 10
      your salary: $105,000

    15. Senior Development Writer*

      your job: I work in fundraising for a university, promoting giving through various written communications and marketing strategies. I write proposals, donor profiles, online content, event scripts, etc.
      your geographic area: Southeast Michigan
      your years of experience: 6 (excluding college internships)
      your salary: $56,000 (this includes annual merit increases – starting was $53,600)

      I started at this employer as a Development Writer and then was promoted. Starting salary for our writers is about $47,000.

      1. Proposal Writer, Development*

        I write proposals to individual donors for gifts to an academic medical center. No management duties.
        NYC
        5-7 years experience; masters in related field
        $85,000, 29 days combined PTO

    16. Individual Giving / Board Liaison*

      Individual Giving/Board Liaison
      your job: I support the Board of Directors and manage a portfolio of donors at a large arts org
      your geographic area: Seattle, WA
      your years of experience: 1
      your salary: $37,000

    17. Development Manager*

      Job: I lead direct mail, donor relations, and moves management for a social enterprise.
      Geographic Area: DC
      Years of experience: 5.5
      Salary: $55,000

      1. Corporate relations manager*

        Job: oversee portfolio of corporate donors in various levels cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship at a mid-sized national nonprofit. Primary point person for developing corporate sponsorship packages for programming. Am supported by a Dept generalist assistant, but am not his direct manager.
        Geographic area: DC
        Experience: 4 years in fundraising plus 4 more in a semi-related field that has made advancing a little easier than starting from scratch.
        Salary: $58,000

        1. Corporate relations manager (again)*

          and I should add – been in this specific job not too long (recently received a title/pay bump after about 2 years doing a version of this job at a more junior level). Benefits are pretty good for nonprofit world: 3 weeks vacation + 12 federal holidays and separate sick leave, some company match to 401k contributions, 2 healthcare options that are decent for a single and generally healthy adult (can’t comment on how it works for others), dental/vision coverage. I’m sure there are better benefit packages out there and higher pay in the for-profit world, but this is keeping me pretty happy.

          1. Nonprofit ftw*

            I am interested in moving into Corporate Relations. Is there a significant difference between the assigned duties / skill set needed for Foundation Relations and Corp. Relations?

      2. Development Manager*

        Job: Manage ~$2.4M funding portfolio, including funder relations, grants (lots of grant writing/editing and reporting, data collection), dev operations (mainly fundraising database/reporting/dashboards, developing procedures, building requirements for donor database upgrades, documenting processes), donor campaigns + relations. I also work on org & program marketing as needed (we also have a full-time comms person, thank goodness!) and manage a biannual nationwide conference. Currently not managing any staff.
        Geographic area: San Francisco Bay Area
        Experience: ~6 years, 5 in fundraising
        Salary: $69,000 + 4 weeks PTO, health insurance 100% covered (& affordable dental, vision, and disability insurance), 401k with 4% match

      3. Development Manager*

        Job: Grant writer for under 5M budget small nonprofit
        Geographic area: Bay Area
        Years of experience: just under four years (mostly internships and undergrad jobs)
        Salary: 57K + benefits + 33 PTO

    18. Foundations Specialist*

      your job: I manage all foundation giving at a large nonprofit, within a larger development team. I do my own research, as well as grant writing, budgeting, and reporting. I also meet with internal and external contacts and manage the foundations calendar.
      your geographic area: NYC Metro
      your years of experience: 9
      your salary: $70,000

    19. Development & Event Manager*

      Job: I report to our Director of Development. I manage all events on our non-profit’s 50 acre property (Historic Estate) including our annual gala, member appreciation events, donor cultivation events as well as manage facility rentals for private events. I supervise one full time event associate and one part time event assistant
      I also help coordinate special development projects, supervise our database manager and our development intern, and am responsible for our annual campaign.

      Geographic Area: Southern California

      Years of Exp.: 14 (at this org for 10, in this position for 8)

      Salary: $48,000 ( low for my high COL area)

    20. Major Gift Officer*

      I work in major gifts ($100K-$3M) for a very large NGO. My annual fundraising goal is ~$12M
      SF Bay Area
      10+ yrs experience & a masters degree in a relevant field
      $82K yr salary, 4 weeks vacation, decent benefits and great 401K match

    21. Data Services Manager*

      Manage a relational donor and membership database (create reports and mailing lists, data maintenance and analysis, annual giving and membership strategy)

      Current job:
      Location: Chicago area
      Yrs experience: 2 when I started
      Salary: $38,000

      New job:
      Location: SF Bay area
      Yrs experience: 4
      Salary: $60,000

    22. Director of Development*

      Director of Development – in charge of setting strategy and major gifts fundraising for a professional graduate school

      your geographic area: NYC
      your years of experience: 18
      your salary: $120,000

    23. Development Assistant*

      Job: The vaguest of possible titles. I handle acknowledgement processes for large gifts, handle a lot of team scheduling, in-house mailings, data entry/hygiene, and various project management-y things at a large national nonprofit.

      Years of Experience: Going on going on 4, but less than 1 in this job.
      Geographic area: San Francisco
      Salary: $50,000
      Plus medical, dental, vision premiums covered, 403b with employer match, 3 weeks vacation, plus 12 holidays.

    24. fae*

      your job: i plan events, support a development team, do social media and website maintenance for a healthcare nonprofit.
      geographic area: philadelphia
      years of experience: 5
      salary: $49,000

    25. Grants Manager*

      Job: Grant writing and reporting for a nonprofit with a $10M+ budget. Manage $2.5M funding portfolio. Some major gifts and special events work (<15% of my time)
      Geographic Area: Midwest
      Experience: 3 yrs. in this role, 7 years in fundraising. BS/BA in unrelated fields.
      Salary: $59,000, 3 weeks PTO, 401k with match, not so great dental/medical insurance.

      1. Office/Grants Administrator*

        Job: managing office and vendors, reviewing grant proposals, assisting family foundation committees etc
        Area: Rustbelt with remote staff near DC
        Experience: 6 months in corporate project management
        Salary: $44,000, 5 weeks PTO accumulated, 401K with a percentaged matched after 90 days, 2016 medical benefits covered for individual

    26. Development Writer*

      your job: I provide donor communications for a state branch of a national nonprofit. Write all private grant proposals and reports, quarterly donor newsletters, and major gift proposals. I also contribute to marketing and campaign materials
      your geographic area: intermountain west
      your years of experience: 5
      your salary: $46,500

  3. System Specialist*

    job: Software Tester
    geographic area: Central Florida
    years of exp (in this job): >1
    salary: $58,000
    have been with the same company (not in this role) for almost 15 years which is why my salary is where it is

    1. System Specialist/Software Tester*

      Job: testing in house software (also some UI design and business analysis work)
      Geographic: Midwest
      years of experience about 2, 10 in this organization, 17 in IT
      salary $56k

    2. Another QA*

      Do you mean that your salary is higher because you stayed with the same company or it’s lower because you haven’t been jumping around?

      1. Systems Specialist*

        Sorry for the confusion. I think the salary is higher than it would be if I was entry level and new to the company, but it’s difficult to know for sure.

  4. Social Worker*

    -Clinician at a group home for kids
    -Boston area
    -Less than one year of experience (post-MSW)
    -$43,000
    -I have my initial license (I’m an LCSW)

    1. also a Social Worker*

      -Supervisory Social Worker at the VA
      -New York area
      -9 years experience (5 at the VA)
      – $80,000

      1. NYS govt social worker*

        -Not in title of “SW” but MSW included in master’s degree titles required for job
        -NYC area
        -8 years experience, LMSW 4 years at this agency
        -$65,000
        -plenty of PTO, sick time, etc.

    2. Another Social Worker*

      – Clinician at a community mental health center
      – Northeast US
      – 4 years in the field pre-MSW, two unpaid field placements while working full-time in the field concurrently, 2.5 years post-MSW
      – Current salary is 40,500 and will be bumped up to 47,500 when I become licensed (soon!)
      – Lots of PTO, paid holidays, my agency has a 403(b) match of up to 5% which is rare for similar agencies at this time, they provide lots of free training with CEUs and are providing my supervision toward licensure (quite expensive if you have to pay for it yourself).

    3. Social Worker2*

      -“Behavioal Health Consultant” – Social Worker at Primary Care Clinic providing consults to MDs, short term therapy, and resources to patients.
      -Pacific NW
      -7 years post MSW; currently accumulating hours for my LCSW
      -63,000

    4. AMT*

      – Clinical social worker for mentally ill adults
      – NYC
      – Got my M.S.W. in spring 2013, but I wasn’t able to find a job in my field for about 10 months, so I have just under 3 years of post-M.S.W. experience
      – Have worked in human services/education part- and full-time since starting undergrad
      – $63,400
      – Working on a post-master’s certificate in a specific mode of therapy

      1. Social Worker - Independent Clinical*

        Oo, I’m interested in learning about different mode certifications out there. How did you structure your search for the certification?

        1. AMT*

          Luckily, there are a lot of training institutes and schools of social work in my area, so I had quite a bit of choice. I wanted a certificate that was (a) from a reputable institution or school of social work (there are a few so-so ones here), (b) intensive and at least a year long, and (c) in-person, not online. The rest was basically just Googling around and reading reviews by alumni. I ended up going with an evening certificate program at a big-name social work school within fairly easy commuting distance of my job. It’s in a mode of therapy specific to a certain type of client because I hope to work with this population in the future, and I don’t have any post-master’s experience with this population. I ended up getting it partially funded by my union, which cut it down to about half the original sticker price.

    5. Social Worker - Independent Clinical*

      – County social worker completing eligibility assessments for certain disability programs
      -Metro Minnesota
      -Less than 2 years clinically licensed, four post-MSW licensed years
      -55,000 with our 2017 COLA
      -WFH option, flex work options, union contract based, federal holidays, better benefits than a lot of community work

    6. Licensed Counselor (LPC)*

      Licensed counselor/mental health therapist at a liberal-arts college
      Chicago
      $37,500 (thanks to budget cuts @ the college)
      7 years experience, 5 at this job; LPC (initial license) – eligible for LCPC but it wouldn’t raise my salary at this job

      1. Licensed Counselor (LPC)*

        Should note I was going to get a raise thanks to the FLSA rule and that got revoked.

    7. Non-clinical lead Social Worker*

      – Non-clinical lead social service worker (no Masters degree), conduct in-home assessments for people with disabilities.
      – County employee in the greater Bay Area.
      – 12 years of diverse social service experience, mostly with nonprofits, have worked for the County for 2.5 yrs.
      – $61, 000, which is 50-70% more than I’ve made working for previous employers. Also great benefits, incl health insurance and PTO.
      – Note that my current employer is VERY unusual in terms of valuing skills/experience as equivalent to education, with promotional opportunities despite my not having an MSW. That said, hiring is extremely competitive and they are very good at it — I’m surrounded by smart, productive, hard-working colleagues.

    8. Independently Licensed Therapist (IMFT)*

      — Assessment specialist, completing diagnostic mental health and substance abuse assessments for individuals involved in Family Court
      — Non-profit, part of a Community Mental health agency
      — 6 years of experience, 2 years independently licensed
      — $44,000
      — Ohio

    9. MSW - Program Director*

      Job: oversee three programs (education related), all staff, and budget. Responsible for program growth, keeping up with and implementing constantly changing requirements, and positive outcomes for clients.
      Area: suburban area in Florida
      Years experience: 8
      Salary: 83,000

    10. "Mental Health practitioner" aka unlicensed MSW*

      Mental health practitioner (I’m just an MSW, hopefully sitting for my LSW soon!!!)
      Metro Chicago
      I graduated a month ago, and have about a year of clinical internship experience
      ~36k, 15 pto, health/dental/vision/life/401(k)

    11. Social worker (hospital)*

      – $25/hour
      – medium sized midwestern city
      – part time but does include benefits
      – 9 years experience, previously worked with child abuse/neglect services and infants/toddlers with special needs. I have an MSW and LCSW.

    12. Emergency Room Social Worker*

      Social Worker in largest state hospital
      Baton Rouge, LA
      3.5 years post-MSW experience
      currently an LMSW; will take the LCSW (highest licensure) next month
      Approx. 46k/year, 5% raise with the LCSW (used to be 7% raise; budget cuts were recently implemented)

  5. Mechanical Engineer*

    Concentrating in Machine Design
    Northeast US
    6.5 years experience, 1.75 in current role
    $85,000

    1. Another (R&D) Mechanical Engineer*

      Job: Prototype, design, and test medical devices. This includes visiting docs, viewing human cases, performing simulated use testing, and a boatload of documentation.
      Area: California Bay Area
      Exp: 4 yrs post-college, ~7 years including interning and such.
      Salary: $84,286

    2. Mechanical Engineer (DoD RDT&E)*

      Team Lead (team of 5-10), focus on analysis/test of DoD systems
      Virginia
      7 years experience (5 in current role, 4 after getting MS)
      $105,000

  6. Administrative Assistant*

    2. List the following info:

    your job – Support staff of data operations center of technology provider agency: travel arrangements, expense reports, purchasing and receiving, assist with resolution of work tickets, etc.
    North Alabama
    Admin work: 30+ years; this job: 7 years
    Salary $50K
    (I have a B.A. and quite a bit of experience at office manager/admin jobs)

    1. Also a Administrative Assistant (Nonprofit)*

      2. Support Executive Director and Department Heads (dept. heads are “as needed”). I honestly do it all: reports, on-site HR paperwork (mainly tax forms, I-9, handbook, policies, etc.), order/maintain office supplies, fix/order supplies for office equipment, calendar scheduling, coordinate car usage, answer phones, maintain exempt employee PTO chart, fill-in/assist director of events and program scheduler (as needed), help coordinate our biggest event each year. Really, I have done a little of everything. I even repaired/sewed a split in a vendor’s pants.
      Northwest Georgia
      Admin work: 17 + years; this job: 9 years
      Salary: $30K, plus good benefits and really flexible

      1. Also a Administrative Assistant (Nonprofit)*

        A little more info about benefits: 18 paid holidays per year, 1 month of paid vacation, 3 paid sick days, 2 paid personal days per year. If we get sent home due to inclement weather, we get paid for the full day. If we are closed to due inclement weather, we get paid for the full day. Most companies in our area do not offer that.

        Also, if you participate in the “Health Program”, your insurance premium is cheaper (but if you need to add spouse/children, you have to pay full price for them). Company pays for a portion of your health insurance deductible. For example, I chose the high deductible program ($3500). Company pays $2500 of that so I only pay $1000 and then is covered everything 100%. There are several programs to choose from, including several with lower deductibles but higher premiums.

    2. Admin Assistand (#3)*

      Support a VP at a Fortune 500. Travel arrangements, calendar appointments, expense reports but also a lot of excel work, bordering on analyst duties.
      New England
      4 years of experience, 1.5 years at current job
      salary: $46K

      1. Parveen*

        I am an Executive Assistant
        Support VP of Sales and VP of Marketing for a small is company
        New Jersey
        10+ years of experience, 1 year at current job
        salary: $65000

    3. Administrative Assistant*

      Your job: Support the department head of an academic department in a state university and oversee the daily running of the front office, managing one direct report.
      Region: Northwest Arkansas
      Experience: 10 years experience in admin work, directly supporting a department head
      Salary: $27,000

    4. Administrative Assistant*

      – Support one partner of a mid-size PR firm. Mostly executive support, also some office manager duties as the only admin at our satellite office
      – SF Bay Area (company based in Minneapolis, with 7 offices across the country)
      – 17 years experience, 8 months in current role
      – Salary $57K (benefits are not great, especially considering the HCOL area I live in. But company has an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, so they consider themselves as having an extremely generous benefit package)

    5. Legal Administrative Assistant*

      Your job: Support attorneys and other staff.
      Region: Seattle area
      Experience: Approximately 10 years of varied admin type work.
      Salary: 58k, plus up to 20% bonus and good benefits/perks

    6. Client Services Director (Admin)*

      your job: official title is Client Services Director, and I’m the primary admin, receptionist, marketing person, and office manager for day to day operations (not HR, payroll, or bookkeeping) for a very small law firm. I also work with the owner in a lot of firm development and growth initiatives and projects.
      your geographic area: Los Angeles
      your years of experience: 4.5 years, started this job right after I graduated with my BA
      your salary: 50k + quarterly bonuses bringing me to about 55k at the end of the year. (Started in a purely reception role at $13/hr, and gradually worked my way up, absorbing more and more tasks along the way)
      anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I live in a hcol area, benefits aren’t great– high cost health care, no stock, 401k, or anything like that. 13 days of paid vacation (just bumped up from 10 this past year), 3 sick days.

    7. Admin Assistant - Higher Ed*

      – Support staff in (private) university administrative office
      – Boston, MA metro area
      – 7.5 years experience (1 year in higher ed)
      – $46k salary

      I have a B.S. in an unrelated field. Great benefits somewhat make up for the lower pay in this high cost of living area.

      1. Bursar Office Analyst*

        Job: Higher Ed — Bursar’s office (interact with students about their $$$)
        Place: Baltimore MD
        6 years experience
        $43.5 K (Hourly)

    8. Administrative and Web Assistant*

      Job: Regular admin stuff (accounting with the exception of payroll, sales reports, orders, phones, etc.), but also writing a weekly newsletter, putting together training powerpoints, and creating/maintaining/updating company websites.
      Locale: Alberta, Canada
      Years Experience: 8 in admin work overall, 6 at current company
      Salary: approximately $36K with health benefits

    9. Senior Admin*

      Sorry this is vague. Sr. Admin to head of student life. Basic admin duties and lots and lots of expense reports. I also oversee a staff of student workers who assist with office duties and staff student events. 6 years experience. $62k with good benefits and generous PTO. New England.

    10. Administrative Assistant (Nonprofit Health Care)*

      Support Administrator and other Department Heads/Directors as needed. I do a bit of everything- some accounting (maintaining various cash accounts, tracking/distributing/reporting grant funds), HR support (maintaining database of ever changing job descriptions, doing background checks and reference checks on candidates, maintaining database of licenses and certifications), marketing (maintaining and developing content for our website and social media), maintain calendars of Administrator and Directors, manage everything related to the front desk area and receptionists, event planning
      Northern Michigan
      Admin work: 5 years; this job: 2.5 years
      Salary: $38,000 (above average for the area) plus excellent benefits (automatic 8% contribution from company to retirement account, excellent health insurance, 4 weeks PTO, ability to flex my schedule and/or work from home as needed)
      I have a BA in an unrelated field

    11. Administrative Assistant (Higher Ed)*

      Job: Support the department chair and instructors of an academic department in a state university and oversee the annual budget. Academic department is also part of a military ROTC unit, so I am the only civilian in the office and act as liaison between DoD and University.
      Location: California
      Experience (as admin asst): 5 years at this specific position, 5 years at another department on campus, and 3 years at a private company.
      Salary: $32k for a “full time benefit, part time hours” position. Full time benefits in a 32 hour per week position. Extremely flexible schedule organized by myself and dept chair.

    12. Executive Assistant*

      Job: Support Executive VP, multiple Senior VPs and VPs. Extensive calendar management, travel arrangements, meeting and event coordination.
      Industry: Professional liability insurance brokerage (part of a multinational conglomerate)
      Location: Suburban Philadelphia, PA
      Experience: Four years with current employer, 15+ years in C-Level Executive Support
      Salary: $45,126, poor medical benefits (can’t afford premium for better coverage)

    13. Executive Asst to Superintendent*

      Public education, supporting Superintendent of small school district (about 1600 students).

      Northern California
      20+ years experience
      $72,000, three weeks vacation, great benefits
      some college

  7. Muriel Heslop*

    Middle school English teacher (including gifted and special ed sections) and department head
    Large city in Texas
    8 years
    48500 per year

    1. fond_of_jam*

      Early childhood special education teacher
      Denver
      10 years experience in different preschool settings, and an MS.Ed.
      $60,000/year

    2. Elementary School Counselor*

      Work with 550ish PreK-5 grade students and support teachers. Manage behavior issues, teach in classrooms, and oversee all standardized testing.

      17 years
      Texas
      63K
      Teacher schedule with one additional week.

      Masters required as well as classroom teaching experience. Middle and high school counselors in my district make more but work more days.

  8. Senior Staff Accountant (Public Practice)*

    Canadian Taxes for Personal, Corporate, Trusts
    Ottawa
    6 years
    $66,000 / year CAD + health benefits ($1,000) and all necessary professional development paid
    $50,000 / year USD approx

    1. Tax Manager (CPA, CGA)*

      Once I get my professional designation in June, my salary will change to

      $85,000 / year CAD
      $64,000 / year USD

      1. B4 Tax Manager (CPA)*

        Reviewed and signed expat tax returns and related calculations/consulting
        US Rockies
        10 years
        $120K/year

    2. Senior Accountant*

      Staff Accountant in a small division of a larger company. My division is myself and the CEO. I am responsible for all AP and AR, invoicing, cash transfers, most of the close each month, writing policy etc.

      I am on the VA side of the DC Metro Area.

      8 years of experience

      80,000 per year with a bonus of 8K per year paid quarterly.

    3. Another Staff Accountant (Public Practice)*

      I’m in Calgary, 3 years experience, recently got my CPA, making $48,000 + bare-bones benefits, 2 weeks holiday, no PD payment other than one course a year. Everyone in my small company is grossly underpaid.

    4. Accounting Analyst*

      General Ledger Accountant and Analyst
      West Michigan
      $57K/year
      BBA in Accounting, no additional certs

      1. Accounting Analyst*

        Missed some info…sorry
        9 years experience spread over 2 companies that were hit hard by the recession (office furniture and transportation)
        2 weeks vacation plus 4 sick and 2 personal days, full benefits (high deductible plans that can be customized to personal needs as well as dental & vision and other insurances), a Christmas ham and random branded merchandise throughout the year that is actually useful, and I get to work at 8am and leave at 5pm 99% of the time and I consider that a major perk.

        I do all month end journals and financial reporting as well as sales & use tax and audit support.

    5. CPA - Tax*

      -I am a CPA with the job title “paralegal” in the tax department of a law firm. This department is adjacent to the estates/trust department.
      – mid-sized city in the southeast
      – Just started my fifth year.
      – $65,000 ish $31 an hour, but I am hourly, so I get paid overtime during tax season. Plus $1,000 holiday bonus.
      – I worked in public accounting for three years. There is a lot more potential for upward mobility there. I started at 50k and was making 63k and had been promoted by my third year. I have no significant potential for upward mobility or large raises at my current job, but I don’t work nearly as many hours as I did in public accounting and have a lot more flexibility and a lot less stress.

    6. Tax Accountant*

      $48,000 roughly.
      Medium sized Pacific Northwest city
      I started this job in August, it’s my first job in the field since graduating with a BA in May.

      4 weeks of paid time off, profit sharing at 4% of our salary, paid parking, I pay $75 per month for decent health insurance. Other small benefits like a yearly wellness reimbursement and education reimbursement

  9. Big Law Receptionist*

    Receptionist for Big Law firm in Minneapolis. Job duties include opening the door every morning, sending 1-2 emails a day, answering 3-4 calls, and sitting on my butt staring into space. I have two degrees, two years post-academia full time experience, and lots of project assistant/internships/random temp jobs throughout my education.

    $40,000 / yr

    1. help me im bored*

      Context: I don’t think they want to deal with turnover and thus pay me higher than average in my area. My partner and I rely on the excellent benefits and I don’t have any other prospects, so will likely stay here while I pursue my JD part-time over the next 5 years.

      2. Paige Turner*

        Sounds like my job, except I make $10k less with $$$ health insurance in a high COL area. But I work from home over half the time and have a short commute, and I wear headphones almost all the time.

    2. lowercase holly*

      can you take only classes (Lynda, languages, something!) while you are at the desk? do they care what you do as long as the work gets done? because, ugh, been there with the boredom.

      1. Big Law Receptionist*

        I can’t wear headphones, so I’m limited there. I currently spend my days studying for the LSAT, so at least I’m productive. No, they really don’t care what I’m doing so long as I’m sitting at the desk. The occasional task comes up but I generally have <1hr of work / day.

        1. Molly*

          What about the bluetooth earbuds – will you hair cover them? They make some that are one-sided now, basically a little nub in your ear, so I wouldn’t think I’d be visible. If your computer isn’t bluetooth enabled you can buy an adaptor that fits into the headphone jack.

        2. Kat*

          Online books! You can read Google Books or onlinebooks.com all day and it’ll look like you’re paying attention the whole time. I read Anna Karenina – twice – in my front-desk job one summer.

        4. Rando*

          Lynda has transcripts that play along with the lessons- it would be fully possible to do a Lynda course without headphones.

    3. Receptionist*

      I feel ya. I’m at a Big Law firm in Utah, and those tasks perfectly describe my day. I have two years experience and no schooling and my salary is $31,500. Which isn’t too bad for the area, most receptionist jobs are much lower.

  10. Hearing Officer/Program Officer*

    State Authority/quasi-agency, NJ
    JD preferred/I’m a licensed attorney
    3.5 years out of law school
    2.5 years experience here
    significantly increased responsibility/tasks beyond original HO job title after first year here
    62,400/yr

  11. Project Analyst*

    Implementations, systems analysis, documentation, query and reporting building (using SQL or builders), metrics and stats, training, automation, acting as a SME for other teams.

    Orange County California
    12 years working experience + a BS and a MA
    56,000 a year salary

    (extremely low for what I do)

    1. OC Data Analyst*

      Howdy neighbor! Are you government/county? I am and it sounds like we do similar jobs.

      Data Analyst (implementations, queries, lots of SQL and our internal data management systems, trainings)
      Orange County, CA
      5 years working experience (1 year in this role)
      69,000

      Government job, really good benefits. 3 weeks vacation, 12 days sick time, all federal holidays plus some state/county holidays depending on where your office is located.

      In the private sector I could easily make at minimum 20k more, but more like 40k. Meh, \shoulder shrug/ I like what I do and love the agency I work for :)

  12. Business Intelligence Specialist*

    Job description: I work in higher education as a data analyst – I build data reports and dashboards and then teach people how to use them. I’m also slightly involved with the technical specifications of the software, such as upgrades and troubleshooting errors.

    Geographic area: Boston area

    Years of experience: ~2

    Salary: $66,500

    1. Business Systems Analyst*

      Job Description: I work for a small private college as a data analyst. We are a non-profit with a religious affiliation, so our salaries tend to be on the low end. Like Business Intelligence Specialist, I build data reports and dashboards to meet specific needs. I also assist with upgrades and troubleshooting errors. In addition, I assist my assigned departments in increasing their use of our ERP software.

      Geographic area: Portland, OR area

      Years of experience: 1 + MBA

      Salary: $57,000 +8% of annual salary paid into retirement account

    2. Data Analyst*

      Also Data Analyst, but I am vastly underpaid and am currently seeking a position more in line with the market rate.
      I build reports and dashboards, validate our EMR data, track trends and develop training for slumping departments, and I maintain our data servers.
      job: Data Analyst- Healthcare
      geographic area: Greater St. Louis, MO
      years of exp (in this job): 6 years
      salary: $43,000

    3. Research Analyst*

      Higher Ed data analyst. I build data reports and visualizations in Tableau, perform comparative analyses using various statistical software, and do mandated state and federal reporting.

      Geographic Area: Upper Midwest

      Years of experience: in this role, 4, but 8 total in data analysis

      Salary: $62,000

    4. Business Analyst (contractor)*

      Job description: SQL queries, Tableau dashboard reports building, presentation of data results to internal clients, descriptive analytics work in SQL/Tableau/Excel, some Google Analytics, KPI benchmark/target setting

      Geographic Area: Pacific North West

      Years of Experience: 1.5 (started with .5)

      Salary: $60,000

    5. Data nerd*

      Data & Performance Analyst
      I work for local government analyzing operational data with the goal of increasing performance and efficiency. I build dashboards, and work with departments to answer questions they have.
      Region: mid sized Midwest city
      Salary: $56,000

    6. Yet Another Business Analyst*

      Job description: Dashboards, alerts, and data reports in Splunk and/or Tableau (depending on the particular instance). SQL / SPL queries and lateral thinking. Also some admin duties for both Splunk and Tableau.
      Geographic area: Maryland
      Years of experience: 10 years working with data in a totally different context)
      Salary: $60,000

  13. Program Manager*

    Responsible for day-to-day operations and management of larger programs for a small academic non-profit.
    Intermountain west
    4 years experience
    $48,000

  14. US Government Management and Program Analyst*

    Job: Management and Program Analyst for an advocacy branch of a US agency. I am a project manager/SharePoint developer for this 2000-person unit of my 80000 person agency. I’m a GS-13. I’m not a manager, but I do manage projects.
    Geographic area: Washington, DC
    Years of experience: 8 with the government. 5 as an analyst and not an intern. 1.5 with my particular office.
    Salary: $92,000/year. I get a 5% TSP (401(k)-type retirement savings) match, a pension, 10 federal holidays, 20 vacation days, 13 sick days, 80% work-from-home, a start time anywhere between 6 and 9:30 AM (so long as I work 8.5 hours), and great personal fulfillment. OTOH, no parental leave and uncertainty after inauguration.

    1. US Government Management and Program Analyst*

      Oh, and I have a masters degree, which got me two grades above my intern peers when I was a GS-09 and they were GS-07.

      1. US Government Management and Program Analyst*

        Oh, and we just got a 2.1% COLA after three years of 1% COLA after three years of 0% COLA. So I actually make $94,796/year as of ten days ago.

    2. Federal Procurement Analyst*

      Federal Procurement Analyst here:

      I get these same benefits plus transit subsidy, awards, and bonuses. I telework 100%. Also, tuition reimbursement for courses needed to maintain my Federal Acquisition Certification, which is required for everyone in the GS 1102 series. I am also a warranted contracting officer with unlimited authority.
      Note that health insurance contributions are mandated by Congress and amount to an average of about 70% of total costs. There is no paid parental leave as such but FMLA is available and personal leave can also be used.

    3. US Government Computer Scientist*

      Another GS-13 here!

      Job: Project lead for sustaining software for military systems (think: bug fixes, enhancements, some new requirements). On my current system, at one point I managed the work of 22 people, but it is down to about 10 now, a mix of contractor and gov’t personnel. I am non-supervisory.

      Geographic Area: MD
      Years of Experience: ~11 years, first 3 years as an intern. Gov’t paid for my masters in Software Engineering
      Salary: $104,433.00/yr (combination of base pay and locality).

      As with the above poster, I have all federal holidays, 5% TSP match, small pension, 20 vacation days use/lose (but can accrue 240 hours without loss), and 13 sick days (unused sick hours can accrue without loss). Alas, telework is not widely available for me, nor the personal fulfillment.

  15. Personal Banker*

    Job: Loan officer, assist with personal banking needs, small business development/lending.
    Area: Wichita, KS
    Years Experience: 2.5
    Salary: $15.25/hr

    1. Kitchen manager*

      Washington state
      I’ve been here for 7 years
      36,000/yr
      I work in a resort area where we live on property. My living expenses are very small.

  16. Communications Administrator*

    * Running communications (email blasts, social media, website management), in addition to events management and other administrative tasks.
    * NYC
    * 6
    * 47,500
    * Started as an admin assistant at 30,000 and was promoted up to 42,000 with current title, then raised to 47,500 to meet the FLSA guidelines

      1. Communications Administrator*

        No. Since I work for a large research university, my salary was already approved beginning last September due to the academic year schedule, so it’s already set. My director and supervisor both have a lot of integrity and value my work too much to renege on a raise like that. Even if they tried to, I’m pretty sure there are HR systems in place to prevent that from happening without cause.

    2. Communications Manager*

      Job Description: I manage the marketing team as well as internal communications. This includes email campaigns, website, phones, social media, mobile app, webinars, events and special projects (like our crm automation)
      Area: Salt Lake City
      Experience: 6 in this role, plus another 5 or so in semi-related positions
      Salary: $26.50/hr. With overtime and bonuses, I earned $60k in 2016. Plus the company pays medical and dental and contributes a few percent to my 401k.
      Other: I’m female and have a degree in communications. I started this position at $18.65/hr and have received raises every year.

  17. Technical Writer/Editor*

    Technical Writer/Editor
    Edits technical documentation and creates/edits technical illustrations
    The Carolinas
    2 mos. experience at this specific job, 10 years related experience
    Less than a year
    55,000/year

    1. Technical Writer/Editor*

      Wanted to add also that I have a master’s degree, if that helps with comparing salaries across job titles. (And am in SC.)

    2. Tech Writer*

      Tech writers represent! :)

      What software do you primarily use, and what’s your illustration process? We’re generally using either screenshots or photos, so I’m usually only cropping and adding callouts.

        1. Theme Park Technical Writer*

          My initial experience was in training manuals for attractions, and now I handle standards for new venue creation.

    4. Technical Editor (senior-level)*

      That’s a good salary for your level of experience! Are you a contractor?

      PS: Carolina tech writers represent! :-)

    5. Senior Technical Writer*

      Senior Technical Writer
      Creates all technical documentation, both internal and external, for complex enterprise software applications, usually based on advanced psychic powers. Mentors new writers, partly responsible for setting own priorities and tasks. Expected to pull rabbits out of hats on a regular basis.
      UK (South East)
      15 years
      57,000 dollar equivalent

      (Note: my salary is way above the norm)

      1. Robbenmel*

        Advanced psychic powers…hee! Former tech writer here…and I have had to use those powers as well….

        1. Senior Technical Writer (Software)*

          Ha, same! “Developer mindreader” kind of goes along with “developer babysitter.” Some days it felt like a Tarot reading of “how is this feature going to get implemented?” would be at least as effective as my other methods of figuring it out….

    6. Technical Writer (Canada)*

      Write and edit technical documentation for a high-tech hardware company
      Ontario, Canada (mid-size city, not Toronto)
      68,000 CAD/51,000 USD
      3 years experience at this company, 12 years experience in total.

      1. Technical Writer*

        Cool, I suspect we work in the same non-Toronto city. Nice to have another data point! (I posted lower down; at 62K with 4 years experience.)

    7. Managing Web Editor*

      Since there are a lot of technical writers here, can I ask what your backgrounds are? Do you have a strong technical background, or more writing-oriented?

      1. Jen RO*

        The usual disclaimer: I’m not in the US, grain of salt, etc

        I studied something completely unrelated in university, but my first jobs were in editing and online writing. I’ve always loved editing, even before I knew what it was called! I studied computer science in high school with an excellent teacher, so I had a good foundation. I’ve always been into techy stuff (software, not hardware) and I’m somewhat of a geek. Plus, I know English really, really well.

        This combination was a winner when it came to breaking into an industry that was just starting in this country.

      2. Technical Writer*

        I’ve got a humanities background, and so do most of my immediate team members. The extended writing team at Current Job has a few people with QA/QE/dev experience.

        At the college where I got my post-grad certificate, the majority were also from a humanities background, though there were a few making career changes from more technical areas. My impression is that, in high-tech, developer jobs are more numerous and potentially higher paying, so people with that skillset are unlikely to pursue writing as a career move.

        1. Technical Writer Down Under*

          I have a background in both science and humanities, but most of the technical writers I have worked with had a science or engineering background. It’s true that you can make more in a more technical role, but I know several people (including myself) who chose technical writing in part because of the more flexible working conditions that can offer.

      3. Senior Technical Writer (Software)*

        I have a humanities background. My team has 2 people with humanities backgrounds, 1 education major, 1 electrical engineer who decided he didn’t actually like electrical engineering, and 1 physics major. I took CS 101 and 102 in college–not the “CS for liberal arts folk” classes but the same classes that the CS freshmen took–not in preparation for this job per se but because I thought it might be fun (I was a senior with credits to burn). I don’t think that’s why I got the job, but I think it aided me in advancing quickly (I could read code pretty easily, which was a massive advantage when we needed to produce an API reference). I did work briefly (2 years) in telephone technical support, which I think helped my resume as well. (This was high-level support, solving issues with databases for b2b software, not scripted/”have you tried turning it off and then on again?” support, so it allowed me to display some degree of technical chops and problem-solving ability.)

        I think the thing that got me the job were my writing samples–one was a set of “basic user” instructions for a popular website, and one was an API reference for a small software utility that a friend wrote. For reference, I started at a bit over $35,000.

        1. Senior Technical Writer*

          I also have a humanities background, but took a desktop support –> phone/email support –> tech writing pathway. Tech support seems like a really great pathway to tech writing. I started at 43K in a midwestern state, IIRC

      4. Technical Writer/Editor*

        My background is in English. I transitioned over to technical writing from teaching/writing center admin. Writing manuals, handouts, reports, and other documentation for my previous jobs helped me make my case for my current tech writing job.

      5. Technical Writer (Canada)*

        I got an undergraduate degree in computer science, realized that I would never be a good programmer, took a year break doing other stuff, then went to college (Canadian community college, basically a step down from university) for a post-graduate diploma in technical writing. Got my first job in tech writing a couple of months after getting my diploma and haven’t looked back since.

      6. Senior Technical Writer*

        My background is writing and education, but the job fell into my lap after I graduated with my MA in English. I intended to stay at the job as a temp but as it turned out, I am good at it and I like it. So I stayed. That was 1997.

      7. Tech Writer*

        Definitely writing-oriented. My BA is in English, I’m an author, and I started my career as an editor in an old-school newsroom-style bullpen. I transitioned into tech writing about ten years ago because there were more jobs and it paid better. Wish I’d made the transition earlier. :)

        It is harder to become a tech writer now if you don’t know at least a little code, especially with DITA. But I found that a couple community-college courses in HTML and XML got me plenty far enough, and I’m a quick study, so I swotted up whatever else I needed to.

        But your grammar skills *really* have to be strong. Your end product is written content, after all.

      8. Senior User Assistance Developer*

        My background is in humanities and writing; I wasn’t even interested in tech until I got an office job at a tech company right after college. Their documentation was terrible. After trying to to use it to help customers a few times, it dawned on me that with even a limited understanding of the software, I could make the doc much better. So I did. (Caveat: this was in the ’80s. These days it’s hard to get a tech writing job without a tech writing credential.)

        Re psychic powers: I used to call it writing fiction :). Every once in a while engineering would read my draft of how I thought a feature should work and change the software to match. Presto! Fiction becomes fact.

        Somebody in this threadlet says you need impeccable English grammar chops to be a tech writer. As recently as 5 or 6 years ago, I worked for a director who held that line. Today, my company hires writers (to write exclusively in English) who are not native speakers; they’re in places like Eastern Europe, India, and China. They’re all smart, motivated, hard-working people, and they’re improving, but I doubt that some of them will ever be able to write a paragraph without multiple errors. But they cost way less than I do (I’m in the US in an area with a fairly high CoL).

    8. Jen RO*

      Senior technical writer
      Writing and editing software documentation, managing a small team, onboarding and training of new joiners, resident tech support for the team
      7 years TW experience plus 3 years experience in related areas
      Eastern Europe, large city (I don’t want to be searchable, it’s a small industry here)
      Salary equivalent to USD 23500 before tax. The salary itself is very good by the country’s standards, and we also get great private medical insurance. (But medical costs are not crazy like in the US, so this is just a cherry on top.)

    9. Senior Technical Writer (Software)*

      Senior Technical Writer
      Software/CS industry. I create and maintain comprehensive documentation for complex software products, primarily aimed at a technical/IT audience rather than a basic user audience. I am in charge of documentation for three of the company’s flagship products, covering the main product help, supplemental feature-specific guides, support and troubleshooting documentation, best practices, etc. I also am responsible for keeping other departments informed of new features and similar updates to the products (I call this part of my role ‘developer translator’). I also advise on user interface wording and work closely with the user experience team to ensure that product text works well with the design.
      Los Angeles area, California, USA
      12 years experience
      $80,000
      I can read code (and write relatively simple code), and I am capable of documenting SDK and API references with minimal assistance from development. I am trained in agile development and the scrum process (I am qualified to be a scrum master and have done it in the past, although I don’t enjoy it much and generally avoid it these days). I am also extremely comfortable with ‘learn-as-you-go’/’learn-on-your-own’ models, and with job parameters that change quickly and frequently, often with little or no notice.

    10. Franzia Spritzer*

      I have so many questions about career dev in TW! From reading all of your replies I’m wondering if I have a natural propensity to this work. Since the dawn of my working life have always been the person to write process documentation for the role I’m in, from my military jobs to, web dev, retail, non-profit and arts management junk I’ve done. Before the tech bubble burst way back when I’d be invited to dev and design meetings to translate between engineers and designers, read people, and provide non-partisan feedback. I have always enjoyed doing this work, and sadly don’t have much of a trail or writing samples. Oh to pick your brains. Perhaps in the Friday open thread.

    11. Senior Technical Writer*

      Senior Technical Writer @ an enterprise software company
      SF bay area
      3 years relevant experience
      1.5 years at this job (in addition to experience)

      109K/yr

    12. Technical Writer*

      Sole charge technical writer at a smallish tech company making integrated hardware and software solutions for regional authorities.
      Location: Australia
      Experience: 15 years as a technical writer, prior work experience in science/technology
      Qualifications: Various science/tech/humanities plus postgrad Tech Writing diploma
      Salary: $USD 67k which I think is fairly standard for the location.

      1. Technical Writer*

        I am the only technical writer at a small software company.
        Location: Australia (in a large capital city).
        Experience: 15 years experience in the industry, about 5 years as technical writer.
        Qualifications: Only an undergraduate degree in the humanities.
        Salary: $USD 68k.

    13. Tech Writer*

      Tech writer for a government contractor. I am basically a glorified secretary (I take notes in meetings for technical info)
      I am in Maryland, USA
      1 year of technical writing specifically. 8 years in database use/design/management and other IT (some PHP, VBA, etc)
      75k/year plus benefits

  18. Regional Recruiter*

    I am a in-house regional recruiter for a heavy equipment rental company. I cover about 45 branches and hire mechanics, delivery drivers, sales people, and management. I’m responsible for sourcing and screening candidates, scheduling interviews with management and getting feedback, extending offers and basically being the go-to person for the hiring process. I work independently.

    I’m in a mid-sized city in the Midwest.

    I’ve been working in HR in some capacity for 8 years

    My salary is about 55,000/year, plus I’m eligible for 10-20% of my salary in bonuses (they’re really hard to get, though), and I get a company vehicle and cell phone.

    1. Corporate Recruiter*

      I am also in house and work regionally; responsible for about 15 facilities plus start up recruiting for new facilities. I am responsible for sourcing, screening, scheduling interviews, offer letters, background checks and for training hiring managers in interviewing skills and techniques and strategic development of retention programs. I work from home and travel about 40% of the time. I live in the southwest but all of my facilities are in the Midwest and east coast. My industry in a niche transportation related production/industrial business so I’m recruiting welders, mechanics, etc.. I have some corporate support department recruiting responsibility as well (IT, accounting, QA, performance management, etc).

      I make $65,000 with some bonus opportunity (minimal)

      I have 14 years of experience.

    2. periwinkle*

      “I get a company vehicle”

      I am envisioning you being handed the keys to a Bobcat backhoe as your company car. Or maybe a forklift, which would make dealing with a crowded parking lot so much more fun…

    3. Collegiate Recruiter*

      I’m an in-house collegiate recruiter for a Fortune 100 company. I hire new college grads for our development programs and internships, along with some odds and ends roles.

      I’m in Washington DC (But live outside of it and commute 1.5 hours each day due to cost of living)

      I had no recruiting experience prior to this position, which I got about six months ago. Previously I had 3 years of sales/marketing experience outside of college.

      I make 57,000 a year.

  19. Bookkeeper*

    your job: Bookkeeping for a small business
    your geographic area: NYC
    your years of experience: 4 years
    your salary: 67,000
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: doesn’t include generous benefits package

    1. Another Bookkeeper*

      your job: Bookkeeping for a smallish business (~120 employees)
      your geographic area: St. Louis, MO
      your years of experience: 7 years
      your salary: 17.15/hr
      anything else pertinent to put that number in context: 80% 401k matching up to 5%, three weeks vacation, 1 week sick, decent medical insurance, flexible hours

    2. Another Bookkeeper*

      job: All aspects of bookkeeping for a small business (~15 employees). Payroll processing via service. Some HR (new hire/termination processing, benefits admin, etc.)
      geographic area: Greater Boston, MA area
      years of experience: ~20
      salary:$43,450 (+ holiday bonus that’s usually around $1,500 but varies based on that year’s profit)
      anything else: 50% employer contribution to health insurance. Dental and vision offered, but without any employer contribution. 3% employer matching to 401(k). 2 weeks vacation, 6 days sick and personal.

    3. Yet Another Bookkeeper*

      Geography: Dallas, TX
      Years Experience: 10 years
      Wages: $22.00/hr ~$45,760/annual

      Technically my job title is Staff Accountant, having been changed recently from Reconciliation Analyst, but my duties are more along the lines of bookkeeping. I work for a small business (<100 employees) that services all the back-office operations for a niche medical market. Relevant to my career is I have a BA, but not in accounting.

      My specific job is to match deposits to revenue reports from my list of offices, ensure all deposits are recorded properly at the office level and work out all the kinks inbetween. I also post all revenue and some minor expenses in QuickBooks, and reconcile all transactions to the bank statement up to clicking "reconcile." Our A/P team finishes closing the books from there every month.

    4. Accounts Receivable Specialist*

      -Invoicing, Payment processing, data entry, report maintenance, account reconciliation, light customer service
      -Chicago area
      -22 years
      -$37,000
      -5 weeks vacation after 7 years, the position transitioned from Data Entry, to Customer Service/AR, to mostly AR/Accounting.

  20. Program Manager*

    Program Manager in Predictive Analytics for Healthcare Insurance Payer based in Kentucky
    8 years in department (worked from Admin up and got this role 1.5 years ago under same boss)
    Here is the breakdown of my ending salary in each

    Project Analyst (2009-2012) 55,000
    Project Manager (2012-2015) 68,000
    Program Manager (2015-now) 78,000

  21. Librarian*

    Reference and Instruction Librarian
    Baltimore
    >5 years of experience as a librarian; I did instruction as needed for the first few years and gained more experience over the past two + years.
    $52,000/year.

    3. Library administrator*

      Library Administrator
      10+ years experience, masters in library science
      Supervise 10+ employees
      Northwest USA

        2. Library Administration*

          •Library Administrator, Public Services
          •Small Private Graduate School, SF Bay Area
          •Been working in this position 3yrs
          •Experience: 7yrs increasing responsibility in LA roles, Library Technician Degree, BA in Public Administration (MLIS in progress)
          •$48k, $52k after benefits assessment

          My salary is relatively low for my region as I do not possess an MLIS. I did not have a traditional academic pathway but my passion for the industry has led me to work hard for diverse experiences and utilize my other skills in leadership and management to move forward. However my accomplishments are often underscored and I am limited in jobs/institutions I can persue due to my lack of an MLIS.

    4. Librarian*

      -Reference and Instruction Librarian in a public university
      -Mid-Atlantic region (NC to be specific)
      -2 years experience
      -$48,000
      -Great benefits…24 vacation days plus paid holidays, 12 sick days, great health insurance, etc.

    5. Academic Library Department Head*

      Department Head
      2nd-tier West Coast city
      16 years in libraries, 11 post-MLIS
      $88,000/yr plus generous benefits
      Context: second master’s, faculty position

      1. Academic Library Department Head*

        I’m another department head (of a public services department) at the Associate Librarian level
        Rocky Mountain West
        16 years in libraries, 13 post-MLIS
        $62,000
        12-month faculty

    6. Library Director*

      Manage 4 professional librarians, electronic resources, and occasional reference and instruction.
      Small town in Midwest, small liberal arts college
      None as director, 7-plus in academic libraries
      $65,000
      Some benefits are good, 12 month tenure track faculty, high expectations of campus involvement

    7. Library Director*

      Medium sized public library, 5 library locations, one museum, and two historic houses. 27 full and part-time staff. Budget $1.2 million.
      North Carolina
      7 years experience as director, 10 more years experience in public libraries, MLS
      $58,000/year

    8. Librarian*

      Adult Services in a small public library – reference, collection development, programming, tech support, all that good stuff.
      Western Chicago suburbs
      5 years + MLIS
      $48,000/year with good benefits & participation in the state pension plan

    9. Library Technician*

      your job: Library technician for a government library
      your geographic area: East coast of Canada
      your years of experience: ~3 years experience
      your salary: $50,000 CAD/year
      anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I have an MLIS even though my job is classified as paraprofessional. The degree was considered an asset for the job. I am also paid a teeny bit more for being bilingual in French/English. I’m in a union and have good vacation/health benefits and a pension.

    10. Librarian*

      Reference librarian at a public university
      Mid-Atlantic region
      1.5 years experience
      $58,000/year

    11. Blackout*

      Technical Services Librarian
      Mid-sized public library in the Midwest (rural-ish area)
      1.5 years
      $40,000 / year plus 21 vacation days, 14 sick days, health insurance, etc. (starting salary was non-negotiable, but I love the job so it works for me)

    12. Library Assistant II*

      Paraprofessional position at a public library

      SF Bay Area

      12 years exp

      $67,000/year

      Context: unionized, at the top of pay-grade for this position, been at same employer 8 years.

    13. Library technician*

      Library technician for the Navy
      Mid Atlantic region (Illinois)
      No experience when hired been here 3 years. Have a bachelors and previous experience working for Army in daycare.
      $25,000
      I have pto and sick leave, a 401k and retirement plan. Decent medical insurance

    14. Reference librarian (technical college)*

      you job: provide reference services to students, schedule/plan/teach library instruction workshops
      your geographic area: SC
      your years of experience
      your salary: part time, $18/hr but only when classes are in session so ~20K/yr

    15. School Librarian*

      School Librarian (for a secondary school of ~1000 pupils, ages 11-18, rated good by Ofsted)
      United Kingdom
      2.5 years experience, plus my Masters in Information and Library Studies.
      £24k/year, pro-rated to about £19k because it’s a term-time-only position.

      I’m a solo librarian, except for 8 hours a week when I have a paraprofessional assistant in to do the overdues and help with odd jobs. My salary is in line with national professional recommendations in the field for my experience level and job description, but the cost of living in my area is high. I’m in my second year at this job, and got a small merit raise based on my first year.

    16. Librarian at a Large Public University*

      Michigan
      I teach (mostly first year students), supervise student reference assistants, work on the reference desk, design online instructional materials, and all manner of other things. We are considered faculty, so I also have regular publication and service requirements.
      2.5 years of experience
      $57,000/year
      (we get merit-based raises every year. My starting salary was around 52k/year).

      1. Librarian at a Large Public University*

        I should mention that I also have an MSLIS, which is a requirement of the job.

        Other benefits include:
        $3000-$3400/year for professional development
        24 vacation days
        Health, vision, dental insurance
        We are non-unionized

    17. Library Manager*

      Manager, Library & Info Services of a corporate library
      Office is in Central New Jersey but I WFH in NYC
      $62,000
      5 years library experience +MLIS, previously worked in HR for ten years prior to going back to library school

    18. Legis. Librarian*

      Legislative Librarian
      Annapolis, MD
      On job 3 months, public library work for previous 10 years. MSLS degree
      54,000/year

    19. Librarian (Cataloger, public library)*

      Far Chicago suburbs
      Have MLS (requirement for librarian vs. library associate/paraprofessional jobs).
      10+ yrs in this position (but almost 15 yrs at this library).
      $28.62/hr., 20 hrs/wk.
      4 weeks vacation, 12 days sick time.
      Participation in pension; dental insurance. Get to go to conferences sometimes, and our local consortium is good for continuing education.
      But no career path (unless you leave the library to become a manager somewhere else) and no chance to increase hours or go full time.

    20. Librarian also*

      Reference and Instruction Librarian
      Small college in GA
      4 years experience; MLIS degree
      $43,000/year

    21. Librarian*

      I am an Adult Programming and Outreach Librarian
      New York City
      >10 years in the field, >2 as a Librarian with an MLIS
      $56,000 / year

      I like this job and the system. There are three library systems in NYC and each one operates just a little differently than the others. Salary is public information so it’s easy to look up the salary for each role.
      It’s a unionized position.

    22. Youth Services Librarian*

      children’s/teen librarian in medium-sized public library
      Northern California
      2 years experience (after 20 years in retail!)
      $58,000 + great benefits

    24. Librarian/Branch Manager*

      Manager of a branch library
      Chicago
      MSI (fancy version of an MLS)
      15 years experience as a librarian, 11.5 as a manager
      Supervise 8 employees currently
      $96,000/yr (thanks union!)

    25. Reference Librarian*

      Reference department manager, I do a lot of the statistical analysis, project management, technology management and database contract negotiations. I also oversee a staff of 5 and do the nonfiction collection development and maintenance.
      A small county public library (county population 49,000ish) in the mountain west.
      8 years at my current library, 11 over all
      I also have my MLIS
      $66,000/year w/ PTO, sick leave, I pay $100 a month for a low deductible health plan for my family ( I think that is a big benefit) and participation in the state pension and 457.

    26. Librarian*

      Full Title: Assistant University Librarian
      Area: Washington DC
      Experience: 4 years
      Salary: $59,000

      Other info: I do have my MLS and work at a for-profit (accredited!) 4-year university. I was hired in my last semester of grad school in a similar campus-based position (starting $40k) and was promoted last summer to my current role in Library Administration at the academic headquarters. In my current role, perks (which equate to $$$) are the option to work from home and plentiful office lunches. We also have HR programs to earn reduced health insurance premiums without sharing personal health information with the insurer. My workday is mostly project based and revolves around staff training/onboarding, information literacy instruction/curriculum implementation, and outreach to both students and other staff members (eg. faculty members). Due to our small staff size, I also dabble in cataloging and collection maintenance.

  22. Records Manager/Librarian*

    Southeast US
    5 years experience
    Masters in library science
    $39,000
    Work in the public sector (no raises, no COLA, no promotions)

    1. another Records Manager/Librarian*

      I’m also a manager of a Records Center. I call myself a librarian, because I have a Master’s in Library Science, but that wasn’t really a requirement for the job. In fact, I’m the first librarian to be managing this particular Records Center, and honestly – it shows.

      Southwest US

      I have over 10 years experience in libraries (public and academic) but I’ve only been on this job for about 6 months. This is not my first managerial position, but it is the first time I’ve worked in a records center.

      BA in English, Master’s in Library and Info Studies

      $58,000/year (with decent State Employee benefits, but I don’t take most of them because my partner’s are better)

    2. Records Manager*

      Records manager at a global pharmaceutical company. Responsibilities include analysis of business needs, advising business system owners and employees on records issues, developing/maintaining records retention schedules, administering offsite records storage, policy development and implementation.

      4 years in this position, 16 years overall. MSLIS.
      $115,000/year + bonus; excellent benefits, time off and WFH options

    3. Project Archivist*

      I’m a project archivist supervising a digitization and web publishing project in NYC. 5 years experience in archives 6 months post MA in Archives.

      53,000 plus benefits

    4. Librarian/Records manager*

      My job: Records and case management and archiving for a health regulator
      Experience: 2-3 years
      Salary: £20,350
      Location: London, UK

  23. Systems Engineer*

    Job:
    I do risk management for a large organization. This mean identifying things that could go wrong or have gone wrong that are beyond what’s normal and accepted by the organization (So say, if this were McDonalds, we expect that the fries get cold so that’s not a risk because it’s acceptable. But if our supplier is slipping yams into our fry shipments that would be a risk because that’s outside of the normal, acceptable risk from McDonalds). This also means identifying improvements where possible, and then figuring out how to get those improvements or avoid the problems in the future. It’s much more of a project management role than engineering.

    Geographic Area: Washington, DC metropolitan area in the USA.

    Years experience: 8, plus a masters in engineering and MBA.

    Salary: $109,500/year

    Context for salary: None really, my compensation is pretty straightforward.

      2. Systems Engineer*

        Hm, I’m not sure what you want to know. I spend a lot of time in meetings listening to see if what people are talking about is something that should enter our risk management process or if it’s fine. I’m pretty new to the role (started in August, before that I was an operations engineer), but once it enters our process it gets a lot more visibility and I make sure that it gets closed out. It’s a big change from what I used to do, and a lot more chasing people down and seeing if they did the thing they said they’d do than I’m used to in the operations world.

        Do you have any specific questions?

        1. Master Bean Counter*

          So if I’m reading this right you get paid to think of the worst case scenario and find ways to prevent it?
          Does that thinking bleed over into real life and cause problems?

          1. Systems Engineer*

            It depends on whether the worst case scenario has any likelihood of happening. The real problems crop up with smaller cost or schedule overruns that compound on one another, and lead to a larger slip. So I spend more of my time trying to avoid those thousand cuts that can destroy a project, than the big coup de grace, because usually that sort of big item is very, very unlikely to happen.

            It’s also different from some of my operations engineering (where I’d draft procedures for fixing anomalies when they arise regardless of how likely some of them were, but only cared about severity) since I have to weigh the likelihood of the item occurring. So we’re assessing two components, severity, and likelihood, and once we figure that out we can see if it’s worth actively managing or something we don’t really care about. A lot of value is in the thought process, because through that we better understand the projects and their inter-dependencies.

            I grew up a Boy Scout and as an operations engineer, I came in already with the mindset of be prepared for the worst scenario, so I’ve kinda already lived my life that way. The trick is knowing the likelihood of an event happening. So for example, I don’t like the DC metro and it’s been making the news a lot lately, but really it’s safer than driving and the likelihood of me being in a news-making disaster story on the DC metro everyday is much smaller than getting into an accident on the road system around here. So I take the metro, even though it’s not the greatest.

            I don’t know if that completely answered your question, but I hope it helped some.

    2. Red Reader*

      Hee, today is the first day of my Risk Management class in my MBA program :) I’m looking forward to it.

    3. Systems Engineer*

      I should also say for context, as for benefits:
      – 3 weeks PTO + 9 holidays (6 fixed, 3 floating).
      – at least 1 telework day a week, pending no customer meetings
      – decent medical and dental
      – bonus system, but I’m new so I can’t give any decent numbers on this

      1. Systems Engineer*

        – Also 3% salary to 401(k) from my employer, and no match. They just always put in 3%, 401(k) plan available and I can put in more
        – Pretax travel benefits

    4. Jan*

      Fellow Systems engineer checking in. Similar to what you do plus some architecture modeling. I’m also in the D.C. Area. 8 years of experience (7 of that is with my current company). I have a masters in systems engineering. Salary is $120,000/year. No bonuses. Pretty good match for 401k. Telework as I see fit, right now I’m 3 days at home, 2 days in the office.

  24. Senior Editor (book publishing)*

    acquire/edit/oversee publication of books by about 60 authors
    NYC
    12 years
    75K
    started just under 30K, moved companies for jumps in title and salary. Been in this position/company for three years, started at 65K

    1. Senior Editor (book publishing)*

      (Alison, please remove if you’d rather not have this discussion here): happy to answer any questions about book publishing, as in my years of lurking I’ve seen a lot of comments from writers and others who are interested in this world.

      1. Aunt Vixen*

        I am interested! – as I’m an editor and not sure I’m not going to have to be job searching in the next year. Of course okay to take the discussion offline if Alison prefers, though.

      2. Spreadsheets and Books*

        I work in finance at a company that owns one of the Big Four publishers, and recently had the opportunity to tour their HQ and sit in on a 3-hour presentation about some of the inner workings, including how book deals and royalty offers are structured. It was amazing! Your job sounds incredible and it was so cool to learn more.

      3. smtech*

        I’d love to hear more in general about what you do! Maybe Alison could do an interview with you at some point? I would be really interested in reading it.

        A few questions:
        How long does the publishing process typically take, from identifying a book you want to it actually being sold in store?
        How often are you publishing existing authors vs new ones?
        Is it true that most new authors don’t out-earn their advances?
        What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen – whether it was a book deal that didn’t work out, an author/agent demanding something crazy, or something else?

          1. Senior Editor (book publishing)*

            I do love it! I’d be happy to do an interview, but I’ll also be sure to come by the Friday open thread.

    2. Finance Director*

      So, would you be the person that receives unsolicited manuscripts from aspiring authors? If so, how is that aspect of publishing – I mean in terms of do you enjoy it, hate it? And do you get to read a lot of books or is that something someone more junior would have to do?

      Also, I have a burning question I’ve been dying to ask someone who would be very familiar with copyright law: If a person wanted to expand on a short story that was published in the 1960’s in a collection of short stories – in other words take that short story and make it into a novel and maybe put it on Amazon is that considered plagiarizing? Now that I’ve typed it out, it really looks like it is.
      There is a story that I fell in love with when I was little and it was published in the 60’s. It is a fairy tale within a collection all by the same author. Since it’s a fairy tale, it’s very short, but I’d like to take the basic story, put it in a modern setting, give the characters names and backstories, and fill in the gaps with certain mythologies and add characters to it. It’s not the exact story that was published, but it’s based on that story. Any thoughts?

      1. anonomust*

        I’m not the OP, but if you change it enough I think it’s kosher – wasn’t 50 Shades of Grey initially fan fiction based off of Twilight or some such thing?

    3. Associate Editor (book publishing)*

      Hope you don’t mind me piggybacking on your format!

      acquire/edit/oversee publication of small list of my own and provide editorial support on more senior editors’ books
      NYC
      6 years in publishing, 4 in this role
      57K

      I started at 30k in a different department at a different publisher and made a lateral move by taking an entry-level position company where I am now.

      1. Marketing Assistant*

        If you have time for advice giving, I’m a marketing assistant (1.5yrs) at a small educational publisher (8-10 employees) looking to make the jump to trade. Do you have any tips?

    5. Senior Production Editor (book publishing)*

      oversee all the steps between manuscript and bound book for about 100 titles per year for a Big Four Publisher (and I have a subsidiary job title helping manage our digital workflow procedures)
      NYC
      15+ years
      82K (which I know is *extremely* well paid for my industry, with generous benefits to boot).

      Also happy to join in a discussion of How Publishing Works on an open thread, though I’m out of the office this Friday so won’t be as available!

    6. managing editor*

      job: I’m on the production side of book publishing (aka managing editorial or editorial production). I manage a handful of production editors (PEs), which includes budgeting, scheduling, and assigning ~200 books/year to those PEs, including to myself (I personally produce 40+ books/year). I interact with authors, copy editors, proofreaders, typesetters, packagers, designers, acquisitions editors, marketing/publicity, and printers. I hire and review (and hopefully don’t fire) PEs, I set guidelines for how we do things in production, I track the status of all books in production (not just mine) to ensure on-time publication, I go to more meetings than I’d like, and that’s just the bare bones of what I do.
      geographic area: mountain west
      years of experience: 25 overall, 15+ at current job
      salary: $60k
      benefits: 4 weeks of vacation (’cause I’ve been there so long), 7 paid holidays, 2 floating holidays, 10 sick days, 401k, health/dental/vision insurance

    7. Textbook Editor*

      Late to this, but:

      Sign and manage approximately 45 projects (20-25 publishing per year) in a lovely sub-discipline of the Humanities
      NYC
      5 years (in editorial, 1 year as a commissioning editor)
      47K

  25. Digital Project Manager*

    -Digital Project Manager (educational publishing)
    -Boston, MA
    -6 in the industry, 2 outside the industry (8 years work experience overall)
    -$60K
    -The salary is low compared to COL in the area and similar jobs in non-publishing industries, but the benefits make up for it: 4 weeks vacation, 5 sick days, 5 personal days and very good health benefits, excellent WFH/flexible time policy, and 7 months where we’re not busy and I can work 10 – 4:00 with an hour for lunch and an hour for the gym.

    1. Senior Digital Project Manager*

      -Senior Project Manager, managing digital advertising campaigns/microsites
      -NYC
      -6 years’ experience in tech/digital project management
      -$90K, unlimited PTO, okay healthcare, pre-tax transit, shares in the company, 401k with small match
      Note: this salary was only after job hopping a decent amount and negotiating a raise in my current role. Salary history:
      +$30K, customer support
      -job hop-
      +$36K, digital coordinator
      +$39K, associate producer
      -job hop-
      +$45K, associate producer
      -another quick job hop!-
      +$65K, associate producer
      +raise to $67K
      -job hop-
      +$70K, project manager
      +$90K, senior project manager

      People look down on job hopping, but it really works. I’ve gone from $30K-$90K in 6 years.

      1. Digital Campaign Manager*

        – Digital Campaign Manager, managing digital advertising campaigns
        – I’m based outside of Boston, MA, but company is in PA (entirely remote company)
        – 6 years experience in project management, 1 year experience in digital marketing
        – $47,500, 3 weeks PTO, 4 sick days, entirely WFH, 2 amazing all expenses paid company trips a year, 12 weeks paid maternity leave, 4 weeks paid paternity leave, great health benefits, 401k with matching.
        Salary is low for the field, but benefits are amazing and I don’t feel my job is particularly taxing or stressful and the company really values its employees.

  26. Sourcing Speciaist*

    Job – Sourcing Specialist – Purchasing
    Geographic Area – Mid South
    Years of Experience in this job – >1 year
    Salary – $60,000
    I worked in another field for 15 years and recently took this position (and significant pay decrease) in order to change career paths.

    1. Another Sourcing Specialist*

      Job – Sourcing Specialist – Purchasing
      Geographic Area – MidWest
      Years of Experience in this job – >10 years
      Salary – $80,000

      1. Sourcing / Purchasing Manager*

        Job – Sourcing / Purchasing Manager
        Geographic Area – Southeast
        Years of Experience in this job – >7+ years (1.5 years in this job, 7+ years in field)
        Salary – $100,000

        I also have a masters degree (MBA) and professional certification in supply management. 3 weeks paid vacation.

  27. Library Technician (Federal Contractor)*

    1. The Job – A mix of technical services and comparatively light reference duties along with some administrative/office work. Maintaining serials, circulation, mail sorting, processing new materials, adding serial-like books to the catalog, looseleaf filing, and more. The position is at a small government agency and most of the library employees are federal FT employees; two of us are contractors.
    2. Location – DC
    3. Experience – Started at sixteen in fast food, worked on-campus jobs throughout college, began a “real job” (this one) October 2014 and work two other jobs PT in addition to this one (one since October 2014 and another since May 2015).
    4. Salary – I make $20.60/hour.
    5. Context – When I was hired for this job, it was through contract agency X and they paid $14.51/hour. When they lost the contract and a new one took over and kept the existing contract employees, I was offered $19.00/hour and negotiated for $20.00. My first raise was in May with 3%. There’s no way I could live on this alone in this area, but there it is. I finished my MLIS in May 2016, too. Benefits aren’t fantastic, but do well enough. I get two weeks combined PTO.

  28. Prospect Research Officer*

    In charge of prospect research for a mid-size nonprofit
    New York City
    Four Years
    $66,000

  29. Senior Library Specialist*

    -cataloging in foreign languages (East European=Slavic), Slavic serial receipt and binding, serial holding maintenance
    -Midwest
    – 7 + (5 if I count only full time jobs)
    – $46,000/year (* civil service job)
    have MLIS for top 1 Library School in the country

  30. Generic Admin*

    Admin Assisant for a charitry
    Location- Norhern England
    Salary- £15,000GBP (18519.83USD) PA
    3 years experience
    Salary included additional allowance for special projects I’ve picked up.

  31. Evidence Room Manager*

    Run the Evidence Room for a police department. Not at all like CSI (I don’t work in a lab, but I coordinate with labs to get items tested); more like … Sam’s Club? Mostly it’s about space and keeping items safe/uncontaminated.
    Midwest area.
    In position for a little over a year, but worked in law enforcement for 10+ years
    $57k year. Does not include my matching pension (6%), completely free health care, 39 paid days off a year, as well as other perks (tuition reimbursement, health club reimbursement, etc) The benefits are really outstanding and make up for the actual monetary pay being on the low end.

      1. Evidence Room Manager*

        haha, I bet you totally get what I mean! I have to give tours of our facility all the time, both for transparency with the public but also for evidence discoveries, etc, and the Scrooge in me squeals with glee every time I see their eyes go from excitement to disappointment in the span of seconds.

        1. Laboratory Manager*

          The interview for my first forensics gig* took place IN the laboratory. I later learned it was partially to weed out the CSI-effect candidates, most of whom self-selected out when they realized it was basically like any other high-throughput or production lab, not as sexy as it was on TV and the only soundtrack was the noise from the instruments.

          *Am actually no longer in forensics but similar enough that I also often see people’s blooming disappointment. Except high school students. They are universally astounded and awe-struck.

      1. Evidence Room Manager*

        I actually just got lucky. The vast majority of property rooms across the country are run by Licensed Peace Officers (cops), which I am not. I started working in law enforcement 10 years ago, at a different agency, because I wanted to be an IRS agent – but I was having a really hard time finding a job, and Veteran’s Preference can make hiring in government REALLY competitive (I am also not a veteran). I spoke to a career counselor whose advice to me was to just start working in government – ANY branch of government – and get in those years of service to help me transition to the IRS. I applied at a ton of places – the Department of Natural Resources, Department of Vehicle Services, etc – and the first one that called me back was law enforcement. Since then I had grown to like it, although it’s really (mentally and emotionally) hard to work for a law enforcement agency right now. I worked in Records, so updating criminal histories, checking for warrants, that kind of thing – and the agency that I’m at now had an opening running their property room, I put in for it and got it. There’s one national association that governs our best practices – the IAPE (International Association of Property & Evidence Technicians) – plus a handful of state associations (California has a great one – CAPE) but that’s about it for training. Because no one offers a degree in this, and not a lot of people do it, most police departments simply want someone that feels comfortable around property/evidence (guns and narcotics) that has great time management and project management skills … which usually is why they put an officer in charge, instead of hiring a civilian. There’s no prerequisite like “must have a BS in Property Room Tetris Evidence Stacking” because no such thing exists.

  32. Executive Assistant*

    Role: Assist C-level leader in an org with 7,500 employees – manage calendar/appointments, plan meetings and events, customer service, some graphic design work
    Location: Alabama Gulf Coast
    10 years of experience
    $45,000 per year

    1. Executive Assistant*

      Also, per year: 15 paid holidays, plus 10 days of vacation leave (1-10 years’ employment), 2 days of personal leave and 12 days of sick leave.
      $325 per month for excellent family health and dental insurance

      1. Another Executive Assistant*

        Role: Assist two Executive VPs in an organization of 1,500 – manage calendars and appointments, plan meetings, book all travel (domestic and international), complete travel requests and expense reports, complile or create presentations, track mileage, reconcile credit card statements and any other administrative items that pop up now and then.
        Area: D/FW
        23 years experience, 14 years at current job
        $75,000, plus 4 weeks paid vacation, 7 paid holidays, paid sick leave

    2. Executive Assistant*

      Location: San Francisco Bay Area
      Company: Biosciences, 800+ employees
      Experience: 5 years, 2 here
      Pay: $72,000 (competitive with market and experience IMO)

  33. Software Tester*

    your job: Testing software before release
    your geographic area: Chicago
    your years of experience: 6 years
    your salary: $71,000

  34. Graphic Designer*

    I’m the lead (read: only) designer with a tech company. I do everything from brand to marketing and web promotions, trade show and collateral design, swag and illustrations. I love the work, it’s super independent and I get to go home at the end of the day and breathe. I’m hoping to stay here for a while, we’re getting past that startup phase into being a proper company and I find I like the balance.

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    10 years of experience.

    60k with full benefits, free lunches, flex hours, wfh, unlimited sick time.

    2. Graphic Designer -- non-profit education*

      Graphic designer at a non-profit university. I focus on print collateral like magazines, newsletters, flyers, brochures, special event invitations and programs, etc., and coordinate with the web and social media groups. In addition to the computer work — because I’m under the Public Relations umbrella of the university — I do a bit of everything including running community outreach booths on and off campus, work fundraising events (registration/hostess/setup/cleanup), design and setup bookstore display windows, and act as an advisor to the student-run literary magazine.

      Los Angeles, California
      19 years experience
      53k which is on the low side for the region because it’s non-profit but makes up for it with outstanding benefits that are largely unheard of in corporate — medical, dental, vision, 403b matching at 1.5%, 18 days of paid holidays, 2 weeks per year vacations accrues up to maximum of 384 hours (48 days), 2 weeks per year sick days accrues up to 480 hours (60 days), education reimbursement for continuing education, gym reimbursement and additional wellness incentive bonuses with regular exercise, and rideshare/public transportation reimbursement. And if an employee is really adventurous, they can volunteer to be a patient for our medical and physical therapy students for free (muhahahahaha) under the supervision of a licensed faculty member of course.

      1. Graphic Designer -- non-profit education*

        I guess I can add that I have a Mailpiece Design Professional certification since a good bit of what I do needs to follow the US Post Office regulations, and they try to make that as confusing and arduous as possible and then change it as often as they can.

    3. Senior Graphic Designer*

      Self-employed graphic designer living in Portland, OR with 9 years experience here, earning about 95K.

      99.9% of my work is through a small agency so I have very steady income, but as I’m not an employee my salary takes a big hit after I pay self-employment taxes and for all my equipment/software, health insurance, self-paid sick/vacation days, retirement, plus a whopping accountant fee every year. Benefits? None, really, except that introvert me gets to work from home in comfortable clothes, the agency I do work with handles all the paperwork and billing headaches and client recruitment, and I really enjoy my job.

      1. Senior Graphic Designer*

        Dang it, forgot to add to I work primarily on print projects (brochures, ads, flyers, environmental graphics) for the healthcare sector, but occasionally work on smaller WordPress sites and a smattering of email marketing. We often do the copywriting for clients. I also help give creative direction to a few other junior designers we work with and assist in writing estimates and proposals.

        1. Senior Graphic Designer*

          SGD for a cosmetics company in NYC. I work on both print and digital and work on a wide variety of projects: in-store visuals, marketing collateral, displays, ads, eblasts, banner ads, social media posts, etc.
          I have a BFA from a prestigious art school (still paying it off) and have been working for 10+ years as a designer. My salary is 80K plus bonus and benefits, been here 3 years and started at 73K. Salary is on the low end but benefits are amazing: full medical (literally everything is covered), retirement w/matching, PTO, all sorts of other included benefits really too much to name – we even have pet insurance – and we get cost of living raises every year. Work/life balance is really great too (no late nights ever, which is kind of unheard-of). Downside is the work itself is really boring, and interesting work is what I live for. I’m thinking of switching back to agency work (but may kick myself when I’m working 65-hour weeks) or possibly back to freelance.

          1. Senior Graphic Designer (from above in PDX)*

            Would you mind listing what school you went to? I got a wonderful education getting my BFA at a private art school, but I have to be honest, literally no one has ever cared about where I went to school when it comes to hiring! (My college has a great reputation in the region, but it’s not well known nationwide, so it’s definitely not prestigious.) Do you find that having more name recognition has been worth the cost in terms of opportunity?

            1. Senior Graphic Designer*

              I went to Parsons. For me the name definitely opened tons of doors and I would go so far as to say most jobs/clients I’ve had wouldn’t even consider hiring someone without a comparable level of education, particularly when starting out. However I’m a number of years out of school and not sure it would still be worth it today given the dramatic changes in the industry and the “business of education.” Parsons has grown an enormous amount since I went there (and the school was more than happy to rake in the extra tuition and build up its real estate holdings etc) and I seriously doubt that all those many, many grads are going to get jobs. Not everyone I went to school with wound up working in the field and it wasn’t quite as competitive when I was starting out. Did you go to PNCA? I always thought of it as a good school, though more fine-art focused.

              1. Senior Graphic Designer (from above in PDX)*

                I went to another small art school but it was in another region. It’s small enough that I’m going to avoid naming even the region!

                That’s wonderful that it gave you opportunities, I wouldn’t go back and do anything differently but I’ve certainly wondered about the path not taken!

                When I asked the question, I was thinking about a job that I left to work for myself shortly after I found out that a male designer who went to a for-profit, 2-year school was making $20k/year more than I was (same job title/responsibilities but several years less experience and not well liked). I was only out of school for a few years and after he told me he didn’t negotiate for that salary it just made my education seem kind of worthless.

    4. Graphic Designer (Freelance, full time)*

      Graphic Designer for print and web.
      Colorado (Northern Colorado, 30 miles from Denver and Boulder).
      Experience in field: 20 years.
      Running my own business for 8 years.
      Pay: $90,000/year after business expenses (varies since I am freelance).
      Benefits: None! I pay for it all out of pocket (the downside to being self-employed).

      1. Graphic Designer (Freelance, full time)*

        Adding because another designer mentioned it:
        I also do Packaging Design for food companies.
        Not much different than other types of print design but it helps to have an understanding of the regulations for food packaging.

        1. The Toronto graphic designer above*

          Hope you don’t mind me asking, but how did you find the transition to running your own business? Now that I’ve been working for about 10~ years, I’ve been thinking a lot about what my future looks like. Where do I want to be as a 45 y-o designer? A 55 y-o designer? Going on my own sounds like it would have a lot of perks, but also be pretty scary.

    5. Senior Graphic Designer*

      Your job: I work with the Art Director for two niche publication magazines, each published bi-monthly, offset (so we publish every month). Mostly layout, but also photoshoot styling, web-related advertising, eBooks and one-off publications, designs to be published for our subscribers, patterns for the same, pre-press and coordination.
      Your geographic area: Denver Metro
      Your years of experience: 5
      Your salary: $42k
      anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I left a job that was giving me an anxiety disorder last year and took a pay cut, in order to take on a job in my field where I feel I will be able to stay around much longer. My jobs since leaving college have been of the 1+/2 year range so I haven’t gotten many raises over that time.

    6. Graphic Designer*

      Graphic designer for the sales team of an ecommerce fulfillment company — I design sales proposals to try to win new clients
      Suburb outside of Philadelphia
      10 years
      $55K/year
      Can work from home, have a great boss and co-workers, benefits package (PTO, health, dental, vision, we even get pet insurance at discounted rates)

    7. Graphic Designer*

      My job: Mid-level graphic designer at a small (around 30 employees) direct mail firm. I layout new direct mail packages (envelopes, letters, response devices (mostly form stuff) and the occasional exciting insert. You know those mailings you get with labels in them to entice you to donate? I design those labels! (And everything else in the package). I also design emails, facebook/twitter/banner ads and the occasional donation landing page.
      I’m in a middle position – I have a direct manager who is the Art Director and am supervising/training a new hire though I don’t have any power regarding her salary, hours, etc. I just tell her what to do and tell my boss when I want her to come in.

      My geographic area: Washington DC

      Years of experience: 8

      Salary: 65k with an annual bonus of around 8-10% every year. 25 days PTO/year, 401k match of 5% and the company occasionally gives us a random surprise day off or 100+ gift card. Plus I have an office with a door that actually closes!

      Pertinent Info: I took two years off in the middle of my career to start my own freelance business. It was getting to a successful place but I realized that I love having health insurance and the freedom to have a day off without thinking of how much money I’m losing.

  35. System Support Analyst*

    System Support Analyst – government
    Implement/support all IT initiatives, break/fix as needed, project management as needed
    Missouri
    Experience: 8 years in user support
    9 months in current position
    45,500/year

    1. I.T. Helpdesk Coordinator*

      Helpdesk Coordinator
      Oversee day-to-day activities of a team of technical consultants. Dispatcher (though I hate being called that!), project management as needed, team lead/coach/mentor, liaison between staff & management.
      Detroit Metro, MI, USA
      8 years experience
      2.5 yrs at current position
      $45k/year, 80 hours PTO, full-time work from home, contributions toward life insurance, vision/dental/health insurance

  36. Senior Meeting and Event Planner/Events Project Management*

    Plan meetings and events (20-30 per year, one day or multi-day, for 25 to 75 attendees per) for a software company
    RTP, NC
    15 years experience
    $84 K
    Salary may seem high for my field, but career stalled/no promotions for many years under a horrible manager, but did receive modest raises each year as all company employees do. I think I would be making more money but also have a higher job title (probably manager) if I had worked under someone else.

    1. VP of events and conferences*

      Plan conferences, events dinners etc for an international Retail Bank
      NYC
      20+ years 2.5 at this bank
      $107,000 plus 5 weeks vacation/sick days

    2. Corporate Event Planner*

      I plan about 50 meetings/events each year for a Fortune 500 Company. They range from small internal dinners to multi-day conferences for the top executives of my company. Most events are local (NYC), but I plan some out-of-state and international events as well.

      I have 8-10 years of event planning experience in general, but most of my experience was in the non-profit/academia field, so my corporate experience was less than 2 years before I started this job. I think that hurt me when getting offers, as I received a few and they were all within the same range.

      $73K, including what I’ll just refer to as bonuses.

      1. Senior Meeting and Event Planner/Events Project Management*

        No degree in Event Management for me. (I kind of fell into this field, starting as an admin. and found I had great knack for project management and organizing complex events with lots of logistical details.)

        I do have a Bachelor’s Degree. Most of the job openings for similar jobs ask for a Bachelor’s in Business, Marketing, etc. However, if you have a background/degree in another field all is not lost. For example, I recently saw a job opening for a corporate event planner for a bank and they strongly emphasized that they wanted a candidate who also have finance industry experience. I personally haven’t found that having industry knowledge (which can always be learned) is a requirement to doing the job, but when it comes to hiring, that can be what puts you over the edge if you have that + event planning experience.

        Besides Business and Marketing, I would recommend coursework (and possibly eventual certification if you want to go that route) in Project Management or the CMP/Certified Meeting Professional. Take a look at MPI or PCMA for lots of resources.

        If you are flexible about where you will live, I’d HIGHLY recommend the greater DC area for the availability of jobs (although be sure to factor in the cost of living too).

        Lastly, so much of this job is “building your toolkit”/having something go wrong but then figuring out how to recover that experience on the job is probably more important than your degree. Even if you have to start out as an “Event Assistant” or “Event Coordinator” to get it- that experience is invaluable.

        Good Luck!

  37. Communications Manager*

    I’m the only full-time communications staffer at a small human rights nonprofit. This is a recent promotion, and there is no one below me except for part-time interns, so I’m still responsible for all the implementation I did as the comms associate, as well as the big picture strategic stuff. I manage our website, our email, our digital strategy, our online marketing, our PR (with the help of a firm), our print materials … everything.

    NYC
    Five years working experience, just got this promotion. At this org for 17 months.
    $50,000
    Benefits are pretty solid – employer fully covers health insurance deductible, 4 weeks vacation + sick days + personal days + we’re closed Christmas to New Years. Flexible schedule and able to work from home as needed. But our 403b has no employer contribution and they’re talking about ending that benefit.

    1. Another Communications Manager*

      I’m also a nonprofit communications manager (manager in the sense of program management, I only loosely manage a couple part time people in an unofficial capacity). Tiny health care nonprofit, same duties as poster above.

      Philadelphia area
      16 years experience, but am rebuilding my place after taking a large step back when my kids were born.
      $43,000/ 32 hours a week. (so roughly equivalent to $52K if I worked 40 hours)

      1. Communications Manager (DC metro)*

        I’m a Communications Manager working for a small, privately-owned consumer service/tech company. I’ve been with the company three years and my role has evolved a lot, but I currently manage and develop all internal communications (newsletter, email, social, digital signage, even comms, print collateral) and serve as a strategic communications partner for internal-facing teams (hr, it, etc), as well as dept heads for dept-specific comms.

        Washington, DC Metro
        8 years experience (3 here, 5 at a PR agency)
        $61,100 base plus 10% annual bonus (can be more based on performance)

    2. Lead Copywriter & Content Manager*

      Similar situation, so adding to this thread.

      Job: lead content writer at a smallish nonprofit (70 FTE), overseeing email communications, digital/social, website, blogging, etc.
      Location: Philadelphia suburbs (live in the city, work in the burbs)
      Salary: $48,000
      Experience: 3 years

      Context: This is my first job. I started as an intern 3.5 years ago, then transitioned into a full-time position with a lower title for $35k. Have been lucky/persistent enough to get a raise in salary and title each year ($35k -> $40k -> $44k -> $48k). Last raise was in response to new overtime rules, but I have been promised it won’t be rescinded.

    3. Yet Another Communications Manager*

      I’m also at a nonprofit with similar duties to the user above me.

      Atlanta
      With my current org for three years, promoted from a different position. I’ve been working full-time in the communications field for seven years, and prior to that, I had internships and other part-time experience.
      $55,000
      Benefits are excellent: health, dental, vision; employer-matched 403(b) (nonprofit version of 401k); good vacation policies; flex scheduling; tuition assistance for degree-seeking staff; an emergency assistance fund for staff who fall into dire circumstances. Also, my bosses are very supportive of my professional development goals.

    4. Communications & Technology (non-profit)*

      I’m a department of one for a moderate sized church and school. I take care of all of our communication pieces (social media, websites, app, newsletters, etc.) I also work with the school board and volunteer groups on special events and development. Additionally, I do all of the A/V for our Sunday worship services, handle helpdesk type IT issues for staff, and help make decisions about the technology maintenance/improvement plan. Basically they took all the jobs that weren’t getting done and glommed them together to make one full time position.
      Geographic area: Midwest/Great Lakes
      Years of experience: 4 in current role, longer experience at various pieces
      Salary: $48,000
      Solid benefits including 8% retirement contribution (not matching, doesn’t vest until 5 year mark). Access to limited professional development funds (tuition assistance, conferences, etc.) Some flexibility/WFH as long as tasks are being completed on time plus reasonable vacation/PTO policies and holidays.

    5. Assistant Vice President, Marketing and Communications*

      Chicago
      Nine years of working experience
      $125,0000 (including bonus compensation)

      I lead global marketing and communications efforts for a financial services firm, including writing/editing copy, managing brand standards, writing proposals, running our website content, and building the firm’s profile globally.

      1. Vice President of Communications*

        NYC
        15 years (omg) experience
        $200,000 (including bonus, which varies each year, so this is an estimate)

        Decent benefits, solid vacation, unlimited sick days, excellent maternity leave.

        1. Potential Head of Global Marketing*

          VP Of Comms and Assistant VP of Marcomms,
          Would you be kind enough to offer me some insight? I’m in final stages of interviewing for a Head of Global Marketing position with a fintech firm and they are pushing me to quote my salary and performance bonus before the final meeting with the CEO. In my current job, I answer directly to the head of marketing so this would be my proverbial “key to the executive washroom” step up. I did my research on salaries in the region they want me to relocate to and found a 60k range! I’m struggling with this since they have not disclosed their salary structure or range for the position, any perquisites or benefits, etc. Also, I’ve never had to negotiate performance bonus since in my current and previous roles this was already outlined in tiers for non-executive roles.
          Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated. I’m happy to share relevant specifics (like number of subordinates managed, company size, annual budget at my full discretion) in private email.
          Many thanks in advance!

    6. Another Non-Profit Communications Manager*

      I’m the only communications staff at a small non-profit. I do everything.
      Toronto, Canada
      5 years, about 1.5 years here.
      $55,000 CAD. Benefits middling.
      A few months ago I insisted on a title change and small raise, after I covered many of my Director’s duties during a mat leave from which she didn’t return. They restructured so as not to replace her, “promoting” me and hiring another manger to cover the other half of her job.
      I have a Master’s degree.

    7. Employee Comms Manager*

      Internal communications for a branch of large global company. Weekly newsletter, (writing, design, and analytics) managing a video team of >5 people, creating social media strategy/content, refreshing design/written content on our external website, graphic design (web and print), designing internal comms campaigns.

      Area: NYC
      Experience: four years of freelance, one in a higher education comms department, and four in my current role.
      Pay: 63K plus up to 10% bonus
      Pay is great, even if the hours sometimes get crazy. Management has a tendency to request the unreasonable but no one is mean about it. The people being nice and generally professional is a plus. Benefits are less than stellar. Two weeks vacation and almost no tuition reimbursement. Fairly standard 401k and above average health benefits.

  38. Instructor*

    – Teach diploma / degree courses in business
    – Calgary, AB
    – 2 years’ experience + 17 years of business experience
    – CAD$92,016
    – MBA & PMP

  39. PM*

    Software Engineering Project Manager
    3 years experience in that role. 7 years as a software engineer beforehand.
    South West England
    £38,000

  40. Clinical Research Coordinator*

    I work with pharmaceutical drug data: collection, entry, reporting safety concerns, ensuring accurate documentation, mentor newer employees, and a bunch of other random stuff.
    Saint Louis, Missouri
    5.5 years
    $52,500 salary

    1. Clinical Research Associate*

      –med device drug data– collection, data entry, etc like above
      – Portsmouth, NH
      – 2 years experience
      – $42,000
      – I am underpaid for my region/role because I was promoted internally

  41. Development Director*

    Development Director of a one-person school fundraising office, school of ~400 students. Annual fund, event planning, alumni relations.
    Austin, TX
    7 years experience
    $60K

    1. Assistant Director for Development*

      Gift officer for a research area at a state university. Unlike most university gift officers, I oversee all fundraising efforts (major gifts, grant writing, annual fund), though I am able to work with our Central Development team.
      Austin, Tx
      10 years
      $65K
      (I took a pay cut to move to Texas, and took this job in particular for the state employee benefits like free health care, significant time off, comp time for salaried employees, and 6.5% contributed to my retirement account by the university.)

    2. (another) Director of Development*

      Director of Development for a medium-size nonprofit. Primary responsibilities include: capital campaign, program grants, social media management, and volunteer recruitment.
      Tulsa, Oklahoma
      9 years of fundraising experience
      $65,000

    3. Development Director*

      Development Director for a 5 person nonprofit, I am a team of 1. Building development plan from scratch, major donor relations, annual fund, event planning, grant writing, corporate outreach.
      Boston, MA
      5 years experience
      $63K – I took a paycut from $67,500 when I was working as the Development Manager for an extremely dysfunctional organization. I also do not receive healthcare or any retirement benefits with this job, but my old job was causing an extreme amount of mental distress and I am very passionate about this cause.

    4. Development Sr Associate Director*

      *Central donation processing for large private University (online, credit card, mailed donations, pledges) for all areas of this higher education institution (ugrad, grad, law, medical, veterinary, dental, museums, etc.)
      *Philadelphia, PA
      *20+ years of Accounts Receivable experience (revenue lifecycle, all payment type processing, system implementation, process improvement/re-engineering)
      *$75,000.00
      *403b match, transit discount, tuition benefit (at this institution and 40% of this institution’s tuition & fees at other colleges for dependents); extensive time off

      1. Assistant Director (Development)*

        Manage a team within a larger development department in a large/mid-size nonprofit.
        Northeast
        20 years experience
        $95K, reasonable benefits

    5. Associate Director of Development*

      I oversee direct marketing, donor services, communications and public relations for the local office of a very large non-profit organization.
      Large City in Texas
      10 years of experience, 5 directly related to fundraising
      $75,000

  42. Public Accounting Clerk*

    Job: Bookkeeping for clients, preparing financial statements, answering client inquiries, administrative duties
    Area: Northern Ontario, Canada
    Experience: 2 years
    Salary: $36,920

    2. Executive Director*

      Small, region nonprofit
      $60,000 plus up to 10% performance bonus
      $300/monthly stipend for health care
      4 weeks vacation

      1. Nonprofit Exec Director*

        Small, new nonprofit (though affiliate of large national org). Super rural midwest.

        $40,000 per month. No benefits. 3 weeks of vacation, and I had to fight for that.

        I supervise 2 part time staff and 2 interns.

        I have 2 master’s degrees (MSW + MDiv) and 1 year of relevant experience.

        1. Anna*

          Wait, is this a typo? $40,000 PER MONTH? If you work a year, that adds up to almost half a million dollars. And living in the rural midwest, I imagine you have a super low COL. Go you!

  44. Marketing Consultant*

    I work in corporate marketing/communications. My job until recently was creating materials for our sales executives.

    Midwest, 10 years of experiences, $69,000/annually with no bonuses or additional compensation – have been working for corporations for the last several years and made a lot more money than when I worked at a non-profit and on the agency side, where I started my career

    1. Marketing Consultant*

      Also, good employer match on the 401K (6%) and I work from home full-time, only going into the office once a month or so

  45. Marketing Associate*

    I handle all administrative and marketing tasks for a recruiting firm including website management, database organization and management, social media management, content creation, metrics tracking, resume writing, some light recruiting work (candidate sourcing, internet research etc), and office management/operational tasks like answering phones, ordering office supplies, etc.

    I work in southern Maine.

    Been in this position 1 year, with a total of 7 years professional work experience.

    My base salary is $40,ooo annually (salaried) with a profit sharing option that in 2016 amounted to an additional $7k in income.

    1. Another Marketing Associate*

      I update forms and applications, create brochures and fliers, help write and copyedit materials, proof direct mailings before they go out, create and deploy emails. This is for a small TPA Insurance company.

      NYC Metro area

      1 year here full time, before that freelanced and had P/T jobs in marketing for about 4 years. (Also took some time off when I had kids, and switched careers from one I had been at for about 10 years) Have BA and Masters degree in a related field.

      Salary: $43 k. Benefits: 3 weeks PTO, Safe Harbor 401k contribution after 1 year. No medical insurance, or bonus.

  46. Marketing manager*

    I work with engineers (both mechanical and software) in R&D to define the customer benefits of new products. I create the marketing message, write marketing materials to send to marketing communications for use in customer brochures, write the internal release notes for the software, write copy for the company website, and produce videos highlighting new products and their benefits. I have developed many new methods of reaching the internal audience of the company to inform them about new products, including various marketing pieces, a regular newsletter, and announcements for the company internal TV.

    In addition, I set up and maintain the R&D sharepoint site, developing a managed metadata structure and a product taxonomy that makes it faster and easier to find information, I have improved access to current technical documentation (by using the managed metadata and image maps of the product taxonomy), and I do market research.

    I live in Milwaukee.

    I have over 20 years of corporate work experience. I have an MBA from a top-20 school.

    I make $89K a year and am not on bonus. In my former job, I made $101K with 20% bonus in state where there was no state income tax. (Wisconsin’s is about 6%.) I was laid off from that job in 2005 and did not go back to work until 2012, when I found a job at $51K, which is less than I made in 1988, even though the new job required the MBA and the experience I had gotten since 1988. It’s kind of depressing.

    1. Contracts Analyst*

      Hi there (waves)
      I was making $160k doing contract negotiations in oil and gas until mid-2016… and I am now making $70k doing the same job in healthcare. I feel your pain!

    2. Marketing Manager too*

      Job: Strategic Marketing – developing marketing plans and strategy, market research, tradeshows, marketing campaigns, etc.
      Area: Philly Suburbs
      Experience: 9 years
      Salary: $80,000/ year – 22 days PTO

      1. Product Marketing Manager*

        Job: Product Marketing Manager B to B Enterprise Software
        Area- Los Angeles
        Experience: 15 Years
        Salary: $130,000, 3 Weeks vacay (that I can never actually take), 8 Holidays, 8 Sick days, Good insurance, 401K
        Education: 4 Years University, no degree

        1. Director of Inbound Marketing*

          Job: Inbound marketing for a 15-person digital marketing agency – I manage a small team of 2. My team is responsible for all inbound marketing/marketing automation projects and initiatives for our clients, and I am personally also responsible for leading the team responsible for our agency’s marketing efforts.
          Area: Cleveland, Ohio
          Experience: 9 years (holy sh*t I’m old)
          Salary: $75,000/annually + small bonuses, depending on our profitability. Great benefits with flex time and the ability to work from home often (just had a kid and have another on the way, so this is a huge perk for me). I accrue 13 hours of PTO per month.

          I was previously a Senior Account Executive prior to this promotion, for 2.5 years or so, making a little more than $60K. That role put me as the primary liaison between clients and the agency.

          1. Director of Marketing*

            At a ski and golf resort in the Midwest
            6 yrs direct experience in marketing and communication
            $65k base annual salary with $13k annual bonus based on goals being met
            Decent PTO policy and benefits

            Best part of the job is marketing fun things – people having a great time on vacation.

  47. Project Manager*

    –> Project Manager in Telecom
    –> Focus on Supply Chain & Systems Automation
    –> Colorado
    –> 15 years experience (broad base, jack-of-all-trades re finance, accounting, IT/systems, Sales, Operations, Telecom, Network, etc. focus in Supply Chain)
    –> Been in this job 4 years
    –> $101K/year plus pretty great benefits.

    2. Project Manager*

      PM in IT
      10 years of experience (all PM, was a developer for 3 years prior to that)
      $97,000 +10% bonus
      Minneapolis

  48. Bank Secrecy Act Manager*

    Job: Bank Secrecy Act Manager
    Geographic Area: Northeast–CT
    Experience: 17 years of banking experience
    Salary: $86,000

    Started as a teller and worked my way up to head of Operations over 14 years, all at one bank. At that bank I did compliance, IT, network administration, deposit operations, was BSA Officer and Information Security Officer, even did some loan operations (against my will) and helped with some accounting tasks. Was a risk manager at the next place (hated it!) and now I’m a BSA manager. I have 5 direct reports in the BSA department and I report to the BSA officer. I count all my years in banking as experience for this job, because BSA starts at the teller line.

    1. Bank Secrecy Act Manager*

      Forgot to say I’ve been at the current company for two years and started as the BSA manager.

    2. Bank Secrecy Act Manager*

      Apparently I can’t follow directions today. I should have added that my job entails, in a nutshell, looking for bad people and people doing shady things: money launderers, terrorists, human traffickers, tax evaders, people trying to avoid reporting of certain cash transactions to the government, stuff like that. I manage the department. I’m doing a lot of the stuff my direct reports do, but I’m also doing the bigger picture-type stuff, like making policy/procedure changes, assessing the bank’s risk for money laundering, and dealing with the auditors and bank examiners.

    3. Names Are Hard*

      BSA Officer and Deposit Compliance
      Geographic Area: Greater Washington DC
      Experience: 5 years of Banking
      Salary: 85,000

      Started in human resources, moved to accounting, and worked my way over to Compliance/BSA. Help with Audits, make sure that banks are following the rules, and look for the bad guys.

    4. Risk Analyst*

      Replying here since my job responsibilities are basically the same as Bank Secrecy Act Manager in addition to fraud prevention and detection. I am the most tenured employee of 3 doing the same job under a manager and at a credit union approximating $1 billion in assets.
      Geographic Area: Denver
      Experience: 1 year in current role, 2 years as Assistant Risk Analyst, and 1.5 years before that as a Teller. I majored in English as an undergrad and am just now going back to school for a MS in Financial Crime.
      Salary: $52,000.00 plus 401k matching.

  49. HR Generalist*

    HR Generalist @ not-for profit, approx. 250 employees
    Central Massachusetts
    11 years of experience
    $50,000 annually

    Extra info: Decent benefits package, excellent time off benefits

    1. (also) HR Generalist*

      HR Generalist – private sector, professional services firm
      Responsibile for recruiting, compliance, training and compensation
      Metro SE US
      10 years experience
      $80,000 annually

      1. HR Generalist/Partner*

        HR Generalist/Partner – private sector, US sales division, $2B international company
        Performance, benefits, partnership for sales/marketing departments
        Metro Midwest US
        11 years experience (SPHR, SHRM-SCP, pursuing CEBS)
        $81k annually + 10-30% bonus potential
        3 wks. PTO, 10 holidays, cell phone, 4% 401(k) match, free onsite clinic/fitness center
        10% travel

    2. HR Director*

      Public corporation
      Southeast US
      20+ years experience
      $190,000 annually plus ~30% bonus and ~30% stock

    3. Sr HR Manager/Generalist*

      Sr HR Generalist/Partner
      Software industry, Corporate Office
      North Texas
      7 years experience, Master Degree and PHR
      $128,000 annually

    4. HR Manager/Generalist*

      HR Manager (“Seat-at-the-table” level)
      Public agency
      Central California
      25+ years experience
      $97,000 annually

      1. HR Manager*

        HR Manager. (1 person HR dept), small (about 60 people) public/governmental agency. Texas. Currently make $67,000 but will be making $90,000 as a result of a recent in-depth compensation/salary study.

    5. HR Generalist*

      HR Generalist, 60 person company. Benefits/payroll administration, performance management. No recruiting or training/development.
      Upper midwest
      8 years experience (B.S. in an unrelated field, no professional certs)
      $64,000

    6. (another) Sr HR Generalist*

      Work for a global corporation with $40+B revenue in multiple industries
      Responsible for strategic business partnering, employee relations, staffing, compensation, OD, etc.
      currently in UK, previously in US (southwest, midwest, east coast)
      5 years experience (no certifications, but MBA in human resource management)
      UK Salary: 57,000 pounds sterling (no bonus)
      US Salary: $85,000 (No bonus)
      Other info: 15-20% travel in UK, 5% travel in US. In other companies, my role would probably be titled HR Business Partner or HR Manager

    7. Sr HR Business Partner*

      Sr HR Business Partner – City Government
      Denver,COish
      10 years experience, Bachelors degree, SHRM-CP & PHR Certification
      $67,500 annually

      Good time off and retirement plan. Medical benefits are pretty meh.

      1. Employee Relations Specialist*

        Employee Relations Specialist
        Large Non-profit
        Phoenix, Arizona
        $65,000
        7 years HR experience, bachelors degree in psych

    10. Human Resources Specialist Gov't*

      HR Specialist (lateral movement to big government from Snr. HR Generalist/HR Manager roles)
      Washington, D.C.
      Four years of experience (plus MS in HR and two years of intern/volunteer/full-time temp work. Yet to pick a side in PHR vs SHRM-CP)
      $82,000/year (DC-based federal cost of living/locality adjustment)
      Benefits and Perks: Extra PTO and cash for required travel. No bonus; or maybe? Poor communication. Public transit costs of up to $255/month are covered. Five percent retirement match with vesting and additional mandatory retirement contribution for separate account; 80% of health insurance is covered; in addition to federal holidays, PTO is 3-4 weeks annually. Teleworking and flex schedules are encouraged.

      *Special thanks to all of the HR Directors and Execs for sharing

    11. Human Resource Analyst*

      Main HR contact for office of about 60 people. Basically an HR-generalist role; heavy recruiting/scheduling (all onsites, interviews)/interviewing, manage immigration process for visa sponsorships/applications, manage on-boarding process, maintain employee files, print and ensure counter-execution of employee contracts, develop and run training sessions as needed, work with exec management to handle terminations and employee issues, run background checks, enroll new hires in ADP, answer employee benefits questions, and assist with international relocations.

      Hired originally to assist mainly with recruiting and minor HR-tasks, after a few months was asked to take over majority of HR duties from Director of Biz Dev/Recruiting. Besides him, I am the only HR person.

      Only 10 months of experience; worked in an admin capacity for a hedge fund for 10 months previously (hated it). 2015 college grad with BA in Literature.

      Salary: 55k with bonus TBD, up to 20k but likely less as I haven’t been here the full year.

      Area: Manhattan, NYC – tech-focused hedge fund

    12. HR Lady*

      HR Manager for a private global company
      Melbourne, Australia
      9 yrs experience
      90,000 AUD annually, 5% bonus potential, cell phone

      Before Australia I was in NYC as an HR Advisor making 45,000 USD at a major investment bank.

  50. Development and Database Coordinator*

    –I am an entry-level development person at a small nonprofit; I process gifts and acknowledgements, execute mailings, and support events, plus do email marketing and communications.
    –Boston
    –1 year previous post-college experience but in a different field; I am 5 months into this job.
    –I make $16/hr with guaranteed at least 40 hours a week and get overtime for anything beyond that. So at least $33,280, but in practice closer to $35,000.
    –I have been promised a raise in March but am not sure how much yet–would love advice on how much to try for! (Is $20 too much to ask for?)

  51. Art Collection Registrar*

    Job: I am in charge of collection management and maintenance and logistics (I make the trains run on time!) for a large corporate art collection
    Geographic area: Northeast US
    Years of experience: Almost 20, and a Master’s Degree
    Salary: $69,000 – very few complaints here (although obviously more is always better). Since I work for a corporation and not a museum, I am better paid than most people in my field, and with much better benefits.

      1. Art Collection Registrar*

        Art galleries, auction houses, and small museums! I definitely prefer a museum environment.

  52. Program Associate*

    Job: I am a junior staffer on a leadership development program. My boss, and two other more senior people, facilitate the actual program. I’m responsible, on paper, for recruitment, communications, and alumni support. Not in my job description, but nevertheless expected of me, is alumni fundraising and most of our grant writing and reporting.

    Geographic Area: Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA

    Years of Experience: 13 years in nonprofit program management/post-graduate school.

    Salary: $53,000

    An important note: My and salary are not the norm for my level of experience, so don’t be scared off. My organization pays fairly. I intentionally took a step back after having much higher-level roles, because I wanted work that was less time-demanding and stressful. My last role was was at a director level at a different organization, making $78,000/year.

  53. Software Engineer*

    (mid-to-senior, big tech company. I have reason to think my base salary is on the high side for my company and experience.)
    your job: Writing backend software
    your geographic area: Denver
    your years of experience: 8 years
    your salary: $130,000 plus bonus plus equity = ~$180,000

    1. Software Engineering Manager*

      That might be a little on the high side, but not grossly out of line. I live in a metro that costs about 87% of yours, and my base was $117,000 when I left dev for management.

      1. Software Engineer*

        My particular company has low base salaries and makes up for them via equity grants. I think it all comes out in the wash, as I suspect my equity grants and raise schedule are on the lower end :P

    2. Software UI Engineer*

      (mid)
      your job: front-end web development / web application development
      your geographic area: Austin
      your years of experience: 10 total, 2 in my current role
      your salary: $110,000 + bonuses == $130,000

    3. Software Engineer*

      Your Job: Full-stack leaning towards backend, main programming languages are C#, jQuery, SQL, minor knowledge of AngularJS. In my time at this company I’ve worked on front-end page reskins and major feature developments, including doing the technical design work. I wouldn’t say I’m an expert in any particular area of code, but I’m a very solid engineer who can be trusted to do quality work on a wide variety of projects. I’m one of the more senior engineers (in terms of having worked here longest) at this company, so I have a wide base of knowledge of the our specific systems as well.
      Area: Bay Area
      Years Experience: 6
      Salary: 120k
      Other: Good health/dental/vision insurance, I think they do some sort of 401k matching but it isn’t much. We technically have unlimited vacation days, but since the previous policy was three weeks, that’s what I try to stick to. Flexibility in terms of work hours and work-from-home.

    4. Software Engineer*

      Junior Javascript app programmer
      Boulder, CO
      5 years (2 at current company)
      $80,000 plus bonuses; was $70,000 when I started

      I am trying for a promotion this year to a mid level and hoping to leave junior status behind.

    5. Software engineer*

      Software engineer, small company, Washington DC, govt contractor. $80,000. No bonus or equity. C/C++.
      8 years experience. Female.

    6. Software Engineer*

      Job: Software Engineer
      Area: Silicon Valley
      Experience: 10 years
      Salary: $140,000 plus stock and bonuses worth an extra $50k at least per year.

    7. Software engineer*

      Your job: Frontend developer at a multinational tech company
      Your geographic area: Colorado
      Your years of experience: 8 years, 2.5 years at this company
      Your salary: ~$110,000 (~$215,000 after bonus and equity)

      Good medical/dental/vision/life insurance, 401k matching, vacation, unlimited sick time, etc.

    8. Software Engineer*

      Senior Level for a consulting co.

      Job: Full Stack Developer and tech lead on a variety of projects and technologies
      Geographic Area: San Francisco
      Years of Experience: 20+
      Salary: $155K

    9. Jr. Software Engineer*

      Job: Jr. Software Engineer at a web-dev consulting firm. People hire us to do web consulting work and build their websites/webapps for them. All Javascript work, with some CSS/UI. Primarily using React. I lean towards the front-end, but other people with my title lean towards the back-end.

      Geographic area: Seattle

      Years of Experience: Just over 1

      Salary: $90k

      Notes: I also get free, ‘platinum’ health insurance, 25 days PTO/holiday, unlimited sick time, and unlimited WFH/flex schedule. I really lucked out. Would probably make more at Amazon/Microsoft but not a better combined compensation package and not as good of a company culture.

  55. Environmental Scientist*

    ◾Private contractor providing subject matter expertise and technical support to DoD installations, specializing in National Environmental Policy Act issues and general environmental regulatory compliance. Currently writing Environmental Assessments.
    ◾Colorado front range
    ◾8
    ◾$72,000
    ◾Hold MS degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; got a late start due to abortive PhD attempt that I abandoned after 5 years.

    1. Environmental Scientist*

      That’s probably a little low for my experience/education level and responsibilities, but my employer is fantastic and I live where I want, sooooo….

  56. HRIS Administrator*

    Role: Update, configure, and helpdesk for our Human Resources Information System
    Location: Boston, MA
    2 years experience in role (4 in payroll previously)
    $62,000 per year
    B.A from liberal arts college

  57. Human Resources Specialist*

    Chicago, IL
    4 years experience
    $45,000
    Responsibility includes payroll – benefits – employee relations – contracts

    1. HR Specialist*

      Upstate NY area (2+ hrs from NYC)
      6 years of experience plus MBA
      $40,000
      Responsible for recruitment & benefits
      Mid-sized non-profit w/excellent benefits (fully paid health insurance), time off, 401K w/match and super flexible – was recently exempt, switched to non-exempt

  58. Instructor*

    I teach a nine-course load. And I should note benefits are amazing. 43 days’ vacation, generous sick leave policies, institution closed between Christmas and New Year’s.

  59. Business Transient Coordinator*

    job: admin to group sales / revenue; tasks vary between admin-type (data entry, client gift handling) to reservation and booking tasks
    area: large city in the SE US
    years: 7 in industry; 2 as admin
    salary: $31k ($15/hr)
    notes: hospitality industry, large hotel

  60. Senior Administrative Assistant*

    $45K

    4 years experience out of college, DC Metro area, non-exempt position, large nonprofit
    Scheduling, low-level coordination, event planning, accounting coding and data entry.
    It’s a good salary for 35 hours/week, but does not allow for any kind of upward growth internally, or opportunities to develop skills that would prepare one for other positions.

  61. Senior Editor*

    I run a news department for the flagship publication of a non-profit scholarly society.
    Washington, DC area
    10 years experience (7 as head of my department)
    $99K
    I have a PhD in my subject area of expertise (not in writing/editing, but in the field that I write about)

    1. Senior Editor*

      Plus employer contributions to my retirement account in the amount of 10% of my salary (regardless of what I contribute myself).

  62. Grant Writer*

    Currently I work as a Grant Writer in a mid-size global conservation nonprofit based in Washington DC. I have been in the position two years and have a combined total nine years experience in grantwriting and institutional fundraising.

    The position salary is $53,000. Honestly, the job itself is somewhat underpaid and my experience level is definitely underpaid. I accepted it quite gratefully two years ago when I needed to escape a bad work situation but they advertised for four years of experience.

  63. Technical Program Manager*

    Technical program manager, sort of a cross between a project manager and a product manager for a small product team within a larger organization.
    2 years experience as PM, 7 years work experience total
    Boston
    $67,000/year

    1. Technical Program Manager*

      I should also mention, I have a master’s degree in an unrelated field (an MFA, actually) and my company has excellent health care benefits and a generous vacation policy.

      1. Christian Troy*

        How did you get into this other field with an unrelated degree? Always curious to hear from people who have been successful at changing fields.

        1. Technical Program Manager*

          Total happenstance. I was working at another company in more of an admin role, and they promoted me to Product Manager because I had been taking on more and more of a technical role, then I moved laterally into my current job after about a year.

  64. Dana*

    I have a seasonal job so I’ll post both my on and off-season jobs. I’m located in Montreal.

    My ‘real’ job: Bicycle Mechanic
    Years experience: 5 years + technical certificate
    Wage: $15/hr

    Winter job: bicycle food courier
    Years experience: 2
    Commission: $4/delivery + $1/km travelled (calculated according to taxi grid).

    Other winter job: Warehouse picker
    Years experience: less than 1
    Wage: $11/hr

    1. Dana*

      When I work year-round I generally make about $22,000/ year depending on what I do during the winter, but for the last couple of years I’ve taken significant time off to travel during the summer so I’ve made less than $10,000 for three years in a row, and this year I’ll make about $8,000 before leaving to hike the CDT

    2. Also a Bicycle Mechanic*

      I work year-round in the Pacific Northwest.
      Years of experience: 14
      Yearly income: $25,000

  65. Psychologist (Clinical, Private Practice)*

    Job: Therapy with children, teens, adults, and families. Average 25-30 client hours per week. Primarily reimbursed from insurance (as opposed to clients who pay cash out of pocket which is typically more lucrative than insurance reimbursement)
    Southeast Michigan
    2 1/2 years in private practice, three years out of post doc fellowship
    Gross Income: 95k/year. Expenses are about 20% (not including taxes and retirement funding)

  66. Associate Art Director*

    Manage a team of 3 graphic designers
    Philadelphia area
    10 years experience
    $84,000 + 4-8% annual bonus

  67. Internal Auditor*

    Internal auditor – experienced lead, health insurance industry. Not management, not management track (by choice)
    Chicago IL
    6 years external audit, 3 years internal audit
    $76k USD

    1. Internal Audit Manager*

      job: Head of small dept
      geographic area: New England, not Boston
      years of experience: 15+
      salary: $95K + bonus, average benefits
      anything else pertinent to put that number in context: CPA

    2. Audit Project Manager*

      Audit project manager – third party consultant. Commercial real estate. 10 yr experience. Remote employee but company based in WA. $90k + 10% bonus (not every year as it is based on company performance). Great health et al. 4 weeks paid time off. Significant flexibility due to remote status.

  68. Sales & Marketing Support*

    Job: Sales generalist, responsibilities include managing reports, data analysis, tracking budgets for marketing programs, etc.
    Geographic area: Boston suburbs
    Years of experience: 15 years, 9 with current company
    Salary: $83k + bonus for achieving quota

    1. Director of Public Relations*

      Job: I’m responsible for all aspects of public relations and marketing at a small religious non-profit organization, including writing and graphic design of print newsletters and brochures, website content, social media, radio spots, press releases…you name it. Because of my writing skills, I also am responsible for all of our grant writing. I currently manage 2 part-time assistants.
      Geographic area: Detroit suburbs
      Years of experience: 15, 12 with this organization
      Salary: $47K
      The salary is low, but the organization is great to work for. I can work from home (days of my choosing), or if the kids get a snow day, I can bring them into the office with me. Health insurance is also excellent. Our organization has expanded a lot over the past decade, and it’s been exciting to be a part of that growth.

  69. Laboratory Manager*

    job – manager of analytical chemistry lab that processes both regulated samples and samples with legal implications
    geographic area – SF Bay Area
    years of experience – field 20+y / position 1y
    salary – $100K (plus generous employer-funded benefits)

      1. Laboratory Manager*

        Yes. I have a BS in Chemistry and an MS in a specialized, related field though the latter wasn’t a requirement at my place of employment.

    2. Laboratory Manager II*

      Job: I manage a biomedical research lab at a nonprofit.
      Location: Seattle, WA
      Years of experience: field 17, position 3
      Salary: $64K with a negotiated flexible schedule and several employee benefits that I have not found at other places.

  70. Performance Analyst*

    Job: Performance Analyst, which is a glorified Sales Admin with a focus on data processing, quality assurance, and managing the dispersement and upkeep of sales training materials
    Location: Metro Detroit
    Years of experience: 10 years
    Salary: $18.13/hour

    1. Performance Analyst*

      I should say – 10 years of general admin experience, 6 years of sales admin experience, and 7 months in this particular job. I feel I am severely underpaid for my experience. I also have a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Arts Admin, yet have never worked in it.

  71. Editor*

    Book editor, science and medicine.
    Central Europe.
    15 years.
    Around EUR 100K tax-free depending on exchange rate (I’m paid in a different currency to the country in which I live).
    Graduate degree; fluent in several languages; very specialized field. (This salary is a complete anomaly and I will never earn this much again, so I’m saving like crazy.)

  72. Healthcare Recruiter*

    Job: In-house recruiting for a for-profit healthcare company. Recruiting for clinical positions.
    Area: Atlanta metro area
    Experience: 4 years + relevant master’s
    Salary: $70,000 base; bonus up to 20%
    Context: Bonus is largely theoretical. Benefits package is weak, so salaries are higher.

  73. Database Administrator*

    Oracle and MySQL DBA. Certified on multiple versions, including current.
    Germany.
    10 years experience.
    Euro 63 000 / USD 67 000.
    Public sector = a bit underpaid, but excellent working conditions and benefits.

  74. Director of Marketing & Communications*

    Director of Marketing & Communications for a private high school
    Seattle, WA
    14 years
    $85,000

    Great work/life balance (6 weeks vacation, lots of holidays, done everyday by 4pm, etc.) and I love what I do! I oversee our website, social media accounts, publications, marketing collateral and develop strategy to increase enrollment.

    1. Director of Marketing & Communications*

      (14 total years of related experience but I have only been in this role at this employer for a few months)

  75. Administrative Specialist I*

    – I’m the assistant to an associate dean. I organize meetings, handle scholarship competitions, college wide elections, answer questions regarding policy, and act as a back-up for most of my office. I also help with data projects involving collecting information regarding admissions, scholarships given, etc.
    – Northeast GA
    – 3 years (1.5 years in this position)
    – $35,700
    -I have a BSA and an MS, which is why I work with our data projects.

  76. Project Manager (Software Development) | GS-13, Step 3*

    ◾Software Development Project Manager for the US federal govt (series 2210)
    ◾New Orleans, LA (doesn’t actually matter
    ◾5-10 years experience
    ◾$91,537
    ◾GS-13, step 3 (<– This is what influences my salary. Base pay ($79556) plus "Rest of US" locality pay = $91537 )

    – https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2017/general-schedule/
    — https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/17Tables/html/GS.aspx
    — https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/17Tables/html/RUS.aspx

  77. QA Engineer / software tester*

    Job: QA engineer / software tester / build automation testing suites at a tech startup

    Location: Portland, OR (resident for 10 years; every job I’ve gotten was through social connections)

    Experience: 5 years testing; held many support jobs before this, and made the mistake of going to a non-tech grad program

    Salary: $70,000/yr. (Student loan debt: $116,000)

    Salary context: stock options, which are usually worthless. Two weeks of PTO which is supposed to cover sick time
    and vacation. They let us have the week off between Christmas and New Year’s this year, finally – so I could save PTO!

    1. Software Test Engineer (QA)*

      > stock options, which are usually worthless

      Thank you! Former coworkers have been encouraging me to jump to the new start ups cropping up since I’m young and could be risky, but stock options in lieu of competitive salary as a concept annoys me greatly.

      > made the mistake of going to a non-tech grad program

      May I ask what program? My education is still within “STEM”, but it’s not in software engineering.

      1. SueEllenCrandell*

        I find myself constantly reminding friends and younger folks I mentor that stock options don’t pay your rent – equity is nothing until it’s something. Always negotiate for a REAL, livable salary, not options in lieu of one. Those “Facebook paid him in options and he became a millionaire” are not the rule, they are the exception – and I’m saying this as someone who was fortunate enough to be part of the early core team at 2 startups that were acquired. So sure, I had generous equity that ended up amounting to something I would have not amassed otherwise on my own, but no way were these equity grants given *instead* of an actual salary. It’s also worth keeping in mind that most startups will put you on a vesting cliff schedule (makes sense from employer’s POV to keep you there and engaged, as well as prevent issues later on if you leave) and will eventually dillute whatever you’d been given when additional rounds of funding happen.

        1. Stone Satellite*

          Do not count on equity or bonus to pay your bills!
          I started off at a large company that granted equity. When I got my first equity grant, my manager seemed to think I would be totally stoked about it … but honestly, a few years’ worth of vested stock from that company is worth so little that I can’t even be bothered to call the broker and figure out how to sell (how is there no SELL button on the damn website?!?). And the bonuses and raises were of the “You should be grateful you’re still employed” sort. So thank goodness I got a livable base salary, because the rest of my compensation there was never worth much.
          And side note about vesting: Even very large, well-respected companies put vesting schedules on equity, it’s not just startups. It’s basically a retention + prospective performance bonus; if you stay for several years and the company performs well during that time, it can (but is not guaranteed to) add up to a lot of extra money.

  78. Librarian*

    Librarian I/Adult Services Librarian at a mid-sized public library
    Central NY
    3.5 years of experience
    $41000

  79. Prospect Researcher*

    One of two researchers at a small nonprofit (<50 employees), with no one below me.
    Large city in rust belt
    3.5 years as a Prospect Researcher, previous experience (5+ years) as a Librarian
    $52,000
    Additional degree (MLIS)

  80. Academic Librarian*

    I do project management and assessment at a public research institution
    New England
    8 years
    $72,000
    Other info: Librarians are unionized and in the faculty union.

  81. Document Review Attorney*

    Job: I review documents for large/complex litigation.
    Geographic area: Twin Cities, MN
    Years of experience: 2
    Salary: $22/hour

        1. Doc Review no JD (yet!)*

          Actually I do doc review and I’m not an attorney and don’t have a JD. I was combing through this thread looking to see if there were any doc reviewers!

          Most are attorneys though, and it’s a common job for attorneys just out of law school. But at our firm we are supervised by attorneys and we go to them for any true legal issues. I mostly check for clerical errors and accuracy. I have a B.A.

          Salary is 27K, no benefits currently
          1 year of experience

  82. Content Producer*

    Job: Write, edit, and produce any copy necessary (emails, publications, web copy, etc.) and manage social media for a non-profit organization.
    Location: Washington, D.C.
    Four years of experience, less than one at current job.
    51K, started at 48K, plus excellent benefits and an annual bonus.
    From what I can tell, pay here tends to be slightly above industry average, as do annual raises.

  83. Product Manager*

    Product Manager at an independent software company
    Michigan
    Less than 1 year in this roll, 9 years with the company
    $60,000

    1. Product manager*

      Product manager at b2c internet/software co, with three dev teams, reports to sr director
      Female
      Utah
      1-3 years experience in similar roles
      $72k plus unlimited pto, 401k match up to 3%, annual bonus based on company performance (5-10% is common).

  84. Digital Marketing Program Manager - Global*

    Develop strategy and manage all externally facing digital properties including social media, email automation, landing page builds, lead generation digital support, tracking implementation, interactive marketing, webinars, etc. No direct reports in this position, but have had up to 10 direct reports in previous positions.

    Southwest U.S.
    9 years of experience
    $81,000 + avg. bonus of $8,000 annually = $89,000 a year.
    I also get $5,000 in tuition reimbursement and 4% 401K match.

  85. Office Administrator*

    Bookkeeping, payroll, benefits administration, assisting designers, general office administration.
    Vancouver, BC
    20+ years experience
    $60,000.00 CAD
    3 weeks vacation, good benefits, awesome boss.

    1. Administrative Coordinator*

      Office Administrator + Legal Support + Paralegal Support + Event Coordination. Basically anything to help my satellite office run. I call in the main office when I’m overworked or overwhelmed and they call on me when they feel the same.
      City in the Midwest
      5-7ish. Worked 2 years marketing, 3 years in admin roles, now 2 years in this position and I have a paralegal certificate as well as a 4-year degree
      $50,000
      I work 37.5 hours/week, have 18 (soon to be 23 next year) days PTO, 2 hours of flexible scheduling a week, subsidized gym membership, and have a good retirements package.

  87. Senior Tax Associate*

    CPA at a local public accounting firm
    Mid-sized city in Virginia
    3 years experience
    $66,500 + 6-7% annual bonus
    Decent benefits including 401k and HSA contributions, reduced hours in the summer (to make up for the crazy hours during tax season), casual dress code for days with no client meetings

  88. Chief Operating Officer*

    job: Chief Operating Officer for medical start up company
    area: mid sized city in midwest
    years: 20 years in healthcare administration
    salary: $50k
    notes: took low salary in exchange for equity in company. Preparing for IPO in 18 -24 months. Previous salary more than double

  89. Development Manager*

    Development Manager – manage renewal process for 20,000 members, manage pledge drive(s), manage donor portfolio.
    Chicago
    5 Years Experience
    48,000
    Took a pay cut to come work for my current employer with great benefits, fantastic work culture and a cause which I feel connected to.

  90. Project Manager*

    Job – medium complexity projects at a large corporation (budgets usually in the low millions)
    Location: Minneapolis-St. Paul
    Experience: Less than 5 years
    Salary: $70,000
    Other data: Bachelor’s Degree only. I do not have my PMP (major industry certification). Master’s not usually important for my field.

    1. Project Manager (OP)*

      I should add that I have 10 years experience with the company I’m in. This can hurt or help, depending on if you get stuck in a salary range.

    1. Aspiring Editor*

      I would love to talk to you! I’m in Chicago and I just graduated from college in 2016, and I’m trying to find an Editorial Assistant-type job. Maybe we can talk on this week’s Friday open thread? I’m always looking for advice on publishing in Chicago!

      1. Editorial Director*

        For Chicago, look into PI Kids (Phoenix International, formerly Publications International) and the adult division of Publications International. Great companies.

      2. Sales/Marketing (book publishing)*

        Sourcebooks is outside Chicago – they do a wide variety of good books.

  92. Medical Coder / Coding Team Lead*

    My job: I am a team lead for a team of ~20 medical coders at a large academic health organization. I do training and education, quality checks, work assignments and general team direction, for both our internal team and also any vendor coders we have, but have no direct HR responsibilities (our manager does those). The team is fully remote, including all management staff, so I also take point on team communications and team building activities (always optional ;) ).
    My geographic area: Central Indiana
    My years of experience: 12 in the industry, 3 at my organization, 1 in my current role. (Today is my 1 year anniversary, actually!)
    My salary: I am salaried at just a shade under $71,000 per year, listed at $34.11/hour on a 40 hour workweek.

    Anything else:
    My department offers salaried staff the option of a supplemental role on a different team, limited to 30% of their regularly scheduled hours (so 24 hours per 2-week pay period for me) and paid at their last hourly rate before moving into a salaried position. So I also work as a coder, 24 hours every two weeks, at $24.40 per hour straight time in addition to my regular salary. Both positions are raise-eligible when our performance-based-pay increases happen in the spring, and I think the range on that this year is 3 to 4.5%? But I’m not positive.

    1. Mini-scholar*

      I’m about to graduate from my program in March and obtain a RHIT myself. I’m hoping to get into coding. What sort of salary/pay is expected for entry level if you don’t mind my asking?

      1. Medical Coder / Coding Team Lead*

        I believe our entry level coding staff start at the $16/hour mark? I know people who have been with us for 2-3 years are making in the range of $36k/year, which is $17 and change per hour, but all our new team members since I started a year ago have been internal transfers from elsewhere in the hospital, not completely new entry level hires.

        I first hired in at $23/hour, roughly, but I had been certified for seven years at that point.

  93. Associate Director, IT*

    I work for central IT at a research University, working on internal IT processes (making sure we don’t lose requests, can prioritize working on the right things, etc) and am responsible for the tool where these processes live. I have one direct report.
    Midwestern city
    3 years in current role, 8 in IT in general
    $85,000 salary

  94. Sr. Human Resources Representative*

    HR Generalist, business partner level with a couple of direct reports but not a manager/director. Manage recruitment, org strategy, and advisement on laws, rules, regs, and org policy across a variety of programs within organization. Train new HR staff on all things they’ll need to know to take my job. ;)

    Geographic area: Northeast – small city
    10 years HR experience
    $78K

    1. Senior Human Resources Specialist*

      I have a very similar role.

      Geographic Area: Ottawa, Canada
      10 years experience
      $80k (Canadian)

      1. HR Manager*

        Similar role in Ottawa! HR Manager title, 10 years HR experience, large global professional services firm. 88K plus approx bonus of 2-4K.

    2. Sr. Human Resources Representative*

      A couple more things: Bachelor’s not required for my role, but definitely preferred. I have a Master’s and a PHR. The Master’s helped me get my foot in the door and helped with my professional network, which is invaluable, even if it wasn’t directly necessary for my career. The PHR I did more for myself than anything. I like professional development and continuous education. :)

    3. E*

      Sr. Human Resources Rep (non-profit)

      Basic Duties: Recruiting, hiring, new employee on-boarding and orientation, writing/revising job descriptions, employee relations, employee engagement, terminations. No ACA, benefit administration or management duties.
      Area: Texas
      Experience: 4 years (in current HR position), 9 years (prior in a management role)
      Salary: $52,000 (w/ year end bonus)

  95. Support Manager*

    Software Support Manager of a tech startup
    Toronto
    5
    $65 000
    I don’t have a relevant degree, just years of experience and a lot of ambition.

  96. Marketing and Communications Coordinator*

    Marketing and Communications Coordinator for an arts non-profit. I’m the “everything bagel” employee. Responsible for all design work (conception and execution), eblasts, social media, press releases, event coordination, partnerships with other companies, any and all other ill-defined tasks…
    Toronto
    3.5 years experience in this field, 7 months at this job.
    Salary – $35,000/year + some benefits. Limited upward mobility or chance for a raise.
    I’m looking for other work.

      1. OP*

        OP here: Yeah, it’s been rough, especially given all of the design work I do (with my own computer, as they don’t have one capable of running Adobe programs). That wasn’t part of my initial job description, but they discovered that I have that skill, so…now it takes up the majority of my time.
        I’d like to formalize some of my design skills and get further training so that I can move into something a bit more specialized. My partner is a senior designer and makes upwards of $83,000. The difference is rather striking.

        1. Communications Coordinator*

          I do what appears to be an extremely similar job to you also in Toronto, and unfortunately that’s extremely common for marketing communications jobs. So if it mkaes you feel better, there are better jobs here in this field, even in the non profit world, and as a fellow everything bagel type communications person, though I’m happy with my job and my pay, I totally understand where you’re coming from.

    2. Also a Marketing and Communications Coordinator*

      I am also a Marketing and Communications Coordinator at a large non-profit. My tasks are also ill-defined and range from running all of our advertising campaigns, writing marketing copy, and assisting with planning events to helping employees find our stash of tissues.
      NYC
      2.5 years of experience, 1.5 at this job.
      $41,330/year, with little prospect of upward mobility

  97. Statistical Programmer*

    Role: Use SAS software to create report and other analyses using data from pharma clinical trials.
    Statisticians and other specialists create the analysis plan. Programmer use those specifications to code the reports.
    Location: Southeastern Michigan (work from home)
    7 years experience since taking first SAS class.
    $90K annually.
    We have many open positions. SAS is a very growing field.

      1. Statistical Programmer*

        It’s what Big Pharma and the CROs are using, for the most part. SAS 9.4 just installed.
        If you know it and are looking for a new career…

      2. Clinical Data Manager*

        Just chiming in to agree with the Statistical Programmer — SAS is really really big in biotech and CROs. Before getting my last promotion at my last job (a CRO), I was seriously considering making the change from what I was doing into SAS programming since I had a bit of a programming experience and there is definitely a need.

      3. moss*

        R is not validated so no industry uses it. Excel is shoddy. SAS is pretty much the only respected statistical software.

        1. Biostatistician*

          Short version — that’s not true. R is used by a number of industries, pharma included.

            1. Statistical Programmer*

              The documentation for SAS is the big draw. Federal regs require validated systems. SAS provides the necessary documentation. We had an in-house system for a long while, but so hard to maintain from a QA/documentation perspective.

      4. Research Analyst*

        I was taught R in grad school because “in a few years, everybody will be using it instead of SAS.” Since I got out, every job I’ve seen requires SAS.

    2. Also a SAS Programmer*

      I may or may not have Statistical in my job title, it varies.
      Role: Prepare data for analysis and making graphical and tabular output. I do some work with R/S-Plus. I’m skilled in macros.
      Location: Mid-Atlantic
      Years of Experience: 9 years. I played with SAS prior to interviewing, but knew almost nothing when I started.
      Salary: 69K, plus usually a generous bonus and generous benefits

      SAS is great. I have a math background and I took some programming courses in college (Java). I went back for a Master’s in Statistics which I really only view now as a back-up (I didn’t like coursework that much, but I was committed). I very much like what I do.

  98. Application Development Manager*

    Job – Manage and lead IT team(s) of developers and QA folks engaged in creating software solutions.
    Area – Central Ohio
    Experience – 12+ in IT field, 2+ in management
    Salary – $138K + benefits

    1. Also an Application / Software Development Manager*

      Job- manage and lead a team of 15 (12 devs, 3 QA) creating and maintaining software solutions (C# and SQL mostly).
      Area – Metro Denver
      Experience – 16 years in Software, 2 in management
      Salary – 104K + 5% bonus + 15 days vacation, 6 days PTO annually

  99. AP/AR Specialist*

    Responsible for posting cash, entering invoices, paying invoices, balancing the balance sheet, preparing cash flow statements, and whatever other finance related project my manager needs me to do.
    Central NY state
    3 year work experience. 1 year in this position.
    $17/hr (35,360/yr)
    I’ve been promised a raise to at least $40,000 when I graduate with my B.S. this May.

  100. Administrative Support Assistant*

    –I work for a Big10 branch campus within the largest school on my campus. I work on scheduling for faculty, assisting students to a point (not an advisor or Registrar’s Office member), and other background things like faculty ratings by students, updating forms, keeping track of faculty workload, and other things that keep the office/school running. I work at the main desk so I answer all calls and greet all students who come in.
    –Northwest PA
    –Been here 1.5 years, have had administrative duties for 5+ years working at another college before this
    –$30,084 (only get 2% COLA increase a year. Raises aren’t a thing, I’m told. At least for staff)
    –I want out! I have a Masters and tons of people applied for this job but I don’t really want to do it anymore but can’t find better work in my area. I’m 35 and feel like I’m never going to get a higher salary.

    2. Academic Advisor*

      Have you considered academic advising? At some universities you just need a Master’s degree and experience working at a university. The pay isn’t great, but it might be at least $10K more than your current salary. (Depending on salaries where you are… I’m familiar with some midwest and DC area advisor salaries… but not PA.)

      1. Administrative Support Assistant*

        I did but they didn’t even interview me. Same for a similar mentoring program for students. I’m not sure if I have any ability to grow here. I’m sticking it out to get more time under my belt and the benefits are pretty good (for the area anyway). 12 hours of vacation a month, 8 hours of sick time, paid holidays, including off between Christmas and New Year’s), plus health insurance (we pay, but about $45 a month). But working thankless tasks for faculty is just not where my heart is at. A bunch of people took the early retirement option but won’t be leaving until June. I will hopefully see some of those jobs posted (many are just going away completely) and maybe something there will use my education and pay more). But after that we’ll have to see.

        1. Another Academic Advisor*

          I’m not the same person who posted above, but I’m also an academic advisor. It’s a great job and I love it, but it can be a tough field to get into. I’ve done a lot of hiring, and we always have several candidates with academic advising experience. Compared to that, the applicants without experience are almost never in the running. My advice would be to look for job that gets you closer to what you want to do. For example, look for an admin support position in an advising office. Some smaller departments might have positions that combine administrative and advising duties, if there isn’t enough advising work to justify a full time person – that can be your foot in the door to start building experience.

    3. Another Communications Manager*

      Oof. I am interviewing for your employer at the end of the month (non faculty position), but in SE PA. the listing had a salary range– but it was a $40,000 difference between the low and high end, which was really not helpful (low end was less than I made 17 years ago with no experience at a nonprofit). Your post is making me nervous about what they would potentially offer. Based on your post, sounds like I should try to advocate as hard as I can for a higher starting salary if raises are that hard to come by.

      1. Administrative Support Assistant*

        See what happens first. Could be location matters, which department you work for, who you work for, or many other number of factors and/or skills/experiences. I did ask for more and got it when I started (only a few hundred more). I came in making more than my coworker who had been here longer. I’ve heard anecdotally that they tend to pay roughly in the middle range most of the time. More experience could move that to a higher range.

        1. Another Communications Manager*

          Thank you! This is good information. I would be OK with the middle or just above middle of the range. I’ve been worried they would offer toward the lower end.

    4. Assistant Professor*

      I’m faculty at a private R1, and faculty and staff get only 2% COLA per year (and sometimes less). Merit raises are pretty much non-existent. It’s super frustrating because it means we lose great people!

  101. Anon-e-moose*

    your job: Program Administrator/Office Manager/Executive Assistant at an education non-profit. Basically I am in charge of our programs, the physical office space, and our CEO’s schedule

    your geographic area: Boston, MA

    your years of experience: 6 years

    your salary: $38,000 + medical (no dental/eye) + 4 weeks combined sick/PTO

  102. Production Manager - Women's Wear*

    I manage foreign and domestic production for a Women’s Wear company
    NYC
    20 years
    $90K

  103. Internal Audit Senior*

    Job: Compliance, operational, and financial audit projects, and assisting external auditors
    Location: Chicago
    Years of Experience: 4-5
    Salary: $80,000

  104. Receptionist*

    Receptionist – answer phones, direct calls, distribute mail, keep facilities clean, keep front lobby presentable, keep bathrooms/kitchen stocked, handle inventory taking and placing orders, track shipments and deliveries, handle all last-minute requests from all levels of associates, be a walking phone/printer manual, keep printer areas stocked and ready to work in, be knowledgeable about all electronics/machinery in the office and their whereabouts, maintain employee records such as required insurances, handle all incoming guests and set up conference rooms, schedule meetings in-office; be very prioritized, professional, calm but firm, able to multitask, able to handle rude callers/guests, able to handle conflicting directives from multiple levels of associates, offer support to office manager and any other associate, *be able to be discrete and to keep private info confidential*, and to maintain a positive demeanor and be professionally dressed at all times.
    (I say this dryly: I’m like a nice piece of art in a lobby(pleasant and not flashy), crossed with a concierge and a walking notebook of lists.)

    Kansas City, USA
    1 year
    $15/hour
    * I get 18 days PTO : D
    * Health insurance offered was over a quarter of my salary when I was hired, and I could not afford it then so was on Obamacare; my company has since switched to a more affordable option so I am insured now through them.
    * no opportunity to move up in my company, so if I stay with them this is likely to be my situation for a long time, if not always.

  105. Office Specialist 1*

    Classified (union) employee at an academic institution. Job duties involve processing and generation of documents and explaining rules and policies through a variety of communication media. Specifically, I work in the Parking department and the major component of my job is to review parking ticket appeals. This particular position reports to the director of the 12 permanent staff department, has no supervisory component and is quite independent.

    Geographic Area: Pacific Northwest
    Experience: 3 years (in this role)
    Salary: 27,560 (role is actually hourly at $13.25)

    This is a union (SEIU) position at a public university. Salary is negotiated statewide between all public academic institutions in the state, so no negotiating on salary. I am currently in Step 3 of 10 on the salary schedule.

  106. Quality Assurance Analyst*

    Job: Quality testing software for the insurance industry; quality analyst and liaison for major US insurance carrier
    Geographic Area: Intermountain West
    Years of Experience: 3.5
    Salary: $45,000
    Other: Benefits including health and dental insurance, 401k matching contributions up to 6%.

    1. Quality Assurance Analyst*

      Forgot to mention: I started 3.5 years ago fresh out of college at $33,000 and have since received 5 raises in that time –generally you get one raise per year, for the past 2 years I have gotten 2.

  107. Tax Manager (CPA)*

    Tax manager at a public accounting firm – local firm, one office, and kinda/sorta just started a satellite office (keeping the office of a small firm we merged with last year), about 100 employees. Review tax returns, consulting projects, etc. Contact with clients, manage project flow.

    Suburb of Portland, OR.
    9.5 years (entering 10th busy season)
    $90,000

    I work full time (which is 50 – 60+ hours) during tax season, but part-time (30 – 35 hours) outside of tax season. I end up working about 2,050 hours in total for the year, which is equivalent to 40 hours year-round, whereas industry standard (I think, but at least standard at my firm) is 2,350 hours (40 hours outside of tax season and much more during tax season). So my salary is reduced to 85% – while raises might have been calculated slightly differently had I been regular full time all along, I would be at least $100k if I were working regular full time at my firm.

    We have reasonably good benefits: PTO starts at 4 weeks and goes up to 5 at manager level and 6 at partner. 2 weeks parental leave. Firm pays 100% of employee health insurance (but no contribution towards dependent health insurance). Firm pays for life insurance and disability insurance. 401(k) with 4% match for first 5% contributed, plus has made generous profit sharing contributions in recent years. Pretty flexible in terms of reduced schedules (see description of mine above) and allows occasional working from home (e.g., in bad weather).

  108. Seal*

    -Academic librarian and head of a sizable branch library with supervisory responsibilities for 6FTE librarians and staff. MLIS required; second masters preferred. Expected to participate in related professional activities (conference attendance, publishing, etc).
    -Geographic area: Southeastern US
    -10 years as a professional; almost 20 years as a paraprofessional
    -$66,000
    -A recent salary survey revealed that average pay for librarians at my institution is one of the l0west in the SE

  109. Course Schedules Coordinator, Registrar's Office*

    I’m roughly 5 years out of university (B.A., state school), and in my second professional position as coordinator for course scheduling in a Registrar’s office at a major university in Boston. I’m 9 months into my position and make just shy of 60k.

  110. Tech Writer*

    Technical writer here! I take content created by my subject-matter experts (in this case, engineers) and I correct the language, rewrite it for clarity, and format it to fit with company style. I use Microsoft Word, Adobe Framemaker, and XML. I mainly work on hardware products, rather than software, but my previous job leaned more toward software and specialty content.

    I live and work in Silicon Valley. To be precise, I work in the East Bay.

    I have about seven years of experience doing primarily technical writing, and another ten working primarily as an editor. My highest degree is a BA.

    I make $72K, which means that I need to have housemates in order to live here. My previous job paid me $50K and, even though my husband works full-time, we were not getting by.

      1. Tech Writer*

        Very briefly, I felt it was a good match for my existing skillset, and so I took a certification course at my local community college, which got me networked in to the STC and helped me hear about job openings.

        Come to the Friday Open Thread for more! It looks like several of us are having a discussion about it. Please swing by and join in! :)

  111. Development Coordinator*

    Development Coordinator
    — I work at a large university doing fundraising for a department; I am the staff liaison for donors/volunteers; plan events; create solicitations; write grants; do donor prospecting and research; and manage fundraising efforts for three academic units
    — DC area
    — $47,500 (excellent benefits package including free tuition for myself)
    — 8 years experience

  112. Customer Service Rep*

    Office and phone duties for a small software company, primarily dealing with customers but also some vendors.
    Central Arizona
    0 year experience/fresh off of BS
    $35,000 starting/$40,000 after 4 years.

    A year after I started the company was bought by a larger company that pretty much killed salary and raises.

    1. Customer service rep*

      Incoming call center for a telecom doing customer service/sales currently in other offices with same title and same company have done other responsibilities including outgoing calls; data processing; internal support; and processing orders/support for other telecom

      -Boston area

      -17 years of experience in the same company

      -$70k / starting pay was less than I was making at big box retail (slightly above minimum wage)

      -reps in a sales office can make more with prizes and commission payouts (most reps do not get any payouts because the qualifications are high and complicated) we’re taxed on the value of the prizes which you can’t refuse, which sucks when you win a coffeemaker twice and don’t drink coffee. Everything that is given to us as a reward is taxed so sales reps can end up with a large income without having a larger paycheck (unless you were planning on buying something that you won)

      -union job, we have fairly good benefits as well

      – I only have a high school diploma, no degree but most people have a degree and a degree is a requirement now

    2. Call Center Agent*

      Making medical appointments for a network of offices and checking patient information for billing.
      Midwestern city.
      0 years experience.
      $11/hr, some 401k match

  113. Librarian*

    My role is collection assessment, so it is all analytical and doesn’t involve interacting with students. I work at a large university and look at data related to the usage of our collection in different formats (print books, e-books, e-reference, online journals, etc).
    East coast city
    14 years
    64,000
    I have a master’s in library science and have published several articles in scholarly journals.

  114. Research Analyst*

    Policy research (data cleaning and analysis) at a private university.
    Boston/Cambridge
    1 year of experience
    $58,000

  116. QA Engineer / software tester*

    The grad program was a cash cow for a humanities department, and wasn’t as tech focused as I thought it was going to be. I was the first student in the program and was the guinea pig. Giant, finances-wrecking career regret. Don’t go to grad school, kids!

    1. QA Engineer / software tester*

      darn it, this was supposed to be as a context reply to my first comment above – AAM, please feel free to correct. Thanks!

  118. Policy Analyst at a Nonprofit*

    Job: A bit of lobbying (within c(3) limits), mostly writing briefs, coordinating events, working with enforcement agencies, supporting progressive public policy
    Location: DC
    Experience: 1.5 years in this field, 6.5 years of professional work experience overall
    Salary: $65,000

  119. Business Analyst*

    I’m responsible for data collection and analysis and creating reports for a cancer center. This involves a lot of forecasting and financial analyses.
    Area:Baltimore, Maryland
    Years of experience: 2 years
    $51K
    When I was hired I thought this salary seemed low but just figured it was due to the lower cost of living. It turns out I was completely low-balled and there are other people in my role who make market rate. Luckily I just received a new job offer with a 30% raise!

    1. business analyst too*

      I do reporting and analytics, presentations on that data, project management and am a subject matter expert in one area.

      Cleveland

      52,000 but an external hired into this role would make around 10k more.

      1 year in the role, 6 years industry experience in other roles

  120. Information Analyst*

    Area – Northern England
    Experience – 11 years at my current organisation and 4 years in information provision/analysis
    Salary £22.5K – $27.4 according to google.

    I produce dashboards and monthly reports on service delivery in excel – moving into using oracle and sql more though.

  121. Endeavors*

    Assistant to the Chair (of a mid sized academic department at a state U) (Which translates to an entry level admin)
    $38k/year
    great health ins, 15 days vacation leave, 11 days sick time annually.

  122. Statistician*

    Statistician for federal agency
    Southeast, major metro area
    10+ years and a masters degree in statistics. (Most people in similar jobs have a PhD.)
    Salary: $110,000 ( I’m a federal employee on the GS scale)

    1. Statistician*

      Statistician for a marketing company
      Colorado metro area (I never know how to describe CO – midwest? West? Southwest?)
      5 years and a masters in stats
      87,000
      Medium benefits – pretty good health, some remote work, we just switched to unlimited PTO but it’s not clear how comfortable our management will be with us actually using it

  123. HR Generalist*

    salary mid 60’s
    excellent benefit package and training budget
    Carolinas–metropolitan area
    academic/educational

  124. Registered Massage Therapist*

    Job: Regulated health care professional providing massage therapy
    Location: Toronto, Ontario
    Experience: 1 year
    Salary: $50,000

  125. Analytics Manager*

    Analyze customer transactional data, build statistical models, strategic analytics, manage three direct reports for Fortune 500 company with $10B revenue worldwide.
    Chicago, IL
    16 years of experience and have an MBA from a top business school
    $126,000 plus bonus averaging around 15% and profit sharing

    1. Transactions manager*

      I have a very similar job in NJ paying 72k. Getting a raise to 80k soon. I am sans MBA and our revenue is closer to 80M though

  126. Customer Research Director*

    Establish, monitor, analyze, interpret, and disseminate various research mechanisms along the customer journey to inform and facilitate an evolving and more customer-centric experience. Insight is used to refine product features/functions, strengthen sales and marketing strategy, identify cross-sell/up-sell opportunities and enhance the overall, end-to-end customer experience.
    Location: northeastern US
    Experience: 30 years
    Base salary: $160,000 plus bonus based on overall company performance

  127. Agricultural Engineer*

    Providing technical support to farmers throughout province on a large range of issues (current focus is reducing the risk of barn fires). Also provide technical input into related codes.

    London, Ontario
    $83,000 (union, pension and benefits)

    Work/life balance is emphasised. Unionized position, but significant professional development focus. Great working environment with coworkers who want you to succeed. If wage is >$100k, it gets publicly reported(ouch!).

  128. Editor*

    -Editing and quality control for our (written) products; also writing press releases and editing/proofing most external communications for 45 person company
    -Washington, DC metro area
    -14 years relevant experience
    -$61,500/year

  129. TuesdayBlah*

    Job – Web Marketing Copywriter for a hospital. Create and execute digital content strategy and creation: social, web content, SEO, search.
    Location: Fairfield County, CT
    Experience: 10+ years
    Salary: $75,000
    Other data: Bachelor’s Degree: English and Spanish. Go figure. Non-profit and very small team, so not much room for growth/promotion unless there’s a need.

  130. Associate Advisory Specialist*

    Employer: Multi-national insurance brokerage firm
    Duties: help build E&O programs for large professional firms
    Location: NYC
    Experience: I’ve been in the insurance business for 20 years; this employer for 11 years and this position 3 years. Salary: $72,000

    (AFAIK, this is the starting salary for anyone in this position, at this location, regardless of experience. I was originally hired as a senior admin @ $60,000 and received two or three COL increases before being promoted. I have not received an increase in pay in the last 3 years.)

  131. Policy Analyst*

    Health Policy Analyst working in medical regulation.
    Toronto, Canada
    1 year experience in this role – 5 years in career overall
    Master’s degree required – Law or Health Backgrounds preferred.
    Starting – $80,000/yr

    1. Senior policy analyst*

      Developing policy initiatives for central government (at present Workplace Health and Safety).
      Wellington, New Zealand
      18 years experience
      Degree required, legal or economics qualifications preferred.
      Starting salary NZ$80,000 (roughly US$55,000). Current salary $140 000 (about US$100 000)

  132. Control Systems Engineer*

    Job includes programming automation and electrical/instrumentation work.

    Oil refinery located in Rocky Mountains region

    Salary: $98,000 plus bonus

    1. Controls Engineer*

      Job: About the same as above, add 25-75% travel (distance < 5 hour drive) and some project management and computer repair
      Location: Midwest
      Experience: 4 years
      Salary: $65k
      Anything else:
      The average for 5 years outside of the oil industry is probably closer to $75-80k, but we also receive these benefits:
      – Bonus averages $10k
      – 3% yearly raise all but guaranteed, can go higher but not every year
      – Profit sharing/401k (not usually necessary to do your own saving once it kicks in)
      – Company car for travel, accounting calculates tax for whatever personal use you want to do
      – You can live wherever you want in the region once you're established, remote work is the norm when clients aren't requesting you in person
      – Excessive overtime, holiday work, and night/weekend travel happens, but you are compensated either by bonuses or extra free time off depending on how much (and how much you've not had much to do the rest of that year). At a minimum, you'll get enough days off to avoid burnout.

      1. Control Systems Engineer (Manager)*

        Job: Automation programming and electrical work for a food and beverage company. Low travel (only for tradeshows and vendor visits), some project management and I manage a team of electrical/controls technicians. Based in a manufacturing plant, have to provide 24/7 support for issues if my team cannot resolve it.
        Location: Southwest
        Experience: 6 years
        Salary: $92K + ~10% bonus each year
        – 401k matching and good health insurance, can get free/discounted food from the company
        Other notes:
        – Starting salary out of school was ~$65K, was with a different company but would have been similar at my current employer. On the higher side for starting in the industry as a whole.
        – I have worked for a few of the “consumer goods companies who own everything” in the Midwest and Southwest, pay was comparable across companies and did not vary much geographically. There is a cost of living adjustment for expensive cities but generally not worth enough to compensate for the increased costs, only makes sense to take those roles if you want to live in the HCOL area for other reasons.
        – As an engineer you will rarely get OT pay, you almost always will as a technician. May not hold true if you work for a supplier/vendor to plants.
        – Workload can vary significantly with the industry and company. More than 40 is the norm but some jobs have no operations on weekends or very good support coverage so outside of hours support is minimal and only for real emergencies. Others are like the awful IT support roles you see in other posts where they are called at 2AM on a regular basis and work 60+ hours frequently with no extra compensation. Some roles require night shift work. Burnout has been a concern in one of my roles.
        – This is an aging career field that is in need of young talent. Most of my reports, coworkers, and networking contacts are within 15 years of retiring. There is difficulty in filling many of the roles out there already and it is likely to grow more difficult when retirements kick in. Without an internal succession plan filling positions typically takes months rather than weeks.

  133. Trust & Safety*

    I make sure users on our platform are safe, and not doing anything illegal (think child porn)
    Midwest – Smallish city
    5 years
    $62,000

  134. Credit Broker*

    Job: Broking credit insurance for a portfolio of clients.
    Geographical Area: Northern England
    Experience: Entry Level (I took this role last year, previous experience: 11 years in customer service, 3 years in credit control)
    Salary: £20,500

  135. Senior Underwriter*

    Commercial insurance underwriter – I’m responsible for the renewal policy and endorsement activity for many small businesses… and for the profitability of my territory.
    Location: mid-size city in the SE
    Experience: 5 years in current job, 27 in industry
    Salary: $62k plus bonus of up to 15 percent, 401k and decent vacation

  136. Marketing Coordinator*

    I work for a mid-sized nonprofit and coordinate print, digital, and social media marketing efforts. I also plan 2 conferences and a few small training events a year. I manage some projects, but no people. In my organization, I’m considered the next step up from entry level.
    Midwestern city
    3 years of experience
    $44,000

    1. Events & Marketing Coordinator*

      Area: Washington DC Metro area
      Company: Environmental and community focused nonprofit.
      Job: Planning and running in-house events (a few large and numerous small). Attending external events. Creating, writing, and editing promotional materials to publicize events and the organization. Manage team of on-call events staff.
      Experience: Relevant masters degree, some event experience, and a communications-based internship. This is my first marketing job; I started last month.
      Salary: $20/hr, full time

    2. Marketing Coordinator, too!*

      I work for a mid-sized public company and also handle print, digital, and social media marketing efforts. I support the Director of Marketing and the CMO. I train interns when they come in and manage them (for the most part).

      Southern California
      4 years work experience
      2 in marketing
      2 in my current role

      Just shy of $52,000. Standard/good benefits – 2 weeks vacation, 12 days paid holidays, 401K with some matching, health/dental/eye insurance. Work/life balance is good. I’m eligible for OT pay as well since I’m hourly. Since I handle social media, I have to work some weekends. The OT is pretty nice in those situations.

  137. Procurement Coordinator*

    Role: Determine best procurement method for internal business clients, provide guidance to procurement personnel for agreement creation
    Location: TX (major city)
    Experience: 7 years
    Salary: $90k

    Bachelor’s degree received prior to hiring on, Master’s degree received while working and not accounted for in compensation (company doesn’t give raises for completion of higher degrees, only given if you hire on with that degree)

    1. Procurement Coordinator*

      Should also say I get a 401k with solid match and a pension. Decent vacation now that I have some tenure and good work/life balance.

    2. Transactions manager*

      This is interesting, I thought coordinator roles would never pay that much so haven’t applied to one in many years goes to show how misleading titles can be

  138. Document Control Specialist*

    Make sure all technical documentation adheres to formatting standards, manage major revisions to the documentation by keeping track of who’s doing what and when things are due, audit all documentation for compliance with state and federal law.

    Phoenix, AZ
    4 years experience as a technical writer with a BS
    $42,500

    Currently working for a medical industry non-profit.

  139. Quality Systems Specialist*

    Quality Systems Specialist – Metrics generation, data analysis and statistics. Aerospace industry.
    Greater Seattle/Everett/Tacoma metro are.
    >5 years in this particular job, >8 in QA/QC type positions in general.
    $76,000 per year, great healthcare, matching 401(k), tons of vacation time.

  140. Exec Assistant*

    In higher ed. Typical EA duties plus some project management.
    Midwest
    5
    $47,000
    Excellent benefits

  141. Data Analyst*

    It’s a mixed bag. Some of the work is ETL development (extract, transform, and load), some of it is writing SQL reports for various folks, and some of it is doing database design work as part of the development process.
    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    2 years at this job, 1 year in marketing, and about 2.5 years of thesis/coop experience in other fields
    $52,000 CAD

    1. Data Analyst*

      I should also follow up, I get 100% dental & health coverage on top of OHIP (up to some fairly reasonable limits), including drugs and most paramedical (physio, psychologist, massage, chiropractics, etc…)

  142. Environmental Specialist*

    Run an Environmental Department for heavy industry, dealing with haz waste, water, air and sewer permits, etc.
    SF Bay Area
    10 years exp
    $95,000
    Geography skews salary. $100k is barely a living wage in SF. I work two other jobs.

  143. Member Services Associate*

    Volunteer management, archive administration, backup member support
    DFW, TX
    5 years
    $40,000
    Non-profit, great health and retirement benefits.

  144. HRIS Database Type position*

    Manage two data entry folks, responsible for all data integrity for all 6,000 ish employees’ job and personal data at a state university. Involves cleaning up previous folks’ messes and streamlining everything I can get my hands on while still moving forward.
    Pacific Northwest
    10 years HR/data
    $54,000
    almost 5 weeks vacation, excellent benefits, decent boss, state job, wicked fast pace.

  145. Events Coordinator*

    Assist coordination of weekly guest speakers at a school, from booking the space to RSVPs, to setting up the night of and making sure the event goes smoothly. I also help with end of semester showcases of student work and the graduation ceremonies.

    Los Angeles, California

    First real job out of college, 1 year experience

    29k, full time (currently 15/hr, started at 12/hr part time)

  146. Epidemiologist*

    Epidemiologist with federal agency
    DC metro
    8 years (5 years professional full time work (before and after PhD) plus 3 years as graduate researcher)
    salary: $101K

    1. Another Epidemiologist*

      Epidemiologist with a provincial healthcare agency
      Canada (large metro area, for the sake of being vague)
      I have 3 years of work experience and an M.Sc, which was required for my role
      salary: $71,000

      1. Another Epidemiologist*

        Should also add: defined benefit pension plan, excellent health benefits, more than 20 days of vacation per year and educational support ($$) available.

  147. Account Manager*

    Small tech company, managing B2B accounts.
    $75K base + up to $90+K with performance bonus. Bonus typically expected. Great benefits with time off and HC covered.
    NYC – HCOL.
    5-6 years of experience.
    Likely below market based on city and COL, but the benefits are great with sharp working hours (9-6 and almost no on stays past 6), understanding boss, and work/clients I enjoy.

  148. Records Mgmt/ Information Mgmt/ Privacy*

    Job: writing policies and procedures for RM & privacy issues; reviewing surveys and research proposals for compliance with privacy legislation; providing consultation and group training on all of the above.

    Industry: Government
    Geographic area: Toronto
    Years of experience: 10+
    Salary range: $80,000 – $93,000 CDN

  149. Communications Specialist*

    Communications Specialist at an industry regulatory agency, handling website, publications, communications planning etc.
    Greater Toronto area
    Bachelor’s degree and four years of experience
    $63,000 (CAD) plus generous benefits, sick leave, three weeks vacation

  150. jeneria*

    Associate Professor at a small engineering college
    Upper Midwest
    8 years at this job plus a PhD and about 10 years as an instructor/grad assistant
    $61,000

    1. Assistant Professor*

      Assistant Professor of engineering at mid-range public university
      Bay Area
      I’m in my second year; I came in with a PhD + 1 year teaching experience (my field is unsaturated at the faculty level, so a postdoc was not needed)
      ~$92,000 academic year salary, plus generous benefits, sick leave, pension (!!!), summers “off” (LOL…most of us work all summer anyway)

  151. Doctumentary / Commercial Producer*

    – Producer for commercials and documentary films. Technically freelance but I work exclusively with one company.
    – 10 years of experience in the biz but only 6 months in this role
    – New York City
    – ~$100k but being freelance it could swing between 80-120k depending on the year.
    – No insurance or 401k but very flexible schedule.

      1. Manager of HR, Finance & Operations*

        I just laughed until I cried after reading your 2nd comment. I can’t stop and people walking by are worried.

  152. Admin Assistant*

    Answer phones, create service tickets, do A/P and A/R, and data entry & clean-up for small tech company.
    Pacific Northwest
    Less than 1 year
    $16/hr

  153. Relocation Consultant*

    I manage international relocations from end to end, acting as the relocating employee’s ponit person as well as working with the client and the providers for the employee’s approved benefits.
    Saint Louis, MO
    2 years in the field, 7 years in the international field in general
    $46,000/year, salaried, plus various bonuses for meeting certain metrics throughout the year
    I’m one of the higher-paid consultants at my company, and the range is around 42-48K

    1. Relocation Consultant*

      Oops, I mean *point* person!

      Also, for benefits, I get 2 WFH days per week, 18 days vacation, insurance through the company, and they match up to 3% of 401(k) contributions after 3 years.

  154. Admin Assistant*

    –As an admin assistant I manage the office of a smallish, newish startup, do supply runs and order stuff we’re running out of, I do the filing for HR, onboard new employees, update benefits in HR software, answer the phones, and do a lot of scheduling for travel and events
    –Southern Wisconsin
    –3 years admin experience
    –$29,120 ($14/hour)

    I get insurance and the vacation time is nice but I really like how the hours are more flexible than my previous job.

  155. Editorial Director*

    job: Oversee daily operations for 100 print titles annually. Manage 2 part time editors as well as relationships with ~10 outside partners.
    geographic area: NYC
    years of experience: 15
    salary: $103k
    context: It’s a very well known nonprofit media company focused on children. Salaries are meant to be market value, but usually a little lower. Benefits are robust, and company culture is pretty positive. My manager and team are amazing and I love working with them.

  156. Auditor (IV)*

    Current Salary: $49,509
    Job: “auditor” for state government healthcare agency… responsible for reviewing financial data submitted by providers to determine payments from state to provider
    Region: Southeast… more specifically, the Carolinas
    Experience: 5.5 years
    Education: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration majoring in Accounting and International Business, Master of Science in Accounting
    *No professional certificates or licenses

    1. Auditor (IV)*

      Forgot benefits… state values my fringes at nearly $25K…
      Insurance: health (portion is state-funded, remainder is withheld), dental (withheld), supplemental LTD (withheld), life (withheld), medical spending accounts optional (withheld)
      Retirement: pension with state match, optional deferred comp, can buy years of service in standard pension program
      Misc: dependent care accounts optional (withheld)

  157. Finance Director*

    Oversee the financial operations for a small-ish nonprofit, heavily funded by federal money. I work with Program Directors to develop and maintain operating budgets for their program. I provide financial reports to the Board of Directors on a monthly basis, prepare the annual financial reports and statements for auditors, develop and maintain current financial policies and procedures that are in accordance with Uniform Guidance and the new Head Start performance standards. I manage the Accounting/Benefits Specialist and the Accounting/Human Resources Generalist. I’m also the unofficial Director of IT. I handle all IT issues here and call our IT contractor when it’s something I can’t handle.

    Southwest Virginia
    I have about 10 years experience in accounting-type roles such as Bookkeeper, Staff Accountant and that type of thing, but I’ve only been in this position for a little over 2 years.
    $42,737

    The area I work in is pretty economically depressed. This salary is not bad considering the area, I suppose, but if it were in a for-profit setting, I imagine it would be higher. We have some pretty good perks, extra holidays based on state government holiday schedule, great personal leave (8.31 earned every pay period which is bi-weekly) and health insurance is okay – nothing to write home about for sure, but it’s better than nothing.

    1. Operations & Finance Manager*

      Piggybacking on you because similarities.

      In charge of operations and finance in a small nonprofit. Mostly office manager type tasks, payroll, budgeting, bookkeeping, monthly financial reports, grant management and reports, HR liaison (we outsource) and unofficial IT help desk.

      Chicago, IL, USA

      2 years in this role and 5 in a prior (program) role in the same organization. I don’t have a degree in finance (not even close) so we have a CPA who consults at audit time and with my bonehead questions throughout the year.

      $48,000

      Decent benefits (medical, dental/vision, 401k [without matching]) I also get 200 hours of paid vacation time each year (5 weeks) plus 96 hours paid sick time, some government holidays and a full week at the end of the year. Nonprofits really do like trading time off for salaries don’t they!

  158. Application Security Engineer*

    I work for a large company that develops its own software. My job is to work with the developers to make sure our stuff can’t get hacked.

    Washington DC
    10 years exp
    $130,000 + 10% bonus ~ 143,000

  159. Content Manager*

    Your job: I wear pretty much every hat possible in digital marketing at a small law firm. One day I’m doing a content audit on the website, the next I’m laying out a book for print. I’m still learning a lot and picking up new skills as I need them. I have two managers who also work in the marketing department and I don’t oversee anyone, so although I have “manager” in my job title, I don’t actually manage people.
    Your geographic area: Seattle
    Your years of experience: 1 in marketing, 3.5 in an admin position before that
    Your salary: I’m paid hourly at $19 an hour, 40 hours a week, with very occasional overtime. Nice benefits, although our health insurance can be kind of a pain to use.
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: There’s no income tax in Washington state, but the sales tax is ~10%, higher on some items like liquor. I think the average one bedroom in the city is going for $2,000 per month these days; I pay way less because I split expenses for a cheap (and not totally legal) one bedroom with my partner.

  160. Purchasing Specialist/DBE Program Manager*

    Buy material and services for natural gas and oil pipeline projects domestically. Also make sure we meet our clients’ diversity goals for the federal and state regulatory agencies

    Chicago-land

    10+ years of supply chain and supplier development

    $71,000, this is pretty much the market rate for my level. Different types of buyers in different industries varies from $35k to $100k.

    ◾anything else pertinent to put that number in context

    1. Buyer of Finished Goods/Accessories*

      Buyer-I get to purchase kitchen appliances for outdoor and indoor cooking
      Location: Chicago-land
      Experience: 5 years- 3 years in logistics and 2 years in purchasing
      Salary: $62,000 + possible $1000 bonus

  161. Administrative Professional*

    Job: Executive/personal assistant, receptionist, event coordinator at a real estate investment/private equity firm. I provide administrative/calendar support to the 4 partners with a focus on the Managing Partner and CFO, assist with planning our yearly investor meeting, and coordinate all office events such as the holiday party and other meetings.

    Geographic area: Boston, MA

    Experience: 3 years of experience in this role (6 prior years of retail management).

    Salary: $61K + bonus (last year I grossed $78k) + medical & dental fully paid for

    Yes, my title is actually “Administrative Professional” (which I find to be more of a category than an actual position, but I don’t have any control over it).

    1. Administrative Professional*

      Also to follow up I do not have a college degree as I started working full-time right out of high school. I feel pretty stuck as I don’t think I’ll ever find a job that will match this salary with my qualifications.

      1. Administrative Professional*

        Another follow up, since I see other commenters mentioning it, I get 3 weeks paid vacation, 10 sick days, and 10 paid holidays per year. There is no additional vacation accrual for length of time worked here.

    2. Hello it's me*

      I apologize if I’m being a bother, but may I ask how and where you found your role? I also live in Boston and do what sounds like very similar work to you, but am making half of your base pay with no bonus. I have 2 less years of experience than you, but I do have a college degree. I’m looking to move up and would appreciate any advice. Thanks!

      1. Administrative Professional*

        I actually went through a staffing agency and this was the first place that made me an offer. I started at $40k. Look for a job in finance – that’s where all the money is.

      2. Administrative Professional*

        But also you kind of have to be okay with selling your soul to the devil a little bit, IMHO.

    3. PA/EA*

      Job: Personal/Executive Assistant

      Geographic area: midwest

      Experience: 7 years direct experience

      Salary: $104K/year (no benefits)

  162. Assistant Managing Editor*

    I work at a magazine. I am in charge of running the print close, which means overseeing every step from the issue’s lineup being set, to text and images being turned in, layouts being designed, and stories being edited, fact-checked and printed in various stages of proof before being shipped off to the actual printers. I see the production of the magazine through, essentially as a project manager, minus charts and graphs. I’m also responsible for tracking the editorial budget (content costs and general overhead for the brand on the editorial side). I approve and process vendor invoices and act as a guru of sorts for other staff who have questions ranging from deadline-related queries to “how do I get the heat turned up in my office?”. I also help staff with their expenses and vet and approve their expense reports. Mostly I’m a professional babysitter.

    Years of Experience: I’ve been in the “working world” full time since 2008-2009, I’ve been in my direct industry for 3/4 years.
    Salary: $70,000 a year plus benefits (decent health insurance, dental, 401K, legal) 15 vacation days per year, and paid holidays.

    Note: 70K in NYC goes about as far as 45-50K per year in other cities. Also, my industry is dying. I’ve already been laid off once and every year feels like Russian Roulette with budgeting and staffing cuts, and that’s if your magazine continues to publish altogether.

    1. Magazine editor*

      Hey, fellow magazine person! Commiserations on the death of the industry. I’ve been working in magazines since 2010 so I’ve had a front-row seat to the dismantling of the industry. Right now I’m the only staff member of my niche title (my salary is $40k). I’ve been wondering if the solution is to move to a bigger market, like NYC, so it’s useful if depressing to see that things are just as unstable there. Mind if I ask you a few questions on a open thread later or something?

      1. Assistant Managing Editor*

        Hi!
        Absolutely! Magazines today are like vinyl in the 80s. The end is nigh, and the staffs and titles are shrinking and shrinking.
        I’ll pop in on an open thread under this handle next time I see one! :)

        1. Managing Editor*

          Hi, I edit magazines as well (for a consumer audience, but custom magazines with industry clients as sponsors)… we’ve had major cuts but are doing a lot in the digital space, and fortunately enough to not rely on newsstands for distribution. Will look for your open thread! :)

  163. Optical Media Team Lead*

    Technical team lead for producing DVD and Blu-ray end-user products for entertainment industry
    Los Angeles
    15 years in the industry, 10 years in this position
    $95,000 per annum

    I’m in the unusual situation of commanding an ever-higher salary in a rapidly-contracting field. Going to keep riding this gravy train until rising oil prices shut off the flow of DVD plastic.

  164. Senior Policy Analyst*

    – Responsibilities: Produce original quantitative and qualitative policy research for publication in journals and magazines, in addition to reports and op-eds. Present research at conferences and before policymakers. Initiate and coordinate the production of new policy research projects.
    – Location: Washington, DC
    – 7 years relevant experience, Masters degree
    – $65,000

  165. IT Manager*

    IT Manager form an SME Architects firm in central London.
    your geographic area
    LONDON UK
    your years of experience
    20+
    your salary
    £54,000

    1. IT Manager*

      IT manager for a law firm that handles oil & gas, litigation and transactional things. I manage the network, VoIP phones, end user support
      I am based in central Texas, my firm has offices in 4 Texas cities
      15 years experience in IT
      $70k/year

      1. IT Director*

        IT Manager

        Manufacturing plant. Handle network, website, all computer systems, programmer(s), phone system, end user support.

        Based in SC
        Degrees held: BS and MS in CS
        years of experience: 25 Years
        Salary: $102 (+~$30k in bonuses)
        2 weeks vacation (that’s all anyone gets), full medical, 401k

  166. Association Manager*

    Your Job: Manager at a national professional association. Manages the development and delivery of all educational services offered nationwide. Supervises a staff of 4.
    your geographic area: Midwest (although some people would argue that we are located in a plains state not a midwestern one)
    your years of experience: 15 years
    your salary: 68K

    1. Association Manager*

      I would also toss in that we have bonuses that can be as much as 10% of your salary, and a very generous vacation allowance. I get 30 days of vacation (new employee’s begin with 20 days), and a decent 401K match.

  167. Technical Writer*

    Write software documentation for end-users based on notes from developers and personal research. Create images/illustrations to accompany the documentation and enhance comprehension. Update previously written documentation as necessary.

    Scottsdale, AZ
    BS in computer science, 1 year as a programmer
    $40,000

    Working for a subsidiary of Reynolds & Reynolds.

  168. Administrative Assistant*

    I am the office manager for a branch office of an F100 financial services org.

    Minneapolis

    15

    $58k

  169. Data Warehouse Developer*

    Job: Data Warehouse Developer in Higher Education. I work with PeopleSoft enterprise cloud-based installations pulling data into various data warehouses and data marts to meet business, federal, and state reporting requirements. Our IT department has 110 people, while the overall business has more than 14,000 employees.
    Geographic area: Phoenix
    Years of experience: 4 years in this role, 12 years with the company, 20 years in Information Technology
    Salary: $102,000 (Government position on a fixed pay scale)

    1. Data Warehouse Developer*

      Forgot to mention, I have a BS in Business Management and a Master’s Degree in Information Management.

  170. Technical Writer*

    ◾Technical writer for a small software company: specifically, user-facing documentation.
    ◾Vancouver, BC, Canada
    ◾10 years experience
    ◾$70,000 CAD

  171. Associate Scientist*

    Associate scientist in cell biology at a small biotech company focusing on cancer therapeutics.
    San Francisco/Bay Area
    PhD with 0+ years industry experience or 8+ years industry experience (I have been in my position for a 1.5 years now, started immediately after getting my PhD)
    Salary: $97,500 + up to 7% cash bonus + equity worth around $12,000 (vested over 4 years)

  172. ESL Teacher*

    ESL teaching somewhere in South America.
    $8k a year.
    This may seem irrelevant because of my geographic location, but I’m posting because so many people think this is the dream, “I’ll go off on an adventure and teach English somewhere if things don’t work out,” but good luck paying for your plane ticket back home.

    1. Former ESL Teacher in Brazil*

      Yep, it just doesn’t seem real for people elsewhere what little money you get paid in around here and after conversion how laughable it all becomes. I was born in Brazil and it took me a long time to be able to afford the plane ticket to visit anywhere outside South America. Besides, immigrating legally to Brazil, for instance, is just as hard and annoying as trying to do the same to the US or Europe.

    2. Former ESL teacher in France*

      Another former ESL teacher:
      – I made 18 EUR/hr (brut) in private language schools (5-20 hours/week depending on demand)
      – then 800 EUR/month (net) for a 7 month contract
      – then 1250 EUR/month (net) for a 12-month university contract.

      The last job was just fine, but the others were pretty rough financially!

      Now I’m back in the US training to be a project manager.

    3. Elementary School Teacher*

      I thought about going that route for a while. The Internet was like, “You can save so much because it’s so cheap to live in other countries!” Then I looked at the actual salaries.

  173. student records coordinator*

    Job: track graduate student progress from matriculation-graduation, also coordinate supplemental certificate programs and additional training
    Geographic area: major east coast city
    Years of experience: 7 (5 in higher ed; 2 in this specific job)
    Salary: $51,500
    Private R1 University

  174. HR Assistant/ Receptionist*

    Reston (Washington DC metro area/ Northern Virginia)
    Entry level/ just a few months
    34k
    bonuses 2x a year

  175. Associate Director, Public Relations*

    Job: Associate Director of Public Relations at a university
    Geographic area: Larger city in Midwest
    Years of experience: about 15
    Salary: $62,000/year
    I also get 100% tuition remission for myself and my family. So my kids will be able to go to this school for free. I received a free masters degree. So that’s certainly a part of my income as well.

    1. Assistant Director, Media Relations*

      I’m also an assistant director at a university in a medium-sized city in the Great Lakes area!
      Duties: I research, write and edit news releases about faculty research and campus events, pitch stories to media, and generally fill in where needed in our small office. I have a BA in a related field.
      Years of experience: ~1 in my current role but about 5 at the university I’m at and 10+ in this field
      Salary: about $52,000/year
      Benefits are great: 3 weeks vacation, retirement contributions, good health insurance, WFH options, and tons of professional development opportunities

  176. Project Associate*

    your job: assist consultants (at consulting firm) in managing client-facing projects (tax compliance, legal consulting, etc) and handling of administrative issues
    your geographic area: eastern Massachusetts
    your years of experience: 4 summer jobs, 1 year abroad full time, 3.5 years in US full time
    your salary: $47,000/year
    benefits: good health insurance, unlimited PTO
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: corporate, for-profit company

  177. Financial Analyst*

    Job: Financial Analyst
    Role: Senior FP&A analyst for a Fortune 500.
    Location: NYC
    Experience: 1 year largely unrelated, 2 years related
    Education: BA in English, Master of Accounting
    Pay: $75,000

    I have a hunch I’m on the underpaid side, but I love my company and there’s lots of room for growth here. Plus I walked into a position looking for 3-5 years of experience with just under 2 of FP&A work, so I’m content. Great work life balance.

  179. Accountant I*

    Mostly Accounts Payable with other additional duties; reconciling, providing support for employee reimbursement, some cash entries, whatever else the boss thinks of, etc…
    Location: Northern Florida
    Experience: 2.5 years
    Salary: $44,000 plus yearly bonus, profit share (small, basically another little bonus), 120 hours PTO rolled over every year, decent insurance, and I get merit raises every year.

    1. Accountant - Non-Profit*

      Title: Accountant, non-profit agency, <100 employees, $4.5m annual budget
      Responsibilities: Payroll, AR/AP, budget mgmt, federal grant mgmt/reporting/billing, cash receipts, financial reporting, JE, purchasing, HR overlap (benefits, policies, etc.), misc other hats (non-profit fun).
      Location: Midwest state, outside of large metropolitan city
      Experience: 5 years corporate mgmt/finance, 2.5 current agency
      Current Salary: $47k annually
      Additional benefits: PTO (150 hrs per calendar year, increases with time worked) , observed paid holidays, cafeteria benefits plan (lots of options, affordable, good coverage), 401k with employer matching, work/life balance and work site culture is exceptional.

  180. Technical Writer*

    Writer/Editor for the US Government
    Washington, DC
    4 years of experience, plus a master’s degree
    $75,000

  181. Assistant Director of Communications*

    I do all aspects of communications – marketing, email marketing, social media, and even some graphic design for a large non-profit.

    Baltimore, MD
    4 years exp
    $49,000

  182. Librarian*

    – Academic Librarian at a liberal arts college
    – MLS required, second masters preferred (I do have one)
    – Non-metro Midwest
    – 7th year
    -$54,000/yr

  183. Office/Project Mgr-Construction*

    Manage accounting assistants (6+employees), contract reviews, COI tracking, proposals, change orders, budget analysis, project tracking, and sometimes manage smaller jobs.
    Southwest-Arizona
    15 years experience, this position 10 years-all with the same company-no college experience
    salary $62,400
    $3600 vehicle allowance & gas card (appx $2600 annually)
    job and year end bonuses of $10k+ last year
    Full benefits

  184. Political Compliance Manager*

    Job: Sole Senior Associate in midsize political compliance firm. FEC filing, banking reconciliation, Lobbying Disclosure Act, etc. This field used to be cyclical, based on election cycles, but given the trend for campaigns to start earlier and earlier it’s more or less flat with very busy hours (similar to BigLaw) during campaign season.

    Area: Washington, DC

    Experience: 8 years total (2.5 as an intern with a govt agency while in law school), 5 years in my particular field. I have JD, am barred in a neighboring state, but never worked in a traditional practice.

    Salary: $55,000/year no bonus and I take benefits through my partner’s firm. Minor transit allowance.

  185. Recruiting Specialist*

    Job: Recruiting professional staff for a private top tier research university.
    Area: Southeast US
    Years of experience: 2.5 in recruiting, 6 total in higher ed
    Salary: $51K
    Add’l info: Generous benefits and vacation/sick leave. Have a master’s degree. Started in recruiting at 42K, then 45K, then 51K.

    1. Recruiting Specialist*

      Should also add that I received approx. 10K over 3 years in tuition reimbursement toward my master’s.

  186. Senior Financial Examiner*

    I work for a government entity that regulates insurance companies. I’m in a mid-management position.
    geographic area: Missouri
    years of experience: 6+ with this organization, I am CPA and have about 10 yrs general experience
    salary: $91k (and some change)
    pertinent info: working for the government, my salary is what it is. Everyone with this job is paid the exact same. I travel 80-100% of the time, but I work 4 10’s, so I have 3-day weekends, which helps make up for it.

  187. Web Administrator*

    * Web administrator for [Federal agency]
    * Washington DC metro area
    * 12 years performing these duties, 18 years in this industry
    * $78K + $2K bonus (Bonuses here can vary a little but generally are very consistent, and I’ve never heard of someone not getting one, so I consider my current salary $80K.)

    Great benefits, including telework.

    1. Web Administrator*

      Oh, probably should have said: I do everything from content management to web development to quality assurance and task management for web programming projects.

  188. Manager of Student Activities*

    • Coordinate and implement all aspects of extra-circular events and activities.
    • Collaborate with faculty to coordinate and implement all aspects of co-curricular events and activities.
    • Collaborate with Dean of Diversity and Diversity Committee to ensure a singular approach to cultural education and awareness activities.
    • Collaborate with President’s Office and appointed liaisons in support of major college-wide event initiatives.
    • Ensure completion of essential events in support of Title IX, diversity and strategic initiatives.
    • Ensure Student Activities participants meet eligibility requirements set by the Board of Trustees.
    • Develop relationships with vendors to purchase group tickets and other event services.
    • Coordinate the ticket sale process in conjunction with the Cashier’s Office.
    • Track ticket sales to analyze return on investments and determine continuation of events.
    • Collaborate with local non-profit community fundraising agencies to develop relationships and secure large-scale, on-campus community fundraising events.
    • Work with non-profit agencies to develop, organize and implement fundraising events.
    • Coordinate on-campus community fundraising event logistics committee to arrange facilities and campus resources.
    • Develop annual report for on-campus community fundraising outcomes, to include community members on campus and total funds raised.
    • Organize annual department challenge to encourage participation in fundraising events from faculty, staff and students.
    • Work with the Red Cross to hold and promote on-campus community blood drives.
    • Coordinate marketing and promotion of all Student Activities and ensure accurate and timely dissemination of information to students, staff and faculty.
    • Provide Director with weekly report on Student Activities programming.
    • Provide direct supervision to the Student Activities Part-Time Student Staff and Work Study positions.
    • Oversee onboarding, training, delegation, scheduling, payroll and oversight of the Part-Time Student Staff and Work Study positions.
    • Oversee the creation and completion of the staff duties in support of Student Activities, Student Organizations and the Department of Student Development and Activities.
    • Collaborate with Technical Assistant on budgeting, purchasing and financial record-keeping.
    • Effectively communicate college policies, department procedures, and student responsibilities to staff, faculty, club advisers and students.

    Region: Midwest at a somewhat large community college
    10 years experience
    Salary: $58,771

    1. Manager of Student Activities*

      I should mention that the flexible hours, good benefits including health care, and a generous vacation package (30 days vacation per year, 13 paid holidays and 10 hours of sick leave per month), makes it difficult to leave this job, though compensation would surely be better elsewhere.

  189. Member Services*

    Mostly I do data entry/processing. I work with spreadsheets to enroll people in group insurance.
    Midsize Midwestern city
    6 years of experience in this role, I also have 10 years experience as an Administrative Assistant
    $15.42/hour USD

  190. Vehicle Engineer*

    Job: Design components/systems for a flying car, mostly structural or ground-drive related. Small company, so lots of related hats (vendor selection/management; test planning, overseeing/doing, and documenting; process writing/maintenance; more)
    Location: Northeast USA
    Experience: 18 years total; 2 years here
    Salary: $80,000/year. I could make more elsewhere ($20k pay cut to come here + lesser benefits), but it’s a flying car! And my boss & coworkers are awesome.

    3. irritable vowel*

      I’m seeing lots of jobs here that I would love Alison to do Q&As about! This one, the police dept. evidence room manager, the agricultural engineer who works on preventing barn fires…

    4. Master Bean Counter*

      Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’d trade off a bunch of stuff to be able to say I worked on a flying car. That’s just cool.

  191. Senior Development Associate*

    Job – Fundraising for a nonprofit. Primarily corporate relations but also some major donor stewardship
    Location – Boston
    Experience – 5 years total, 2 in fundraising/development
    Salary – $47,500

  192. Financial Administrator*

    Job – all accounting duties for a nonprofit organization–payables, payroll, general ledger, financial statements, audit preparation–as well as a variety of other tasks to keep things running, like troubleshooting computer issues, training volunteers, and running the website.
    Location: near Minneapolis/St. Paul
    Experience: 23 years, 13 at current position
    Salary: $49,700 (nonprofit–low pay, pretty good benefits)

  193. Customer Support Specialist*

    * Admin for a customer service team. Lots of administrative duties and cleaning up old messes, and some process improvement & training.

    * Indianapolis, IN

    * 4-8 years experience depending on what you see as relevant

    * $14/hr as a temp; permanent role is $30-35k/year with benefits, or $14-17/hr part time. I’ve gone above and beyond and would ask for more like $18-20/hr because I’ve expanded the role.

    1. Customer Support Specialist*

      Details about my job:
      My manager tells me that I’ve taken the job halfway between the administrative support it was designed for and the (currently empty) assistant manager role. I will be receiving a higher title as soon as we can figure out what it should be.

      When a customer service rep goes “This sucks and makes my job harder”, I figure out how to make the process better. So for example, our team shares a group inbox and receives thousands of emails a day. In addition to sorting out which email should go to which CSR, I’ve been automating more of how emails are color-coded, filed, and tagged. I coordinate account coverage when someone’s out, and I do a lot of the CSRs’ timesucking repetitive work like closing files for billing. Everything has been disorganized, with problems ignored for years, so I fix that.

      I do not have a bachelor’s degree.

  194. Potter/ PT Retail*

    Working as a cashier PT for $11/hr while I start up my own pottery business, mostly online.

    Since starting in July, have made almost $4,000 on my pottery, by working out of my house. Hoping to go at it full time by this time next year!

    BFA late in life, after making $35k/ year as a case manager for a non-profit, and many other admin/ office related jobs.

    1. Marisol*

      I think it would be ok to give a plug to your pottery business–I like to know about artisans who sell their own work and I’m sure others here would like to know too. Would you post your website so we can peruse?

    2. Awesomite*

      That is awesome to be able to make money creating art. I know it’s work, but it’s inspiring!

  195. Early Childhood Teacher*

    Specialist in infant and toddler development, no degree (some college), 8 years experience. Expensive for-profit preschool/childcare that pays similar wages at most locations in the US and Canada, regardless of cost of living.

    $11 an hour. I would get a 5% raise if I finished my degree.

    2. Teacher's Aide*

      Job: 4-year-old kindergarten teacher’s aide. I work with one licensed teacher and together we manage 2 classes in 2 different schools. Typical class size is 20-23 students. This is a public school district.

      Location: rural/small town Wisconsin (USA)

      Years of experience: 5.5

      Salary: $17,000 ($13.50/hr)

      I have a bachelor’s degree in an unrelated field. My job only requires a high school degree, and my degree has no bearing on my rate of pay. As far as I know there is no possibility of negotiation for pay (at least for support staff) and experience does not affect pay (same hourly rate for everybody with the same position).

  196. CA Admin*

    Job: Administrative Assistant
    Salary: $65,000 / year + OT and bonuses (~$80,000 total in 2016)
    Location: San Francisco
    Industry: Private Equity
    Years of Experience: 2.5
    Other info: I was the firm’s Receptionist before moving into a AA role. I support 5 people, including a Partner, Principal, and VP. I do the work of the Executive Assistants at the firm (in terms of who I support) and am likely to be promoted in the next year.

  197. Public Information Officer*

    Area: Los Angeles
    Experience: 10 years
    Salary: 77,000

    Job – managing internal & external communications for local-level gov’t agency, incl. writing news articles & press releases, preparing executive briefings, handling media requests, responding to public inquiries, maintaining social media presence & occasional photo/graphics/layout work.

    1. Public Information Officer*

      experience clarification – <1 year at this job, 9+ in PR & digital marketing overall, primarily in nonprofits + a master's

  198. Project Manager*

    – My role as a project manager involves determining requirements, establishing priorities and monitoring progress. I evaluate project status and resource utilization and make recommendations to improve the team’s effectiveness by integrating agile tools and best practices. I conduct analysis on mid-sized, time-limited projects or components of larger projects and consult with business teams to develop new agile processes and policy solutions to address highly complex business needs.

    – Denver, CO

    – I have 3 years of project management experience in the fields of software development, telecommunications and the cable industry. I did not earn a Project Management Professional certification (PMP)

    – $76,000 annual salary + $7,000 in annual employer paid benefits (401k, HSA, dental and medical)

    – Factors that may have an influence on my salary

    1. I earned a Master of Science degree from the top ranked university (non-engineering) in the state, according to U.S. News & World Report (http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/university-denver-1371)

    2. I asked for $85,000

  199. Student Affairs Administrator*

    Officially the “Associate Director for Student Conduct”
    Job: Oversee the office that handles all cases of student conduct for a college campus.
    Location: mid-size city in the midwest
    Salary: $55,000
    Experience/Education: 10 in the field of Student Affairs, graduate degree in higher education

  200. Applications Engineer*

    – Applications Engineer in the power industry
    Providing product and technical sales support, evaluating/processing RMA’s, staffing tradeshows.
    Only 2 apps engineers supporting the US region – other position is a senior-level employee with 11+ years with this company.
    – Wisconsin
    – BSEE in 2007
    8 years with a previous company supporting microcontroller-based products
    have been in my current role for almost 2 years.
    – 78,000 salary
    plus up to an additional 16% discretionary bonus (based on personal goals AND company performance) annually after the first year
    -24 days of PTO (incl. sick leave), 17 paid holidays
    -Health insurance premium is offset by company’s 401k contribution
    all health insurance copays are also eligible for reimbursement. (Swiss-based company ftw)

  201. Software Engineer - 15+ years*

    Software engineer – C++/Linux – EDA (currently, but other fields previously and they seem similar)

    Portland, Oregon metro
    15+ years experience

    Just over $100,000 a year, plus very good benefits (health; 401k matching; but also free gym membership and the like). Plus a 5% bonus scheme.

  202. Director of Operations*

    Job: finance, business, and logistics management for a small arts nonprofit/performing ensemble
    Area: NYC
    Years: <1 year in this job, 6 years in arts management overall
    Salary: $52,500

  203. Secretary in an Academic Archive*

    I perform the basic admin tasks (answering the phone, ordering supplies, filing) but also work on exhibits and preservation.
    New England
    3 years at this job, 4 years experience in general entry-level archival settings
    Starting $14/hr. Currently $15/hr
    Academia is of course wide and varied, $14/hr is (was) the basic starting rate for paraprofessionals. Benefits are good and I was able to receive tuition reimbursement while I worked on my Master’s. Unfortunately, now that I have my Master’s I’m underpaid for my qualifications.

  204. Technical Writer*

    Job: Write user documentation, including installation, developer, sysadmin, concepts, and API guides, release notes, and online help. Provide UX feedback and UI wording, edit developer-written content.
    Industry: Software/telecom.
    Geographical area: Big city in Ontario, Canada
    Years experience: 4
    Salary (before tax): 62,000
    Additional info: Giant company, flexible work environment, decent benefits (including dental and drug coverage, RRSP matching, 4 weeks vacation). I’m at the bottom of the level 3 salary band (level 1 being no experience, entry-level). We often don’t get a focal budget, so raises aren’t an every-year thing.

  205. Graphic Artist*

    Graphic Artist (non textile/non ad agency) I’ve done a little bit of this and that and a lot of being a print specialist over the years.
    New York, NY
    37 years doing it (OMG!!!!)
    Current salary: $52,000
    Starting salary at the very beginning: $9,000
    There seems to be a need for packaging designers right now – which I haven’t done.

    1. Senior Copywriter*

      I started as a copywriter 34 years ago, and my starting salary was $11,000. Scary, huh? ;)

  206. Teacher*

    I teach 6th-12th grade humanities, language, composition, and rhetoric at a small private school in the midwest/south. This is my 9th year at the school and my 8th in this position. I make $22,000/year.

    1. me*

      Another private school teacher

      I teach AP math classes at a small private school in the southwest
      Also department head
      $50,000/yr, normal school vacations

      MA in Education, 8 years of teaching

  207. Marketing Manager*

    I am responsible for all of my company’s content marketing (blogs, press releases, social media, resources, website copy) and for working with freelancers (e.g. graphic designers, video editors).

    your geographic area: South East (outside London), UK
    your years of experience: 3 in marketing, 1 at this company
    your salary: £30,000

  208. Financial Management Analyst*

    Analyst for the government in a developmental program rotating jobs every 6 months.
    Indiana
    50,106
    Overall 1 year 8 months in the government

  209. Program Manager (Academic)*

    Job: Outreach, event coordination, project management in higher education.
    Location: Boston
    About 8 years of progressive experience
    54,000

    1. Another Program Manager (Education)*

      Job: Program Manager for a for-profit after school company. Supervises teachers, sells new programs, manages client relationships
      Location: NYC
      Experience: 1 year teaching, 2.5 managing
      Salary: $50,000
      Other info: no Master’s degree (those who have a Master’s at my company make more)

    2. Research Project Coordinator*

      Job: Public Health research coordinator at medium-sized academic institution
      Location: large metro area in Midwest
      Experience: 3 years
      Salary: $47,500 (just got bumped in anticipation of new FLSA- was 41,000- boss let me keep the raise)

  210. Higher Ed Admin*

    Job: Higher education administration for an academic department in the sciences. I support faculty, keep up with appointments/reappointments, promotion & tenure, etc. I also supervise 3 direct reports who are responsible for graduate and undergraduate program coordination.
    Location: Large city in Texas
    Experience: 8 years in higher education, including a stint as a professional academic librarian (I also have a MLS). I have been in my current position for less than a year.
    Salary: $52,000

  211. Director of Communications/PR Coordinator - USA Division*

    I work for manufacturing company (B2B and B2c) that sells internationally and creates retail items that are sold both through distributors/department stores/individual retailers and company-owned stores and acompany-owned online shop. I wear many hats but am responsible for writing/editing English language public facing documents and press-releases; assist in running social media presence, and do a lot of other things as needed, from representing the company at exhibitions/trade shows to doing trend research or providing feedback on future merchandising.

    Geographic Region: North America – the actual North American Office is located on the West Coast, but I work remotely, the company headquarters is overseas

    2 years experience; honestly I was hired with no background in retail or marketing

    $40,000/year, 11 paid holidays, PTO, and 100% health coverage (with high deductible and office visit fees)

    1. Director of Communications/PR Coordinator - USA Division*

      To clarify – I have plenty of experience in retail (i.e cashier level, food service) but not the corporate level of marketing and communication strategies where I ended up

      I have grad degrees – in the humanities — which are completely unrelated to my current position

      Also my title is grossly inflated. This was what my VP wanted; honestly I feel like a 1 person department always running 10 directions 90% of the time, and then every once in a while I just sit there and spin my wheels…

  212. Event Coordinator*

    (My job title is approximate here, because googling my real specific-yet-meaningless title turns up my staff bio.)

    My job is 90% event management for a grad program with about 350 students–I do conferences, lectures, graduation parties, and whatever else we have on the calendar. The other 10% is advising some of our student groups.

    Washington DC
    1.5 years of experience, plus another 2 as a part-time or student employee
    Salary: $48,500
    Notable benefits: 17 vacation days + 17 paid holidays; full tuition benefits for my own MA
    I also get paid as much overtime as I need, which, since many events are outside of work hours, is a lot–I’m new to the job but am told that my predecessor earned “thousands” in overtime each year.

    1. Meeting planner for conventions and tradeshows*

      Interesting, you and I do pretty much the same type of thing (I am a meeting planner for conventions and trade shows) and we make the same amount and benefits (except no overtime for me, I’m salaried – the hours we pull in this industry are insane!). I am on the West Coast with about the same amount of experience.

    2. Event Manager*

      Enjoy that paid OT benefit! We just get time in lieu, which is not very valuable when there is no free time to be taken. :P

      Technically we have flexible hours, I suppose, but again, working 12+ hours a day in season makes it an earned benefit, not a freebee.

      1. Meeting planner for conventions and tradeshows*

        How much time do you get in lieu of overtime? We get one day off per show we travel to.

  213. Information Literacy Coordinator at a College Library*

    Job: Coordinate library instruction activities and oversee librarian teaching (without direct management). Also serve as a public services liaison to several departments.
    Geography: West Coast metro area
    Experience: 6 years post MLS. Without tenure.
    Salary: 58k for 12 month

    1. Information Literacy Coordinator at a College Library*

      I should clarify – it’s tenure-track but I’ve been at this position less than the 5-6 year tenure clock

  214. Customer Success Manager*

    Strategic Customer Success Manager:
    Working for a SAAS company, I work with strategic (larger) customers to evaluate their business processes and translate them into improved workflows via our software. I also provide onsite/ virtual training and provide general support (above and beyond our standard technical support team).
    Location: Seattle
    Experience: 10 years, BSci Environmental Sciences
    $90+k (the + indicates performance-tied bonuses)

  215. Human Resources Assistant*

    Payroll processing, benefits administration (health, dental, vision, HRA, FSA, life and disability products), new hire onboarding, records maintenance, incident reporting, compliance and labor reporting, some recruiting, I’m forgetting a lot, I think
    Charlotte, NC
    3 years, in position and field
    ~$37,000/year

  216. Research Investigator*

    I manage a portfolio of agricultural products with regard to analytical chemistry methods. I’m responsible for providing new and historical data to regulatory bodies (think EPA) around the world, as well as supporting laboratories in manufacturing sites. I am also responsible for analytical method development for quantification of active ingredients and impurities (these methods also go to the regulators and the manufacturing sites). I manage one lab technician.
    Area: Delaware
    Experience: 1.5 years with a Ph.D (hired right out of grad school, with 3 years of experience at the Bachelor’s level)
    Salary: $103,000

    [The title is standard for people at my position in my (very large) company. No matter what division you work in you’re usually a Research Investigator if you have a Ph.D and <10 years of experience]

  217. Electrical Engineer*

    I’m an electrical engineer working in an MEP design firm. We design the power/HVAC/lighting/plumbing/fire protection systems for commercial buildings. Anything ranging from a conference room getting converted to two offices, to a 800,000 square foot new construction warehouse, to converting an office building to a medical lab.

    My firm is in Boston, MA, and most of the work is either downtown, or in a surrounding suburb, though we do get the occasional job out of state

    5 years of experience. I don’t have my FE or my PE yet. I’ll get a small bump with an FE, a BIG on with the PE.

    I make about $76,000 a year, with a typical bonus of about $4,000. The amount isn’t guaranteed and is based on a variety of factors that I’ve never really had defined for me.

    1. Electrical Engineer*

      I hold this exact same position (electrical engineer for MEP design firm). I’m at a management level with a few engineers working under me.

      Los Angeles, CA

      6.5 years of experience. I have the FE, taking the PE in April this year.

      $82,000 a year with very aggressive discretionary mid year and end of year bonus structure (last year bonuses totaled $20,000).

  218. Credentialing Specialist*

    Credentialing for a nursing agency, includes primarily RNs, LPNs, CNAs. Make sure they continue to turn in certifications and other items required by the facilities we staff; credentialing new nurses fully when we hire them

    South Louisiana, United States

    Less than 1 year (moved to Credentialing in Oct 2016 from Staffing. Worked Staffing for over 2 years prior)

    $33,000/year ($16.00 hourly pay, non-exempt)

    Plus full benefits offered (full benefits minus retirement plan-we don’t have one offered through the company); bonuses offered (if earned) but very small and not worth factoring in to salary but I will expand on this if anyone asks

    2. Hospital Medical Staff Office Manager*

      25% Credentialing and privileging of the medical staff that uses the hospital
      25% Internal regulation development and external regulation compliance
      25% Administration duties including meeting management
      12.5% Event and education planning and management
      12.5% Staffing the metaphorical PSYCHIATRIC HELP 5 Cents booth

      60K, full benefits, decent vacation policy. Upper Midwest. I manage a small staff and have >10 years of experience in medical and research administration. I have an unrelated (humanities) BA and MA.

    3. Another Credentialing Specialist*

      Medical credentialing in for a non-profit specializing in rural communities
      Upper Midwest
      2 years
      $34,000-ish (paid hourly)
      First job remotely related to my degree in human resources

  219. Digital advertising executive*

    Principal at a ~20-person digital advertising firm
    DC
    10 years experience
    ~$170K/year, including bonuses and commissions

  220. Assistant Professor*

    Assistant Professor in the social sciences, private university
    Mountain West
    Experience: PhD and some previous experience, but not up for tenure yet
    $67,000 + regular opportunities to pick up extra money with consulting and teaching on the side

    1. Assistant Professor*

      Assistant Professor in the humanities, private university (Catholic)
      Midwest
      Experience: PhD and some previous relevant professional work, 18 months until I put together my packet for tenure
      $57,000 for teaching a 3/3 load

    2. Associate Professor*

      * Associate Professor in the social sciences, public college
      – Teach 3 courses each semester with 80-100 students total; academic advisor to 40 or so students
      – Conduct research and publish the results in academic journals
      – Ever more committee/admin service: developing and assessing curricula and co-curricular projects, faculty orientation and professional development, diversity and campus climate, strategic planning, alumni and donor outreach, recruiting prospective students, plus manuscript reviews and committee service for professional societies

      * Non-metro Northeast US, low COL

      * 11 years here plus a few years before

      * $65,000 base salary + 10% to my 403(b) + GREAT health ins + $2000-$3000/year in royalties

      * This is an academic-year appointment; I do work year round, but they can’t make me teach or come to meetings in the summer. I could try to get grants to pay me a summer salary. I can do extra teaching or service for additional compensation; I usually get about $5000 or so.

  221. Sr. Tech Writer*

    S.F. Bay Area
    Unlike the tech writer above, I get very little direct written input. Gather technical input in various ways, including: Read specs, talk to experts, follow email threads, attend technical meetings, work directly with product. Also give feedback on product design.
    Over 20 years as a tech writer
    ABD in a stem field (ie, PhD level, but didn’t complete), with a consolation masters
    $130,000

  222. Communications Specialist*

    Internal communications consultant and content creator for an academic medical center. I write on behalf of institutional leaders for two divisions and provide advice on best ways to reach their target audiences. Writing internal news articles and longform pieces for various publications. Many other duties (writing and event-planning) as assigned.
    Texas
    7
    $60,000
    Work for the government and academia, so salaries/promotions/etc are very regimented and algorithmed – I started at $58,212/year.

  223. Accountant*

    job : accountant at a large non-profit (but not a hospital) specializing in reporting (financial statements, tax return) with four clerical direct reports
    geographic area : metropolitan southwest
    years of experience : 30 years
    salary : $109,000 per year
    pertinent : professional license and master’s degree

  224. Programmer/System Analyst 2*

    job:
    I am a full stack programmer for a K-12 charter school. We develop and maintain systems for ordering of supplies, communications, integration with other systems, and other projects to support the business and instructional activites for the school. We are a large school (over 5000 students spread out in a region the size of Vermont). I also act as 3rd tier support for our users. Part of my individual role is to make sure the team is staying on track from week to week in order to meet our goals and dealines and act as a system architect.

    Region: Outside of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California.

    years of experience: 8 years professional and another 10 of amateur/hobby

    Salary: $92,500.

    context: Salaried Non-Exempt. 10 days vacation per year, 21 other holidays. Currently maxed out on steps and haven’t hit my longevity.

    Work recently did a salary survey and the results of which brought the programmers up quite a bit and we are now at the high end for our local area. San Francisco is still only a few hours away and compared to that we are on the low end. So it is a balance of what we could earn and wanting to stay here.

    1. Systems Analyst/Programmer II*

      Same title, different location, and I think way underpaid.

      Degree: BS Computer Science, minor Math

      Job: database developer (mostly), working with Oracle SQL, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, SSIS, Excel VBA programming – lots of back-end and reporting. Currently working for a gas utility, but have also worked for a corporate farm, a city government, a federal government contractor, a testing laboratory, and a medical device manufacturer. I’ve worked on payroll, GIS, front and back-end, maintenance, documentation, teaching, billing, technical support, anything and everything for small to large companies, but always gravitating towards the databases.

      Region: eastern WA

      Years of experience: nearly 30

      Salary: $67,696. I’ve earned as high as a bit over 74k, but that was before the last layoff. I’m on the low end of our salary scale, and it hits my confidence pretty hard. They say they like my work, but … On the other hand, I enjoy the work (I love databases!), I enjoy my co-workers, I enjoy the challenges. I like everything about the job except the pay. And I’m close enough to retirement age, I’m not sure I’m willing to go for higher pay and maybe lose some of those other benefits. I’ve been here a bit over 4 years, so I’m finally clawing my way up to getting more than 2 weeks vacation, and I don’t want to start over for that, either.

  225. Software Engineer*

    Job: software engineer working at a tech company
    Location: Seattle
    Experience: 4.5 years at this company, hired straight out of college. Had internships elsewhere
    Salary: ~$125k, plus another $50k or so in stock

  226. Academic Librarian*

    Mid-level management role; I manage 1 FTE professional staff
    Location: Boston area
    Experience: ~20 years
    Education required: I hold an MILS and a second master’s degree
    Salary: $84,500 plus 5 weeks PTO and pretty good benefits

  227. Managing editor*

    National business to business publication for niche market. Find and write articles, assign to freelancers, update website, social media and layout and design monthly print edition.
    Northern New England
    13 years in industry, 11 years at this company
    $40,000 per year
    Haven’t had a raise since I was promoted to this job about 5 years ago (ad sales are down), but get fours weeks of vacation seven days personal/sick time, paid holidays and generally treated like a human being.

  228. Senior Database Administrator*

    Microsoft SQL database administrator
    I am a system datababase administrator that ensures the server performance and uptime
    12 years experience
    KCMO
    $105,000

  229. Insurance Defense Attorney*

    Job: I represent insured persons or companies in lawsuits, largely construction companies
    Region: Utah
    Experience 5 years
    Salary $85000

  230. Librarian*

    My job: I do reference, instruction, and collection development for a particular subject at a university. Since it is academic there are the usual committee and professional service requirements as well as my day to day job.
    Location: Upstate New York
    Years of experience: 10+
    Annual salary: $63,000
    Added compensation: Benefits and vacation time at the university are amazing.

  231. Events Coordinator*

    Coordinate several large-scale benefit dinners per year in addition to smaller cultivation events for a nonprofit
    Washington, DC
    6 years experience
    $48,000

  232. Senior Architectural Executive*

    Job – being part of an architectural design team, handling design concepts, drawing and reviewing up the plans for submission and client presentations, presenting aforementioned design to client, making authority submissions for building permits.
    Location – Singapore
    Experience – 8 years
    Salary – 67,200 SGD a year, so around 47,000 not including bonuses (which are subject to the economy). Benefits includes medical and annual leave.

  233. health policy analyst (fed gov't)*

    your job: policy analyst for a large federal public insurance program (you know the one). tons of technical writing, operations work, implementation of major federal rules and policies, etc.
    your geographic area: baltimore/DC
    your years of experience: 3 years in this job; 1 year before this post-grad school (i have a master’s); in the general health/human services field for 11 years during/between periods of schooling
    your salary: $80k
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: $15k of my salary is the federal COLA adjustment. the “base” is $64k.

  234. Program Coordinator*

    I work at a private university in Washington, DC. I mainly do administration and program coordination.
    -3 years experience
    -$55k and tuition benefits

    In DC, housing is like $2500 for a one bedroom. So unless you have a significant other that you live with, things get expensive fast. I would imagine this position would pay less elsewhere.

    1. (also) Program Coordinator*

      I work at a private university in Western NY
      15 years experience
      -$32K, tuition benefits , and TWENTY FIVE vacation days/unlimited sick time

      My housing cost is $525 per month, so I think our salaries might be comparable

  235. Web Developer/Programmer*

    – Web Developer/Programmer
    – Madison, WI
    – 5 years in this type of position, additional 3 years in general IT support positions
    – $73K

    1. Web Developer*

      Job: Senior Web Developer at a public university. I work for the largest college within the university, and I oversee our public websites (about 150 at last count). I handle updates to our CMS, tech support, training faculty and staff, and developing custom templates and themes for our major sites. I oversee a couple of students, and recently started managing another full-time staff position, our web application developer. I’ll be helping this position transition to agile development, version control, etc.

      Location: College town in Southeastern United States

      Experience: 7 years. I have a BA in English. I worked here as a student, and just got hired at the right time. I used to do mainly content updates and very little development, but I’ve learned on the job. Handed off most of the content work to other non-technical folks.

      Compensation: $49K, 22 days of vacation in addition to spring break and Christmas break, lots of sick leave, a pension, great health insurance. I could probably make more in the private sector, but I like this job, the benefits are great, and I value the flexibility as a new parent.

  236. Research Consultant*

    Job: I work for a mid-size consulting firm focused on healthcare/public health/etc. Clients are generally government agencies. I function as a consultant doing lots of data analysis, etc.
    Geographic area: Washington D.C.
    Experience: 2 years (B.S. and an M.P.H.)
    Salary: $74,000 + merit-based bonuses (only a fraction of employees end up getting a bonus each year) + 23 days PTO (vacation/sick time) + decent healthcare coverage but nothing great. Limited ability to work remotely (i.e. not regularly, only in one-off situations).

    1. Environmental Consultant*

      Mine’s very similar so I’m nesting it here.

      – Job: Mid-level staff (“associate” title) at a consulting firm supporting environment-/public health-related projects for federal clients. Project management, desk-based research and analysis (lit review, data crunching, regulation development support, training/outreach, report writing), some business development, (currently) one direct report.
      – Geographic area: Washington D.C.
      – Experience: 8 years (started after undergrad, got an MPH while working, have had a bunch of promotions)
      – Salary: $75k (I’m a little underpaid relative to other people at my level because I’ve worked at the same place my whole professional career and in this field it’s definitely easier to get money in salary negotiations vs. in raises)
      – Benefits etc.: 4 weeks vacation, 10 federal holidays plus 2 personal days/floating holidays, 7 days sick time, good health insurance, very flexible attitudes toward work schedules/locations, moderate billable hour requirements, 401(k) match plus ESOP benefits, assorted extras like a tuition reimbursement program

        1. Environmental Consultant*

          Hi! I’m glad I checked back. In hiring (other than for super entry-level positions), we mostly look for subject matter knowledge (geology, toxicology, chemistry, hydrology, biology, health communication, whatever) plus experience in some kind of government setting (either directly or as a consultant/contractor, ideally with one of our key client agencies). Feel free to email me if you want – peagreenpoems at gmail. I can send you a link to our firm’s career page.

    2. Consulting Associate*

      Job: Project management, research, report writing, roughly 20% travel to client sites. Clients are mostly not-for-profit organizations. I work on healthcare, STEM research, and education projects.
      Location: Boston
      Experience: Less than one year – this was my starting salary right out of grad school
      Salary: $70,000 + bonuses
      Benefits: 3 weeks vacation, 11 holidays, ‘unlimited’ sick time, 100% of health/dental insurance premiums paid by employer

  237. Finance and Human Resources (Senior Manager)*

    Job: oversee all financial and human resource responsibilities for a small non-profit (annual budget $5M)
    Location: New York, NY
    Experience: 12 years relevant experience, 18 years professional experience
    Salary: $78,000

    Other info: I have an MA in a field that relates to the type of work the non-profit does, but I do not have an accounting degree.

  238. Dog Wrangler*

    Location: Mid-Atlantic greater metro

    Occupation: Business owner, social dog boarding

    Experience: <5 years running, but 10 years of animal and veterinary care experience prior to opening

    Salary: Just raised it to $19k. Last January I gave myself my first salary paycheck from the business. Total salary last year was <$9k, but profits brought that number up to closer to $17k. For comparison, when I lived in the Midwest, I was paid ~$8/hour for the same job description as an employee.

  239. Marketing Representative*

    Job Desc: All marketing & advertising for North America for a manufacturer based in Europe. This includes trade shows, advertising, special events, email/direct mail marketing, etc.
    Area: Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
    Years of Exp: 20 yrs sales & marketing; almost 4 years with current company.
    Salary: $78,000

  240. University administrator*

    I coordinate the admin team for a professional programme in a large university.
    Wales, UK
    Five years experience in education admin.
    £27,000
    My workplace is very supportive, is paying for me to study elsewhere and offers an outrageously large amount of leave, which is worth more to me than the higher salary I could probably get elsewhere.

  241. Research Planning Manager*

    your job: Research Development at a large public university (mostly limited submissions and other internal competitions)
    your geographic area: Research Triangle, North Carolina
    your years of experience: ~2
    your salary: $48K
    anything else: I have a master’s degree, with my graduate school experience being seen as a positive in this area

  242. Recruiting/Project Manager*

    Manage recruting for nannies, housekeepers and senior caregivers for a home staffing company. Additionally manage random projects as needed involving web design changes, app creation, training program updates, etc. Essentially if it doesn’t fit neatly into a category, the job goes to me.
    Westchester County, NY
    1 year relevant experience
    Salary: ~$62,000/year
    Base: $36,400 Commission: ~$26,000
    Commission is for hitting certain goals for recruiting, a percentage on placements and a percentage on regular services. This is my first year here and that number is what I’d expect to get in a full year at the rate I’m currently making.

  243. Deskside Technical Analyst \ Team Lead*

    My Job: Evaluate technical needs of our staff and approve / deny the use of new hardware / software. I also lead the Deskside team for my region in all the support needs of our users.
    Geographic Region: Southwest – Arizona
    Experience: 5 years in my current role, 15 years in technology
    Salary: $75,000
    Other: I am really good at what I do, and have gained a lot of trust from decision makers in this company.

      1. Deskside Technical Analyst \ Team Lead*

        Oh man! I really want to see that job description now. So long as I’m not stationed on the death star – those pesky rebels keep blowing it up!

  244. Computer Application Administrator*

    Job: I manage an event management software program for an interdisciplinary arts organization. This includes training, trouble shooting, light SQL report writing, managing and implementing projects related to the software, etc.

    Area: Toronto, Canada

    Years Experience: In the full breadth of my job duties, zero because I’ve only been in this job for two months. I was an enthusiastic end-user for six-ish years before moving into this role.

    Salary: $61,000 CAD / $46,000 USD (wow, the Canadian dollar is terrible right now)

    Other info: I have (separate) certificates in Arts Administration and Project Management in addition to my Fine Arts degree, but I don’t think those impacted any of the above in a major way.

    1. Event Manager*

      Fascinating! I’m an event manager elsewhere in Ontario who is the primary end-user for our sales and project management systems. I’d love to get into a similar role, as customizing software applications is my favourite part of the job, and I spend a lot of time training new staff and troubleshooting user issues due to our complex build. Any tips/advice?

      Thread contribution:

      Event sales and customer service manager (music industry). I manage 16-20 seasonal staff, 50 event volunteers, and report to my organization’s ED.

      Years’ Experience: 3 in this role, 2 additional with the organization as a project coordinator, 12 years in the workforce overall.

      Salary: $55,000 CAD

      Other info: I have a MA from a well-regarded university that is tangentially related to my job (aka looks good on paper).

      1. Event Manager*

        Forgot to add:

        Benefits: RSP matching – 3%
        Fruit and coffee in the break room
        Friends and family tickets to our events
        Annual conferences, etc. based on cost and distance
        No health insurance – biggest issue for me and likely the reason I would leave the organization. This alone is about $10,000 a year pre-tax for me.

  245. Associate - financial risk management*

    I hello manage capital risk and an the tabs contact on the topic with other group and act as the tabs defacto secretary and make sure all follow ups from meetings get competed and plan topics and make materials for our management meetings.

    Greater Boston area

    $100k (base + target bonus of 15%)

  246. Museum Educator*

    Job: Running public programs (lectures, etc.)
    Industry: Nonprofit/arts/museums
    Geographic Area: Ohio
    Years of experience: 6
    Salary: $38,000

  247. Marketing Manager*

    Job: Run a marketing team at a small company (~30 employees). Really more a “director of marketing” type role – I report directly to the CEO and I’m 100% responsible/accountable for everything that’s even remotely marketing-related.
    Area: Eastern Ontario
    Years of Experience: 8
    Salary: $90K (cad) & good benefits

  248. Business Manager*

    Job: Manage leases, track expenditures, make program purchases, set up new processes, manage data and supervise our data coordinator for HMIS (Homeless management information system), interface with state’s dep’t of housing who we contract with. Essentially: Nonprofit operations manager with a focus on data & finances
    Location: Boston, MA
    Experience: 6-7ish professionally (office assistant, Admin, invoicing team lead to business manager in new org). Working on master’s degree
    Salary: $49,680

  249. Meeting planner for conventions and tradeshows*

    Job: we do a very niche part of meeting planning of which there are very few companies that do this, so I won’t say what it is. But we are part of the meeting planning process for conventions and trade shows.
    Industry: Events/Meetings/Exhibitions
    Years of Experience: 1 (was in another similar industry for 5 years before this)
    Salary: $48,500 (+undefined annual bonus)
    Additional info: small company.

    1. Meeting planner for conventions and tradeshows*

      These comments have been so helpful! I now see that to make more money I need to go in-house at a large scale Fortune 500 type company. Since I only have a year of experience under my belt, maybe that can be more of a long term goal – if I want to stay in this industry. I am already pretty tired of it all but feel like I might be stuck since my job is so niche now, there are only a few places I can go from here without going back to school.

  250. Executive Assistant to Commercial Real Estate Developer*

    Austin, Texas
    0 years of experience being an executive assistant specifically, but I have been a paralegal and office manager previously (I have 5 years of professional working experience)
    71k

  251. Marketing Communications Writer*

    Website content writing and marketing communications copyediting for a big law firm
    Area: New York, NY
    Experience: 3 years
    $72,000/ year

  252. Geographer (GIS)*

    Geographer (GIS) Federal Government GS 12
    10 years experience (1 year in GS service)
    Gulfport, MS
    $71,000

  253. Director of Media and Communications*

    I head up a team of 25 full-time people, including writers, editors, PR and designers; and a varying number of freelancers and other contractors. I have six direct reports who are responsible for different areas of my company’s online, print and other media outreach. My organisation also has a small publishing arm which I oversee.

    I set strategy for communications, social and digital, manage our brand, am the point of contact for press and other outside inquiries, and spend a lot of time managing the wider team (about half of whom are in-house; we have a number of remote workers, several of whom are overseas). I’m in charge of hiring across this part of the organisation.

    I also work with other parts of our company, like our projects teams and web teams, to make sure messaging is consistent and on point. I also make sure I’m producing some of our editorial content every week and that I’m getting my hands dirty alongside our copyeditors, which helps me work more closely with the team and to have a better oversight of what we’re dealing with at any given moment.

    I’m based in the UK.

    I’ve been working in journalism, publishing, PR and associated fields for 20 years. I’ve been in this role for eight years. I’m currently paid £80k (about $97k), and I make an additional £10-15k every year through book royalties which are independent from my day job (which my work knows about and is happy with). I’m also a Non-Executive Director at another organisation which works in a field adjacent to my particular sort of teapots, which brings in a few thousand pounds more every year. Again, my company is very happy with this situation.

    This is the most senior role I’ve held. I love my job and I’m very proud of the work we do. I work with some great people, I report to a really great board, the money’s good, and there isn’t really anything I’d change. I don’t really turn off from work: I’m dealing with something from the moment I wake up until I go to bed at night, and I usually do several hours on Saturdays and Sundays as well.

    I’m expecting our first child at the moment (I am in my 40s), and it’ll be…interesting to see what impact that has on my job, given the amount of time and emotional resource that currently goes into my work. I have a year of maternity leave (god bless the UK) and will have a nanny as well; I’m pretty sure we’ll be able to work things out so I can keep being a good boss as well as the great parent I want to be, but it’s causing me quite a lot of worry at the moment.

    2. Marketing Head*

      Can I ask which part of the UK? I have a similar role in Scotland and it’s useful for benchmarking!

  254. Executive Assistant*

    Job: Personal assistant to CEO
    Geographic area: Cincinnati, OH
    Years of experience: 40
    Salary: $60K

  255. Public Interest Attorney*

    work at a nonprofit that provides pro bono legal assistance to folks at or near poverty level
    western new york
    4 years experience
    50,000
    overall very happy with job, great health benefits and generous pto. that said, no real retirement plan (this concerns me) and raises are all small step increases according to time at org or promotion (these are hard to get)

    1. Legal Aid Attorney*

      I’ll piggy-back here since our jobs are pretty similar.
      * Staff attorney at an LSC-funded legal aid program (free civil legal aid to folks under ~125% of the federal poverty level)
      * mid-size city in a predominantly rural midwest state
      * 10 years experience
      * $54,500
      * We have good benefits, including generous vacation and sick leave and a 401(k) with fairly generous match. Raises are small step increases according to years of experience, but we have recently been able to negotiate some increases that have gotten us up closer to the market rate for similar programs. Our health insurance is decent, but always a target as costs go up.

    2. Nonprofit Managing Attorney*

      Managing attorney for a nonprofit that provides pro bono legal assistance.
      Small/medium city in Texas
      1.5 years at this job, 4 years post-bar
      58,000

      Benefits are good for a nonprofit, but nothing extraordinary.

    3. Pro Bono Manager / Pro Bono Coordinator*

      I’m going to jump in here as well since my job is kind of related.

      * pro bono coordinator at large law firm
      * 3 years experience
      * 60k
      * I really enjoy my job, because I get to use large firm resources to help people who need it most.

    4. Legal Aid Attorney*

      I know this life. Work at a non-profit providing legal education and support to marginalized people.

      Bay Area, CA
      2 years experience
      $52,000
      Generous PTO, great office culture, love what I’m doing, but it’s very difficult to save money and pay back my loans on this income. I can only do it now because I’m very healthy and don’t have dependents. I’d be freaking out if I had children or were preparing to retire!

  256. Digital Content Marketer*

    1. I wear a lot of hats, but I primarily both produce and manage web projects and manage our blog content strategy, SEO and analytics reporting.
    2. Southern California
    3. Web-specific work, 14 years; writing and editing, 25 years
    4. $79k

  257. Toronto*

    Assistant FOI Coordinator – Provincial Ministry
    Duties mainly involve Freedom of Information Requests and management of Privacy Breach
    1 year at the job
    Union
    $71 000 annually; within the pay band publicly published

  258. Adult education teacher*

    I work in a prison teaching GED and employment classes.
    Greater western pa/ne Ohio/wv area
    5 years experience as a teacher
    Salary $62,200

  259. Lawyer*

    Job: Associate-level lawyer at big law firm
    Geographic area: Boston metro
    Experience: Graduated law school in 2011
    Salary: $210k? (not sure because I may not get pay raise this year due to job change/seniority drop and have yet to receive first paycheck for 2017)
    Add’l context: People who work at law firms like mine generally all make the same amount of money in lockstep until they become partner or get off partner track (http://abovethelaw.com/2016/06/breaking-ny-to-180k-cravath-raises-associate-base-salaries/)

    1. Lawyer - Of Counsel*

      Another lawyer here. Of counsel at large regional law firm in the southeast. 20 years experience. $195,000

    2. also a biglaw associate*

      That’s why I wasn’t planning to add a new comment – anyone who wants to know what biglaw associates make already know what biglaw associates make.

      I’m class of 2013, so just as the link says, I make $235k (the link in Lawyer’s comment is from 2016 so as of January, everybody got bumped up to the next level). Year-end bonuses are also generally on a lock-step scale for the whole industry, so for 2017 I will get a $60k bonus if I hit my benchmark number of hours (not hard at my firm, there’s plenty of work to go around; the challenge is not billing several hundred more hours than required for basically no extra pay, just kudos). http://abovethelaw.com/2016/11/associate-bonus-watch-cravath-announces-its-2016-associate-bonuses/

      One of the things that is NOT always publicly available or consistent across firms is what the minimum number of hours is to qualify for a bonus. At my firm, it’s 1950.

      1. also a biglaw associate*

        I should have included that I get credit for all pro bono hours toward my benchmark, but business development, administrative tasks, and professional development do not count (I log them, and they show that I’m not just sitting on my hands during slow weeks, but they don’t help me progress toward my yearly hours benchmark).

        I’m in Los Angeles, but that doesn’t really matter because most big law firms use the same pay scale for all US offices (although some pay a NYC premium).

      2. Also BigLaw Associate*

        Ditto, except that my firm pays below market on a complicated merit-based system, but the scale is still more or less ‘out there’. I’m in DC, also class of 2013 (so 3.5 ish years exp now). My firm hasn’t switched over to the “new market” yet, they’ll announce those raises next month, so I’m still on my 2016 pay of $175k, but should get backpay whenever I find out what my raise is. Bonus eligibility is 1900 hours and I didn’t hit that so I don’t expect a bonus… I’m ok with that. One thing that surprised me is no 401(k) match for associates, which is a bummer.

        1. also a biglaw associate*

          My understanding is that only one AmLaw 200 firm has a 401(k) employer contribution. No matching at all is unfortunately industry standard :(

    3. Biglaw partner*

      FWIW, the salary lockstep thing is actually not as uniform at all outside of NYC, and nor is the lockstep bonus. My firm (AmLaw 50) pays in lockstep within the market, but not across the firm (so all LA fifth years make the same salary, but LA fifth years and Charlotte fifth years do not; we do pay partners at the same level based on where they sit on the salary ladder, regardless of geography). We also don’t pay a lockstep bonus – we pay stepup bonuses based on hours over a certain level, but the big money comes in merit bonuses that your supervising partners have to apply for.

      As for me:
      Job: Income partner at big law firm in specialist corporate practice
      Geographic area: Major city in SE US
      Experience: Graduated law school in 2008
      Salary: $240k base, plus bonus (up to 30%; not sure what it’ll be yet)
      Add’l context: large mandatory retirement contributions (which I’m sure I will be grateful for in the future); excellent health insurance (includes coverage for IVF); access to private childcare facilities (we pay for it, but it’s very good and not open to the public); large life insurance policy paid for by firm; very generous disability insurance paid by firm; paid executive physical; some very large number of weeks of vacation (which I’ve never bothered to keep track of because no one cares how much I take so long as I bill what I need to for the year); 4 months paid maternity leave + ability to take more unpaid; adoption leave; 1 month of paid leave for the parent that did not give birth; and we were providing benefits coverage for the domestic partners/spouses of LGBT people long before gay marriage was legally recognized in my state.

      1. Biglaw partner*

        I should add that when a bunch of peer firms did salary bumps mid-year, we bumped up our associates but not our income partners. We don’t know if partner salaries will be raised commensurately or not; right now, some of our senior associates make more than I do…

      2. also a biglaw associate*

        Interesting – lockstep is uniform for all US offices at all the firms I was looking at during my last job search about 9 months ago. I didn’t interview at any firms with offices in small or low cost of living cities, though – only major metro areas. Most of the firms that ATL was reporting on during the associate raise hike this year raised them across the board, but that’s obviously not All firms. I amend my statement about lockstep throughout the US to “many” firms rather than “most.”

    4. Lawyer - Counsel*

      Medium-large firm (~150 attorneys) in NYC suburbs.
      Specialized practice that deals with litigation, regulatory compliance, and transactional issues.
      Practicing for 10 years, on partner track.
      Salary: $177,000 plus bonus ranging from 10K-20K depending on billable hours.
      Billable requirement: 1900 hours min for bonus.
      Benefits: 401k matching upto 4%; 4 weeks vacation (which I take without issue); decent medical, dental, vision; firm phone and plan (and free reign to use it as personal device); free lunch from firm caf; 12 weeks maternity; option to go part time at any %age down to 50% with corresponding decrease in salary and bonus eligibility (ie, 80% time earns 80% pay, not 75% pay); option to work from home one-two days a week (although ability to use this depends largely on the partner you work for); 20% of payment collected on all matters I originate (for associates and counsel). Very junior associates have lock step salary, but it is converted to merit adjustments pretty early compared to Big Law. Bonuses increase as your billables increase.
      Obviously I’m earning only a fraction of those in nearby NYC big law, but I have reasonable, predictable hours, very few weekends, and almost no asshole partners, so I’ll take it.

      1. Biglaw senior associate*

        Biglaw (+1000 law firm) Senior Associate, Denver
        IP Litigation
        Practicing 7 years
        $240,000 plus bonus based on additional hours worked
        Billable requirements: 1850
        I’m realizing it I have it pretty good based on my hours/salary/location…but it’s still biglaw and I typically work more than 1850 hours.

      2. Associate Attorney / Lawyer (small firm)*

        Associate at small firm in the Bay Area
        IP law, 5 years experience
        Salary: $205,000 and $20k bonus
        Benefits/lifestyle: I work about 35 hours per week; medical benefits are a bit disappointing, 401k without a match

  260. UX Designer*

    Job: I’m a UX designer at a agency. I do research, testing and create wireframes, user flows and write lots of interaction notes. Think of me as the (information) architect behind a website; I make all of the blue prints but I don’t actually build or design it myself.
    Location: Austin, TX
    Experience: 2.5 years. This is my first job out of college (I’m almost 25).
    Salary: $60,000. I was promoted from an Associate a year ago. This is actually pretty low for the field/area and I will be asking for more at our next round of review.
    Benefits: I’m still on parent’s health insurance but the company plan is comprehensive. I get almost 40 paid days off a year and unlimited sick leave. My office is casual and flexible; I can work from home if I need to and attire is fun and casual (think nicer than startup but more chill than business casual). We have 401K matching up to 5%.
    Other Info: I’m a young woman and had no tangible experience with UX design but I had translatable skills. I studied Art History in college so I’m proof that you can get a good job with a liberal arts background!

    1. UX/UI Designer*

      Job: UX-side, same as previous poster, with the addition of leading the project through development (developing requirements and making sure they are met). UI-side, I do the visual design of mobile and web apps, designing all the actual details of the interface. My role is about 70% UX, 30% UI.

      Location: Mid-sized city in southeast USA

      Experience: 1.5 years in UX design; 5 years (overlapping) in UI design / interaction design in general

      Salary: $63,000

      Benefits: Full time work-from-home with the option to come into the office whenever I want. I work 35-40 hours a week with very few late nights or weekends, very reasonable work/life balance. Full medical, decent coverage. Shitty dental benefits that I opted out of. 401k matching 6%. 19 days PTO, unlimited sick days. Most post office holidays observed plus an extra 2 days off each for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Paid attendance to one conference a year of my choice. Pays for out-of-work training classes, books, etc on request. Beautiful office space located in the hip part of town. Casual work environment. Doggies allowed on Thursdays and Fridays (one dog per day, advance sign up).

      Other info: I work for a small digital agency of 27 people. This impacts my salary significantly. The same job at an enterprise-level environment could get $80,000 – $110,000 in my area, more in a larger or more expensive city. My degree was in web design; I started as a generalist web designer/developer and transitioned to the more specialized role of UX/UI design for apps due to personal interest and the needs of my company. I mostly learned UX skills from mentorships and online courses.

    2. Wannabe UX Designer*

      Hi, I’m a print designer trying to break into UX design. Would you mind sharing how you got your job without having direct experience in the field?

      1. UX Designer*

        Of course! I interned a lot throughout college so I had a lot of marketing/general design background. I’ve found that, while there are certainly best practices and industry norms in UX, a lot of my work is really in how you think. Anyone can learn the design programs or how to create a wireframe or user flow but if you can’t THINK logically or connect lots of big picture ideas or distill complicated processes into a simple statement then knowing the lingo doesn’t really matter.

        I’d recommend looking for classes (General Assembly has a lot) or UX Meetups or Hackathons so you can start learning the basics which is helpful when you look for jobs. UX is really a process and being able to talk through projects as a “here’s the problem we discovered and here’s how we made it easier/better/faster for people will really help.

  261. Federal Procurement Analyst*

    $117,000 annually
    Metro Chicago area
    30 years experience
    Four year college degree

    1. Federal Procurement Analyst*

      It is rare to work over forty hours a week. If perchance someone does, up to 24 hours can be banked and taken off on an hour for hour basis. We also get overtime.

  263. Videographer / Freelance Filmmaker*

    Commercial videos and short films, advertising, music videos.
    Bristol, UK
    5 years experience
    £24,000 (approximately, it varies based on what projects I do)

  264. Compliance Manager*

    Job: Compliance Manager
    Industry: Law firms
    Geographic Area: NYC
    Years Experience: 3 (7 years prior legal experience in related area)
    Salary: $158,000 (15% max bonus based on personal performance)
    Additional Info: Licensed attorney

    1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

      Are you a Compliance Manager for a law firm, like in the law firm’s in-house department?

      1. Compliance Manager*

        I have a hybrid role with a part administrative function and part compliance function. I work closely with our Firm’s General Counsel, but am not in that department.

    2. Compliance Associate*

      Job: Compliance Associate
      Industry: Finance
      Geographic Area: Tri-State (NY/NJ/CT) area
      Years Experience: Sort of tricky. *Officially* less than a year (promoted 2/2016), though I worked closely with our Compliance Director for around two years before my promotion.
      Salary: $53,000 (not including bonus or other monetary & non-monetary perks)

  265. Employment Counseling*

    -Placement Officer at a government-supported employment counseling office
    -rural Ontario
    -5 years work experience
    -44k CAD annually

  266. Lab/field technician, Water analyst, (Environmental)*

    I work at a State University in Western Massachusetts, and my position is entirely grant funded, which has limited the raises and such over the years. We work with the state highway dept on a program testing well water for road salt contamination. We also do Ground water and surface water runoff monitoring. Essentially we are consultants. I wear many hats. From the mundane field work of various kinds to preparing and analyzing water samples with fancy machines

    I currently earn $35,600 plus benefits, non-union
    I have had this job for 13 years.
    It started part-time at $25k/year no benefits.
    I have a bachelor’s degree in an unrelated field (Communication). I work in the Environmental Engineering field

    1. Lab/field technician, Water analyst, (Environmental)*

      and I forgot to delete my email address in the posting form #ImAwesome

  267. Geographic Information Systems Technician, Principal*

    Job: I work for a utility company, mapping and analyzing gas transmission pipelines using GIS software. In my current role, I train and oversee mappers, assign them work, correct and post their work.

    Location: San Francisco Bay Area

    Years of Experience: in this area of work, specifically, 7 years

    Salary: $112,500, plus overtime (non-exempt, in a professional union); for reference, I started as a mapping technician making $52,000/year in this job (I am now a principal/expert-level mapping technician)

  268. Coldbrewinacup*

    My job: customer service support, handling hundreds of email inquiries a week. This is a temporary position I have been working for 8 months with no end date.

    Geographic area: metro Detroit
    Years of experience: in customer service, over 20.
    Salary: I make 11.50 an hour. Yes, you read that right. I also have a bachelors degree.

    1. Member Services*

      I hear ya. I’m not far from that, and that’s where I started out. I also have a degree. Lot bit of good it does me.

  269. Data Analyst, Financial Operations*

    *Job – Data mining, statistical analysis, & regulatory reporting for a property & casualty insurance company
    *Location – Southwest Virginia
    *Years Experience – 10 in a data analysis role; 4.5 for this particular industry
    *Salary – $59k annually

  270. Library Assistant*

    -Small public library in a consortium, desk work and shelving. We also each get a few things like processing and ILL that should really fall under a higher pay grade.
    -affluent Philadelphia Suburb
    -4
    -$10.20

  271. Marketing & Communications Copywriter*

    I work for an insurance brokerage firm, and my job involves doing writing and editing for both internal and external materials produced by the marketing department. The biggest part of my job is working with Producers (the salespeople of our industry) to write proposals for prospects or renewing clients. I also do writing for benefit communication pieces for clients, email blasts, newsletters, our website and social media, etc.

    I live in Salt Lake City, UT.

    I graduated from college with a degree in Technical Writing in 2014, so I have about 3 years of experience.

    My salary is $40,000 a year.

  272. Word Processor*

    Area: Los Angeles/SFV
    Experience: ~4 years in this position, ~7 years in the medical field (started with data entry)
    Salary: $16/hr (started as a temp at $12/hr, got bumped to $13/hr when I became permanent about 6 months after that)
    I write reports for a brain injury rehab clinic and send to insurance companies/lawyers for benefits approval. I also manage medical records, cover the front desk at times, and do occasional transcription reports (unofficially I also plan a lot of the events for this location like holiday parties and such, act like my boss’ secretary, and semi-manage one file clerk, but they don’t give me credit for that :P).

    My education background is a bit murky (GED, trade school) and I’m also a bit young so I think that affects my salary a little bit. We don’t get raises here really, unless you’re promoted; however, we do get cost of living increases every year. I’ve gotten a low of 9 cents(!!!) and a high of I think about 67 cents, but that’s how my wage has slowly climbed over the last few years.

  273. Grants and Contracts Manager*

    Employer: well-known research university
    Duties: help manage pre-award/post-award finance and compliance activities for federally funded grants
    Location: NC
    Experience: I’ve indirectly worked with data, finance, and compliance issues for about 6 years, but this is my first grants specific job (been here about 2 months)
    Salary: $55,000

    1. Grants and Contracts Manager*

      Ah, should have mentioned I have an unrelated bachelors and masters and I’m female.

      The salary is annual plus benefits (which are pretty good, as they usually are for full-time University staff).

      1. Grants and Contracts Manager*

        Anddddd NC = North Carolina (metro, specifically). *sigh*, should really think before pressing submit.

  274. Content Strategist*

    Job: Internal communications, primarily the launch of a new intranet, at a mid-size design firm. Also do the company’s social media, website management, ghostwriting for execs, run monthly town hall meetings, and some in-house copywriting and editing as needed.
    Area: Baltimore, Md.
    Experience: Almost 15 years in the work force, starting in media and then doing nonprofit and now corporate comms. I started my current gig less than a year ago.
    Salary: $85K with some modest end-of-year bonus potential, depending on how the firm does.
    Other: I work for an ESOP, so if I stay here for a while I will be vested. Our health benefits are good. I don’t use it because I don’t have kids, but there is a 20% discount at an on-site day care.

  275. Patent Paralegal (Junior)*

    Junior Patent Paralegal

    Job: I a responsible for a small portfolio of ~2000 patent matters in 61 IP jurisdictions. I coordinate patent filing, prosecution, and maintenance between the client, our US attorneys, and foreign (non-US) associates.

    Area: Seattle, WA

    Experience: 4 year degree + 1 year post-bacc paralegal certificate + 3 years in patent prosecution

    Salary: $55,000/year + annual merit-based bonus opportunity. Full benefits.

  276. Vice President, Data Analysis*

    Job: Leading team of data scientists working with banking data
    Industry: Financial services
    Geographic Area: Boston
    Years of experience: 25
    Salary: $240,000 + bonus ($60,000) + stock ($100,000)

  277. Pediatrician*

    Job: outpatient pediatrics, newborn rounds in the hospital, phone call, no other hospital coverage, no delivery attendance
    Location: Indianapolis
    Experience: medical degree, 3 years residency, first job out of residency
    Salary: $190,000
    – Guaranteed salary for first 2 years, then will go to 100% productivity based. 36 patient contact hours a week. I probably average about 50 hours a week at work all told.

    1. UX Designer*

      Wow this was super interesting. How do contact hours work? As someone who has spent a ton of time in Dr’s offices I found that to be really surprising.

      1. Mela*

        It’s basically billable hours. You charge the insurance company for 15 mins face to face with the patient, for example, but then you have to chart and do other things in your work-week that bump you over the 36 hours you can bill to an insurance company.

  278. Internal Organization Development and Learning Consultant*

    I am internal consultant which means I partner with senior leadership to solve organizational problems getting in the way of our sucess. I help with strategy development, talent management, organizational and individual learning and development, team coaching, and change management. I work for a mid-sized IT organziation.
    NYC Metro Area
    10 years work experience
    $106,000
    I have an MS in Organizational Change Management. I manage a small team (2 people).

  279. VP of Human Resources*

    oversee HR for trade association staff; through management agreements provide HR to several affiliated organizations; provide HR consulting services to trade association members
    Carolinas
    25+
    $108k

  280. State Government Attorney*

    Job: I work for the judicial branch of government. My work is split between providing (1) advice and counsel, and (2) legal support for policy development.
    Geographic area: Sacramento, California
    Years of experience: 6
    Salary: ~$125,000
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Pension contributions are mandatory. Most state government jobs in this region are with the executive branch of government and the executive branch pays much less than the judicial branch (however, attorneys in the executive will be seeing some increases over the next few years as a result of a recent deal between the state and the relevant union). If you are in the executive branch civil service, you are not at-will so the job security is excellent. I am not in the civil service and am at-will. Legislative branch compensation pays the same base salary as executive, but has better benefits. Locally, in government jobs, federal, city, and county all pay better than executive branch of state government.

    1. State Government Attorney*

      Job: I work for a state agency. I have two direct reports and oversee the legal work for our division of the agency (we don’t have one central legal dept). I also assist our division head with legislation and monitor internal compliance.
      Geographic area: Indiana
      Years of experience: 5
      Salary: ~$60k

      1. State Government Attorney*

        To put this in context: This technically my third job in state government and far and away the best paid. Though I work in a different region than the CA attorney that commented above, it has also been my experience that executive branch jobs are the lowest paid. I was making less than $50k when I left my last executive agency and when I started at that agency I was making just above $40k. I now work for a separately-elected (so, not the governor) official. Another attorney in our office had been practicing for a little over a year when he started with our office at $48k. Still not amazing pay, but that’s $6k higher than when I started at an executive agency with more experience.

  281. Attorney (US federal govt)*

    Job: attorney in-house at a large-ish US government agency.
    Location: Washington DC
    Years: 8 with this agency
    Pay: GS-15/1, which is $131,767. I just got promoted to this level within the past few weeks. I started as a GS-11, which is around 66k

    1. another federal attorney*

      Job: Litigation for US agency
      Location: Outside of DC (Mountain time zone city)
      Years: 3-5
      Pay: $119,000

  282. Assistant Marketing Manager*

    Sorry reposting, forgot some relevant info
    Assistant Marketing Manager at consumer electronics company
    Metro Chicago
    4 1/2 years of experience
    $50k/year

  283. Senior Accountant*

    your job: Senior Accountant-Officially manage one direct report and coach/mentor two others. Main areas of work include budgeting, ad-hoc reporting, and fixed assets.
    your geographic area: Rural Southwest
    your years of experience: 1 in current idustry, 11 years overall.
    your salary: $80,000 with bonus ($75,000 base)
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I have a CPA and live in an area where highly skilled, degreed, and certified professionals are in short supply. I was recruited into my current position.

  284. Staff Attorney*

    Document review at a biglaw firm. Hours vary but I work 35-40 hours some weeks and 70 hours other weeks. I average around 55 hours/week.
    NYC
    5 years experience and a JD/LLM
    $62,000 base salary plus substantial overtime at $52/hour (I wound up making $120,000 in 2016)

    1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

      Are you on track to become an associate or are staff attorneys on a totally separate track? What are promotion opportunities like for staff attorneys?

      1. Staff Attorney*

        It’s a different track. There isn’t really any path for promotion for staff attorneys, at least at my firm. If my boss leaves, they’d likely promote one of us to his role, but that’s the only real option.

        I do know one person who was able to jump from staff attorney to associate at a firm I used to work for, but that’s the only one I’ve ever heard of. I think he was a partnership-track associate and has now lateralled to a different firm.

    2. Staff Attorney*

      Oh forgot to add that I have a great benefits package that includes a 6% contribution to my 401K regardless of what I contribute. I’ll be fully vested in that after working here for 3 years.

  285. Account Manager in the Technology Industry*

    1. Assist in software certification of our hardware; assist with software to software integrations. Act as an account manager for any sales/projects that develop as a result.
    2. New York
    3. 2 years experience
    4. $45,000
    5. Graduated 2014 with a bachelor’s in business

  286. Development and Program Director*

    Chicago
    10 years in the industry and a Master’s Degree
    $70,000
    My position was new with a new organization when I started, so I had the opportunity to set the level for my salary.

  287. Corporate Counsel*

    Industry: Insurance/Financial Services
    Geographic Area: Central Texas
    Years Experience: 5
    Salary: $80k (very low for area and position)

    1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

      Is your salary commensurate with how corporate counsel roles are paid at your company?

      1. Corporate Counsel*

        Yes, sorry I realize that was unclear! There are only 3 of us and we are paid commensurate with experience just quite a bit below the market rate for the work we do. That said, the job is low stress, the hours are reasonable, and the company is stable so I’m ok with the trade off for now.

  288. Financial Planning & Analysis*

    Sr. Analyst in FP&A for a Fortune 100 company
    Major US City
    10 years total work experience, 3.5 years in corporate finance post-MBA
    $110K
    Hired out of a full-time top-20 MBA program in the US. Colleagues without an MBA make ~$65-80K for a similar role. MBAs typically get more in-depth analysis assignments, though they’re not distinguished in level or title. The nature of assignments justifies the discrepancy, plus the company wants top-tier MBA talent and that’s the market rate. They don’t do a particularly good job of figuring out how to fit them into the existing title/leveling structure.

    1. Career Changer*

      I’m a paralegal with 5 years legal experience looking to transition into financial services. I’m planning to start by finding a job in finance or insurance (I have worked for insurance clients in a legal capacity), then taking some pre-req classes with the intention of getting a MBA with a Finance focus of a MSF. Do you have any advice for me?

  289. Manager*

    Job: I’m in financial services and manage a team of seven analysts responsible for legal documents and contracts for about 4,000 clients. I also spend about half my time on cross-functional projects supporting my business line.
    Area: Pacific Northwest
    Years of Experience: 13 total in industry; 2 of those as a manager
    Salary: $92,250 plus bonuses (last year’s was 12%); industry-average benefits

  290. QA Automation Engineer*

    I design and write automated tests in Java for a web platform.

    A small city in Wisconsin

    2 years full time, two years as an intern.

    $63,000/year

    BS in Computer Science

    1. QA Automation Engineer*

      I also get 4 weeks of PTO and a bonus of up to 10% yearly (it’s never the full 10%).

  291. Senior Academic Associate*

    I work in academic policy and procedure related to student adjudication and the faculty panels who make decisions on student conduct and other issues, in a higher education setting

    Midwest

    $57,000/year

    14 years experience

    BA in English, MS in Education

  292. Operations Specialist*

    Job: It’s like a quasi-junior technical project manager role (I make sure QA bugs get fixed)
    Location: SF Bay Area
    Years of exp: 5-6 years working total (undergrad degree only)
    Salary: I made $103k last year (including overtime, bonuses, and RSUs)
    Perks: Free food (3 meals a day), great health insurance, 21 vacation days, and lots of smart colleagues

  293. Academic Librarian (reference/instruction/subject specialist)*

    geographic area: Richmond, VA area
    years of experience: >5, <10
    salary: ~$55K
    etc: higher ed benefits (great retirement, vacation). I have a master's in library science and an additional MA.

  294. Director*

    Job: Direct activities of several medical specialties in a regional hospital (program expansion, budgets, hr, productivity measures, etc).
    Salary: $95,000/year plus Benefits.
    Location: Upper Midwest.
    Industry: Healthcare.
    Years of experience: 19 in healthcare (5 in current position); 2 in non-related nonprofit.

  295. Association Publishing Director*

    Oversee journal, magazine, and book publishing and communications for professional association
    Metro DC area
    20
    $125K

  296. Adult Education Advisor/Case Manager*

    your job: I work for a small nonprofit that, among other things, provides English classes to immigrants. I am one of the advisors for the program. I am responsible for being the advisor for 2 of our classes, advising anyone who is interested in going to job training, helping any current or past students who are looking for jobs, and doing retention with graduates who are currently in college.
    your geographic area: Boston, MA
    your years of experience: 3 in this role, almost 6 in this field
    your salary: just over $38,000

  297. Clerkship Coordinator*

    Medical Student Clerkship (Clinical Rotation) Coordinator in Emergency Medicine Dept at Level-1 Tertiary Center with accredited residency program.
    Massachusetts
    4 years in industry; 2 years this job
    $48,000 USD

  298. Marketing Analyst*

    Execute member mailings (prescription drug changes) for a large healthcare company
    Large upper-Midwest city
    5 years total experience, less than 1 year at this company
    $52,000
    Currently a contractor but company is working to make me full-time

  299. IRS - Revenue Agent (SBSE)*

    Job: Audit small businesses including Sch. C’s (sole prop.), partnerships, corps and S corps and assess additional tax, as applicable
    Geographic Area: Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex (Texas)
    Years of Experience: 6 with the IRS, no prior experience in this field before being hired, but BA in Accounting and MS Tax
    Salary: $75k + fantastic benefits
    Other Info: Govt. salaries are their own unique animal as are hiring processes and promotions

  300. Stock Assessment Scientist*

    Job Description: I take the catch of various species of fish in the oceans and using modeling and statistics determine if the stocks are being overfished. With that information we run analyses to determine how much fish the fishermen can catch each year in order to ensure that they are not being overfished and if they are overfished, to ensure that their population rebuilds.
    Geographical Area: Honolulu, HI
    Years experience: Entry level (first job, haven’t started yet).
    Salary: $64,000

    Additional info: I have a masters, a year working and then a PhD with contracting during the PhD in my field. My salary is about what you could expect to get just out of a PhD in fisheries management if you are statistics minded. The master’s and work experience helped me get into a PhD program, although they aren’t necessary. Fisheries management is one of the easiest fields to get jobs in after a PhD in marine biology, but I’m the only one with a permanent job of all the people in my program that have graduated in the last 3 years. Most jobs are either government jobs, which due to the hiring freezes in the last many years they are begging for people but aren’t allowed to hire, or academics, which is why the job market is rough. Since stock assessments are required by law, congress would have to repeal a 40 year old law in order to stop funding us, so job security is pretty good.

    1. Stock Assessment Scientist*

      I should add that I get 21 sick days, 21 vacation days, and 13 holidays each year (accrued), full benefits and up to 10% 401K matching. Plus I will likely get to travel a bit in the Western Pacific due to the species I will be working on specifically, but probably not for a few years.

  301. Senior Copywriter*

    Writer for marketing/promotions in a technical/consumer field
    Location: Chicago
    Experience in this field: 10. In related field: 20+
    Salary: 70,000

  302. Marketing & Communications Specialist*

    Slightly above entry-level communications position, including internal newsletter production, employee recognition programs, yellow pages advertising, managing the charitable giving program, social media channels, meeting planning and execution and other communications-related tasks. More internal communications than marketing.
    Seattle area
    4 years in this position, 4.5 years post-college-graduation, 6-10 years of experience, depending on the particular skill being talked about. (For example, I have 10 years of experience with InDesign, but only 3 years of experience with professional social media.)
    $52k pretax

  303. IT Project Manager*

    Job: Project Manager
    Industry: Large Financial Institution
    Geographic Area: Tampa Bay area
    Years Experience: 10
    Salary: $102,400 (5% max bonus based on personal performance)
    Additional Info: PMP certified 4 years

    1. IT Project Manager 2*

      Job: Project Manager, IT
      Industry: Pharma
      Geographic Area: Pittsburgh, PA area
      Years Experience: 9 years total [1.5 in IT, 7.5 in Marketing/Advertising]
      Salary: $102,000 (15% bonus based on performance), plus 3% match on 401k, 15 days of PTO, unlimited personal/sick days, excellent insurance
      Additional Info: I don’t have a PMP, but I do have a Master’s in Project Management.

      1. Digital Producer*

        I was looking at Master programs either a MBA in Project Management or a Master’s in Project Management. Is there a difference between the two? And did having a Master in Project Management open doors for you?

        1. IT Project Manager 2*

          I’m not sure of any huge differences, but I think it will likely depend on the school and program. I think it’s far more common for a school to offer an MBA with a concentration in Project Management, vs a standalone Project Management Master’s degree.

          As far as opening doors – I’m sure it will, but I already had this job before I got my degree, so it wasn’t a factor this time.

  304. Embedded Firmware Engineer, Project*

    Job: What would normally be called Senior Software Engineer or Senior Embedded Software Engineer in other companies. Programming with some fluid team and project management- more management than coding these days.
    Location: Milwaukee
    Years Experience: 15
    Salary: $117,000. Most years also includes an 8% bonus.

    1. Jr. Embedded Software Engineer*

      Jr. Embedded Software Engineer.

      Location: Nebraska
      Years Experience: 1
      Salary: $75k with a relatively small bonus at the end of the year.

  305. Health and Safety Coordinator*

    Job: Manage Safety department for an automotive parts manufacturer. We have a separate Environmental department right now, so I deal strictly with OSHA compliance and worker’s compensation, but eventually will be over both safety and environmental. I’m lumped in with our HR group, so I also field a variety of HR issues on a regular basis (think benefits, policies, uniforms, attendance, etc.).
    Region: medium-sized Midwest city
    Experience: 6 years mixed safety and human resources, but no degree
    Salary: $54,000 with about a 4% bonus/year and decent benefits.

  306. Technical Writer*

    Job: creating and editing documentation, meeting minutes, creating reports
    Area: South Carolina
    Experience: just over 1 year in this career but have a graduate degree and applicable experience in a related field.
    Salary: $52k

  307. Actuarial Analyst*

    Actuarial Analyst
    SF Bay Area
    ~6 years experience (3.5 yrs outside the US)
    $90,000
    Additional info – Have achieved the professional designation as well

  308. Quality Assurance Representative*

    Job: Quality assurance for animal health branch of major pharmaceuticl company. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with all federal and other regulatory requirements; audit preparation/execution; batch release (allowing material into market); writing SOPs and maintaining electronic SOP system
    Location: Great Lakes Region (nearest metro area is Indianapolis, IN)
    Years of Experience: 1 year in current position; 12+ years in Quality
    Salary: $57,000 (more or less)
    Anything Else: Current bonus level is 9% of salary, but dependent on company performance. Excellent health care packages, generous time-off policies (vacation + personal illness, family illness, personal business, etc.)

  309. Analytics Manager*

    Manage small analytics focusing on workforce planning for a transportation company
    Ohio
    6 years experience in direct analytics work
    $85K base salary + 15-20% annual bonus

    1. Analytics Manager*

      That should say small analytics *team* focusing…

      Also, I have a BS and MA in Mathematics

  311. Office Manager*

    • Office Manager (no direct reports) for a small (37 employees), privately-owned company. Responsible for all administrative support for six managerial staff and approximately 12-18 field personnel at this location. Heavy typing and copy editing. Office and telephone receptionist. Typical admin duties with some cleaning and building maintenance thrown in. Have a B.S. in Math.
    • Pittsburgh, PA suburbs
    • Nearly 10 years at this company (less two years in a different position); 23 years in this type of role, before and after taking 13 years out of paid employment to raise my children. I started over at the bottom of the local wage scale when I re-entered the job force in 2000.
    • $20.00/hr., 40-hr. week. 13 days PTO, company pays 50% of health insurance ($2775/yr.) and $30/month toward cellphone, no 401K match, no professional development, no company parties, no bonuses, no parking (I pay $15/month in a public lot).
    • I make just enough and am old enough that I cannot find another job. Advertised wages in this area for the equivalent position are $12-16/hr., and I have too much experience to even get an interview. I cannot afford a 20-40% pay cut, and will need to work until I am at least 70 years old because an ugly divorce 17 years ago left me destitute.

  312. Senior Transportation Engineer*

    Job: Civil Engineer working in roadway design
    Geographic Area: Midwest
    Years of experience: 17 years
    Salary: $80,000
    I’m very focused on design and not management – management would get me more money, but isn’t something I’m interested in (not that I don’t have management duties, but it isn’t the main focus of my job)

  313. Education Program Specialist*

    I provide healthy relationship and sexuality education to folks with developmental and intellectual disabilities, both 1:1 and in small groups. We work with local schools (primarily work/transition programs), day programs, and families. I also provide trainings to professionals, particularly folks working with my clients in some capacity.

    St. Louis, MO

    2 years on the job plus MSW focused on sexuality

    ~$32K/year, or $15.66/hr

  314. Corporate editor (industry, public sector)*

    I edit corporate documents like the annual report, as well as long technical documents and letters to the public, at a government organisation for a specialist industry.
    London, UK
    Nine years’ experience
    £36k + £4k benefits, which can be taken as cash

  315. Archivist*

    Electronic record archivist for state historical agency
    Deep South
    5 years experience
    $36,300/year, no raises, no COLA, but with defined benefit retirement plan and off on every state/federal holiday

  316. Associate Director at a small museum*

    Job: Mainly working with school groups and planning public programs but also serving as the ED’s second in command
    Location: One of NYC’s outer boroughs
    Experience: 6.5 years full-time experience, 8.5 years total in the field
    Also: MA in museum studies, EdD in education
    Salary: $50,000 plus a small bonus for turning down the health care plan in favor of my fiance’s. No dental or 403b.

    I’m curious how this number looks to others in the nonprofit field in NYC

    1. Program Manager (Education)*

      As someone in the NYC non-profit field, it looks low to me, but I also know plenty of people who make around that much with the same amount of experience as you. I

    2. Program Director, education non-profit*

      50k seems low to me.

      I’m in grad school now but last year I was a program director at a small education non-profit in NYC. I made 50k/ year plus fully covered health and dental, no 401k/403b. I don’t have any advanced degrees (yet) and I only got the director title because I negotiated it (originally listed as ‘program manager’). I have 9 years of experience in the field plus some directly applicable experience in a niche subject area.

      It sounds like we had pretty similar duties; I ran large scale youth events and cultivated new programs and partnerships. 50k seemed a little on the low side to me at the time and it definitely seems low at the assoc. director level with advanced degrees.

      That said, when I was interviewing for ed non-profit positions I saw a lot of management level positions listed at below 50k. I’m interested to hear what other folks have to say.

    3. Associate Director at a small museum*

      Thanks to both of you – I’ve been kind of suspecting that this pay is low, but pay seems to be abnormally low across the museum field here.

      I actually had a similar job in the South right before I got this job. Comparing the cost of living there vs. here in NYC, what I was making there is equivalent to $75,000 here. I took a big hit salary-wise when I took this job (benefits were also slightly better there).

  317. Executive Assistant (Lily in NYC)*

    Executive assistant (quasi-governmental)
    Area: NYC
    Experience: 15 years
    Salary: $85,000 – recently made exempt from overtime (5 weeks vacation)
    Caveat: My role has gradually changed from high-level EA to contract management but we’ve kept my title as is for headcount reasons.

  318. Student Recruitment and Retention (University)*

    Job: I work at a major research university in Canada. I specifically work on recruitment and retention for a special student population. I manage and execute all of the programs that we run that pertain to students.

    Location: Western Canada

    Years of Experience: 5

    Salary: $48 000 plus benefits (Note: I am underpaid. Someone else who does the same job as I do with a different faculty as me makes nearly $90 000. I have seen other positions at other school’s in my area doing something similar to what I do without having specialized knowledge at $80 000)

  319. MCL*

    Employer: Large R1 State University
    Job: “Outreach Specialist,” which means I manage continuing education programs such as online courses, conferences, and such for the Extension arm of a graduate professional program.
    Geographic Area: Upper Midwest
    Years of Experience: 7.5
    Salary: ~45K
    Additional Info: I have a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies.

    1. MCL*

      I’ve been told that I will be up for a title change soon (which will increase my base salary, almost the only way we get “raises” any more at this institution). Although I think sometimes about moving into a higher-paid position, I do like that my job is challenging enough to be interesting, but not so overwhelming that I am pulling crazy hours. I love my great work-life balance, nice colleagues, and generous vacation time, so for now I’m okay with the trade-off of a more modest salary.

  320. BI developer*

    geographic area: Midlands, UK
    years of experience: >5, <10
    salary: ~$40K £33k
    etc: sharesave scheme, 33 days PTO (plus 5 unpaid)

  322. Research Associate*

    And microbiology technician at a public university. I design and perform experiments and then prepare manuscripts for publication and posters for conference presentations. I also manage the lab for the primary investigator, which includes purchasing, organizing the lab, and helping to manage and mentor the students (graduate and undergrads). I do administrative work (safety paperwork, hiring, etc) as needed.
    DC Metro Area.
    Almost 5 years experience with an MS.
    $51,000.
    I get paid very well for my position in academia, as my boss gave me an 8% retention raise when I finished my MS. Also get 8% matching on my 5% contribution to my 401k, minimum 13 paid holidays/yr, 24 vacation days/yr, 21 sick days/yr, and a solid healthcare plan. Also I get free leave when the university closes for snow.

  323. Financial Systems Analyst*

    Responsible for financial software and data in for a medium-sized company (not in the financial industry). Design queries, train and support users, occasionally develop applications for internal use.

    Major city in the northeastern US.

    10 years of experience (all obtained at this job). Bachelor’s degree in computer science.

    Salary is $90,000.

  324. Financial Manager*

    Job: Grants administrator for an R1 university science department
    Geographic area: Boston MA
    Years of experience: 6, with another 5 as a business assistant-type
    Salary: $63k

  325. R&D Manager - Polymer Chemistry*

    Manage a team of chemists and technicians to invent and develop new polymers.
    Triangle Area, NC
    11 years experience
    Salary – ~ $80k, with $12k bonus potential (50% average on bonus)
    Decent benefits.

  326. Public Library Director*

    Job: Director of a rural public library and one branch library. Job includes but isn’t limited to administration, operations, building maintenance, policy and collection development, personnel (10 staff, all part time except one), budget, and toilet plunging.
    Geographic area: Rural Wisconsin
    Experience: 8+ years (MLIS from an accredited university)
    Salary: $47,800 plus health insurance, enrollment in state retirement, 2 wks vacation, holiday pay, and a negotiated comp time structure. No vision or dental insurance.

  327. Program Manager and Principal Investigator*

    I work at a university and manage a large program funded by a federal grant which employs STEM practitioners at all levels from undergraduate to post-docs, who work in federal research laboratories. I supervise all my researchers (usually 130-150 at a time), develop and deliver population-specific programming related to their career development, and manage the program as a whole. In addition, I directly supervise a team of three full-time admin staffers who work to keep my program running.
    Mountain West
    I have an MA and left my PhD ABD. All of my degrees are in a Humanities discipline. I have 10+ years of higher ed experience including teaching and administration, and have recently obtained a career development credential, with another to follow in 2017. I have been in my current position for just over 6 months.
    $52,500 plus full benefits including participation in a state pension plan.

  328. School Librarian*

    DC Metro area
    9.5 years experience
    $79,000
    Additional info: We are paid on the same salary scale as teachers.

  329. Technical Editor (senior-level)*

    Job: Technical editor for 10 technical writers – edit all documents, administer and document tools (DITA/MadCap/Frame), manage information architecture, etc.

    Area: Mid-Atlantic US

    Experience: ~10 years (plus master’s degree)

    Salary: $85,000 + 15% bonus annually based on revenue targets

    1. Technical Editor (senior-level)*

      I just have to say – I love to see so many tech writers in this thread! It seems to be a pretty popular profession.

  330. Sr. Digital Marketing Manager*

    I’m on the digital marketing team at a B2B software company. My duties include website governance, SEO, social media, and currently shepherding the website through a big redesign. I don’t currently manage people but have in the past.
    Northern VA/Washington D.C.
    10 years of experience, 4 at this level
    $107,000 a year (my salary jumped 20k thanks to changing jobs twice in 3 years)
    Other benefits include 5 weeks of vacation, 3% 401k match, and a WFH day per week.

  331. Software Developer*

    1. I develop web applications for internal business stakeholders. Officially, I work with SharePoint and C#, but my experience is mostly front end (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular). Unofficially, I’m also involved in project planning (architecture, requirements, etc.), and a dev lead on a couple of projects.
    2. Atlanta, GA (USA)
    3. 2.5 years
    4. $67,000
    5. Additional info: I’m at the low end of my salary band, but the overall benefits of my company are good. My team has really good work-life balance (generally) and flexibility in hours. At 3 calendar years I have 4 weeks of vacation. They offer decent insurance (includes dental but no vision; very high deductible), HSA / FSA, and 401K.

    1. Software Developer*

      Description: Software/applications development for in house software. Primarily bug fixes and minor feature updates.
      Location: Minneapolis area
      Experience: < 1 year, fresh from Bachelor's
      Salary: $67,000 + annual bonus

    2. Jr. Software Engineer*

      1. Developing a user-facing web application. Very small features and bug fixes to front and back end. I don’t seem expected to be productive yet – it’s only been a few months.
      2. SF Bay Area (CA, USA)
      3. Experience: None in this role; 1 yr in related field (software quality assurance); degree in an unrelated technical field. Didn’t even do a dev bootcamp.
      4. Salary: $92,500/year
      5. Additional info: I turned down a higher-paying offer (about $125k/year plus equity) for a junior software engineer position at a very large company. May have been unwise but I think I’m a lot happier here.

  332. Economist*

    -U.S. government economist in a policy field
    -Washington, DC
    -7 years experience (+ 1 year of interning full-time while going to school + a grad degree in my field, which is usually a not-really-required requirement for jobs like mine)
    -$95,217 (GS 13, step 2); going up to $97,956 this pay period with the 2017 federal col increase
    -My salary info is public because I’m a fed. I’m not senior or a lawyer enough for salary negotiation to be much of a thing, so people in my position grow their salaries through promotions within their job’s promotion ladder and through switching jobs. I have done a combination of both to get to where I am.

  333. Proposal/PR Specialist*

    Job: Private gov’t contractor. Two-parts, really. I do communications and PR and I also provide proposal support: capture, research, editing
    Location: Alabama
    Experience: 3 in writing/editing, 2 in communications, <1 year doing specific proposal work
    Salary: $50k
    Education: BA English; MA Writing
    Extra: 401k matching, health insurance, very flexible schedule, significant PTO, all gov't holidays

  334. Librarian*

    Cataloger
    The Dakotas
    15 yrs experience, plus I have my Masters Degree in Library Science
    $62,400 gross

  335. Episkey*

    I’ll do my husband, since my job is kind of an odd part/full time hybrid and it’s a little non-traditional:

    Accounting Manager (Corporate Accounting, he has his CPA)
    Salary: ~$90,000 with excellent benefits (his company is based in Europe so the benefits are much more “European” in nature than American)
    Location: Northern suburbs of Chicago
    Industry: Pharma
    Years of experience: ~10 years

  336. Tilly W*

    Corporate Communications Specialist
    Job duties: market energy-efficiency programs to utility customers
    Denver metro
    10 years of experience; Bachelor in Journalism
    $75,000
    Been with company six months

  337. Admissions/Financial Aid Specialist*

    Employer is a large public research university. Fully trained in admissions process for undergraduate students, but most of the job is doing financial aid education and outreach to underserved inner-city schools. Cross-departmental work means I am given a lot of flexibility and freedom to do what I want.
    Southwest United States
    4+ years of experience
    $35K (I don’t actually make this much because I’m required to contribute to the state retirement fund)
    40 hours/week (more during the busy seasons; no overtime compensation, though management will occasionally allow flex time)

    My salary is extremely low, but fortunately my area has a low COL and I have no debt. Benefits are good (medical, dental, vision, etc.) and I am getting a master’s degree in my field pretty much for free thanks to tuition agreements.

  338. Paralegal*

    Primarily Family Law
    Area: Small City in Upper Midwest
    Experience: almost 5 years
    Salary: 31,000
    Education: BA with a Paralegal Certificate.
    I work for a non-profit, our benefits are excellent and we have a lot of flexibility.
    I started in my field in the large metro area about an hour away at a private firm and made 40K to start, but I took a pay cut to work in the semi-rural area where I live.

  339. Automotive Engineer*

    your job: Rotational engineering training program. Rotating through different areas of an automotive company.
    your geographic area: Southeast Michigan
    your years of experience: 1.5
    your salary: $78,000
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I’m doing a M.S. full time (paid for by work) and for each class I’m taking I get 4 hours PTO per week so I typically only work 4 days per week during the semester.

    1. Automotive Engineer*

      I was hired in straight out of college (1.5 years ago) making $69,000. I get 10 days of vacation per year plus generous corporate holidays and an excellent 401K match. I expect a salary bump when I finish the rotational program (and my M.S.). I’m also eligible for yearly bonuses.

  340. HRIS Analyst (Workday)*

    Job: Data management, tech support and process improvement/updates for Workday, our HRIS system. Work closely with HR to make the appropriate updates.
    Geographic area: Denver, CO
    Years of experience: 6 years in/around HR but 5 months in HRIS. 14 years in professional workforce as a whole.
    Salary: $45,000
    Other info: my company has no budget and this position pays higher at most other places, but I was an internal hire and it was a raise from my prior position. Staying here basically until I have the skillset to get out.

    2. Also a Workday HRIS Analyst*

      HRIS configuration, testing, & data management for Benefits Functional Area

      Baton Rouge, LA

      about 2,000 employees

      10+ years experience in HR, 5+ in HRIS/systems management

      salary $55k

  341. Administrative Assistant, Compliance*

    job: I provide administrative support to 4 Sr. Compliance officers and light admin support to approx 10 jr. compliance analysts/associates. Aside from basic scheduling and travel booking, admin duties are geared specifically towards compliance duties rather than general admin duties

    geographic area: NYC

    your years of experience: 4 years of admin experience, 1 year of compliance specific experience

    your salary: $65,000 base + 15% additional in built in overtime + discretionary bonus ($10,000-$20,000 is expected). Guaranteed = $75,000 / expected = $85,000-$95,000

    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: The bulk of my admin experience is in the finance industry (3 out of the 4 years), which is my salary is on high side for admin work.

  342. Editor (journalism)*

    What I do: I edit a mobile app for a news organization.
    Geographic area: Washington DC
    Years of experience: 7, bachelors and in-progress master’s degree in the field
    Salary: $130K
    Anything else pertinent?: I got a sizeable raise this year after the scope of the job expanded significantly with no commensurate increase in staffing.

  343. Human Resources Assistant*

    ◾Perform administrative functions related to staffing actions, mostly for acting, term and indeterminate positions. This basically means building files, looking up information across several systems and performing data entry, with a healthy dose of talking to HR advisors and clients.
    ◾Gatineau, Québec, Canada
    ◾Almost a year
    ◾49,387$/year, +800$/year as a bilingual bonus (please note these are Canadian dollars)
    ◾I’m an indeterminate employee for the Government of Canada, so my salary isn’t really up for negotiation as it’s decided by our unions. That said, if you want a full range of the salaries for non-exempt employees in the government, you can check out this handy link: https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/hrpubs/coll_agre/rates-taux-eng.asp. Please note that new salaries are being negotiated as we speak, and this list will probably be updated in the next few months.

  344. Compliance Consultant*

    your job: I work with a health insurer in their compliance department. I help draft policy forms, perform regulatory research, create and maintain reporting structures, and communicate with state agencies
    your geographic area: southeast US
    your years of experience: 5
    your salary: ~70K
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I have an MLIS but was previously working in food service before I ran across an opening at my current company through a temp agency

  345. Creative Manager*

    Primarily responsible for:

    • Applying licensed artwork to company’s products and coordinating with licensors for approval, with a goal of a cohesive line and brand look.
    • Packaging layout using licensor’s style guide and artwork and coordinating with licensors for approval.
    • Coordinating with Production team to handoff all necessary items to send items into production.
    • Final approval on product samples before going into production.
    • Ensuring photography of my lines is on-brand and message.
    • Making sure all steps are followed to satisfy licensor requirements.

    Secondarily responsible for:

    • Product development, looking for new items, suggesting and explaining why they would make sense for our product lines including retail outlet and price targets.
    • Continued attempts at producing a generic line of product

    Specific to me (these are not job components but rather an additional role I fulfill within my department):

    • Maintaining product and packaging templates for our standard items to eliminate confusion and errors when items are updated.
    • Unofficial IT/Lead coordinating new systems implementation/being available for help with our project software.

    Area: NYC
    Experience: 24 total. 17 years with company, 10 years in this role; I started as a graphic artist working under another designer. Prior to this company: 4 years as a layout/graphic artists/photo color corrector/retoucher/manipulator. 2 years as a typesetter/proof reader.
    Salary: $76,000/yr
    Additional info: I could make 10-15k more if I went elsewhere, but I have a longstanding relationship with my company and a fairly large amount of job security and in general they are pretty good about taking care of employees in need. I’m also late for work too often to push for the raise here. Benefits are 401k (no match), Roth also available, 15 days PTO, FSA and Etrac programs available, Aflac programs, life insurance/LTD paid for by company or you at your preference*, for PPO health insurance plans company will cover the 2nd half of your deductible.

    *They’re willing to pay and do for anyone that sets it up that way, but you can choose to pay because if you pay for it yourself, if you need it the payout is tax free and if you let them pay for it, it’s not tax-free. Costs about $200/yr at my salary.

  346. HR Manager*

    In charge or recruitment, onboarding, retention, benefits administration, management training and development, compliance, assist in payroll, labor reporting, policy development, safety/injury reporting, work comp
    Rural MN
    5 years experience
    $52,500

    1. HR Manager*

      Recruitment, oversee HR dept, payroll, employee/labor relations
      NW Minneapolis suburbs, MN
      8 years experience
      80k

  347. Clinical Data Manager*

    I am responsible for the data management for multiple ongoing clinical trials — design / build the database and entry checks at study start up, data cleaning / database changes during the trial conduct, and final cleaning. I started at a CRO (contract research org), but recently moved to a small biotech (for a 30% bump in base salary!).

    Geographic Area: Southern California
    Years Experience: 5 + Masters Degree in biomedical sciences
    Salary: $85k (+ stock options and opportunity for annual bonus)

    1. Clinical Data Manager*

      Amending years of experience to say it was 5 years data management experience. I have another (less relevant in the clinical field) 5 years of preclinical research experience.

    2. Another CDM/Project Manager*

      Project management of clinical data management and clinical programming activities for clinical trials in a Contract Research Organization. More of an oversight than hands on position but no line management responsibilities.

      Geographic Area: Raleigh, North Carolina
      Years Experience: 13 years, 9 years in a similar level role
      Salary: $100K + variable bonus up to 10%

  348. Diagnostic Scientist*

    your job: Diagnostic company scientist/ Research Associate III, develop diagnostic reagents for FDA clearance, lab work, project management, regulatory compliance at company <75 people
    your geographic area: Denver, Colorado metro area
    your years of experience: 13
    your salary: $55,000

  349. Sr. Email Marketing Manager*

    1. Manage email marketing strategy and technical solutions for a national non-profit. Train local branches of nonprofit 2. on email marketing software.
    3. NYC
    4. 10 years of experience; have been here almost 2 years
    5. $117,000
    6. I frequently speak at conferences and am fairly known in the email industry (especially on social media). I have two direct reports (who make in the mid 60s). Salaries in my field tend to be all over the place, and I know I’m on the higher end of non-profit.

  350. Career Counselor (Gov't, not Higher Ed)*

    1. I help people with low SES (under 200% of the federal poverty income guidelines) obtain occupational training and job readiness skills including resume and cover letter writing (helping, not doing) and interviewing techniques (preparation, relaxation, practice). In my particular program we also help with crisis assistance (to prevent eviction, utilities being turned off, or car being repossessed), transportation to and from training/job search activities, and assistance getting work-related items including clothing or required tools. There is a lot of paperwork and verification work that is done aside from meeting with clients. The primary populations I work with our people who are unemployed, have very part-time work, or who are refugees.
    2. Large Texas City
    3. ~3 years
    4. $36.6k (~$30k take home) + health insurance (I pay part of the premiums), 401K matching,

    1 bedroom apartment is around 1-1500.

  351. College Advisor*

    – advise undergraduate students on all issues related to academic success, course selection, degree requirements and completion, academic policy and procedure, etc.
    – SF bay area
    – 10 yrs experience with a relevant masters degree
    – $58,000

  352. Clinical Research Coordinator III*

    My title is CRC III but my role is closer to a clinical data analyst position. I work with our biostatisticians to identify and resolve data discrepancies in clinical trial data.
    Minneapolis, MN
    I’ve been in this field for 10 years
    $64,000/yr

    1. Clinical Research Coordinator III*

      I should add – I work for a non-profit. I’d make more at a for-profit but the benefits probably wouldn’t be as good. I get 6 weeks vacation a year, work from home 3 days a week, very flexible hours, option to work 4 x 10s instead of 5 x 8s (several of my coworkers do this but I chose not to), and excellent health insurance that is relatively inexpensive.

  353. Earth scientist*

    University based contractor for a federal lab, pure and applied research in an earth science field. Lots of fortran and serious number crunching. No teaching, no tenure, minimal grant writing, partial control over the science projects (some we pick, some get handed to us), otherwise similar to an academic position with a few extra layers of bureaucracy on top.
    DC metro area
    10+ years experience plus doctorate
    $93k + state employee benefits and academic leave policy

  354. Procurement - Computer parts*

    Job: Second-level support for buying parts for installation into non-PC computers (servers, storage). Includes minimal order placing, lots of order trouble shooting, sourcing, tracking, auditing receipts and inventory.
    Loc: Southeast (NC)
    Experience: 8 in this position; 14 with company; 24 total
    Salary: 78K
    Etc: MBA, 20 vacation days, good health insurance, good colleagues. Fortune 100 company. Good career path and diversity. Prone to industry fads (agile is not really a good fit!)

  355. Associate*

    Employer is a small private foundation, I work on programmatic and admin tasks and manage our rental program.
    DC. (Not a lawyer though my title would imply otherwise)
    4 years exp.
    $54,000
    40 (very strict) hours per week

  356. Registrar's Office Staff Associate*

    JOB: I work at a state university. The position is basically above an office assistant, but just below an Assistant Registrar. (Usually the ranking is Registrar > Associate Registrar > Assistant Registrar > Staff Associate > Office Assistant > Clerk Typist etc.) The position involves data entry of transfer credits, processing incoming and outgoing transcripts, creating and managing student accounts/records, student attendance, handling the office email and phones, etc.

    GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Connecticut.

    YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 7 years

    SALARY: 46,000/year, plus benefits. Union job.

    PERTINENT INFO: I started as a Clerk Typist at about 32,000/year in 2009, went up to an Office Assistant at about 35-36,000/year in 2012 or so, and got promoted to Staff Associate in around 2015. It is a union job so there is usually a pay scale that rises 2% every year (when we have a contract in place) and also a 3% increase at the start of the fiscal year, so if we ever sign a new contract and it includes the previous standard, I will go up about 3-5% every year.

  357. Clinical Genomic Scientist*

    your job: Clinical Genomic Scientist at a large public university healthcare system
    your geographic area: KY
    your years of experience: PhD plus 5 years research and 1 year clinical
    your salary: Just under 50K, but a good 60K when you include benefits, including the 10% retirement.
    I develop, verify and run clinical genomic assays for cancer and inbuilt orders of metabolism, as well as a variety of other molecular biochemistry and genetic/genomic tests for a hospital system.

  358. Marketing Communications Specialist*

    Graphic and web design/content management. Email marketing, flyers, digital marketing, social media, photography, videography. I’m more design than strategy.

    Cleveland, OH
    ~4.5 years
    ~$43,500 (hourly, I earned ~$47,000 with bonuses)
    I have a masters degree (but unneeded), we get 2 weeks vacation and 2 personal days. We get profit sharing and 2% 401(k) match.

  359. Biomedical Engineer*

    Job: Doing research on human system interaction
    Industry: National government laboratory
    Geographic Area: Greater Baltimore
    Years Experience: 4 years out of a phd
    Salary: $83k
    Additional Info: I am a government employee so all the benefits that go along with that (pension, job tenure, etc), plus flexible working schedule and telework agreements.

  360. Vice President/Marketing Director*

    My job: I help run a medium-sized business selling a manufactured product in a niche market. I oversee the office staff, run the Marketing dept, and design new products. I also assist the President with new business development and various projects.
    Location: Maryland – 35 miles outside of Baltimore
    Years of experience: 2 yrs as VP, 10+ yrs in Marketing and Graphic Design
    Salary: $89,000/yearly with a $5,000 yearly increase + $15,000 yearly bonus
    Added benefits: 5% 401K match, 4 weeks vacation, 3 sick days, flexible schedule, telecommuting OK, can bring my dogs to work, short commute (15 min drive)

  361. Admin Assistant*

    Manage day to day operations of the office – decor, benefits, groceries, travel arrangements, hiring, terminations, any HR related inquiries, vacation policies, all around go-to person for anything that needs doing.

    Nova Scotia, Canada
    No schooling but 5 years office experience.
    $32,500 CAD plus 5% bonus, 3 weeks vacation and complete benefits package.

    1. Admin Assistant*

      Should add that I’ve only been at this job for 4 months and have potential for raises annually as well.

  362. Human Resources Manager*

    Job: Human Resources Generalist
    Geographic Area: Denver
    Years of Experience: 15
    Salary: $58,000/year FT. I work for a non-profit organization, and I work 20 hours/week, so my salary is actually 50% of the stated FT salary. As a part-time employee, I receive paid holidays, vacation, 4 personal holidays, free dental insurance, and a free bus pass.

    1. Human Resources Manager*

      Job: Human Resources Manager
      Geographic Area: Seattle
      Years of Experience: 6 at City and 8 in private sector
      Salary: $81,000/annual I work for a small city in the Seattle area. I’m responsible for all stages of hiring & selection, training, classification and compensation, labor negotiations (we have one union), employee relations, benefit coordination, performance management, council salary & benefit committee, wellness and employee committees and risk management (insurance and claims with the City). I also assist the City Manager and those duties can be everything from helping to schedule meetings to handling the logistics of moving our city hall.

      1. Human Resources Manager*

        Job: Human Resources Manager
        Geographic Area: Orange County (CA)
        Years of Experience: 6 years
        Salary: $88,000/annual + Flexible PTO + Cell phone reimbursement + 75% of my family medical/vision/dental premiums are paid.

        I work for a tech company of about 200+ employees in various states and oversee a small staff of 3 (1 hr + 2 admin roles). I handle employee relations, policy creation/ management, m&a, compensation and benefit admin, performance management, payroll.

  363. Health Physicist*

    Job: Ensure research work with radiological materials is performed safely and in compliance with regulations
    Geographic Area: Midwest
    Years of experience: 8
    Salary: $115K
    Additional Info: Large Metro Area / High COL

  364. Junior-level researcher*

    Job: Junior-level social science researcher at a policy think tank/research contractor
    Location: Washington, DC
    Experience: 2.5 years
    Education: BA
    Salary: Started at 41k 2.5 years ago, recent promotion to higher position (still junior level, but equivalent to those w a MA and no experience) and now 55k

  365. Computer Systems Analyst - software QA focus*

    Job: I am split between high-level support for a large website’s content authors (help desk-type work for a content management system) and planning/running QA for apps my group develops.
    Geographic area: Pacific Northwest
    Years of experience: 6
    Salary: ~$84,000
    Context: I’ve been transitioning into more deeply QA-focused job duties (mainly business analysis kind of planning plus management of testers and test plan writing and verification) which is where the real money has come in.

  366. Admin Assistant*

    Location: Boston
    Current salary: 45k

    I work as an assistant in an office in a university. I deal with prospective, incoming, and current students. I’ve been at this job almost a year, with around five years of related experience, some of that from college.

  367. Fabric store employee*

    Job: Work in the notions department of a two-store local fabric warehouse
    Location: Portland, Oregon
    Experience: Approximately 15 years relevant experience (retail work and sewing/crafting) as well as 10 years not particularly relevant experience (corporate copywriting and editing)
    Pay: $9.25 / hour (minimum wage)
    Other: Paid sick leave and one week vacation after one year of employment; 20% product discount after 90 days of employment, 30% discount after one year of employment. Fantastic people and environment, intentional overstaffing to enable people to stay home when they’re sick and/or deal with emergencies, sensible weather closure policy. Most of the people who work here have been here for years.

    1. Admin Assistant*

      Based on my local fabric store, I bet it’s fantastic! I just got into sewing and embroidery, so I’m there all the time, and the people there have been so kind and helpful.

  368. Instructional Designer*

    Job: I design and develop employee training (esp e-learning) for a manufacturing company, with an emphasis on safety and compliance training. Also help manage the corporate learning management system, and manage training class logistics (room and event management).

    Where: Kansas City, MO (Go Chiefs!)

    Years experience: 5 yrs technical documentation, 15 years E-learning development and instructional design

    Salary: $75k with good benefits, PTO and flexible schedule. Recently left a similar ID position that was $82k with awful benefits and PTO and no flexibility at all. The paycut was worth it.

    1. Elemeno P.*

      May I ask what kind of education you have? I am interested in this line of work but just have related experience and a BA, and I am wondering if higher education is needed.

      1. Instructional Designer*

        I have a BA in English and an MBA in Marketing, though everything I know about Instructional Design I learned on the job and through professional development opportunities. The courses available through Association for Talent Development (td.org) have been invaluable, too!

        1. Elemeno P.*

          Thank you! I didn’t know about td.org and it seems like a super useful site! I create training materials and lead classes, but I don’t know any names of learning systems and mostly go off of “I find x boring and like y when I’m in a class, so I’m going to do y.” Most jobs I’ve seen posted ask about knowledge of certain learning systems, so this seems like a good place to learn more!

      2. Instructional Designer*

        I do this too. I design and develop training materials (lots of e-learning) for a healthcare corporation. Also do needs analysis/performance consulting as needed to determine training needs.
        Upper Midwest
        2 years experience in education, 6 years of experience in instructional design (Have a BA in education)
        $68k a year, plus good benefits, vacation time, and opportunities for bonuses.

    2. E-learning Developer*

      I do a similar thing!

      Job: Design/develop e-learning for implementations and onboarding mostly using Captivate (there’s a mix of software simulation and scenario-type courses) in the healthcare field.

      Where: Memphis, TN

      Experience: 8 years (Master’s in Interactive Media, UX Design)

      Salary: $63K with PTO, health, retirement

    3. another Instructional Designer*

      Do you get to design and develop courses from start to finish or does your company compartmentalize like mine does? Some of us do the analysis, design, development and evaluation. Another team builds the eLearning pieces based on someone else’s design, and manages the LMS.

      I’m finding that other jobs in the field call for both type so experience and I am concerned that my eLearning development skills are getting left in the dust, rendering me less marketable to other companies.

  369. Social Media Manager*

    Job: In-house social media strategist, creator and marketer – create and post all content for a major national brand, monitor social media for threats (physical and public relations-based), strategize and provide training on best practices with others in the organization responsible for social media posts for their subgroups.

    Area: Midwest

    Experience: 8 years

    Salary: $64,500

    1. Social Media Manager*

      I’ll piggyback here since I also do social media.

      Job: Client-facing social media manager/strategist/copywriter at ad agency.
      Area: South Florida
      Experience: 5 years
      Salary: $50,000
      Benefits: poor- no 401k/simple IRA, limited vacation, cover 50% of monthly insurance premium

      Have always been told job-hopping gets you the raise in advertising, am hoping that comes true with my next move.

  370. Principal Tech Writer*

    I write the user interface text and documentation for multiple software products used by sysadmin types. My source materials are a combination of the tickets/user stories the developers get, conversations with developers and QA, collaboration with the designers, and hands on product use. I also mentor more junior writers.
    Southern California
    Mid-sized international company
    15 years
    $117,000
    Sometimes there are bonuses or stock options, but that comes and goes as the executive team changes.

  371. Program Coordinator*

    annual giving fundraising for small private liberal arts college with a focus on stewardship
    NE Ohio
    8 years experience
    $40,000
    I am one of a few people in our division who reports to an Associate Director rather than a Director.

  372. Executive Assistant*

    your job: Executive Assistant
    your geographic area: Chicago
    your years of experience: 4 as EA; 7 as Admin
    your salary: 65k
    anything else: standard benefits

  373. Senior Technical Writer*

    Job: Write and edit technical reports, engineering analyses, and program management plans and processes. Perform configuration management for document development, review, and storage in relational and collaboration databases.

    Geographical Area: Coastal South Carolina

    Years experience: 20

    Education: BA English, certificates in various technical fields

    Salary: $72,000/year.

    Additional Info: I was earning nearly $79,000 at ExToxicJob. I elected to take a cut for New Job. New Job offers excellent benefits, including 401k, which when included with salary is commensurate with what I was earning before. ExToxicJob was a very small company; salary was pretty much the only benefit. All jobs have been DoD contractors.

  374. Nanny*

    I take care of two kids, currently ages 9 & 6. During the school year that involves breakfast, before school routine, driving them to school, afternoon pickup, and being on-call in case someone gets sick/school closes early. During breaks it’s more about supervising and participating in playtime, helping with lunch, bringing them to camp/enrichment classes, and breaking up arguments. I helped toilet train the younger child and occasionally assist with homework and bringing children to doctors’ appointments or running small errands (mailing packages, dropping off library books, etc). I also very rarely stay through dinner and bedtime, depending on the parents’ schedules.
    Location is northwest CT.
    I’ve worked with this family for almost 3 years and have a BS in early childhood education.
    During the school year I make $225/wk as long as I work at least three days. Summers, school breaks, and any hours outside of our agreed upon schedule (nights/weekends) are $12/hr, usually 25-40 hours during breaks. I took a significant pay cut to stay with this job once the youngest started full-day school. But I get paid time off when they go on vacation (usually 2-4 weeks per year), gas money when I’m hourly, and they pay for any outings I take the kids on. I’m glad my husband and I are in a place where I can make peanuts at a job where I’m happy instead of making slightly more at a place where I’m not.

  375. Management Analyst II*

    Job Description: Process improvement and implementation; and kind of like a system administrator for our software without the technical knowledge, meaning I configure our software within the application. I have to understand the roles of everyone in our office (attorneys, paralegals, legal secretaries, management, support staff).
    Denver, CO
    3+ years experience in this position; I’ve been a working professional (payroll, customer service) for 10 years
    $50k
    Also of note, I am a government employee and feel like I’d make more in private sector

  376. Software engineer, games / graphics*

    I’m a software developer; I work in the games industry and specialize in computer graphics. 8 going on 9 years of experience.
    Most recent “standard” full-time job: big company in San Jose CA area; $152K + benefits + stock grants worth ~$10K/year
    Now: contracting in Seattle WA; $90/hr, equivalent to $187K annual if I worked full time (which I don’t—only about half time, but I’m happier that way)

  377. Administrative Coordinator*

    Private university, manage an academic department (25 full- and part-time professors), handle: budgets & expenses; travel; events; course scheduling; receptionist duties
    Virginia
    8 years in this role; 11 years admin experience
    $38,400 ($19.04/hour; started at $15.50/hour)

  378. Consultant / Project Manager (IT Consulting)*

    Job: Delivery Manager for an IT Consulting company – this is basically program and financial management for all phases of large-scale IT projects (minus sales)
    Geographic Area: Seattle
    Years Experience: >5 in project and people management; ~20 in IT
    Base salary: 126,200
    This role also is entitled to annual stipend for travel, technology or continuing education and is eligible for annual bonuses of approx 6-10% base salary

    1. MC*

      Business Consultant also responsible for delivery of large IT projects for clients.
      Geographic Area: live in NYC but clients are across globe
      Years Experience: 20
      Base Salary: $184K
      Travel about 80% of the year with location based per diems (figure not included in base). Plus bonus based on performance.

  379. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney*

    Deputy Prosecuting Attorney- handle criminal litigation for violent/non violent offenses
    South
    3-5 years
    60k

  380. Software Engineer*

    Job: development on in-house recovery tools
    Location: Minneapolis
    Experience: 16 yrs
    Salary: $95K, full benefits, employer matching 401K, 5 weeks vacation

  381. Business Systems Analyst*

    Conversion and ongoing support for large health care systems. Requirements gathering, data mapping, analysis, testing, documentation. SQL and healthcare background required.
    Rocky Mountain region, urban setting.
    18 years as a Business Analyst, additional 17 as a developer
    $94,000.
    I purposely hired in at a grade lower than I warrant, with the understanding that they will adjust within the next year. If hired in at an appropriate level, should have been around $98,000 (according to them). Average benefits except for the health care (they are very generous on how much they pay for insurance). Working with excellent people.

    1. Business Analyst-HRIS*

      your job : Business Analyst-HRIS
      responsibility or scope of work: I manage projects related to technology efforts for our HR group at a Fortune 50 home improvement company. This is the lower level position on my team so I manage smaller projects or work with a legit Project Manager on larger projects.
      your geographic area: Atlanta
      your years of experience: 1 year in this job, 2 years managing projects, 10 years previous experience in an unrelated job/industry
      your salary: 63k plus cash benefits that bump me up to over 70k, good healthcare, 2 weekly work from home days,

  382. Garmando*

    Associate General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
    Mid-sized publicly traded company in Central Florida
    10 years of experience
    $275,000 plus decent stock option grants and typical benefits

  383. Academic Staff Researcher in STEM*

    Job: I work in a STEM department of a higher ed institution as a researcher (not a professor). I run a shared equipment facility and am able to use it for my own research.

    Geographic Area: I am in the NYC metro area.

    Experience: I have 8 years of research experience and a PhD. I have 4-5 years of experience on this particular type of equipment, including 2 years when I was the point person for maintenance. This job is the first time that I am in charge of a facility on my own, though.

    Salary: $82K

    It was hard to know if this is a fair salary. The instrumentation is pretty specialized, so there are not a lot of related positions, let alone positions where the salary info is available. I ended up towards the top of their (very wide) range after some negotiation, but not right at it. I think it (reasonably) hurt me that I had no post doc, that I had not run a facility on my own before, and that there weren’t other similar open positions elsewhere to make me competing offers. I’m comfortable at this salary, but living costs in the area are obviously high so it doesn’t go as far as you’d think.

    1. Academic Staff Researcher in STEM*

      I should also note that the benefits are amazing. I pay nothing for my health care premium and the university contributes something like 8% to my retirement fund. That alone is worth extra salary.

      1. Equipe Femme*

        University benefits are absolute cake! However, if you wanted to earn a higher salary, I am sure a dozen biotech companies would hire you in a heartbeat for a field applications position.

  384. Media Production Assistant*

    Job: I help a local college develop online courses; manage their video studios; and assist students, faculty, and staff with their video production projects.
    Location: Raleigh, NC
    Years of Experience: 6 years
    Salary: $48,200
    Context: The job is a full-time gig but is a limited-time contract due to a grant, and for three of my years of experience I was working part-time and doing freelance work rather than be employed full-time while getting my four-year degree.

  385. Architect*

    Job: I am a senior architect for a US DoD agency. I design facilities used by the military and manage technical team members as part of this process (civil, structural, landscape, fireprotection, and MEP engineers).
    Geographic Area: Florida
    Years of Experience: 8 with the government, 4 outside the government.
    Salary: $92,000/year base, but I also receive overtime and (small) bonuses. This typically adds 5% – 10% on tope of my base salary.
    Other Pertinent: The base salary is similar to private sector counterparts at an equivalent professional level except that architects are rarely paid overtime. Like many companies, the Gov’t offers flex scheduling and matching 401(k) contributions (4% total). But we also receive a small pension. No paid parental leave, but pretty generous sick and annual leave accrual. I have a Master’s degree, which was required for my Professional License in the state of Florida.

    1. Project Architect*

      Also an architect. I coordinate between the client, city, structural engineer, MEP, landscape, etc. Oversee production and quality of architectural drawings by junior staff. Check for code compliance. Sometimes help with design early on depending on the project.

      Area: Los Angeles
      Pay: $65,000
      Experience: 5 yrs

      Note: I believe I’m being slightly underpaid but I really like my job, company, and benefits so I don’t mind right now. I think there’s a few reasons for this: I moved up into this role much quicker than is typical in the field, I am a terrible negotiator, and I’m female (there’s a noticable gender wage gap in architecture, unfortunately).

    2. (also) Project Architect*

      I’m an architect too! I’m a registered architect and have my 5-yr Bachelor of Architecture. I work for a firm of <10 people so I do a bit of everything, but a lot of what I do is project management, although I do also get into design and drafting. Much of my job is wrangling the expectations of clients and contractors alike.
      Geographic area: NYC
      Years of experience: just about 5 (three with my previous firm, 2 here)
      Salary: $60,000/year, with potential for a 10% year-end bonus (which I have gotten both years so far, so thanks boss!)
      Other stuff: Decent medical/vision/dental insurance (I believe the company pays 75% of the premiums and we cover the rest), 17 days of PTO a year, free unlimited monthly Metrocards every month, the retirement plan is a bit of a bummer because you can't start contributing until you reach two years of service, but I believe after that there's a 2% match.

      Regarding my salary, I was hired in 2015 at $50,000, which I did not realize was an extreme low-ball at the time, and frankly I would have taken anything to get a chance to move to NYC. Since then, I worked my ass of to get licensed and in 2016 I realized my worth and asked for $60k, boss gave me $56k, and then 6 months later bumped it up to $60k. Because I asked for it. Never would have gotten it if I hadn't pushed, and never would have pushed if it weren't for AMA and my badass fellow lady-architect friends whispering in my ear and telling me to ask for what I deserve!

    3. Project Architect*

      Licensed a year ago. Responsible for construction documents, construction administration, graphics and rendering. Predominantly in very high-end residential design; carry out individual projects from schematic design through completion.
      area: Montana
      pay: $55,000 (3k-5k bonus)
      Experience: 5 years (should be 7 but I graduated in 2008 and spent two years trying to find a job)

      Note: Wages in this city are very depressed and the only school of architecture in the state is here so the market is over-saturated with young architects. Even though I feel underpaid, the firm I work for is on the forefront of contemporary architecture – even receiving international recognition.

    4. Architectural Designer I*

      Job: I’m the most junior designer at <10 person firm specializing in civic architecture. I split my time between drafting design and construction documents, tackling design studies, and producing graphics for marketing purposes. So many graphics and renderings.

      Geographic Area: Twin Cities

      Years of Experience: 3ish – I finished my undergrad in 2015 but worked a few extended internships in between semesters.

      Salary: $40,000. A nice increase from the $14/hr job I was doing previously in high-end residential.

      Other: 10 days pooled vaca/PTO/sick time and free gym access.

      I'm planning to move back out to the Northeast to pursue my M.Arch and work, so I'll need to readjust my salary expectations at that time. No idea what would be reasonable. Eeep!

    5. another architect*

      Just got my license in December, have about 5 years of experience (with some gaps at the beginning, thanks recession!) and an M.arch.

      Area: Denver
      Pay: $56,000 (including bonus)
      Experience: 5 years (at various firms/states)
      Other: I usually work 45-50 hour weeks, sometimes up to 70 (rarely). I don’t get overtime, or comped in any way for those extra hours. Unfortunately that’s pretty common in this field. I also get a couple hundo per month for health insurance.

      I work at a small firm (less than 10) so I wear all hats all the time, mostly doing very high end residential and one-off custom commercial. I am also female and feel underpaid. Need to muster up the courage to ask for that license raise, ugh.

    6. Project Architect*

      Licensed project architect in Seattle at a large global architecture firm. Manage junior team members, primary client contact, responsible for all aspects of CD delivery.
      Area: Seattle
      Pay: $65,000, no bonuses
      Experience: 7+ yrs

      With the caveat that I was hired to my current position at $55k about 2 years ago, then got licensed and had to push hard to get my pay raised to its current level. I am a woman, I’m not sure if it’s been a factor or not – my firm is a bit notorious for low salaries. As far as I can tell I’m still about $5k below where I should be, but I like my team and my role and they did fight hard for me to upper management to raise my salary when I asked, so..

      For others, note that the PNW has a huge shortage of people at my skill level right now (talent hangover from the recession ca. 2008 when everyone bailed on architecture), so if you are negotiating on salary, you are in a strong position to push for more.

  386. Assistant Director*

    Job: Assistant Director of a science department at an R1 university. Responsible for department finances, personnel, budget, etc.
    Geographic area: Boston MA
    Years of experience: 11
    Salary: $78k

    I leveraged this position out of my current position in the same department with a job offer on the table from an external department. I have a Masters, but in a completely unrelated subject.

    1. Assistant Director*

      This is my title too, but for a small nonprofit in San Francisco. I was just promoted to this position after 4.5 years as Operations Manager. Includes similar duties – budgeting and other accounting duties, event management, and also will hire and manage a small team (2).

      Salary: $75K, 4 weeks PTO (+week between Xmas and New Year’s), good benefits paid 100%, 401k matching 3% of salary

      Years of experience: 6.5…? Depends on what you consider relevant experience

      Geographic area: San Francisco

  387. Marketing Specialist*

    I manage proposal processes for an engineering and construction company. My job is to keep the marketing materials used in the proposal process up-to-date, hound the technical guys to give me the proposal specific information the client asks for and formatting all the information so that everything looks like it is a coherent book.
    Northeast Florida
    I have 18 months of experience in this position. I had 6 months of marketing experience from an internship and a Bachelors in Communications (Public Relations) when I was hired.
    I make $21.85 an hour (45,400ish a year) with great healthcare cost and coverage.

    1. Marketing Specialist*

      Just a note, when I was hired, I was making 41,500 a year. The pay jump is from an annual pay raise of 2% and my department going from a typical work week of 37.5 hours to a standard 40 hour work week.

      That being said, I have more experience with the proposal process than my direct supervisor and the other co-worker in this office. I have lived through one boss quitting a few months into my starting work, leaving me as the only marketer for my division with very little training, and then the next boss being fired about a year later. During the second boss’s tenure my company acquiring another one half the size and then a giant re-organization of the company. Lets just say its been a crazy year and a half.

  388. Gym Manager*

    Job: Manager at a Gym inside a large company’s building
    Geographic area: West (but not coast)
    Years of experience: 4 in the industry, B.S. required before that
    Salary: $42,000 (plus benefits, PTO, etc.). This industry is notoriously low-paying, and, from what I hear, this area is particularly bad.

  389. Compensation Analyst*

    Job Summary: The Compensation Analyst works closely with the business to develop, implement, and administer compensation policies and programs. The role partners on compensation projects that include job evaluations, compensation surveys, benchmarking and market data analysis.
    San Francisco
    4 years in HR, new to comp
    $75K plus 10% targeted bonus
    Currently hold a PHR/SHRM-CP, and taking CCP classes to become a Certified Compensation Professional.

  390. Research Assistant*

    Bioinformatics support: Data analysis and pipeline programming for biological data at a university
    Area: Southern Ontario
    Experience: 3.5 years
    Salary: $50k FTE, pro-rated because I don’t work full time, full benefits, defined-benefit pension, 3wks vacation/yr
    Education: M.Sc. in Computational Biology
    I work as staff at a top-tier university, and my job is unionized.

  391. Software Engineer*

    Writing web software for a startup.
    NYC
    10+ yrs, Masters
    ~140K, plus equity
    Full benefits. Great hours (never more than 40hrs/week).

  392. Legal Assistant (Almost Attorney/Counsel)*

    Small law firm
    North Georgia
    JD + 8 months out of law school, but worked her summers/part-time during law school
    $45k now ($55k base after passing bar); benefits (no healthcare, flex schedule, 3+ weeks PTO)
    Salary with benefits is average for my area for a small firm. I can earn bonuses and the pay jumps quickly in the first few years of being an attorney if I stay. The area of law is specialized.

      1. Legal Assistant (Almost Attorney/Counsel)*

        No, unfortunately. I use Exchange. Right now I’m healthy, unmarried, and don’t have children, so it’s been okay. I wish I had health insurance.

        To add context: I work in immigration. While it’s not a non-profit, the partners’ philosophy is to be affordable for lower-income immigrants. I chose to work here knowing I won’t make lots of money because I wanted to help immigrants afford legal services. I’m learning a great deal from well-respected, experienced immigration attorneys and improving my Spanish.

        I forgot to say I have a 3% 401(k) match if I contribute 6%.

  393. Field Application Engineer*

    -I do a lot of different tasks related to one of our products: demo, project management (with customer), installation services, testing, customer support.
    -Southeast WI
    -13.5 years experience
    -$83,000

    1. Field Service Engineer*

      – I work for an equipment manufacturer doing installation, servicing, testing, and customer support
      – NE Illinois
      – 5 years
      – $55,000

  394. Contract Administrator*

    Reviews and drafts contract changes for contracts ranging from small commercial size (mom and pop businesses) up to wholesale (national, name-brand types). Reviews bids and assists with non-pricing aspects. Assists with processing contracts during the busy season.
    Southeastern United States, relatively LCOL metropolitan area
    4 years of experience
    $48k (pay grade midpoint $46k; pay grade max $54k)
    Mediocre health coverage, free dental check ups, two weeks sick time and I now get three weeks of vacation per year due to how long I’ve been with the company.

    1. Business Cat*

      I was hoping there would be a post from a contract admin! I’m interviewing for this position this week with our local university, also in Southeastern US.

  395. Resource Development Associate*

    Resource Development Associate- responsible for supporting the business development team for a nonprofit education consulting firm
    Location: San Francisco
    Experience: 3-5 years
    Salary: 72K, plus 15% of salary in a retirement count, no match required, full benefits, 3 weeks vacation, sick leave

  396. Assistant Director*

    I’m in Texas. I work in an academic library. As the Assistant Director I oversee the entire Technical Services department which includes all the purchasing, cataloging, processing, etc. – all of the non-public-facing duties.
    I have between 10-15 years of professional experience (after I graduated with my Masters from Library School) and 1-5 years of paraprofessional experience (pre-degree).
    I currently make roughly $80,000 plus benefits

  397. State Government - Compliance Inspector*

    job: field inspector for agricultural compliance, regarding fertilizers/pesticides/plant products/feed/etc.

    geographic area: upper Midwest

    years of experience: 3 on the job, 1 year government internship prior, and MS degree in related field

    salary: approx $49,500 (will cap out around $65k in a few years)

    Union job, no pension plan. But generous health/dental/vision benefits, retirement 401k match, health savings account, long and short term disability options, state/federal holidays paid time off. I currently accrue around 3 weeks paid vacation and 2.5 weeks sick leave per year, and all that time rolls over annually.

    The pay rate is the same statewide, but I live in a pretty low cost of living area so it goes a long way already. We also work out of our homes (obviously we’re also in our cars all the time, too) so that’s a great perk for me.

  398. Television Producer*

    -Oversee all creative and budget aspects of original documentary programs at a mid-market public television station. Includes grant writing and fundraising, research and script development, and coordinating work of all technical and creative staff and contractors assigned to the project. No direct reports but responsible for managing the work flow and output of the assigned team for the life of the project.
    -Midwest
    -22 years
    -$54,000

  399. Executive Assistant*

    Job: Providing administrative support to the President and the CEO of a promotional company. Also do some PA work for the CEO.

    Area: SW Ohio

    Experience: 7 years admin experience total, however less than 1 year in current industry

    Salary: Paid hourly – $19, which works out to $39,520/year before overtime. Overtime is a fairly common occurrence, and I’m paid time and a half for that.

  400. Director of Operations*

    Job – Overseeing the day to day operations of my organizations transactional operations, i.e. data entry, customer service, AR, AP, etc. Also manage strategic projects for process automation, system enhancements, contact center software, onboarding new work/customers, etc.

    Location – SF Bay Area

    Experience – 15 years in business, 12 years in call center/operations environments

    Salary – $95k, plus benefits

  401. Executive Assistant*

    Job description: admin and project work for two Managing Directors at a private equity firm. Calendar management, travel, expenses, phones. I plan all the company events including enormous annual meeting. Not too much personal work. Hours are 9ish to 5ish, very rare work at night/on weekends.
    Location: New York, NY
    Experience: 7 years experience in admin work, I’ve been a working professional for 10 years
    Compensation: 95K base, 90K bonus, 100% 401K match, fully paid health benefits for me and my family, profit sharing

  402. Communications/Marketing Manager*

    Job Duties:
    -Design all print and digital company collateral
    -Manage company website/update pages, etc.
    -Manage company’s social media presence
    -Design/schedule mass marketing email campaigns
    -Assist with A/V during company events
    Geographic Area: Central/South NJ
    Years of Experience: 8
    Salary: $67,000/year

  403. Collaboration Specialist*

    Job Description: I work with a team to manage and constantly improve my company’s collaboration tools (SharePoint, Box, Yammer, etc.). I’m the subject matter expert (SME) for several of the tools we use, and I write content for and manage the support repository used by end users. When we hire vendors to help us with design projects and/or huge amounts of work, I supervise the work of the vendors. My team provides all support for upgrades, which is usually a long process.
    Geographic Area: Boston/Cambridge (previously NYC)
    Years of Experience: 21 as a Technical Trainer. 4-5 in current position.
    Salary: $90k (and it hasn’t changed much in several years [grrr])
    Other Info: I am an on-site contractor through another company, and this has been the case for 15+ years. The company that I actually work for (not the client where I do my work) is cheap, and we have to fight to get any salary increases. For example, last year we did not get a cost of living increase (for some unknown reason – the company is doing fine). If I didn’t LOVE working for the client, I would have left a long time ago over my employer’s nickel and diming and general cheapness when it comes to compensation.

    1. Technical Editor (senior-level)*

      Love your title! Is that something special your company gave you or have you met others with the same title?

    2. Collaboration Specialist*

      Forgot to mention: I have a BA in an unrelated field (in case that’s helpful). Also, I go to the office or work from home depending on what works best for me.

  404. Process Research Engineer*

    Job: lead research projects to take something from lab scale to plant scale. Typically this means lab work, economic analysis, project management, engineering design… I work for a big chemicals company.
    Geographic area: Midwest
    Years of Experience: 2
    Salary: $80,000 base, with yearly bonus. Decent benefits.

    1. Senior biopharm process engineer / manager*

      I’ll piggyback here since it’s similar:

      Job: similar to above, within the parameters of a lot of regulatory stuff because I make pharmaceuticals for a smallish company. I manage some junior engineers/research associates, but it is more accurate to say that I just let them know what the schedule is because they mostly manage themselves. We make little scale-down prototypes sometimes, and we have more concerns about the materials we build things out of (i.e. “product contact materials”) than above, so we do a fair amount of extractibles/leachables validation. We take the “what we want to make” part of the pharmacology and fill in the “and this is how you make it” part. Literally “you,” we transfer the method officially to a commercial group.
      Geographic area: Boston-ish
      Years of experience: 17
      Salary: $120,000 + 10% bonus + signing bonus + bunch of stock options. Very good benefits – health, dental, vision, life, disability, transit passes subsidized, gym memberships subsidized with one free class per week, and free lunch every day.

      1. Senior Engineer - Process development*

        Job: process development of biologics in a large cap pharmaceutical company. Perform independent lab work and manage junior scientists.
        Area: Boston Metrowest
        Years experience: 5 years after PhD
        Salary: $125,000 + 20% bonus + typical benefits + 401k matching

  405. ES*

    Trade magazine editor / publishing executive / speechwriter
    Washington, DC
    BA + 10 years
    $125k + benefits

  406. Senior Embedded Software Engineer*

    Embedded software on small devices with no commercial OS or low footprint OS. Take information in meetings, write requirements, write software or lead team to write software, test my own software, review software, review test plans and test results from others. Mostly C with some C++ and assembly. Troubleshoot existing software issues found in field.

    Salary $94,000
    Mid sized Midwestern US city

    Benefits 6% 401k contributions, great health insurance (80/20 PPO all premiums paid by company) Bonus last year was $6K.

    21 years experience embedded software, 2 years at this company. Bachelors and Masters in Engineering.

    I know I could make more, but it would most likely involve moving, and my husband & I are committed to staying here until the kids are out of the nest. I was making more at my last position, that corporate office closed down and moved several states north to a small town.

  407. Intellectual Property/Contracts Manager*

    Contracts/Rights Management – sell translation rights of university press books, sell poetry to testing companies, negotiate and create contracts for academic authors
    South
    3 years
    $34,000
    We’re an academic publisher (non-textbook)

  408. Director Research and Evaluation*

    –Lead for all research and market research for a not-for-profit with a ~$5M operating budget. Research department budget is Nil or next to (~$10K per year). No direct reports. Vendor management when necessary.
    –11 years of work experience
    –$90K, plus organizational performance bonus of ~$4K per year
    –Washington DC area
    –We also get a 4% match on our 401(k), plus a 7% of our salary 401(k) bonus every year, approved by the BOD. I also make my own schedule for the most part, come and go as I please as long as the work is done (and done well). I have a masters degree but no current certifications.
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context

    1. Director of Learning and Evaluation*

      – Lead all research and evaluation for a small international foundation (public charity / non-profit) with an operating budget of approx 3 million USD per year. I used to have one direct report, I am expected to have 3 direct reports in the coming year.
      – Based in Northern California (San Francisco Bay Area – very high cost of living)
      – 14 years of experience
      – 90,ooo USD per year
      – Role requires considerable amounts of travel to eastern and southern Africa, as well as for conferences and meetings in North America.
      – I have a PhD and extensive experience and training in research and evaluation.
      – I was hired at 85K as a Senior Officer and the current 90K salary reflects only 3% cost of living raises each year – I am still negotiating a salary increase to go along with the promotion to Director.

  409. Marketing Communications Specialist*

    Job: Blogging, social media, white papers, website, emails, flyers, product information – in charge of all copy on any marketing piece but also reviewing any marketing peice piece to make sure it fits the brand voice
    Location: Metro-Atlanta
    Years of Experience: 10
    Salary: $62,400 + bonuses + benefits

    1. Marketing Communications Specialist*

      Additional Info: Salaried, 15 days PTO, 9 paid holidays, 2016 bonus equaled roughly 2.8% of salary, decent 401k match. Insurance isn’t great, but it is better than nothing. Commute is a breeze, which is pretty rare in this area.

  410. Health Educator*

    your job: manage all educational, marketing, and media efforts for a health non profit
    your geographic area: rural Missouri
    your years of experience: education – 3 health – less than one
    your salary: 36,000
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: This is actually higher than was advertised but I got a bit of a bump for having a graduate degree. I also only work 32 hours a week.

  411. Senior Electrical/Controls Engineer*

    ~Controls Automation, Instrumentation, and Power Distribution paper manufacturing company
    ~Gulf Coast
    ~7 Years
    ~$92,000 with 10% bonus, 6% 401K match, and 5% annual profit share (bonus goes direct to pay check, profit share into retirement accounts).
    BS and MS in Electrical Eng

  412. Chief Software Architect/Director of Engineering*

    Design software and direct the engineering team for a small Silicon Valley software firm; previously with a very large software company.
    Location: Silicon Valley
    Experience: 40+
    Salary: $210,000. Current benefits stink (small company.) There have been bonuses in the past but they haven’t materialized in the last three years due to financial issues.

  413. Environmental Graphic Designer*

    I lead a small team in the design of graphics (think wayfinding, signage, brand graphics) in the built environment. I have one full-time direct report and oversee other borrowed or contracted staff as needed.
    Los Angeles area
    73k + 5-10% year end bonus
    I have a masters degree and 11 total years of experience, 5 of which are directly in this field and 6 are in adjacent design fields.

  414. Business Intelligence Developer*

    Job: Support production BI processes. Design and develop new BI and Data Warehousing systems. Work with Microsoft BI stack most often.
    Geographic area: Greater Pittsburgh Area
    Experience: 13 years combined experience in software development and BI. Two year degree.
    Annual salary: 105k

  415. Senior Copywriter*

    Senior copywriter in the marketing communications department of a large healthcare marketing-technology company. I write and edit copy promoting our products and services to the hospitals and health systems that are our clients. Lots of emails and landing pages, web copy, print materials, social media posts, and ads for trade media publications. Not a manager, but have a fair amount of responsibility over content we produce.

    Upper Midwest

    10 years as a freelance writer and editor for clients ranging from national consumer and trade publications to local nonprofits. Started this job as a freelancer (filling in for the former senior copywriter, who moved on) in August 2015 and accepted a full-time job offer in January 2016.

    $70,000

    I successfully negotiated for a higher salary — our HR and financing departments wanted to offer me $5,000 less, to keep my pay in line with that of senior copywriters in other departments. I held firm because otherwise I would have been taking a small pay cut, and fortunately, my managers really wanted me and went to bat for me. (It was interesting — I understand wanting to maintain parity, but on the other hand, losing a desirable candidate who already had five months of experience over such a low number, when a few months of interviewing hadn’t turned up anyone stronger, did not make much business sense to me. But moving from self-employment to a large corporation has been something of an object lesson in things that do not make much business sense to me!)

  416. Archivist*

    Job: My main duty is processing historical archival and manuscript collections. I have no supervisory duties.
    Location: NYC
    Years experience: 3 professional; >5 total, including unpaid internships.
    Salary: $56K. It’s a union position, which is pretty uncommon for professional archivists, I believe. Everyone at my level is hired at the same rate and there’s an automatic bump after a year. I was hired pretty close to my current salary even though at the time of hiring I had 0 years professional experience. At the time, I saw other entry-level archivist positions in the area advertised for about $40,000 or even less, urgh.
    Other info: At least one masters is required.

  417. Legal Secy*

    Legal secretary
    Support two partners by answering phones, managing calendars, drafting and filing numerous legal documents, managing constant interruption, reading minds and being looked down upon because I’m “just a secretary.”
    Bachelors degree, associates degree and certification.
    Don’t go into law.
    Texas mid size city
    $42000

  418. Associate General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer*

    Mid-sized publicly traded company in Central Florida
    10 years of experience
    $275,000 plus decent stock option grants and typical benefits

  419. office associate/admin*

    -entry-level administrative assistant in an academic department at a flagship state univeristy; responsibilities include public relations for the department, administrative support to an academic program, and general office bs.
    -the Southeast US
    -ten
    -$22,000
    -I took this job for the benefits, including extremely generous vacation time (spring break! Christmas break! two weeks paid!) and tuition support. I’m a bit over-qualified for the role but am going to school to retrain for another field entirely. The schedule plus the tuition support make the lower paycheck well worth it. It’s also a low-stress environment, so that’s also a factor.

  420. Academic Librarian*

    Reference and Instruction Librarian
    Philadelphia area
    5 years experience
    $70,000
    I have an MLIS and a subject MA.

  421. Research Assistant*

    JOB: Research assistant in a nonprofit research org. Doing lots of data cleaning and excel work.
    AREA: DC area
    EXPERIENCE: First job out of college, been here 6 months. Sociology major.
    SALARY: Started at 40,000, now at 41,000.
    BENEFITS: Medical, dental, vision, flextime and WFH available.

    1. Lab/field technician, Water analyst, (Environmental)*

      I have similar work and education matching.
      working in an environmental engineering lab working with groundwater with a communications degree!

  422. Human Resources Recruiter*

    Human Resources Recruiter: I do the initial resume screening, all phone interviews, onsite interviews, and recommend candidates to hiring manager for final interviews for a medium (approximately 250-employees) organization. Also do all offer letters, background checks and other assorted new hire items.

    11 years experience in this and other HR functions
    Central Texas
    $51,000 annual

  423. Church Administrator*

    Run the office for a medium-size church (160 active members), including bookkeeping, reception, minute-taking for Board meetings, office management, etc. I supervise one employee.

    Geographic area: Quebec, Canada
    Years of experience: 1 year at this job, 5.5 years in administrative support
    Salary: $33,660 / year
    Context: I am considered a 3/4-time employee (I work 32 hrs / week during the church year and 17.5 hrs / week over the summer), so my salary is actually 3/4 the salary I would be making if this job were full-time.

  424. IT Technician*

    Job: End user support, PC repairs and maintenance, training

    Area: Michigan

    Experience: I have my degree, but in something else. I have an IT certification that I recently re-upped with no problems. I have been working in IT for 5 years.

    Salary: $40k annually.

  425. Admin Assistant*

    your job: Administrative Assistant for a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit – also includes assisting with communications and event planning projects
    your geographic area: DC
    your years of experience: 1 in this job, 2 more in related jobs
    your salary: $35,000 (but hopefully getting a raise at my performance review on Friday – I’m reading AAM voraciously to prepare!)

  426. Software Validation Engineer*

    Job: Design and execute tests on software to specifically verify provided requirements, make sure the provided requirements make sense, don’t conflict with one another, and are testable.
    Geographic area: Merrimack Valley, MA (northern Boston suburbs right near the NH border)
    Years of experience: >1
    Salary: 67k

    1. Software Validation Engineer*

      Benefits: Matching 401k contributions (up to 6%), really good healthcare (a fairly low deductible and good copayments) including cheap dental and vision options, life insurance, annual bonuses are apparently 3~5% (we don’t get them until march), and a PSP. I also received relocation assistance including a stipend.

      I consider myself incredibly lucky, especially since not only is this my first job out of college, but also my degree was only in a related scientific field.

  427. HR Assistant*

    Job: HR Assistant for a small, private healthcare agency
    Area: Minneapolis
    Years of Experience: 8 months ; prior 8 years in management for hospitality
    Salary: $47,500
    Extra Info: My employer pays very well for a small company, with immediate 3 weeks paid vacation and 12 PTO days. Also was extremely underpaid with hotel mgmt company and incoming managers were making $10k more then me a big reason for career change on top of burn out.

  428. Second Language Assessor*

    Job: I test candidates English oral proficiency for jobs within the Canadian federal government.
    Geographic area: NCR (Ottawa, Ontario/Gatineau, Quebec)
    Experience: as an assessor, a little less than 1 year, but I taught ESL with in the Canadian federal government for 8 years
    salary: starts at $63,000CDN (but I make $71,000CDN)
    Other: comes with 15 days vacation, 15 days sick leave, 5 family related leave days, 1 personal day, and 1 volunteer day, possibility of compressed hours (1 day off every 2 or 3 weeks, working longer days to make up for the day off), health insurance, dental insurance, pension plan, 1-year parental leave….

  429. Compensation Analyst*

    Job: Analyze and ensure employees are paid equitably relative to the market and our organization’s value of a job’s worth. Includes conducting market studies, writing job descriptions, reviewing requests for raises, promotions, demotions, etc.

    Area: Texas

    Years of experience: 5

    Salary: $48,000

  430. Java Developer*

    Senior level software developer, currently Java
    Location: Milwaukee, WI
    Experience: 14 years total
    Salary: $95,000

  431. Lab Coordinator*

    Job: This is technically a “specialist” position, which is more advanced than a technician, but with less responsibility than a lab manger because I work alone and don’t supervise anybody (other than the occasional student volunteer). You need a BS to do this work but not a MS. I set up then clean up all the chem labs and half the micro labs at a public college (maintain bacterial cultures, make chemical solutions, etc.). This is for roughly 15 class sections. I do this so that the instructors don’t have to. I don’t supervise or interact with students (normally). I also manage the physical science equipment budget, ensure lab safety and compliance, and police the chemical waste. I like to say I do a lot of technical cooking and cleaning.
    Location: FL Panhandle
    Years Experience: 5
    Salary $29,000 offset by flexible schedule, insurance, and PTO. The primary economy in this area is hospitality and military, education, especially science, is culturally undervalued, so this is a low-ball salary for this field.

  432. Project Manager*

    – My role as a project manager in the health insurance industry involves determining requirements, establishing priorities and monitoring progress. I evaluate project status and resource utilization and make recommendations to improve the team’s effectiveness by integrating agile tools and best practices.

    – Denver, CO (Denver Tech Center)

    – I have 3 years of project management experience but I do not have my Project Management Professional certification (PMP) yet.

    – $76,000 annual salary + $7,000 in annual employer paid benefits (401k, HSA, dental and medical). 20% work from home and flexible schedule, 18 days paid vacation and 10 minute commute to office (the best perk, in my opinion). I’ve been with the company for 3 months.

    – Factors that may have an influence on my salary
    1. I earned a Master of Science degree in project management

  433. Assistant Director of Human Resources*

    Job description: Performance management, compensation analysis, training development and proctoring.
    Location: Fayetteville, NC
    Experience: 10 years
    Compensation: $51,000, plus benefits

  434. Mechanical Engineer*

    Job duties are an assortment of normal mechanical engineering work (component design, life cycle testing, CAD, etc.), plus a bunch of other stuff since it’s a startup and there are only 8 of us (packaging design, manufacturing process improvement, assembly line work, office management).

    Boston, MA

    3 years of experience post-college. 1.5 years additional of full-time internship experience in my field (three 6 month internships).

    $70,000
    (+ occasional additional equity grants)

    I suspect I could make more at a company that isn’t a startup, but I like my job.
    This shouldn’t matter, but I’m female (the only woman at my company).

    1. Mechanical Engineer*

      I’m a mechanical engineer at a computer company. Job: a combination of mechanical design work, thermal testing, solving problems that come up in customer use (ex. the hinge broke, how do we fix it?), and working with our vendors on mechanical changes or improvements to parts.
      Location: Suburbs of Boston.
      Experience: 1 year at this job + 1 internship in college.
      Salary: $67,000 plus a bonus of up to $5000 that’s dependent on personal and company goals. 3 weeks paid vacation.

  435. Freelance copy editor*

    Job: Edit and proofread text, print and online, for various consumer magazines.
    Location: NYC
    Years of Experience: 30
    Salary: $30/hr generally; can go higher depending on individual magazine/job
    Context: Publishing is flux; magazines are downsizing or folding, while online content is increasing. However, editing and proofreading for online content seems not to be the norm, especially on the sites that post a lot. Most figure the news cycle will render a post obsolete in a few hours anyway, so why bother? As someone who loves words and reading, this depresses me and makes me angry. Good grammar is always important!

    1. Managing Web Editor*

      I think your feeling about the general lack of interest in copy editing for online articles is correct. For a while I was wondering if the pendulum would swing back. There are so many crappy content mill websites out there producing the same junk, we have to eventually reach the tipping point where readers will reject them and look for high quality articles, right? But it hasn’t happened yet, as far as I can tell.

  436. Head Digital Librarian*

    I managing all of the metadata for a large scale, non-profit digital library. I teach people across the country how to use our system. I translate between software developers and general users, so both side can understand each other. I supervise a team that can vary between 3-20, depending on if we are working on a big project.
    Washington, DC
    5 years experience
    $93,000 (10 days combined PTO, no other benefits)
    I have an MLIS and a really odd combo of experience that is hard to find and exactly what this organization wanted.

  437. News Associate (Journalism)*

    I monitor news in 13 states and aggregate interesting info for a state-wide audience. Think of it as some reporting. I’m as low on the totem pole as can be.
    Phoenix, Arizona
    2 years of experience, bachelors in Journalism.
    $42,000
    I work at one of the higher-paying orgs in my field and the pay is higher to accommodate strict union rules and a two-year time commitment. I’ll be hard pressed to find a raise when I leave this gig.

    1. Editor / News Curator*

      I’m going to lump mine in here because this is very similar to what I do too.

      Job: I work nights for a news monitoring company that churns out curated newsletters for Fortune 500 execs, and communications and legal departments. We also do 24/7 monitoring for some clients in shifts. I sift through news in the wee hours of the night and organize/summarize the content to send by a morning deadline. It’s shift work with mandatory “up time” since we’re always on deadline (like get thee to a coffee shop if you are having internet problems AND tell someone!), but the owners and my group of coworkers are great about covering unforeseen events.
      Area: Work from home. Owners are based in Southeast Michigan and I live here as well.
      Compensation: ~$28/hr. Independent Contractor, 2 weeks PTO, no additional benefits (I do count telecommuting as a benefit, personally). 2.5 years in this role
      Education: Information Science Master’s, writing-related Bachelor’s

  438. Print sales rep*

    your job: print sales rep
    your geographic area: currently new england, moving to NYC later this year
    your years of experience: 3 1/2 years at this company (I was hired here straight out of college); 9 months as a sales rep
    your salary (+ context): my salary sitch is a little weird. I’m currently hourly ($17.75/hour) as a holdover from my previous position here, which I transitioned out of 9 months ago. once I move to NYC, I will be making ~$55,000 for the first few years (to help get me on my feet, as I’m a new sales rep & won’t be able to survive on commission alone for a while). after a few years, provided I’m successful, I will switch to 8% commission + expenses (no base salary), as is standard for my industry. (my goal, of course, is to be able to switch to commission only soon, as I’ll be making much more that way.)

  439. M Vogenthaler*

    Job: Senior Accounting Analyst at very small public accounting firm – prepare financial reports, oversee bookkeepers and manage projects, draft tax returns, consult with clients on accounting systems and processes, instruct clients on software, prepare payroll and sales tax returns, and anything else that needs doing.
    Location: City in Central Texas
    Experience: 16 years experience starting at the bottom as a bookkeeper.
    Salary: Approx. 50,000 @ 30 hrs/wk. Technically I am part time, so my time varies a lot. This amount includes my base wage and “commissions” on higher level accounting work (basically a bonus on those hours).
    Other info: I recently finished the coursework that I needed to sit for the CPA exam.

    1. Senior Accounting Analyst (formerly M Vogenthaler)*

      Believe it or not, I also have ADHD and have trouble following instructions which is why I put my name instead of the title. SOooooo much fun for someone in accounting.

  440. Senior IT Manager*

    Responsible for 2 leads and 10 Systems Analysts in healthcare industry
    AZ
    20+ years experience in IT, 6 as manager
    $107,000 plus 15% annual bonus, fully vested 401k, 5 weeks paid vacation
    My salary is in the middle of the range which seems on par with other businesses

    1. Senior IT Manager*

      Also forgot to add, I don’t have a college degree. I’ve worked hard and have been given a lot of opportunities, though; but over time, a degree matters less and experience matters more.

  441. Senior Interactive Designer*

    Job Title: I build online donation forms (including donation strategy) that connect to an organization’s CRM. I mostly work with smaller nonprofits and have probably 100 customers I work with any given month. I also do scoping and quoting prices for bigger projects, manage processes and some billing. I’m also cross-trained in every other job in the department.
    Region: Central Indiana
    Experience: I have been in this particular job for almost 5 years, but have over 20 years experience building websites professionally and hold a Master’s in Nonprofit Management
    Salary: $59,480
    Other info: I started this job at $51,500 (negotiated up from an offer of $45k) and do have the opportunity for a 15% bonus each year, depending on how the company is doing. While we work for non-profits, we are a for-profit company. My teammate, same level as me, does less management tasks and is not cross-trained, has been in this job for 10 years with no prior experience and no degree at all, makes $45,000.

  442. Administrative Coordinator*

    Support staff in Finance, Contracts, HR, Purchasing, and I serve as 1/2 of the recruiting team (travel arrangements, expense reports, data entry, purchasing/receiving, maintaining ATS database and Finance SharePoint site, and many other little things)
    Hampton Roads, VA
    20 years
    $41K
    Entire time with the same company – moved 5 times over the years within the company, all admin related positions – no schooling

  443. Senior Technical Writer*

    Senior Technical Writer for a software company. My team writes online help, user guides, instruction manuals, knowledge base articles, UI text, etc.
    Salary: $100,000, plus bonus
    Region: I live in the Midwest, but my company is HQ’d in the south. I work remotely from my home.
    Benefits: full health benefits, 401k, generous PTO
    Experience: 20 years
    Education: BA in German, MA in English (linguistics/TESOL), Ed.D in Adult Education

  444. In House Counsel*

    Job: mostly contract negotiations, but anything and everything else legal related for the company
    Location: long island
    Years Exp.: 3 legal, 15 general business
    Salary: $92k + up to 10% bonus

    1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

      Fellow in-house counsel here. How big is your in-house legal department? How big is your company?

      1. Scrooge McLawyer*

        Same questions for you…I’m a biglaw associate thinking about making the in-house jump in the not too distant future…

  445. Digital Content Producer*

    *Writer, editor, technical work in content management system, content strategy and very light UX work plus managing processes like getting translations and creating checklists for the larger team
    *Southeast US
    *5+ in this field scattered across 15 years of professional experience, most in an unrelated field but with elements of this job in some position (like maintaining the departmental or agency website or sending marketing emails as a job duty but not as the full-time position)
    *$30 / hr
    *I work 25-30 hours most weeks. No benefits. I’m an W-2 employee but function with the flexibility of a contractor/freelancer.

  446. Administrative Assistant*

    Your job: I’m an assistant to several sales directors at a software company. So I book travel, plan and execute small sales events, manage several calendars, get projects paid for, execute small projects for my bosses, take lots of minutes, know everything that’s going on so I can answer all questions on the spot if possible. Make everyone’s lives easier! :)
    Your geographic area: Bay Area, CA
    Your years of experience: As an admin, over 10. In this capacity, 1 year.
    Your salary: $63,000
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Considering what the people I work for probably make on average hourly, having me do necessary and time consuming admin work on their behalf at *my* hourly rate makes sense, and makes them happier!

  447. Web Designer*

    I handle visual / interactive design work as part of a Web Services team, including our flagship website, social media and email design work, and other digital design-related projects both internal and external. I have one direct report and my official title has “manager” in it.

    Employer: Large nonprofit
    Location: Atlanta
    Years of experience: 8 total, 4.5 here
    Education: BFA
    Salary: $62K
    Benefits: decent insurances and leave time, reasonably flexible work-from-home policy, 40 hr. work week

  448. Safety Coordinator*

    – Be familiar with OH&S legislation, make sure all employees have the correct and most up to date safety certifications, conduct new employee orientations, provide job specific safety training, run safety meetings and the safety committee, do inspections, complete hazard assessments and incident investigations and make/apply recommendations for improvements, complete safety audits annually, monthly maintenance on safety equipment (defibrillator, extinguishers, etc.)

    – Alberta, Canada

    – 2 years

    – Approximately $50,000/year, $24/hour

    – I have never worked in safety before, nor worked in a company where a safety program was really in place. I was actually hired to do inside sales and accounts receivables, which I do as well as my safety work. I made up my own title, I don’t call myself a manager because I don’t manage anybody directly, but as far as I can tell the job is the same, and I took a safety manager course. We have less than 50 employees.

    1. Safety Coordinator*

      I should add: I have a B. Sc. in Geography, and have been working in one way or another for 16 years.
      Obviously my degree is not so important as my experience here.

  449. anon in writing*

    Title: content marketing manager (for a software company)
    Location: Dallas, Texas (remote; the company is in Raleigh, North Carolina)
    Years: 1 in marketing, 14 in technical writing and content strategy
    Salary: $92,000, 22 days PTO, benefits
    Job info: I edit and write for a technical blog and run all of the social media for my department / development group. I also write marketing materials like whitepapers and sales kits, work on content (blogs, social media, download assets) for the different marketing campaigns, and project manage writing projects when I’m not doing the writing myself. I also do the high-level content strategy for my group. It’s pretty much 9-5 unless I just feel like taking on additional projects. It’s also pretty autonomous.

  450. Employer Relations Manager*

    Job: Employer Relations (not employee relations) – Work in Career Services Office in academic setting to manage all on and off campus recruitment activities, grad stats, etc.
    Geographic Area: Washington, DC Metro Area
    Years Experience: 8 total, 3.5 in this role (background in recruiting/staffing)
    Salary: Currently $61,500 (Started at $59,500 in 2013)
    Context: I have a BS and obtained my MBA while working at the school (tuition remission, not exactly free), great employer matching on 403(b) (you up 5% they put 10%, fully vested after 1 year), vacation is fine, not great work life balance (little to no admin support).

  451. Museum Programmer*

    –I create, plan, and implement educational drop-in programming for a local museum on a shoe-string budget
    –Southern Wisconsin
    –5 years experience
    –$11.50/hour

    Everything’s part time, but I love doing programming (it’s my passion) and I love the museum and I love teaching and I do it on the weekends. I don’t do it for the money, basically (as most museum staff do)

  452. Special Collections Librarian/Archivist*

    job: A special collections librarian and archivist at a private liberal arts University. 1 of 3 librarians in my department.
    geographic area: deep South
    years of experience: 4-5 years professional, 3 years para-professional (all in libraries)
    salary: 58,000
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: job requires an MLIS and prefers a second Masters, considered non-tenure 12 month faculty, good benefits and a lot of vacation time

  453. Project Manager*

    My job: Managing updates to a massive transportation infrastructure
    Geographic area: Northeast Florida
    Years of experience: 20 progressive years from a technician to a manager (six as a PM)
    Salary: $80,000 + good benefits
    I have an associates degree in an unrelated field but I take every free class I can get my hands on and every one I can get my employer to pay for. Working on PMP certification. Female in a male dominated industry but have always been respected and fairly compensated.

  455. Aerospace Engineer*

    Job: Mechanical design engineer for jet engines. Responsibilities range from component design and FEA analysis to production and field support to system-level integration
    Geographic Area: New England
    Experience: 2 undergrad summer internships and 3.5 years of full time experience (all in same company and department), BS in Mechanical Engineering
    Salary: $75K

    1. Aerospace Engineer Senior Staff*

      Job: senior staff engineer in the chief engineers office. Responsible for technical and functional sell off of major programs to Pentagon. Also technical expert for flight software and system of systems integrated flight test. Also risk manager for various projects.
      Geographic area: San Francisco Bay
      Experience: 35 years
      Salary: $179k plus bonuses and partial overtime – usually around $200k total. Also full medical and dental, 4 weeeks vacation, full pension, 4% 401k match.

    2. Aerospace Engineer 2*

      Also an Aerospace engineer. I do safety and reliability analyses for jet engines, which includes significant statistical work.
      Area: Berlin area, Germany
      Experience: 5 years post-PhD in academia followed by 4.5 years work at current company.
      Salary: 80,500 euros nominal, but works out to 90k euros (about $95k) with overtime and bonuses.
      And because it’s Europe, 6 weeks vacation.

  456. Librarian / Dept Head*

    Librarian / dept. head for a medium-sized public library. Supervise 13 employees.
    NE Ohio
    12 years with an MLIS plus 8 years paraprofessional (2o years total)
    $45K, 4 weeks vacation. My benefits are through my husband’s job. I am supposed to get a raise this year.

    I also adjunct twice a year, $3800/45 students in a 10 week class. All online.

  458. Human Resources Manager*

    Your job: Human Resources Manager/Manufacturing – handle all recruiting/hiring, terminations, maintaining of all personnel files, benefits administration (medical, dental, 401k, vacation/sick time, tuition reimbursement, EAP, etc.) legal compliance (FLSA, ADA, etc.), safety/Worker’s Comp/OSHA compliance, administration of performance appraisal system. Also have two certifications – SPHR & SHRM-CP and Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
    your geographic area: NE Ohio
    your years of experience: 23
    your salary: $78,500

  459. Proposal Writer/Developer*

    Job: Write and edit responses to proposals for a medium-sized Government contractor based near D.C. Serve as volume lead and run proposal review meetings; coordinate revisions to proposal documents; perform desktop publishing and editorial duties related to proposals.
    Geographic area: Northern Virginia
    Years of experience: 7 years in this field; 20 years as a writing/editing professional (transferred from journalism to technical writing to proposals).
    Salary: $83,000 plus benefits, 401K, health/vision/dental, PTO (I have 24 days of PTO per year at this point in my career)
    Other information: Allowed one telecommute day per week. If I could get a promotion to Proposal Manager, I could easily make $120K+, but they work crazy hours and I’m not sure I want to do that.

    1. Proposal Writer/Developer*

      Forgot to add, when a proposal I’ve worked on wins the company a contract award, I receive a bonus (anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars).

    2. Proposal Manager*

      I used to work for a large gov contractor with HQ in the DC area. The hours for the prop mgrs were insane (I was a proposal writer/analyst back then). I now work for a small software company and the hours are a lot more reasonable!

      1. Senior Proposal Manager*

        We have busy periods, but times (like now) that are super slow. I like it. Time to re-charge in between some of the craziness. I’m just glad I work for a small as opposed to a large, because we have a lot of flexibility that I know a lot of the bigs are lacking.

  460. Investment Specialist (trainee)*

    Job: client services for self-directed investment accounts. I’m not (won’t be, once fully active) an adviser — meaning I won’t actually be telling people what investments they should make, but I will be licensed to do so if I want to change jobs. Right now, I’m in training and loading up on my series # licenses.

    Geographic area: Baltimore, MD USA

    Experience: 6 years of generic financial industry and contact center, but this is my first foray into investments specifically.

    Salary: $42k/yr with quarterly bonuses, plus a really sweet benefits package and scads of PTO.

  461. Digital Marketing Manager*

    – Job: Serve as a digital consultant for the company, performing digital marketing audits, competitive analysis, data visualizations, analytics implementation, and creating unified metrics so the company is speaking the same language when it comes to marketing and measurement. Likely to be running PPC and programmatic ads in the coming year.
    – Location: Hawaii
    – Years of experience: 10+ in marketing
    – Salary: $85,000 with 10% bonus. This number is highly unusual for where I live, where salaries for similar jobs at other companies are generally 40% less. I have this salary for two reasons: I walked away from the initial offer, and they came back with a huge increase. The company also pays well generally, so even their first offer was on the higher end of what you’d get paid here.

  462. Staff Accountant*

    Job: in house staff accountant for a small business (<50 employees). About half of my job is bookkeeping functions (A/P, A/R, payroll) and half is reporting, ledgers, etc.

    Geographic Area: Twin Cities

    Years Experience: 4 years as a bookkeeper before getting this job

    Salary: $55,000/yr with full benefits

    Other Pertinent Information: No formal accounting education, which was definitely come up as a problem when I have been job searching.

  463. Sr. Email Marketing Manager*

    1. Manage email marketing for a large national nonprofit, and manage training on our email sending platform to marketing teams at our local branches. Strategy for our emails & training for the local branches. Also help our retail division with their email content and design.
    2.NYC (national HQ of our org)
    3. 10 years experience (last 2 have been here)
    4. $117,000 annual
    5. Manage a team of two (one developer and one who will be supporting our local branches). I regularly speak at industry conferences and have a fairly well-know twitter account and blog in our industry.

  464. MEC*

    Diplomat (very low level!)
    50,000+
    rent+
    foreign posting bonus/allowance/currency calibration (my post is approx 1000 a month)

    1. another diplomat*

      (non-US) Diplomat (lowest rank on the scale; second tour)

      60,000 USD equivalent

      No free rent (and due to a long distance spouse our family pays two rents, boo)

      foreign posting allowance (cost of living and small travel allowance, currently no hardship/danger pay – about $900 USD equivalent a month. Last post was $2500/month extra but my salary was lower).

      decent vacation, sick leave, health care, dental

  465. Communications Manager*

    Job Description:
    -Design all print and digital company collateral (flyers, booklets, signage, digital ads, etc)
    -Manage company’s social media presence, including posting live from company events
    -Manage/update company website via wordpress
    -Design/schedule mass marketing email campaigns
    Location:
    -Central/South NJ
    Experience:
    -8 years since graduation from graduate school, but lots of freelance work during college.

    Salary:
    -$67k/year + benefits/401K + 3 weeks vacation

    Other factors/notes:
    -Master’s degree in communication

  466. Administrative & Logistics Coordinator*

    The Job: Office work for a frozen food manufacturer and vending company, touching a little bit of everything – scanning and sending documents and emails, taking orders from customers, invoicing, reaching out to customers regarding accounts receivable, entering bills to be paid, asset tracking, processing employee expenses to be approved, analyzing route profitability, and setting up orders to ship via third party freight carriers, and like a million other things.

    Philadelphia, PA
    2.5 years at this company, but also in office work in general
    (I have completed some college studies in an unrelated field but hold no degree)
    Salary – 33k/year
    I’m pretty sure I should be classified as non-exempt but unless/until that regulation for the salary threshold for overtime pay goes into effect I don’t get paid overtime and work about 45hrs per week. 401k matching up to 4%. I do get PTO but I have no idea how much – benefits and everything are really informal so I don’t track mine and so far no one has given me any trouble about it.

  467. Process Engineering Supervisor*

    Job: Individual contributor 90%, manage 2 engineers 10%. I work in a manufacturing plant.
    Area: Delaware (it’s a state!)
    Years of experience: 10, BS in Mechanical Engineering plus BS in International Relations
    Salary: $94k
    Anything else: I’ve been at my company for nearly 8 years, promoted twice. Could probably make more if I moved on to another company since I hired on at a low salary point in 2009.

  468. Project Coordinator*

    Project coordinator (pharma industry) – project management, timelines, keeping people and activities compliant with company requirements.
    NYC Metro Area
    2 years at this job, 5 years previous experience (tangentially related)
    $57,750 base + 10-15% bonus
    20 PTO days

    1. Project Coordinator*

      Project coordinator (healthcare)

      Project management for small but influential department in a very large healthcare system. Jill-of-all-trades kind of job; project management, scheduling, timelines, budget management, HR functions (hiring, payroll), event planning, meeting planning, literally whatever
      Chicago
      Six years experience (three related to project management)
      $53,000, no bonuses (nonprofit organization)
      21 PTO (vacation & sick), six national holidays

  469. Senior Internal Controls Analyst*

    Testing internal controls for a financial services firm
    Houston, TX
    16 years of experience
    $80,000/yr

  470. Software Development Manager*

    – Manage a team of 30+ Java developers working on web applications
    – San Diego (salaries are lower here than L.A. or Silicon Valley aka “the sunshine tax”)
    – 30+ years experience
    – $160K + approx $20K bonus

  471. Mortgage quality reviewer*

    — Mortgage quality reviewer. I review mortgage documents for a big bank to ensure compliance with internal policy and external regulations. My team is focused on regulations, but there are other teams specializing on meeting underwriting guidelines or disclosure requirements

    — Iowa

    — Worked for the bank for 7 years, in this position for almost 3

    –$65,000/year base, with 10% potential bonus, non exempt (but no approval for overtime at this time)

  472. Librarian*

    Job Description: Youth, Teen & Adult Librarian – Primarily work with teens and teen programming, but work at the reference desk in both Youth & Teen and Adult Services and run/teach a few adult programs.
    Experience: 3.5 years
    Salary: $44k
    Chicago Area

  473. Faculty Assistant III*

    Faculty Assistant III at a prestigious Research University (Boston-Area)

    Easiest way to describe my job is I handle everything else so my faculty can focus on their research. I support 4-5 faculty members and their labs at a time and handle:
    Scheduling/Calendar Management
    Arranging Meetings
    Organizing Travel
    Organizing Lab Events
    Reimbursements
    Letters of Reccomendations
    Maintaining Publications
    Maintaining Various Databases
    Anything else that comes up and I can help with

    Experience: First job out of college been here 3 years (I still have 1 semester of schooling to finish before I actually graduate)

    Salary: $51,000

  474. Civil Engineer*

    Job: Registered Professional Engineer at a medium-sized consulting firm, some design and some project management, specialize in straight civil and also water resources engineering.
    Location: Upper Midwest, medium-sized city
    Experience: 12 years
    Salary: $77,700 plus bonus that is typically $8k or more
    Etc. Good benefits, 4 weeks PTO, comp time. I love the company I work for.

    1. Amother Civil Engineer*

      Job: Civil engineer for a water company, working out the things that need to be done to make the sewage works meet environmental regulations in 5-10 years time
      Location:UK
      Experience:5 years
      Salary £36,000 with 30 days holiday plus 8 public holidays , pension and healthcare
      I’m new to the role but love my job

      1. Civil Engineer #3*

        Job: Civil Engineer at a consulting firm mostly focusing on municipal infrastructure
        Location: Atlantic Canada
        Experience: 4 years post university (but had another 2 year from work terms)
        Salary: $64,000 with 3 weeks vacation, 11 stat holidays, office closes for Christmas week, good dental & healthcare, company matches RSP contributions 100% up to 5% of your salary and we get OT (but not 1.5)
        Expecting a pay bump soon as I recently obtained my P.Eng.

    2. Yet Another Civil Engineer*

      Job: Senior civil engineer for a water department
      Location: Large city in Southern California (HCOL)
      Experience: 12 years
      Salary: $120,000, 3 weeks vacation, sick leave, 9 public holidays, and good benefits
      Downsides: although working remotely is possible, it is not widely accepted as an option. Commute is awful. These two things make work-life balance tough.

    3. Civil Engineer #5*

      Job: E.I.T Civil Engineer, small to medium consulting firm, commercial/residential development & stormwater
      Location: Upper Midwest, medium-sized city
      Experience: 2.5 Years out of college plus MS Degree in Civil Engineering
      Salary: $67,000
      3.5 Weeks PTO plus 8 holidays. No retirement match. Great & relaxed company.

    4. Construction Engineer (Civil Engineer)*

      Here’s my civils! Had to scroll a ways to find ya. :)

      Job: Construction Engineer. I am a registered PE in two states (WA, OR)
      Location: State of Washington, public agency
      Experience: 9 years = 5 years civil engineering design (roads, stormwater, water systems, etc), 4 years blend of design/construction engineering
      Salary: $72,000, plus many many good benefits
      Context: I am responsible for managing contracts, contractor payments, and design/coordination during construction. I went from private industry to the public side approximately 1 year ago. I absolutely LOVE my job! I get to go outside as often as I want, and it’s fun to be able to design fixes for construction conflicts on-the-fly.

      1. Civil Engineer in Training*

        Job: E.I.T Civil Engineer, state government, design/rating/construction support/inspection of structures
        Location: Alaska
        Experience: 1.5 Years out of college with BS Degree in Civil Engineering
        Salary: $64,500
        about 4 weeks PTO plus 11 holidays. Retirement match.

        Love, love, love working here – great blend of inside and outside work, with amazing professionals

  475. Logistics Specialist*

    Logistics Specialist – I work with freight forwarders to move shipments into and out of various countries of the world.
    Upstate NY
    Total years experience – 10
    $48,000

  476. Content Coordinator*

    My work is only remotely content related. I am a liaison between IT and the rest of the firm, currently working primarily on automating processes. This is a law firm, and I used to be a paralegal, so most of what I do is try to make the paralegals’ lives easier (not putting anyone out of a job, just making the job less stressful). A more appropriate job title is probably “Product manager.”

    Area: DFW, TX

    Experience: 3 years with the firm, 5.5 years of experience in various roles since graduating college.

    Salary: $47k, with bi-annual bonus and full benefits. Also currently working from home, temporarily.

  477. Content Manager/ Digital Marketing Project Manager*

    Job: I manage website, content and promotion, social media, etc for a small/medium consulting firm. It’s a lot of writing, editing, and managing production of bigger pieces of content, plus all manner of miscellaneous projects. It’s a very small team–4 people total, I manage one person.
    Location: Upper midwest, medium sized city
    Years: 1.5 in this role, 10 in “working world,” with relevant experience
    Pay: 63,000

  478. Archivist*

    Job: Archivist at an NGO – responsible for reference services, FOI requests, outreach/social media, and archives staff training. Also manage 3 full-time staff, and partially manage contractors and interns. Sometimes I get to go abroad and give records management training in our field offices.

    Location: New York City

    Years of Experience: 6 years post-masters, 10 years total

    Salary: $106,000, health and dental, employer matching pension, 30 days leave, 10 holidays, 7+ sick days

    Context: Salaries are based on across-the-board job levels, and are high in order to be competitive with global corporate salaries – they’re not based on field-specific job markets. Hence the ridiculous salary for my field, and vacation based on European/global standards.

  479. University Residence Support*

    Job Summary: Working in University Halls of Residence to provide support to individuals experiencing problems. Managing student team members and liaising with internal and external support services where additional assistance is needed.
    Area: UK
    Experience: 8 years
    Salary: About £30k (roughly $36.5k US, I think)
    Education: BA (Hons)

  480. Vice President Software Engineering*

    job: I am head of engineering for a mid-sized fintech mnc. I am in charge of around 70+ software developers and quality assurance engineers, with full departmental control (think budget, strategy, innovation etc etc)

    Location: global, currently based in singapore

    Salary: base 180k, plus 100-150k bonus, plus 40-60k benefits package (housing, travel), plus shares

    Working experience:16 years

    Education: college dropout :)

  481. Research Associate II*

    Job – Perform various experiments in an academic-like research setting including: cell culture, virus production, western blots, and real time PCR. Maintain mouse colony. Provide data and important for papers and grants. Mentor students that rotate through lab. Order lab supplies and keep track of lab budget

    Location – Maine

    Experience – 12 years in academic and industrial research labs (9 at current job)

    Salary – $49k plus benefits

  482. Graphic Designer*

    – Lead (only) graphic designer for a midsized retail company. I create and produce everything (no art direction or production assistants at the company) including collateral, ads, store signage, and email graphics
    – SF Bay Area
    – 3 years
    – About $46k (I am hourly)

    Average/not great benefits, especially for the area. Health and dental (no vision), and 9 days vacation. Very few holidays off because of retail sales events.

    I’m looking for a new job. I like what I do, but the pay is well below the Bay Area average, and I’m tired of trying to convince my company to pay me more and give me a salary!

  483. Reporting Analyst*

    I am like a lower-level business analyst for a medium-sized company.
    Location: Colorado
    Salary: 19.5/hr (ends up being around 38-39k/yr)
    Years: 2.5
    Context: Even though my position is considered close to entry-level for my company, the salary is well under market rate for what I do. They are paying for my Master’s degree, which I consider worth the salary for the time being. Benefits are decent (3wks vacation and 7 days sick leave, not-horrible health care), although I would love to have WFH flexibility. I have held odd side-jobs here and there (usually pet sitting) to help augment my paycheck.

  484. Community College Instructor*

    Job: I teach 5 classes per semester. (I can teach up to 7, at a rate of about $3100 per additional class, and teach up to 4 classes total in winter and summer at the same rate, which I usually do)
    Area: Long Island, NY
    Years: 8 in teaching, 2 FT college teaching, plus two adjuncting before
    Salary: $57,000
    Anything Else: I teach economics on a master’s degree. It’s highly unusual to be hired as an MA holder, and PhDs would be hired at a higher initial step. I’m working on a PhD as we speak.

    1. Adjunct and Professional Tutor*

      Nesting because similar field.

      Job: ADJUNCT – I teach 2-3 classes per semester (generally 2 in the spring, 3 in the fall, and 1 in the summer which is extra; adjuncts at my college can only teach 5 during the school year but summer courses don’t count towards that).
      Job: TUTOR – I am the Writing Instructor for the TRiO Student Support Services program. 20 hrs/week, no benefits, serving roughly 170 students at our community college as needed (usually a core group of about 20 comes regularly to see me). No summer hours. Assist with anything writing or reading related, as well as time management and test-taking. Brainstorming, getting started, organization, proofreading, editing, citations…all stages of the process.
      Area: Iowa (Midwest US)
      Years: 7 in teaching, 12 as a tutor but only 3 of those with TRiO
      Salary: $25,000 between the two

  485. Associate Director of the Annual Fund*

    $49,427
    Benefits: 4 weeks paid vacation + a week off during the winter break; 12 sick and 2 personal days per year; full health & dental; life insurance; 401k (type) savings; tuition credits of $10k per year for my dependent child (who isn’t currently old enough to enroll).
    .
    I oversee and manage all annual fund fundraising for a mid-size private university in Northern New England (not in the Boston area). I plan the annual solicitations calendar, develop and work with communications to design all print and electronic fundraising materials. We raised about $1.3M last year. I have two direct reports, one of whom manages our student callers and the other who manages reunion year fundraising. I’ve worked here 4 years; prior to that I had 9 years assorted nonprofit experience. Prior to that I worked as a training developer for a large retailer for 15+ years.

    1. Associate Director, Annual Giving*

      JOB: I manage the annual fund (print, social media, and email) for a professional school at a private university. I plan the annual solicitation schedule and work with communications/outside vendors to create solicitation materials. I also manage our stewardship process. No direct reports, but I do provide direction for a full-time admin and two part-time student workers.
      AREA: Chicago
      YEARS: 6 total in nonprofits/education, 3 specifically in fundraising.
      SALARY: $59,702
      Benefits are pretty great: part-time graduate tuition is covered (which is why I took the job originally); 403(b) contributions and matching; three weeks vacation, generous holidays and personal days.

  486. Software Engineer*

    3 years experience
    San Francisco bay area
    1000+ person company
    B.A., liberal arts
    $130k annually
    Plus a bunch of stock options

  487. Direct Mail Specialist*

    I work in the mailing department of a printing company. Not a mail room, we produce and process bulk mailing for the post office. We do a lot of work for some of the major insurance companies as well as some smaller more specialized customers. I do Customer Service as well as doing the actual sorting of the data for mail prep. I am certified as a Mail Design Professional by the USPS.

    Geographic area: Northeast USA
    Years of experience: 22
    Salary: $54,000

  488. Reference Librarian (Public Library)*

    My Job: Responsible for planning educational and recreational programs for teens and adults. I provide reference, research, and technology assistance to public library patrons. I supervise 4 staff (two FT, two PT).
    Area: Charlotte, NC
    Years of experience: 11 years in the library field, 2 years in this position. Had to have an Masters of Library Science degree for this position.
    Salary: $42,909.00
    Extra info: My library is tax-payer funded and as such the salary isn’t very high for the level of education that it requires. However, the benefits are pretty great: good health/dental insurance, free on-site health clinic, decent amount of PTO, and plenty of paid holidays. Also state retirement pension.

  489. Digital Marketing Manager*

    Digital Marketing Manager- NYC area – 59k
    Digital Marketing in title, but I manage all marketing & communications for an industrial supplier. Graphic design, web dev, sales collateral, internal/external communications, customer events. I don’t have any direct reports, as the other 2 team members roll up to VP of marketing, as I do.

    standard benefits, 3 weeks PTO

  490. Industrial Waste Inspector*

    I am responsible for enforcing Federal, state, and local pretreatment regulations in our sewer service area. I inspect existing and new businesses to determine if they are subject to these regulations, and if they are, work with them to apply for permits. I administer permits by reviewing self monitoring reports, performing regular inspections, and sampling wastewater from permitted users. Identifying users (required by Federal law) can involve what we call “windshield surveys”; literally driving around commercial and industrial area looking at what’s going on and smelling the air – I can find chrome platers by smell alone. We also identify users using mailed surveys, looking at monthly lists of new and renewed business licenses, participating in the building permit process, and door to door surveys.

    Sampling can involve working in the right of way in traffic, working in confined spaces (manholes), working outside in any weather, lifting sampling equipment weighing up to 70 pounds from manholes by rope. Inspections can involve being around dangerous equipment, hazardous chemicals, and small/elevated/difficult to access spaces.

    I spend a lot of time analyzing data to identify trends in sewer loading, maintaining a database that tracks our permitted users’ compliance, writing new and renewal permits, writing new and modified City ordinances, and writing policies and procedures. I also have to keep up to date on new and changed state and Federal regulations.

    The companies I regulate range from small shops that treat their wastewater in plastic garbage cans to the Boeing widebody plant (an inspection takes two full days and about 15 miles of walking) and a Campbell’s plant that discharges almost half a million gallons of regulated wastewater per day.

    I’m in a municipality north of Seattle, WA

    I’ve been doing this work for about 35 years for three different cities in three states and two EPA Regions, 25 with my current city.

    The salary range for this position in this city is $5,528.00 – $6,722.00/mo. It’s a union represented position with above average benefits.

  491. Plant Manager*

    Job: Oversee all production, purchasing, and shipping operations of small (<50 employees), family-owned manufacturing company. Owners and board of directors are overseas, so there's a lot of independence.
    Geographic area: US, upper Midwest
    Years of experience: 2.5 as plant manager (here), 8 total in this industry/company, 8 before that elsewhere
    Salary: $108K

  492. Corporate Counsel*

    Corporate (in-house) counsel for retail company
    Greater Seattle area
    10
    $130,000
    I work in the legal department of a privately-held retail company. My work focuses on managing our IP portfolio, drafting and negotiation of complex commercial transactions, advising various departments on compliance and new ventures and corporate governance. I’m underpaid compared to attorneys doing the same/similar work in the local tech industry, but work-life balance and room for growth makes up for this.

    1. General Counsel*

      I’ll put mine here, since I think it correlates well.

      General Counsel for consumer products company
      Suburbs of the DC/Philly/Baltimore area
      8
      $175,000 + %25,000 bonus potential

      I run the small legal department of a privately-held (but heavily regulated) consumer products company with a $10M legal budget (includes outside counsel and various licenses/permits/fees). I handle all of the regulatory and corporate counsel issues, advise the executive team on a weekly basis, and manage a team of six (one lawyer/attorney, two compliance folks, a paralegal, and an admin). I report directly to the President. I know I’m underpaid – and am waiting to hear back on a requested raise – but have solid work-life balance and really like the company’s culture. I also have a ton of autonomy, which is hard to find, and I’ve gotten used to being (basically) my own boss. :)

      1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

        Do you get some form of equity compensation/options also or is it just straight salary and bonus?

    2. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

      Fellow in-house corporate counsel here. Do you have any bonuses or equity comp or is it just straight salary? Trying to get a sense of how common this is in other regions.

      1. Corporate Counsel*

        All corporate employees are eligible for an annual bonus based on the company’s performance and some other factors, which is a percentage of annual salary starting at 10% and negotiable up from there. Equity compensation (stock options) are generally granted upon promotions at the director level and above.

        1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

          Interesting. At my company all of the in-house attorneys are treated as “Director level” for equipty comp and other benefit purposes (business travel upgrade, complimentary trade org fee reimbursement, etc.) I thought this was pretty on-par for the industry so it’s interesting to hear there are discrepancies.

  493. Digital Project Coordinator*

    Job description: I set up emails, I do analytical reporting, I brainstorm ideas, I interact with clients. A little of everything.
    Location: NYC
    Experience: In this capacity, basically just a year. But in other fields that have parlayed into this, probably closer to 10.
    Compensation: $41,500

  494. Office Manager*

    Job Description: Admin and AP/AR for a small construction company
    Experience: 5.5 years
    Salary: $42,500
    Additional Info: This is a job in a totally new field for me after a 2.5 year career break for grad school and travel. While I have 5.5 years corporate work experience, I had 0 experience in any task that I currently do.
    Location: NC

  495. Supply Chain Manager*

    $72,000 at a very small company, in my first management position.
    10 years of supply chain experience.
    Colorado

  496. IP Legal Assistant*

    IP Legal Assistant
    Your job: Administrative work for the 4 person trademark team, assist the patent attorneys with filings when necessary, help to pre-screen and interview potential staff, assist the office administrator with various duties (and am the de-facto office manager when she is out of the office), backup secretary to other attys when there are absences, help with IP file intakes, help train new staff, etc.
    Your geographic area: DC
    Your years of experience: 15 in IP law
    Your salary: $81,600/year (without overtime)
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: 21 days of PTO (combined sick/vacation), 9 paid holidays this year, 37.5 hour workweek (but I can’t remember the last time I’ve ever worked only 37.5 hours/week), I get OT when I work over 40 hours.

    REPLY

    1. IP Legal Assistant*

      And I’m trying to get as much experience as I can to move into a Secretarial Coordinator or Office Administrator type of role at another law firm. Any advice and mentoring is welcome!

  497. Programme Manager*

    • In an international organisation, coordinating the activities among countries and cooperation among high-level experts within one thematic area.
    • Europe (Northern)
    • 5 years
    • 3,5000 € per month, 35+ days holiday per year, 15% extra to pension on top of the national pension as part of employee/employer taxes
    • Local employee (i.e. not an international contract, so no location or dependents pay)

  498. Senior Business Analyst*

    Job: Senior Business Analyst working on a major software implementation of our core business for a pseudo government agency. Oversee all the Subject matter experts as well as other Business Analysts. Spend a good part of my time working on determining what it is the business really needs versus what they claim they want.

    Geographic Area: British Columbia, Canada

    Years Experience: 3 in this role, over 20 years in IT

    Salary: $72,000 with full benefits

    Other Pertinent Information: Received much of my BA education on the job, although in recent years, I have worked to catch up with some of the certificates in my industry. Degree in Business with a Diploma in Computers has served me well in this industry.

    1. Senior IT Business Analyst*

      JOB: Work on major software projects for a large financial services firm – identifying requirements, mapping business processes, creating documentation, liaison with business stakeholders, act as a resource to QA team, coordinate training, etc.

      AREA: Oregon

      EXPERIENCE: 7+ years in business analysis/IT project management, 16 total in financial services

      SALARY: $93,000 + benefits, 401(k) match, performance-based annual bonus ranging from 0 to 6%

      OTHER INFO: BA in economics, kinda fell into IT after working in training development and marketing web design.

  499. Another Software Developer*

    Job: “Software Engineer” – I write Ruby on Rails code for a B2B web app and I coordinate day-to-day priorities for my team of 6-8 developers (not supervising, closer to Scrum-mastering but not quite)
    Area: Boston area
    Experience: 3 years of software experience, 17 years of work experience
    Salary: $90K
    Benefits: Medical, dental, vision (for employee and family including non-married partner or any gender), free food, WFH pretty much at will, decent PTO, SIMPLE IRA with match.

  500. Operations Supervisor*

    Job description: Oversee daily operations for a university-based central warehouse stocking commonly-used products for campus use; oversee e-commerce site selling spirit items to alumni domestically and internationally; assist or lead special projects relating to the warehouse; supervise team of 14
    Experience: 12 years total, 3 years in management
    Salary: $50K
    Location: Mid-Michigan

    1. Operations Supervisor*

      Other pertinent info: 24 days of vacation per year (accrue 16 hours per month since I’ve been on campus for 10+ years), 12 days of sick leave per year (accrue 8 hours per month); 3 days of personal leave per year (use-or-lose within fiscal year); health and dental paid; 401K with match

  501. Clerical Assistant*

    Clerical Assistant at a University focused on risk management for students (ensuring we have proper documentation and forms for our program) plus reception, other admin tasks as needed, etc.

    Location: Saskatchewan (Canada)

    Years Experience: 8

    Salary: $47,000 CAD less union dues, taxes etc. approx $35,000 USD before deductions at current conversion.
    Plus notably generous benefits, union protections, lovely location to work at (I have windows!), generally low stress days

  502. Credit Analyst - Commercial banking*

    ◾your job – Analyze business and personal financial information to determine an applicants qualification for a loan. Generally working with businesses towards the lower end of “mid-market”, which are the larger businesses in this area. Also portfolio monitoring duties, including annual analysis, covenants, etc. Very little to no direct client contact. Most of what I do is thinking, and technical writing.

    ◾your geographic area – Medium cost of living city on West Coast
    ◾your years of experience – 6 years industry, 4 years on the job. Bachelors degree.
    ◾your salary – $68,000
    ◾Also receive bonus $3-5k/year. Bankers hours, lots of holidays, very little overtime.

  503. Event Specialist/ Event Manager*

    Event Specialist for a research tech firm. I’m mid level, own high level planning with clients and members.
    Central Texas
    $53K base + OT + Bonus ( ~$63k)
    Unlimited PTO, Medical, dental, e 3% 401K match.

    For the sake of helping previously:
    Event Coordinator, Global Events – tech company in Central Texas
    $57K base + quarterly bonus
    Medical, dental, 6% 401K Match, unlimited pto (~$61K)

  504. Apartment Manager*

    Affordable Housing Apartment Manager
    Northern Michigan
    10+ years experience
    $30,000

    The area is a big factor. This job will pay much more in a metropolitan area as opposed to this sparsely populated region. “Half the pay for a view of the bay” we say up here.

  505. Project Manager/Restoration Engineer/Forensic Engineer*

    Project manager and senior technical consultant for the forensic engineering arm of a mid-sized (600±) structural and civil engineering firm. “Forensic engineering” includes building failure analysis, construction litigation, strengthening and repair, historic restoration, and leak/waterproofing consulting. I focus on historic restoration; I am not an engineer myself which is an anomaly in our group. I do masonry conservation, historic preservation, facade assessments, leak investigations, roofing/waterproofing consulting, and building enclosure commissioning.

    NYC -$117,000
    10 years experience
    Education: BA in related field, MS in related field, currently pursing Master in Architecture to become a registered architect (typically positions on this side of the industry require MS in Civil/Structural/Architectural Engineering as a minimum and prefer PhDs)

    $117,00 base salary ($49,500 out of school)
    Other: Full benefits, generous PTO (120 hours vacation that can rollover up to 240 hours max and sick time saves up to 30 days max), typically 50 hour work week, moderate travel, 10%-20% merit bonus annually, 401k with 3%-6% profit sharing (when economy is good), $5250 education reimbursement, generous professional development allowances (2-3 conferences, workshops per year, books, etc)

    Other other: Female in a heavily male-dominated industry and company. Treated well and with respect, but I do have to advocate hard for my financial value because I am not a PE. Currently, I am being paid comparably with others performing my same position even though I do not have a PE.

  506. Fundraising and Communications Director*

    My job: I oversee fundraising and communications efforts for a Canadian non-profit. I manage 3 staff: one development associate, one communications associate and one contract graphic designer. I steward donors, write and edit proposals and reports, develop prospect lists, develop and implement strategy, I attend Board meetings and help lead the Board Fundraising Committee.

    Geographic area: Toronto, Canada
    Years of experience: 10
    Salary: $78,000CDN/~$60,000US

  508. Technical Writer*

    your job: Senior Technical Writer, though I’m not sure we have anyone who isn’t “senior” — I think it’s based on total years of experience rather than any hierarchy. I use Framemaker and image editing software to create user documentation (PDF and HTML) for scientific software. I also participate in the software development cycle, which means entering bugs, tracking them, responding to them, and so on.
    your geographic area: South Texas
    your years of experience: 2.5 years in this job, about 15 years experience total.
    your salary: $90,000 plus some amount of bonus

    I work in the oil industry in an oil town, which is why the salary is so high. Because we produce software rather than being directly involved in the oil business, we’ve been less affected by the slump in oil prices. There have still been layoffs, but Documentation could not take any more hits and still be able to document everything. And actually, we’re already below that level, so work has to be prioritized.

    4 weeks vacation, because they determine it based on total years experience, rather than years with the company. Which is pretty sweet.

    1. Technical Writer*

      Oh, I also have a master’s degree, but I don’t think that played much of a role in my salary, if any.

  509. Executive Assistant*

    Job: Sole support staff to multiple elected officials in a mid size municipality
    Region: SE US
    Experience: this job, 3 years; company 6 years; total 20 years but probably 14-15 specific to these duties
    Salary: $38,000 US

  510. PIM Administrator*

    My actual job title is Digital Marketing Database Manager. I manage the Product Information Management system (specifically Informatica PIM) that our company uses.
    Charlotte, NC
    $80,000
    I’ve worked with product data information (barcodes, specifications, features, images) and retailer setups for about 8 years, for a couple of different companies. I’ve only been with the company I am with today for ~6 months. I was actually recruited via LinkedIn. The job is decently technical, the data is exported out in xml format on a JAVA based platform. The company specifically did not want a technical person (like a developer) but I think that having that type of a background could be helpful. I have a BS in Business Administration.

  511. Contracts Negotiator*

    Duties: Draft, review and negotiate all non-templated agreements (purchase, software license, cooperative funding, cooperative construction, solar subscription, room rentals, and more…). Coordinate internal review from relevant stakeholders, identify legal or procurement issues and offer solutions, generally ensure that policies and procedures are followed in applicable contracts. No contract management after signature. I am a licensed attorney but don’t represent my organization in that capacity.

    Salary: $89,300 (4.75% raise kicks in April 1)

    Region: Twin CITIES (midwest)

    Benefits: defined benefit pension, deferred comp plans (no matching), killer Healthcare. Employees start with 3 weeks vacation plus 12 paid holidays, culture encourages taking time off. Over time, you increase PTO until making out at 7 weeks per year (after 20 years).

    Experience: 2 years

    1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

      Do you have 2 years experience since becoming a licensed attorney or 2 years in this role? We are looking to fill roles like this and I’m wondering if our compensation is in line with what we are looking for in terms of years of experience.

    2. Contracts Negotiator 2*

      I have similar duties, benefits, and the same level of education and experience as you, so I’m piggybacking off your post. :)
      Salary: ~$100K not including bonus (I’m underpaid for the region)
      Region: Large metro city on the West Coast

      Question: Are you expecting to transition into a counsel position?

    3. Contracts Analyst/Negotiator 3*

      Similar duties. Contracts drafting, reviews and negotiations.
      I have a foreign JD (no license) and an MBA.
      I live in Houston, TX

      I have 16 (and some change) years of experience: about 16 yrs in oil and gas and about 7 months in healthcare.

      When I was in oil and gas I was making about $150,000 – $160,000 the last 4 yrs in the industry. Now that I switched to healthcare and work for a non-profit hospital I make $ 70,000… actually I just got a raise and make $ 71,000.

      It’s has been bittersweet. I like that there’s less stress and I feel more fulfilled in the purpose of what I do (clinical trials and non-disclosure agreements). Medical benefits are great and with a very low cost. I have a 403 b w/ 3% match.

      I don’t like that I miss the money, but I am still happy with the change and I intend to grow on the industry to improve my salary. I know I will never make the kind of money I did before, but I work no overtime and have a better quality of life.

  512. Business Intelligence Analyst - Health Care*

    ◾your job: I consult with specialty and clinical leaders and create both dashboards and ad hoc reports using Tableau, SAS, & SQL. This sometimes involves explaining to them in a diplomatic way that what they’re asking for isn’t going to answer the questions they have.
    ◾your geographic area: Seattle
    ◾your years of experience: 6, 7 months in my current position
    ◾your salary: $82,000 + amazing health insurance for my family for $85/month; company contributes 8.5% to a defined contribution fund, 26 days PTO, 2 days WFH per week, flexibility to deal with family issues.

    1. Another Healthcare Business Analyst*

      Job description: I work in healthcare as a data analyst. I pull reports & data for new projects, do in-depth reviews of on-going programs, and help trouble-shoot when necessary, using SQL & SAS (should be learning Tableau when things calm down). I also do business cases for new projects.

      Geographic area: Seattle Area
      Years of experience: ~10
      Salary: $81K + bonus, 1 day WFH/week, 25 days PTO, but (oddly) the health insurance is kind of expensive.

  513. Financial Analyst*

    Financial analyst/senior accountant work in industry, small/mid-sized company
    California
    4 years in this role, plenty of other accounting-related experience prior
    $70,000

  514. Admin Assistant/Student Services (Higher Ed)*

    Job: Admin shared by Faculty and Student Services (though Student Services is my primary focus) for a graduate school
    Area: Boston
    Years of experience: 5
    Salary: 40K
    Sidenotes- This is not enough in Boston unless you like living with roommates, or have a partner who shares finances. I’m luck that my fiance makes 20k more than I do and is willing to front most of our rent and all our utilities. This also means he isn’t saving as much as he should. I spend 50% of my take-home pay for my portion of the rent, which I know is not recommended. We are moving to the Midwest pursue other career options and live somewhere affordable!

    1. Adult Education Advisor/Case Manager*

      I’m thinking of moving out of Boston, too, to somewhere more affordable. It’s crazy here! I’ve even looked at ads for low-income housing, where you have to make under a certain amount, and it would still be about half of my salary!

    2. Hello it's me*

      Good luck to you, friend! I live in Boston too and have a similar job making about what you do. I love the city but I just can’t afford to stay here much longer, so I’m actively looking at other areas of the country to move to. This thread is super helpful for that!

      1. Admin Assistant/Student Services (Higher Ed)*

        Thank you! Good luck to you as well! Boston wouldn’t be nearly so stressful if I had more financial freedom. Comparing Boston to the places I’m looking at in the Midwest, I would have to make $31K to maintain my current standard of living “out there”. The job postings that I’m currently seeing are posting for 36-50K, though I should note that I’m hoping to get back to more of a student-focused position ( alumni-relations, events, advising – that kind of thing).

  515. Alumni Relations Officer,*

    – Recruit, train, and recognize volunteers for university’s alumni association.
    – Boston
    – 5 years of experience
    – $47,000

  516. Division Director, Advocacy Org*

    Salary: $120k

    I lead a team of 6 at a small national public policy advocacy org. Been at this organization for 10 years, worked for the federal government for 10 years before that. I’ve ALMOST gotten back to to what I was earning when I left the federal government, but no regrets for the switch.
    I have a masters in public policy.
    Health benefits are great, vacation is great, stress is high.

  517. Marketing Communications Specialist*

    Job: writing/editing, social media, general communications, some marketing, managing student interns
    Location: Pennsylvania
    Years of experience: 3
    Salary: $40,000/year

    1. Communications Specialist*

      Close to the same!

      Job: videography, writing/editing, social media, some customer support (via social media and email)
      Location: Wisconsin
      Experience: 3 years
      Salary: $40,000/year (salary exempt)

  518. Email Marketer*

    – Email marketing for a tech company (500-1000 employees). I do everything related to email whether it’s marketing or transactional. I lead strategy and content planning, data segmentation, some light Photoshop, building the emails using HTML/CSS, and report analysis. Lately, I’ve also been the project lead for marketing software implementation.
    – Southern California
    – <1 year in my current role. 3 years in email marketing. 6 years total post-undergrad experience.
    – $68,500 + paid individual health benefits including vision and dental + HSA/FSA + 401k match + "unlimited" PTO (though people here have so little bandwidth that no one really takes advantage of the PTO). Based on research and comments from others in the field, I'm actually somewhat underpaid for what I do.
    – BA in a social sciences field.

  519. Community College Adjunct ESOL Instructor*

    Job: I teach a class of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at a community college. I also input student hours from four classes, one of which is mine. The class is 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, although I only teach 4 days a week.

    Geographic Area: North Carolina

    Years of Experience: I’ve worked for the CC for 17 years in ESOL, Adult Basic Education, Adult High School, and GED classes as an English instructor. I also worked in our computer lab.

    Wages: $21.82/hour. We just got our first raise in about 10 years: 1.5%. Workers’ comp is the only benefit.

    Other information: Community colleges are the ugly stepchildren of the education system, and pre-curriculum/Adult Education is the ugly stepchild of community colleges. I love the work, and my boss and co-workers are great, but I’m very lucky my husband has good benefits and a decent salary.

    1. Adjunct and Professional Tutor*

      Education is the ugly stepchild of community colleges. I love the work, and my boss and co-workers are great, but I’m very lucky my husband has good benefits and a decent salary.

      My husband having insurance at his work is the only reason I haven’t had to leave adjuncting; I feel like teaching is my mission and I have living human proof that I am good at it, but the feel-good benefits don’t pay the mortgage.

    2. Adjunct ESL Instructor*

      job: I teach ESL classes for students who are not yet proficient enough in English to enter the community college our program is attached to. I also do a lot of unofficial advising on the admissions process and a lot of misc admin tasks, but I don’t actually get paid for that. Yes, I know; I’m already job-hunting.
      geographic area: Ohio
      years of experience: 10 years teaching; Master’s degree in my field. 3 years in this position/institution
      salary: ~$25,000.
      other info: Due to the Affordable Care Act, part-timers are capped at 29 hours/week (more than that, and the college would have to give us health insurance). No classes are guaranteed from one term to the next. My last paycheck was mid-December, and I won’t get another until mid-February. I’m single, supporting myself (and my cat), and just hella good at budgeting, apparently.

      I haven’t found a way to do this job well in 29 hours a week–the student need is SO high, and there’s no other support available to them in the college (seriously, they’re not allowed to meet with academic advisors or Financial Aid), so I just work more, and when I let my boss know that this was really a full-time commitment, Boss begged me not to tell anyone that I worked that much, because Boss would get in trouble.

      This may be a letter to AAM in the making, honestly.

  520. Sr. Research Tech*

    Job: research technician in a lung cancer research lab (very cool!)
    Industry: Academia/research
    Location: Boston
    Years Experience: 4
    Salary: $42,000

  521. Front-End Developer*

    Job Description: Write HTML and JavaScript code using the AngularJS framework to create web apps for internal and external customers. Write backend code using JavaScript and Node to support routing, sending data to a PostgreSQL database, and retrieving data from same. Work with stakeholders to understand the application requirements and build the database. Support the application once completed.
    Experience: 1.5 years
    Salary: $85k
    Seattle Area

  522. Training Director*

    Job: Direct strategy for training external audiences (customers, not employees) and manage staff team of trainers and program managers. Includes certification and certificate programs, conferences, smaller training sessions, and live and online programs.
    Location: Nashville metro area
    Experience: 15 years in this field; 4 at this level
    Salary: $112,000

  523. Program and Engagement Coordinator*

    Job: Museum programs and educational events
    Experience: 10+ years in the museum field, 3 full time
    Salary: 30,000/year, 2 weeks vacation, health insurance, flexible schedule
    Location: Northeast US

  524. Biostatistician*

    Biostatistician in a Contract Research Organization in pharma/biotech
    Boston, MA area
    25 years of experience
    $140,000, also eligible for 15% yearly bonus

  525. Registered Nurse*

    Inpatient Unit at surgical hospital (1-3 day stay, depending on the kind of surgery). South Texas Gulf Coast area.

    I work 7p-7a 3 days a week. Average of four patients per shift, which is good staffing for med surg specialty and the geographic area. Good job opportunities and safe care environments are hard to find in this city, so this job is kind of an oasis. We have a chain of hospitals in our city that’s pretty infamous for lousy management and poor patient care. A lot of experienced nurses are leaving that hospital chain and coming to the hospital I’m working at now.

    I make $29.16/HR from 7p-11p, then $32.16/HR from 11p-7a on weekdays. On weekends, it’s $32.16/HR from 7p-11p, then $35.16/HR from 11p-7a. They do call nurses off during periods of low patient census, but the nurses take turns being called off, so it’s not the same person every time. Health insurance isn’t great, but better than nothing.

    I have three years’ experience as an RN, but just started in this job and specialty in October 2015- previous experience has been in nursing homes. This job requires CPR, ACLS, and PALS certification but they have free certification courses for nurses and doctors who work there. They do great training. I started the job being very weak with IV starts. Now I’m still pretty weak with IV starts, but I was able to get an IV started on an 83 year-old lady (took 2 tries, but I’m still kind of proud).

  526. Program Coordinator (part time)*

    – Manage an NSF grant in the sociology department of a major research university
    – Location: Cambridge, MA
    – Salary: $31,020/year plus benefits
    – Hours: 17.5 hours/week
    – Years of experience: 9 years since graduating university, 4 months in this role

    I make about the same amount a year as a freelance musician playing in symphony orchestras, operas, chamber ensembles, etc., but that income is pretty variable

  527. Senior Associate in policy*

    your job: working for a small consulting firm that focuses on assisting smaller national non-profits with advocacy strategy, including work representing them in front of legislators/Hill staff (so, lobbying within legal limits of not being registered), communications with their members, and representing them with larger coalitions of organizations. I’m in a pretty niche field within the non-profit world–sort of a health subset. Won’t go into details for anonymity.

    your geographic area: Washington, DC

    your years of experience: 5 or 6-ish (4.5 in this job, but several internships and fellowships related while I was in undergrad and in law school)

    your salary: $80,000 (just got a raise!) and a small employer-funded SEP, but no real health benefits, so that sucks up some of the cash. Not uncommon in the non-profit/non-profit-adjacent field. I just got married to someone with amazing benefits, so I can afford it, but I was on the ACA exchanges until last month.

    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I have a law degree, which really helps when you’re working with Hill staff on legislation, and it makes me very marketable in this field. I work only about 45 hours a week but am expected to be on email nights/weekends. My salary has increased by close to 10k/year since I started. Now I’m at the high end of the range for someone of my years of experience in this market/field.

    1. Senior Associate (policy analyst/lead)*

      Job: Work for a non-profit government consulting organization focused on a specific policy area. I am the data lead for one of our big projects which mostly involves working with state governments, cleaning and analyzing state and local administrative data with an eye towards policy change, working with stakeholders to develop policy based on the data, and projecting impacts from those policy changes. It’s a pretty cool job! Although I work and travel a lot for work. I also supervise two Associates and provide a fair amount of project management, training, and supervision within my organization.
      Geographic area: I live in the Bay Area but my company is based on the east coast.
      Experience: 5 years doing this job, plus a couple more years in the specific policy field doing more research/support work. Master’s in Public Policy, plus three years in another policy field before that, but not on data or research. (so working in policy for 10 years total, but different types of day to day work)
      Salary: 92k (but about to ask for a raise)
      Context: We have terrible benefits (high deductible health insurance, very little vacation, etc) so I think we have slightly higher average salaries than other similar organizations. However I could definitely make more working for the local or state government.

  528. Recruitment Manager*

    Role: Source, Negotiate, Hire Talent- Typically Management level up to C Suite
    Area: NYC
    Experience: 15 yrs total/ 3 yrs in current role
    Salary: 90K

  529. HR Administrative Assistant*

    ◾I am an HR Admin, plus I handle the front desk/phone. I work for a manufacturing company and deal with all aspects of office management (ordering supplies, expense reports, petty cash, etc.), and do everything you’d expect from an HR Admin – manage the hiring process for managers; initiate changes in our HRIS system; track employee completion of certain activities; help employees with anything and everything. I also write the company newsletter, and am in charge of our wellness program.
    ◾Area: Western PA
    ◾Experience: 13 years with this company; >25 years in office management and communications
    ◾Salary: $43,000
    ◾Fabulous benefits package: 5 weeks vacation; unlimited sick time; flexible hours; generous 401k match; tuition reimbursement; health, dental, life, std and ltd insurance.

  530. Administrative Manager*

    Geographic Area: Akron, OH
    Years of Experience: 15 yrs
    Salary: $50,000 +cell+expenses
     Provide support to CEO
     Coordinate teleconferences/webinars, and travel arrangements
     Define and implement logistics for bi-annual Board of Directors Meetings
    – Coordinate/negotiate hotel, meeting room, and catering contracts
    – Prepare PowerPoint presentations
    – Record meeting minutes
    – Attend and coordinate on-site details
     Conference Exhibits
    – Implement exhibit contracts for conferences
    – Attend and coordinate on-site details
     Maintain and oversee company website
     Maintain Email Campaign System: member, supplier and recruitment rosters
     Monitor dealer membership compliance, working with QBs and CPA
     Manage Scholarship Program
     Develop, implement and publish newsletter magazine, and weekly email alerts
     Manage VA staff and processes
    – Direct training of workers
    – Review projects to determine work priorities
    – Work with vendors (i.e. IT and Building, etc.) to ensure consistent office flow
     Generate ongoing communications and updates for Board review/info
     Maintain confidential files, calendars, and correspondence

  531. Data Analyst/Writer*

    Job: A jack-of-all-trades for a municipal jobs program — writing, editing, graphic design, website maintenance, social media, and data analysis.
    Location: Silicon Valley
    Years Experience: With same organization in varying roles for 25+ years
    Salary: $72,000

  532. Executive Sales Team Manager*

    -Job: Hybrid Chief of Staff/Administration Manager/Executive Assistant

    -Geographic Area: Upper Midwest – Rural

    -Experience: 12 at this company, 25+ in the field

    -Salary: $60k, full benefits, exceptional culture and care of employees

    -Anything Else: No degree; worked my way up in the industry and the company. Expected promotion to Director in 2018.

    1. Chief of Staff*

      -Job: Chief of Staff to VP of strategic initiatives for fortune 50 company
      -Geographic Area: Bay Area
      -Experience: 16 years
      -Salary: $160k + bonus; work full time from home, healthcare insurance that I don’t use because it’s terrible, 401K
      -Other: Master’s degree in public policy – never thought that this is where I would end up

  534. Director of Public Relations*

    Job: I’m responsible for all aspects of public relations and marketing at a small religious non-profit organization, including writing and graphic design of print newsletters and brochures, website content, social media, radio spots, press releases…you name it. Because of my writing skills, I also am responsible for all of our grant writing. I currently manage 2 part-time assistants.
    Geographic area: Detroit suburbs
    Years of experience: 15, 12 with this organization
    Salary: $47K
    The salary is low, but the organization is great to work for. I can work from home (days of my choosing), or if the kids get a snow day, I can bring them into the office with me. Health insurance is also excellent. Our organization has expanded a lot over the past decade, and it’s been exciting to be a part of that growth.

  535. Account Manager*

    Non-sales account manager for a software company.
    Work from home in Portland, OR
    5 years in my software industry’s field, 1 at my company
    $87k

  536. HR Director*

    Job Description – all HR functions for a non-profit. I am the only HR person for 230 individuals at 3 locations. We are also a non-profit
    Location: Spokane, WA
    Experience – 19 years experience in HR
    Compensation – $65,000

  537. Legal Secretary*

    Insurance litigation, small firm (<30 lawyers), broad responsibilities including heavy involvement in client billing, providing practical guidance to paralegals and junior lawyers, and many paralegal duties. My case load is 2-3x what it would be anywhere else.
    Texas – metro area
    25 years
    mid-$70s, mid 4 figures bonus, a modest profit sharing contribution, and decent medical/dental.

  538. Program Assistant*

    I maintain databases; deal with onsite meetings (when our board or others come in) – hotel accommodations, catering, etc.; work with our international award winners; deal with correspondence leaving our office; and am first eyes on our tri-annual program descriptions as they come in from our constituents.

    extended DC Metro area

    8 years experience (ish – all in various types of administrative jobs)

    $38,500

    I work in a non-profit that accredits programs

  539. User Experience Specialist*

    Research user data to analyse for best (i.e. efficient) user interactions. We analyze system architecture, interface designs and content strategies by testing prototypes before development. My background is also in front-end development, so I have unique insight that helps bridge the design/development gap. TL;DR I make sites easier for people to use :)
    D.C. / Baltimore
    5 years exp in this field, M.S. in related field
    15 years exp in design and front-end development
    $99K
    Working in a large corporation setting with great benefits (3wk vacay, great work/life balance, 401k matching)

  540. Nonprofit Youth Intervention Case Manager*

    Job: direct educational support and targeted case management for youth in foster care; I work for a large international nonprofit, and my program is funded through a several-year contract with our local child protection agency
    Area: Midwestern US
    Experience: 3-4 years in similar roles
    Salary: 32,000 annually (but paid hourly, non-exempt)
    Context: I have a BA in psychology but no educational background or license in social work; most jobs in my area in the youth work field weight experience over specific educational credentials

    (I just got a promotion (yay!), so I’ll post that job in a separate comment)

  541. Federal Lobbyist*

    Federal Lobbyist (title is Director, Government Affairs)
    DC
    9 years in politics
    $90,000
    (salaries for lobbyists vary WILDLY. my last job started me at 45k and after a couple years had moved me to 51k. This job started me at 60k and in 3 years I’ve gotten raises to 90k)

  542. Mechanical Engineer/Manager*

    My actually job is a “manufacturing engineer,” but I work from the mechanical side of things. I work for a medical device company. We sell mostly instruments used in labs and university settings for research only. My day to day job in a nutshell is to make sure product can go out the door working and working well. It involves design changes, process changes (let the glue dry for 10 hours, not 10 minutes!), testing specifications, and sometimes just being the technical voice for those who are not technically inclined. The manager part of my position is actually brand new to me (as of last week) so I’ll be doing the same daily functions + managing other engineers and their functions.

    Northeast US

    3 years engineering experience (1 week of management)

    $80,000/year

  543. Academic Librarian*

    Job: Academic Librarian at a small state school
    Location: Central NY
    Years of Experience: 4.5
    Salary: $46,000/11 month contract (in academia meaning I’m only obligated to work 11 months out of the year while still accruing sick and vacation leave during the months I am obligated to work)

  544. Program Manager (Training)*

    Job: I am responsible for improving current training programs to meet customer (Operations) expectations. At any one time, I am managing three cross-functional training efforts. I work for global technology and multi industrial firm with customers in 150 countries.
    Area: WFM in Orlando, Florida
    Experience: This firm: 1.5 years. Overall 20+. I have a BA in Business Management and a masters in Instructional Design. My background includes both internal and external consulting experience.
    Salary: $114K; acceptable benefits and eligible for 15% bonus. Received 4% raise this year.

  545. Museum Manager*

    I work at a small museum in the Boston area managing a staff of around 30 who perform daily museum functions. I am also a marketing contact and maintain relations with other museums and related contacts.

    48k

    I have 3 years experience but no degree to speak of.

  546. Senior Technical Writer*

    Job: Senior Technical Writer (head of the Technical Communication team; technical writer; technical editor; website manager)
    Geographic Area: Phoenix, AZ metropolitan area
    Years of Experience: about 10 years
    Salary: $68,000
    Bonus: Sometimes ($500-$1,000 a year, depending)
    Extra: Work from home one day per week

  547. Attorney*

    your job: Corporate law, advising companies on compliance and administration of employee benefit plans
    your geographic area: Massachusetts
    your years of experience: 7
    your salary: $150k, plus bonus based on annual billable hours
    I’m not at a Biglaw firm, where someone with this many years would be making way more (but also would be working far more hours. I don’t work more than 50 in a week, so I can live with that trade-off).

  548. Visiting Assistant Professor*

    Visiting Assistant Professor in STEM field at small liberal arts college. I teach 40-60 students a semester, and I’m responsible for teaching lecture and lab (and all the grading that goes with it). I am technically not full time because of the structure of the academic calendar at my institution.
    My college is located in the rural Midwest.
    I have my PhD and am in my first year on the job.
    $36,000 (for an 80% position), though I am also responsible for lab prep for my discipline which adds an extra ~$2,000. Surprisingly good benefits for the position, including very reasonably priced health insurance as well as a 401(k) contribution from the school and travel money for conferences.

  549. Plant Breeder*

    Develop new and improved vegetable varieties for a seed company.

    Location: LCOL area

    Experience: PhD + 1.5 years

    Salary: $75k plus ~$10k in retirement benefits

  550. Client Manager*

    your job: I’m a “client manager” at a very small law firm. I basically act as the main point of contact for all clients; I do all of the scheduling for our primary attorney, and also sometimes act like her PA (I book things for her kids, and run the very occasional errand) . I take all calls and determine if a potential client is a good fit, and if not I refer them to someone who could be. I keep our cases on track by following up with clients who have not yet scheduled their next appointment. I act as the office manager in that I do all of our inventory and ordering. Oh, and I also act as the on-site IT person.

    your geographic area: North Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley, California

    your years of experience: 2.5 years at this job. 4 years as a teacher previously, nearly 10 summers as a camp director, and an MA in Counseling (total waste of my time and money).

    your salary: I currently ear $25.50/hour. 3 sick days, 10 vacation days, 3% 401k contribution, no insurance benefits

  551. Higher Education -Academic Advising Director*

    Oversee a small (under 500 students) academic departments graduate program academic advising and student affairs/success.
    NYC metro
    $71,000
    10 years experience

  552. Client Services Manager*

    I work as the primary point of contact for families who come to our agency for a caregiver to help a loved one at home. I coordinate schedules, set expectations, educate on home care and elder care resources, and act as a liaison for health care professionals to troubleshoot issues. Like social work, but for-profit.

    DC Metro area

    5 years experience in this job; 9 years working

    $57,000

    I was hired at $35,000 and have come to my current salary through a promotion and several performance based raises.

    1. Client Services Manager*

      Austin, Texas
      80K
      Worked in call centers as a manager for 8+ years, as a rep for 5+ years.

      Manage a team of call center agents who support an e-commerce B2B platform.

  553. Newt*

    Job: Credit Control and Risk Capture – Lloyds insurance market
    Location: UK
    Experience: 2 years in current role
    Salary: £18,000 per year
    Which… I believe is about $22,000?

    *best-paying-job-I’ve-had-to-date happy dance*

    1. Newt*

      Forgot to mention extra perks.

      Annual holiday entitlement of 28 days, excluding the public holidays, which actually puts it above the statutory minimum by a nice chunk.
      30 days sick pay
      Optional free private healthcare, which I don’t need because of the NHS.
      Free coffee in the machines.
      Flexible working – so long as I cover core hours (10am-3pm) and work my required daily hours (it’s a 37.5hr per week role) I’m allowed to arrange my start and finish times as I like with the boss.
      Free eye tests and partial coverage of the cost of buying glasses if required for office work.
      Discounts on a whole bunch of local businesses.
      Erm… 3x salary life insurance, death-in-service benefit, childcare vouchers, bike-to-work scheme, season-ticket loans for staff that have to travel to London or other offices and therefore need the train, free training (company will pay you to get accredited for roles you’re not yet in as part of a career progression plan) etc

  555. Director of Finance*

    – job: treasury and financial systems for aerospace manufacturer
    – area: Los Angeles
    – experience: 21 years in Finance
    – salary: $175k/year
    – additional: equity sward ~$120k/year

  556. Regulatory Affairs Specialist- Medical Devices*

    -Support regulatory activities for medical devices- FDA registration, EU and OUS registrations, product information updates. Sit on project teams for new products. Review changes to existing products to ensure regulatory compliance. Assist with audits.
    -Metro NY/Northern NJ area
    – Less than 1
    – $70,000

    1. Regulatory Affairs Specialist- Medical Devices*

      Should also specify:

      BS in biomedical engineering. No Master’s or Regulatory Affairs Certificattion (RAC- the industry standard certification program)- if I had either, my salary might be higher.

    2. Executive Director, Regulatory*

      Similar to the above, except for global drug device development instead of devices. Supervise staff and projects for product category, develop strategies.

      NJ
      20 years, 3 in current role
      180 plus bonus and equity

    3. Regulatory Affairs Specialist - Medical Device (Class 3 devices)*

      Job: Class III/AIMD devices and accessories. Support getting and maintaining product approvals with the FDA, EU and supporting our other in-country reg specialists. Advising project times on regulatory/submission impact of decisions. Reviewing changes to existing products/processes per our internal Quality System.
      – Minneapolis/St. Paul
      – 2.5 years of actual regulatory experience, but have a JD (this is not a JD required role) which probably ups me a little bit on the experience side. Also worked for same company for a year prior to going to law school so had previous med device experience. Chemistry degree for u-grad.
      -$75,000 + up to 10% annual bonus,
      – additional compensation GESOP , 6% 401k match

  557. Publications/Production Supervisor*

    Job: supervise 10 production staff (who do formatting/wordprocessing of huge reports/documents), coordinate many documents’ formatting, esp with specialized requirements, train staff, liaison w/other depts as needed
    Geographic area: central NJ
    Years of experience: 2 in this position (previously, 18 yrs exp in formatting/communications work, and BA in Journalism)
    Salary: $78k plus benefits (3 wks vac, health, 401K that’s matched and stock options)
    Company is a gov contractor that does health research

  558. Human Resources Manager*

    Job: Human Resources Manager for a local government in Illinois. Responsible for employee and management relations, collective bargaining, benefits, recruiting etc. (all HR functions). I supervise a small staff of 2 (HR Assistant and HR Generalist).
    Geographic Area: Greater Chicagoland Area (North Shore)
    Years of Experience (6+ years in this role, 15+ in HR)
    Salary: $107,100

  559. Executive Assistant*

    Job – I write and design the newsletter, posters, brochures and other materials for a tiny non-profit (annual budget $130K). I also take minutes at board meetings, help plan social media campaigns, research prices and options for purchases, and work with volunteers.
    Area – Pacific Northwest
    Experience – 4 years as an administrative assistant at a large software company (1990s); 4 years with the nonprofit.
    Salary – $200/month (no, that’s not a typo)
    Context – I took this job knowing the pay was ridiculous but I wanted the experience (writing, design) and wanted something part-time before going back to work full time. The scope of the job has grown but I try to limit myself to 20 hours/month. I’m getting better at saying I can’t add a new task without dropping something else, which the executive director supports. I’m struggling to figure out my next step. I keep thinking about going through the technical writing program at my community college. I realize I am lucky to be able to take the time to figure that out.

  560. Marketing Automation Manager*

    your job: Manage the Marketing Automation program (Eloqua)
    your geographic area: Midwest
    your years of experience: 12+ years Digital Marketing & CRM
    your salary: $105,000 + 10% bonus

  561. Research Coordinator/ Knowledge Translation Specialist*

    Grant writing, project management, writing academic and policy papers, managing students, developing and enacting evaluation and knowledge translation plans for projects in health care research
    British Columbia
    8 years experience
    Salary: $60,000 CAD
    Masters in Public Health

  562. Project Manager*

    Job: Legal document review project management. I work with companies and their counsel to create workflows for the review of legal documents in the discovery phase of litigation, and manage teams of contract attorneys through those workflows. I’m also beginning to get more involved in the eDiscovery side of the process (data collection, processing and production).
    Geographic Area: South Florida.
    Years of Experience: 10 years in the document review industry, 5 as a project manager.
    Salary: $90,000 base plus bonus based on billed time (roughly 10-20%).
    Anything Else Pertinent: While my job is more management than legal practice, I am a licensed attorney — this is generally a requirement for the position. I in the process of attaining a number of industry-specific certifications as well.

    While I have been in this on a contract basis for a number of different providers over the last five years, I just recently took this perm position. Finding salary information that applies to my specific field was damned near impossible, so I’m hoping I did ok?

    1. Anon4This*

      I also work in this industry, and salary data is nearly impossible to come by. The Cowen Group in NYC sometimes does industry surveys and posts them on their website, and they also have a job board that is better about showing salaries than others.

      I will also add that the requirement of a JD for this type of work is fairly new. Most of my peers do not have JDs, but we do have 15+ years of experience.

      For industry-specific certifications, technology-assisted review is the way of the future, so I would focus attention there. Our best review providers use it not only for first-pass review but also for quality assuring human reviewer work. (Billing partners care about accuracy, defensibly, and having cost come in at or under what their client expects.) Collection specialization will become more valuable as data sources continue to grow and become more disparate. I think processing and production are headed for automation and, while they’re important to know, aren’t a huge growth area.

  563. Project Manager*

    Manage project at a large nonprofit that seeks to create change at the state level in a very specific area. (Can’t give more detail without outing myself)
    Southeast US
    1 year in this role but about 10 years’ experience in the various things that go into creating and supporting the change
    $51, 500 (job was advertised for $40K but I held firm and they went up

  564. Finance Manager*

    Finance Manager for a large public company.
    Phoenix, AZ
    10 yrs of experience, CPA and MBA
    $112,000 plus 20% bonus

  565. Assistant Director of Global Health*

    I am responsible for overseeing all global health partnerships and programs for a academic medical center serving 600 med students, 1500 health science students and a network of 10 hospital staff (~10,000). Extensive international travel.
    Connecticut
    4 years with an MPH and an MA in Human Rights plus extensive time spent living in Africa and Asia prior to current position.
    85k (started in 2014 with 75k) plus 5 weeks of vacation

  566. Senior Copywriter*

    Job: Copywriter for financial services company. Create print and web content for external and internal audiences.
    Geographic Area: Philadelphia suburbs

    Years Experience: 32 years of experience in copywriting – medical publishing, information databases, hospitals, insurance.

    Salary: $82,000/yr and full benefits. Bonus dependent on company performance (around 5%)

    Other Pertinent Information: B.A. in Advertising. Pretty regular hours; rare overtime — which is a prime reason I have avoided ad agencies.

  567. System Administrator (IT)*

    – Job: Handle all servers and computer networking in company of ~100 employees across 7 locations in 6 states; in charge of not only maintenance, patches, and upkeep on the servers and network devices, but responsible for upgrades and large projects (such as a new MPLS network linking all locations together into one network, and designing a new network wiring project for our new HQ, including working closely with the contractor to make sure the work is done). Basically, if it’s anything above general desktop tech support, I do it.
    – Geographic area: Central Indiana area.
    – Years of experience: 12 years in IT, 6 years as System Administrator, 1 yr & 8 months at current company. Associates and Bachelor’s degrees in IT, plus 5 technical certifications and working on my 6th.
    – Salary: $72,500. Up until the end of last year, I also got a bonus quarterly of approx. $800, the exact amount of which was dependent on a certain, complicated equation for a particular company partner’s income. However, the company cut ties with that partner late last year. I get paid slightly above average for the area and experience.
    – Note: I was hired in at $65k. I negotiated that if I could save them significant money in terms of turning around their infrastructure and eliminating their downtime, I’d get a substantial raise. And that happened in Dec of 2015. Thanks AAM for teaching me the best way to kick ass at negotiation and jobs in general!

  568. Operations Manager for a State University*

    Operations Manager (union position) for an academic center at a public research institution. I wear a LOT of different roles: event planner, fundraiser, student advisor, marketing & social media manager, website & database manager, administrative oversight, staff advocate, faculty-tamer, student staff supervisor.
    Tacoma, WA
    In higher ed since 1998
    $49k. It’s a hard scrabble to get a raise in WA State higher ed.
    Awesome benefits include 23+ days vacation, 12 paid holidays, 12 days sick leave, 3.5% match for retirement (will go to 5% if I am still here when I turn 45), health & dental, tuition remission, subsidized bus pass. I have my master’s degree in education.

    I am seeking a job in New England to be closer to family *or* a local position in marketing. My patience for higher ed has worn thin after nearly 20 years.

    1. VP for Communications*

      Responding to myself because I accepted a new job a little over a month after posting this! (yay me)

      Responsibilities: I work to make my org look good everywhere it’s represented: website, monthly newsletter, press releases, annual report, donor relations, in the community. I manage our events, which include a large fundraising luncheon for 550+. I’ve gotten involved in policy advocacy, government relations, lobbying, marketing, workforce development, lead generation, regional marketing campaigns, and impact analyses. It’s been a whirlwind, and every day is different. I love my new job!
      Time: Started March 2017 as a Communications Manager for a small non-profit in Tacoma, WA. Promoted to VP for Communications in June, though no additional salary was offered. I’m the lowest paid VP in my org and plan to ask for a significant raise at my annual review to come in line with the others on my level.
      Salary: $68k, raised to $70k at 6 months. Range for most recently hired VPs here is $80-100.
      Benefits: 2 weeks vacation, sick leave, full health & dental at gold level for me, 7% contribution to my retirement, downtown parking

  569. Nonprofit Director*

    Job: Manage 5-6 small social service programs and a small staff
    Geographic Area: NYC
    Experience: 1.5 years as a Program Director- 6 years in various supervisory/line staff positions within the field
    Salary: $75K

  570. Executive Office and Administrative Specialist (Admin Assistant)*

    Front desk and administrative support to the Libraries Administration office of a large Midwest research library. I hire/supervise student workers, work with hiring committees to coordinate academic searches, schedule executives, act as logistics coordinator for yearly local symposium, run departmental communications, process professional development fund applications, run twice-weekly development data reports and process thank-yous, minor event management (ordering food, booking rooms, etc), participate in two regular and two yearly special event committees, manage organizational charts, act as the department credit card, troubleshoot conference room tech issues (mostly Skype), manage phones, supplies, and front reception area, and other projects as assigned. Basically have to know all ~300+ members of staff by name/department if not by face. My supervisor is assistant to Grandboss, the Dean of Libraries.

    urban Midwestern

    BA in History, currently getting my distance MLIS; 1.5 years in this position, with various related positions for about 7 years (high school-college)

    35,000 to start, now at 36,000 because of COL/step increase (union position)

    It’s a pretty good salary for out of college, and the health insurance/PTO/sick time is fantastic. Transport and fitness center perks are great. Retirement not so much – few options for union staff, just the state pension (there are voluntary accts, but don’t have employer contributions to them). Have gotten pretty bored with the position though – hiring has slowed down and I’ve made a lot of processes more efficient, so I sit on my butt a lot. Coworkers/boss are fantastic, and it’s field-adjacent. I’d like to stay here if I can, but in a more libraries-position.

  571. Director of Public Policy*

    –Policy director for small nonprofit association. which includes some federal and state lobbying-like outreach activities, writing resource materials for the field and outreach to policymakers and advocates, and some other awareness-building activities, presentations, etc.
    –Washington, DC area
    –2 years in this type of role, 20 years total post-college experience in the nonprofit world
    –$77,000/year plus some health benefits

  572. Office Manager/Executive Assistant*

    Job: Office manager/AA for Hedge Fund: Answering phones, ad hoc assignments as directed by Partners of the firm, filing, ordering lunch, keeping office orderly & neat, ordering supplies (food and office), greeting guests, taking care of any meeting needs (projectors, catering, etc.); basically an office mom with all the sexist connotations it brings. I do have to say however sexist the prior sounds, it’s an awesome job with a pretty great group of people.
    Location: New York, NY
    Experience: 10+ years admin experience in financial industry (3ish years in HR/Recruiting and call center’s Director admin support all in Credit Card industry, the rest in hedge funds)
    Salary: 85+k plus yearly bonus; all lunches paid for by firm; all medical insurances for self & spouse paid for by firm.

  573. Law Firm Receptionist and Court Runner*

    Job: Opening and closing the office, general kitchen cleaning and coffee duty, answer all phone calls, receive and sort all mail, process all payments, assist 5 lawyers with what ever needs to be prepared (document staging, copying, research, listening to them complain about other lawyers), go daily to the court house to file documents and run errands, stare into space dreaming of winning the HGTV dream home.
    Area: Coastal Northern California
    Experience: At this job 9 months but total in administrative duties 3.
    Salary: $23,400 or $12/hr
    Other: I have benefits which are reasonably priced, along with sick leave and PTO. I have every court holiday off as a paid day as well. I received a Christmas bonus this year for the first time! I don’t have a college degree, but am working on one.

  574. Senior Research Associate*

    Senior Research Associate / Program Evaluator in a university setting [translation: I work on research projects and other studies that explore educational equity issues in K-12 schools]
    NYC
    8 years experience
    $62,500

  575. Engineering Supervisor*

    Job – Engineering Supervisor at a Nuclear Power Plant
    Location – Southeast US
    Experience: 10+ years in Engineering, 5 years in current role
    Salary: $110,000/year, eligible for 25% yearly bonus (average)

  576. Web apps developer*

    –I develop and maintain internal-facing (local network/intranet hosted) web-based applications, ranging in complexity from simple web forms submitting data from one user/team to another, all the way up to highly complex applications that drive core business functions. Most development done in .NET; some teams adjacent to me use Java. Also extensively using JQuery and SQL Server, and beginning to move toward Azure Cloud.

    –Employer is one of the big banks

    –Located in the Midwest US (Iowa)

    –Six years experience in web development; four in this position/company

    –Current pay rate is approx. $35.40/hour (non-exempt). Have been working toward a promotion to a more senior developer title that I have my fingers crossed for this year, which would make me exempt and I’d be targeting a 10% pay bump. I’d also be bonus-eligible at that level.

    –Despite being non-exempt I currently have the ability to flex my schedule and am 100% WFH. (That’s extremely important to me and will keep me in this role even if the promotion doesn’t pan out this year.)

  577. FN2187*

    Job: Administrative Assistant in private education
    Location: Medium-sized city in Midwest
    Experience: 2 years
    Salary: $31K, full benefits, 2 weeks vacation plus breaks from school. Assistants do not get the summer off, even though every school in the area does.

    I am sadly overqualified for this job (does not require a degree but I have two), however I am happily going to law school this fall.

  578. Non-Profit Director of Operations*

    Job: Pretty much the full scope of operations – event planning, internal systems, data management, some HR/payroll, and finances (I do the bookkeeping and day-to-day management, but we have an external auditor and accountant since I’m not a CPA). I work on a small team – 3 full time employees and 6 regular, part-time consultants.

    Geographic area: Southeast, medium sized-city

    Years of experience: 8-10 depending on how you count it. I also have a relevant Masters, which has mattered in some places but not others.

    Your salary: $37,000. I’ve worked similar jobs for most of my professional career. My salaries have ranged from 26k to 46k, depending on various factors.

    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I work from home 100% of the time on a somewhat flexible schedule for people I adore. In trade for that, I was willing to accept lower pay and fewer traditional benefits. In past roles, I have made similar trades. Some benefits I’ve accepted in exchange for lower salaries: flex time, remote work, 100% coverage of (significant) public transit costs, organizationally funded HSA + 100% coverage of insurance premiums, and (in combination with other, larger perks) some quality of life things like relaxed dress code and later start time.

  579. Public Library Director*

    Responsible for providing vision and strategic management, providing professional leadership to library staff in the achievement of library goals and objectives. Oversees daily operations, delegates appropriate responsibilities to department heads, fulfills general duties expected of the professional librarian. This position is considered an exempt position for purposes of federal wage-hour laws.

    Location: US South
    Experience: 6 years as director, 20 years as a librarian
    Compensation: $50,000 per year, plus state retirement. This year I am to receive a $4,000 bonus since I don’t take the small group insurance we have to buy. It’s cheaper for the library since I’m the oldest person on staff. I’d rather take the cash than have everyone’s premiums go up.

    Other Info: I receive 20 vacation days, 12 sick days and 10 holidays per year. (New employees begin with 10 days vacation.) We are allowed to roll over 1.5% of our annual leave. We accrue unlimited sick-time, but limited to 500 hours to be paid into retirement when retiring. While we are public employees we aren’t employees of the city or county, so we are paid at about 60% of city employees. There is talk periodically about bringing us in to one or the other until they realize how much of a raise we’d have to receive.

    1. Public Library Director*

      Sorry, I do have a MLIS and just completed my CPLA certificate. Our county population is 90,000.

    2. Public Library Director*

      Okay, let me correct the roll over. It’s 1.5 times not %. I can roll over 30 days.

  580. Web Specialist*

    – content management of university website utilizing both a CMS system and raw HTML/CSS (and sometimes bumbling badly through Javascript) and Bootstrap. Have a graphic design background so occasionally also utilized to make templates or redesign old pages.
    -southest Missouri
    – years of design experience: 8, years of (full-time) web experience: 3
    – $38k/year (we’re in a rural, very poor area, I may end up outing my area to almost a pinpoint, but I left the other regional university across the river and got a $10k/year raise in the doing, I have struggled for *years* to break that 30k salary number)
    – accumulating vacation/sick time, longer you’re here, more you get, totally free basic insurance option, I chose highest tier for everything so pay ~$60/mo for health/dental/vision.

  581. Newspaper editor*

    Editor (and reporter and photographer) in a rural, low-cost part of the Midwest. I write all the news for a weekly paper, plus edit and prep submitted items to print.
    Salary is about $30,000, which is decent considering the industry and local cost of living. On the other hand, it’s the same as I was making a decade ago at a larger paper. What keeps me here is the flexibility and autonomy.
    I have been in newspapers 14 years, and worked at two small dailies and a 70k circulation daily in a small city.

    1. Managing Web Editor*

      Wow, so you’re the entire editorial staff? Do you have contributing writers at all? That sounds overwhelming but also kind of fun, depending on what your town/geographic area is like.

      1. Amadeo*

        I worked for a little print shop that also had a couple of weekly papers and yes, we also only had one editor. He wrote the articles, and in between doing print jobs, I and another designer laid out the paper. He’d come behind us and tweak it some, if we needed another article to fill a spot, or a word or two removed to make a story fit, but yes, he was it. I don’t think it’s terribly uncommon in tiny little shops like that.

      2. Newspaper editor*

        I do have a sports freelancer who covers all things athletic, which helps a ton. But otherwise, yep, it’s all me. (Well, we do have some of those old-fashioned community correspondents, who type up the happenings of towns of less than 200 people.) I’ll admit to being apprehensive about it when I took the job, but it’s been more than 2 years and I love it. I pick what I cover and what I don’t. My ad rep will grab a pic for me if I have to be in two places at once, so I’m not completely without backup.
        I’m in a really rural area, with a coverage area that’s essentially one school district, two towns of about 2,000 people, a county government and a couple of towns with less than 500 people. Occasionally it gets hectic, but it’s not bad. It helps that I’m a fast writer and that people here are super enthusiastic about reading a local paper, so they actually smile when show up. My two main towns are only 15 miles apart, so I don’t have to cover a huge geographic area. Plus, I get to work from home two days a week (also, whenever my kids are sick or the sitter is unavailable). When I’m in the office, I’m by myself, so I pick the music, decor and don’t have to deal with office politics. My ad rep and I get along great. My designer is in another town, so we do everything by email, which works for me. I’m self-motivated and disciplined enough to meet deadlines.
        Also, with school delays, I’ve occasionally taken my older son with me to meetings (he’s 5) and our elected officials just come over and chat with him. People here are just genuinely friendly and welcoming, so they’re super helpful.
        It is super fun. And I figure the flexibility makes up for the fact that I’m not getting rich.

  582. Human Resources Generalist*

    I do the normal HR stuff with a focus on recruiting, I participate in the majority of the hiring process (collecting resumes, sourcing candidates, working with staffing agencies, interviewing, etc) with the hiring managers.
    I work in Phoenix, AZ for a utility company.
    I have a bachelors degree in HR Management, six years of managerial experience (which included many HR duties) and two years of strictly HR experience.
    My salary is $50,000 plus a 10% (at least) annual bonus.

    As a side note, I also LOVE my job, my coworkers and my boss. I have the flexibility to work from our corporate office or another office that is closer to my home. The amazing work culture is worth not being paid as much as I might elsewhere.

    1. HR Business Partner*

      My role is very similar. My big focus is recruiting but I also do benefits, employee relations, and reporting.
      Location: NE Ohio
      Salary: 65,000 plus 3 weeks vacation
      I have 4 years experience and a bachelors degree in Business Management.

  583. Nonprofit Youth Intervention Program Manager*

    Job: manage and administer a small pilot program within a large international nonprofit, funded through a 4-year contract with a local government agency. I will have 6 direct reports who will do direct work with youth.
    Area: large metro area, Midwestern US
    Experience: 5 years directly working with youth, almost no supervisory experience
    Salary: $41,080 (hourly/non-exempt)
    Context: Because of the way my organization does raises, this will be my second calendar year without a raise, so this was factored into my starting salary for this job. I have a BA in psychology but no educational background or license in social work; most jobs in my area in the youth work field weight experience over specific educational credentials.

  584. HR Business Partner*

    – partner w/senior leadership on all matters of HR strategy and initiatives
    – DC Metro Area
    – 13 years HR experience
    – current base salary: $110,000 annually
    – employer is large government contractor

  585. Academic Research Librarian*

    Job: Research librarian working at a small academic library. My primary duties are visiting classes to teach research skills, as faculty request it, and working one on one to help students with their research projects. I also train a small group of student workers who provide reference help when we’re not available, and I coordinate everything to do with our reference service including keeping our calendars up to date, collecting stats (and compiling them in creative ways on request), etc.

    Geographic Area: Greater Boston Area

    Experience: 3.5 years of professional experience (2 in current position) + 2 years of paraprofessional work. And about 6 years of retail customer service experience before that, but that’s actually a lot more relevant to my job than one might usually expect.

    Salary: $54,000

    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Full benefits including a 10% retirement match, 8 holidays / 4 floating holidays and about 20 days of annual leave. It is a 12 month position. Work weeks are 40 hours minimum but often extend beyond that. I do have to work some evenings and weekends, for which I receive comp time. My employer is also pretty generous with professional development.

    Other notes: My position requires an MLIS, and I wouldn’t have been eligible for the position I was hired into without my paraprofessional position — work experience is SO important in this field (and honestly prepared me for my work better than most of what I learned in graduate school).

  586. General Manager, non-profit*

    GM for non-profit regional theatre
    South Florida
    3 years as GM, 8 with this company, 15+ in non-profit arts
    $54,700 annual
    Responsible for payroll, HR, accounting (budgeting, A/R, A/P, & all financial reporting), staff management, and licensing & regulatory compliance

    1. Production Manager/Producer, non-profit arts*

      Senior Program, Production, and Touring Manager for a non-profit arts organization, offering educational music programming to kids and professional programming and training at higher levels.

      Calgary, Canada.

      4 1/2 years with this company. 8 years in non-profit arts.

      $48,000 (CDN)

      Responsible for artistic planning in conjunction with other staff members, production management of events and shows, planning and execution of international tours, producing the season program, and working with the other administrative staff on organizational planning and development.

      I have an MFA in Producing, which was not required, per se, but contributed to bumping my starting salary by 30% from the original budget. My arts org is a mid-sized one, with a $2M annual budget — we’re a bit of an anomaly in our programming model and size, which makes us a weird fit for certain granting entities.

    2. Freelance theater electrician (non-union)*

      Already answered for my full-time job, but also have a side gig, so I’ll throw it in here, too.

      Job: install/focus/maintain/operate lights for theater and event companies. I mostly do one-off gigs (hang/focus/strike) rather than longer engagements like running a show for six weeks.
      Location: DC
      Pay: $16-$20/hour, depending on the company. Smaller companies might be at $14/$15. If you’re doing it full time and prove to be good at it, you can easily negotiate up. This doesn’t include higher skilled jobs, like programming or doing significant aerial or rigging work.
      Experience: Was a full-time freelancer for about 3 years, then switched careers and now only do it part time/as available for the last 2.

      Other: work for small companies is almost always as an independent contractor, whether or not you should legally be classified that way. More senior/supervisory positions (Master Electrician for a show or a season) are around for those who want the supervisory experience, but they’re more usually paid as stipends, and can cost you to take too many–if you want to move up you’ve got to balance the need to gain experience and land one of the coveted staff jobs at a good theater vs. the need to pay your rent. And union work, if you can get into IATSE is going to be structured/paid/available completely differently–I never did get on the IA call list so I can’t speak to that.

  587. Product Analyst*

    Triage production issues and help analyze and translate business use cases into technical terms.

    San Diego, CA

    1 yr in current role, 7 years of related experience

    $80,000 + 12% bonus (so-so benefits and not enough PTO)

  588. Environmental Technician*

    -Job: Writing environmental assessments of properties, subsurface soil and groundwater investigations (drilling, sampling, etc. and writing reports after), overseeing soil remediation/excavation and in-ground tank removals, helping with state-level filing paperwork
    -Area: Connecticut
    -Years: 1 year
    -Salary: $30,000
    -Notes: I’m hourly, not salaried, but my yearly salary comes out to about $30,000. This is no where near enough to live off of, but I have roommates to make it work. (For the record I’m a female in a male-dominated field and I highly suspect there’s some gender-based discrepancies between my pay and that of male coworkers at my level with my experience.) I have a degree in geology and environmental earth science.

    1. Environmental Engineer*

      You are really underpaid, but that is not uncommon in this field. :( Not saying that there isn’t some gender bias happening, but I definitely see a lot of environmental science/geology types getting put in “technician” roles and getting drastically underpaid compared to environmental engineers who do extremely similar work. I’d get another year or two of experience and jump ship if you can – look into your state environmental agency, if you have one, or a larger consulting firm that has decent salary bands for environmental scientists.

  589. Semi-Senior Accountant*

    job: Public accountant – mostly external audit work for local governments/businesses but also do some tax work
    geographic area: Metro NY
    years of experience: worked as an accountant in a small credit union for about 3 years before deciding to go into public accounting. 1 year of public work before moving into this role.
    salary: $65K
    context: Still do not have my CPA, currently sitting for the exam.

  590. Lovemyjob...Truly!!!!*

    your job: I am an insurance specialist at a special pharmacy. I am the person who obtains benefit information from insurance companies on our patients, obtains prior authorizations, and makes sure that all the pieces are in place so we get paid and the patient doesn’t get a bill for their medication. The therapy I work on involves medication that can run patients close to $30K a month without necessary insurance.
    your geographic area: Central MA (though we have offices across the country)
    your years of experience: 5+
    your salary: $42,000

  591. Senior Legislative Analyst*

    Job: Senior Legislative Analyst for a provincial government department. Responsible for legislative and regulatory development mostly, some other policy and research type work as well.
    Area: Manitoba, Canada
    Experience: 7 years (2 in this role)
    Salary: $75K (CDN)
    Other: Like all government jobs here, my job is unionized, has a very good pension, job security, health benefits etc. All government salaries over $50K are public.

  592. Communications Specialist*

    Marketing/PR/Social Media/Graphic design for a local government
    Kansas City
    10
    $53,500

  593. Faculty Research Assistant*

    I run analytical equipment, analyze data, and develop methods in an analytical laboratory at a university
    Pacific Northwest
    1 year of experience, first job out of grad school
    $40,000

  594. International Sales Manager*

    I sell industrial consumables to all customers outside the US and Canada. Also responsible for some 30,000 foot thinking. I direct the work of one person, that I share with 1 other territory manager.

    I’m in the Greater Chicago area.

    I’ve been doing export work for US manufacturers for 12 year.

    My base salary is $96,000 and last year I made $30,000 in commissions (paid out monthly), and bonuses (paid out quarterly).

    The company is a small family owned manufacturer.

  595. Publisher*

    Job: Overseeing the day to day operations of a publishing company
    Michigan
    your years of experience: 31
    your salary $175,000

    I’m the owner, so I do everything from editing to sales to bookkeeping. As the publishing business erodes, so does my staff – we’ve gone from 20+ to a dozen over the last 10 years and as each person leaves I absorb their duties rather than replacing them. I’m working all the time.

  596. Mechanical Engineer*

    – Job: government employee, I perform many mechanical tasks such as design and analysis as well as low-level project management on field sites
    – DC Metro Area
    – 2.5 years experience
    – $68,000/year

  598. Import/Export Specialist*

    – Import Export specialist doing corporate compliance. Expert in ITAR, EAR, ATF, and classified shipments. Licensed Customs Broker, security clearance.
    – Tucson, AZ
    – almost 5 years experience
    – $69,000 a year, plus benefits including health care, tuition assistance, parental leave, 401k, yearly bonus equal to about 3% of earnings, and occasional work from home (plus other nice things)

  599. Special Education Teacher*

    Job: Working with junior high students that have moderate-severe disabilities, such as autism, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy. I manage a team of 5 paraprofessionals, have a caseload of 12 students, and also plan curriculum for a peer tutoring program. I do a lot of actual teaching and lesson-planning, but also deal with a lot of paperwork (such as IEPs and other legal documents). I have the “behavior” unit in my area which means I have several students with aggressive or otherwise difficult behaviors, but we also do things like assist with changing students and administering meds.
    Area: Utah
    Experience: 4 years
    Salary: 38,000 base salary with a 6,000 stipend for not having a prep period.
    Context: I work for a public school district. I have a BS in elementary education and special education (dual-major) and am additionally endorsed to teach mathematics. I’m in the lowest “lane” of our pay schedule – based on amount of education – and the 4th “step” which is years of experience. Currently working on my ESL endorsement as well to build up some credit for a future master’s degree.

  600. Director of Guest Relations*

    Job: I run the guest relations department for a museum, which includes all ticket sales, volunteers, and most of education.

    Location: Major West Coast city

    Years of experience: 10

    Salary: $80,000, but varies widely. In the same job at another museum (same city, same complexity) , it was $45K.

  601. Compensation & Benefits Director*

    Comp & Benefits Director for $900m revenue, nationwide company with a staff of 7. Job requires around 10 yrs of experience. I have been in the business 20+ years. Based in SE US. Base of $155k and 20% bonus potential. I find in HR roles, the size of the company drives titles and salary more than anything else. In a smaller company I could be a VP but earn less. In a larger company I would likely be a manager or asst director and probably earn similar.

  602. International Programs Coordinator (Private Higher Ed)*

    Job: Advising students studying abroad, coordinating programs for them to study abroad with, and managing all the relevant data/content
    Area: SW Virginia
    Experience: Just started this job this week (so, <2), but I worked as an assistant at a public university doing similar work for 2.5 years
    Salary: 33K

    Side note–I have an MFA, which was essentially required. Study abroad doesn't NEED a specific masters degree, but it does help to at least have some post-secondary education. A lot of people in the field have a Ph.D., which I'll most likely be going back to school for in the next few years.

    2. MWKate*

      This is what I’m hoping to go to grad school for, I plan to start later this year. I’m always looking to pick someone’s brain about the field.

      1. International Programs Coordinator (Private Higher Ed)*

        I can try to answer any questions you might have, if you’d like! I am brand new to doing this full-time, but I think I have a good grasp of what universities are looking for in new hires.

        1. MWKate*

          That would be great – but I don’t want to derail the point of the threat either. I’m not sure about the rules for contact information though since there aren’t really ‘profiles’ that direct messages can be sent to.

  603. Associate Dean, University Library*

    Job: Associate Dean – oversee segment of operations and strategic activities in a University Library
    Area: South Florida
    Experience: approximately 20 years total plus 2 advanced degrees (including an MLIS)
    Salary: $123,000
    Other info: Am faculty, but not tenured – have multi-year, renewable appointments instead; on 12 month contract rather than 9 month like many research/teaching faculty.

  604. Senior Associate Director of Programs*

    Public health project director with a large nonprofit. I work with federal, state and local public health agencies and ministries of health to improve their health IT and informatics systems. I’m not a systems architect or software developer – my role is to help public health agencies improve and streamline their use of IT solutions to meet their public health goals.
    Atlanta, GA
    13 years in public health, 3 years specifically in informatics.
    $88,000
    This salary is actually slightly under market for this position and my organization is in the process of adjusting the salaries for our unit to make our positions more competitive in the job market. We have a great benefits package.

  605. Theater / Special Events Manager*

    -Run a private cinema/theater which includes planning and execution of all internal events in addition to client rentals; otherwise handle all bldg operations, manage small staff, plan limited offsite events domestic &abroad for company
    -Manhattan
    -W/company for 6+ years, in current role for 2+
    -$56,500

  606. Web & Video Producer*

    I take on-air segments from our daily business programming and post them to our website/distribute to online partners, as well as creating standalone business video content. I also contribute to editorial curation of videos and text articles.
    NYC
    5 years
    61,000; salaried with good benefits

  607. Speech-Language Pathologist*

    job: School-based
    geographic area: Atl Canada
    years of experience: 10 years
    Salary: $80K

    1. Speech-Language Pathologist*

      [tagging on here for categorization purposes!]

      Job: School-based SLP. Pre-K through 12th grade (all in one building – no travel). Within our district, I specialize in working with students with complex communication needs. I supervise one SLP Assistant.
      Geographic Area: Rural Northern New England (the school serves a town of about 2,000 people)
      Years of Experience: 1.5
      Salary: $49K

      Notes: Salaries in my district are lower than neighboring districts. My salary reflects the school year (180 days). In general, teachers (I’m on a teacher contract) cannot individually negotiate salary, but because qualified SLPs are in short supply in our state, I was able to negotiate for both more money and a higher step and higher tier on the salary schedule, which acknowledges the level of training required for my degree. Our department also negotiated to be included in the list of people who can apply for a bonus that acknowledges our “highly qualified” status, something previously available only to classroom teachers. The $49K figure reflects these successful negotiations.

    2. Physical Therapist*

      Job: hospital based, I see inpatients only
      Geographic area: Chicago
      Experience: 1.5 years
      Salary: 64,100

  608. Accounting Assistant*

    Accounting Assistant for a medium size company. Bank Reconciliation, Accounts Payable, Filing, Answering phones, GL, Lots of reporting.

    Geographic Area:Alabama
    Years of Experience: 1 year
    Salary 39,000

    Have previous experience in an admin/clerk role playing receptionist, accounts payable/receivable for 2 years prior to this.

  609. Production Specialist*

    Your job: take content from creative and marketing teams and get it into content management systems and online. Maintain content management systems, provide estimates on time and expense for production work, act as first line of troubleshooting when things go wrong on the sites.
    Geographic area: urban Pacific Northwest
    Years of experience: 20
    Your salary: $36/hour (actual income varies wildly, since I work for an agency and our hours are not guaranteed)
    Anything else: Most positions in this corner of the tech industry have zero benefits; I have PTO and my employer kicks in for health insurance. This is basically the most I can ever expect to make without moving into management.

  610. Recruiting Coordinator*

    Job: I schedule the interviews that the corporate recruiters submit. I also run our employer brand social media accounts, have re-vamped our employee referral program, and have done some other miscellaneous projects.

    Location: Boston, MA

    Experience: I’ve been here for about 1.5 years, I had a job prior to this after college that I stayed at for 2.5 years

    Salary: $40,000 (am potentially going to see a promotion/raise this review cycle)

  611. HR/Payroll*

    Outsourced HR/Payroll
    NorCal, but not Bay Area
    I’ve been with my employer 2.5 years and was promoted into my current role from being an admin asst. I was in a completely different specialty retail job before.
    $43k

  612. Executive Director, Human Resources*

    -Mid-to-senior level HR generalist in a small firm (2nd in command to SVP of HR on a total HR team of 4 people). We support 200 corporate employees and tangentially support about 8000 freelancers in 4 cities across US. Role is heavy on strategy, people management and developing/defining processes but there is about 30% tactical work.
    -Entertainment industry (mainly tv production)
    -Los Angeles, CA
    -20 years industry work experience; 8 years of HR-specific experience
    -$145k annual salary, 10% annual bonus

  614. Attorney*

    Small firm (less than 10 attorneys)
    Northern New England
    Personal injury/employment/business lit
    7 years
    $91k base. $2-3k at the holidays just because. Bonus structure to get 1/3rd of receivables that exceed 3x my salary. Have hit that once but got a car sized bonus out of it.
    I think my base is below market but my bonus structure is above market.
    I don’t use our benefits as I use my husband’s so I can’t comment on those. I get a stipend to cover the cost of being on my husband’s plan.

    1. Attorney*

      Not sure where in NNE but I think your base sounds about right. I’ve been in practice about 4 years in NNE and my base is 80k. My bonus structure is slightly more generous but yours seems fair and like it follows the industry rubric of 1/3 to overhead, 1/3 to associate pay, 1/3 to partner profit.

  615. Agile Project Manager*

    Job: Agile Project Manager – Cross trained Scrum Master and Kanban leader serving 1-3 teams of developers with focus on delivery, Agile coaching, data analysis, technical acumen, facilitation, and product roadmap.
    Geo: Atlanta area
    Experience: 6 months leading teams, 2 years certified Scrum Master
    Salary: $55K
    Other: Benefits include full dental, vision, and health benefits, wellness benefit, tuition reimbursement. Company offers generous training budget for conferences and certification. Scrum Master certification required for position.

  616. Production Administrator*

    Job: Administrative support for Production Manager, working between sales and ~100 production employees, including assigning work, on-boarding, continued training, purchasing, safety and HR support
    Area: NJ
    Experience: 2 years here, 1.5 in a previous position, bachelor’s degree
    Salary: $50,000

  617. HR Manager*

    One person HR Department for 100-120 EE mechanical contractor; family owned small business. Master’s in HR, PHR Certified. 6+ Years in HR, 3 at this company. Handle all HR, W/C, recruiting, benefit administration, etc from tactical to strategic. And then random other stuff needed for the CEO/CFO.

    $70,000

    Metropolitan South Carolina

    Benefits aren’t great but industry benefits aren’t great in general; negotiated good PTO, usually flexible but some days go crazy.

  618. Sr. Compliance Manager - Finance*

    Job: Senior Compliance Manager for a large investment firm
    Area: Northeast U.S.
    Experience: 12 years
    Salary: $194K

  619. Accounts Payable Manager*

    Manages 4 person AP team and 3 person Purchasing team
    Baltimore, MD area
    8 years experience
    APM Certification
    $55K

  620. Epidemiologist*

    Epidemiologist (state government)
    New England
    1 yr
    ~$46k

    Sorry — was concentrating so hard on instruction 2 that I missed instruction 1!

  621. Senior Accountant*

    Job: All accounting tasks, including A/P, payroll, financial reporting, monthly entries, asset inventory, audit, and reconciliations. I work for a tiny little international bank.
    Area: Houston, TX
    Experience: 3 years this role, 30 years overall.
    Salary: $63 K, plus $10 K bonus
    Other: One of the best jobs I have had, good benefits, close to home, nice coworkers.

  622. Consultant - Application Programming*

    I basically work on a widely used online software program and I co-lead and mentor the team responsible for it. I’m also considered an SME of a few things.

    This is in the DFW area.

    I have six years experience, altogether.

    My salary is exactly 100,000k.

    This seems to be about the average for my experience and gender (average is about 101k, last time I checked). I will also say it’s a bit lower mainly because the benefits provided by my job are great too, and there are bonuses in play as well.

  623. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

    your job: In-house corporate lawyer for a F50 company
    your geographic area: Philly, PA
    your years of experience: 3 years experience
    your salary: 196k
    context: 140k base + 28k cash guaranteed bonus + 28k in vested equity

  624. SEO - Search Engine Optimization*

    Associate Director job: Use strategies, techniques and tactics used to increase the amount of visitors to a website by obtaining a high-ranking placement of a page, video, or digital asset in Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines.
    salary:$108,000
    metro-area: Boston suburbs
    years of experience: 11
    Notes – I am agency-side vs. client-side. Underpaid and under-employed compared to men in my field with same or less experience, who are at $135,000 with director titles and even VPs making $150k

    1. SEO & Social Media Strategist*

      Job: SEO for ad agency, including content creation, technical SEO, link building, social media strategy, etc.
      Area: Greater NY Metro Area
      Experience: SEO: 3, Writer: 13, Copy Editor: 15.
      Salary: $48K –> $57K over 4 years. (No raise in 2016, but got a $3K bonus)
      Context: Went to school for journalism. Always envisioned being a reporter for the NY Times, till reality hit after graduation. Worked at a book publisher in the marketing department before the ad agency. It’s not where College Me envisioned myself at all, but I’m pretty happy in my job.

    2. Digital Marketing / SEO*

      Search Director. I work on the agency side–mange the relationship and strategy of several large clients. Manage a small team.
      Salary: $92,000
      Metro-Area: Portland/Seattle
      Years of Experience: 10
      Notes: I get generous time off (20+ vacation days, plus a bunch of other stuff)

  625. Stewardship Assistant*

    job: admin assistant at a small nonprofit, in addition to admin duties with scheduling and mailings I also track program spending, donor recognition, and reporting info
    geographic area: Central Indiana
    years of experience: 1 year in this position, ~1-3 years of admin experience prior depending upon how you look at it
    salary: $33,000/yr (hourly)

  626. Grants Policy Analyst*

    Grants policy analyst for a large federal research agency. Maintain and update grants management policies and agency regulations.
    your geographic area: DC Metro
    your years of experience: 10 in grants generally, 5 with my agency
    your salary: About $120,000, GS-14. I started as a GS-11 5 years ago and have moved up fairly quickly.

  627. Bank Teller*

    Bank teller at a mid-sized regional bank – southeast U.S.
    11 years experience – in that time I performed in several roles. I am currently a part-time teller (my choice), but have in the past occupied the role of full time teller, teller leader, personal banker, and assistant branch manager. Naturally my current salary is a substantial pay cut from most of my other roles, but the benefits and schedule make it worthwhile.
    $13.50/hour.

    The benefits are amazing: full health, dental, vision coverage, 401k with matching funds, tuition reimbursement, 10 federal holidays plus paid vacation and sick time, and most importantly to my current situation fully paid maternity leave for 4 months – and all of this is available to part-time personnel. They also offer paid paternity leave.

  628. Biologist*

    Job: environmental scientist/biologist
    Area: Rural western Canada
    Years of experience: 8
    Salary: $70,000

    I work for an NGO, but my salary is based on the amount someone in a similar position would be paid in government. Private industry sometimes pays more, but in this case it was a big step up from the crappy pay I was getting when I worked in consulting. It also has decent benefits and I get 5 weeks of vacation a year.

    2. Wildlife Biologist*

      Wow, Canadian provincial government pays a whole lot better than US state government (assuming that’s the level you’re referring to here).

      1. Biologist*

        They actually pay their scientists pretty good (although lately it sounds like the work environment for scientists is terrible). Although, to put it in perspective, living costs are much higher in Canada than the US so it might even out in the end.

  629. Annual Fund Coordinator and Grant Manager*

    -I coordinate solicitations, phonathon, and events that pertain to our $400,000 annual fund for a liberal arts college
    -I also find, help write, submit, and manager files/reports for around $400,000 in grants yearly.
    -I also work to help manager social media and photography with the communications department and work with student activities as an advisor for greeks as a part of student engagement.
    -Southwest Virginia
    -8 years
    -$31,000
    -Masters degree in Humanities

    *yes, I’m seriously under paid. I’m working on it.*

  630. ihatewinter*

    Review Appraiser (Real Estate)
    Midwest
    4 years in this position (although in this office longer)
    $69,000

  631. Accounting/HR Associate*

    I handle the lower level “grunt” accounting work and HR duties for a national non-profit [but not one of the bigger ones.] I’m supervised by the Director of Finance. I’m responsible for all our financial transactions being entered into our system correctly, making sure entries are posted correctly, creating checks for review, etc. I’m responsible for getting a lot of the information to our auditors each year.
    Since it’s the non-profit field, my job duties are vague and often extend to things like covering the phone and dealing with deliveries. My job is intended to be kind of a mesh between Finance and Operations.

    Location: East SF Bay Area [so not actually in SF.]

    5 years of experience.

    $64,500, after working here a year. Really strong benefits package, lots of vacation time, holidays, and an actual pension plan. This is probably about as good as it gets in the non-profit field as far as pay/benefits. But the job market here is supposedly in favor of job seekers right now and we’ve had trouble retaining people. Salaries in this area also tend to be high due to the extremely high cost of living here.

    Factors that helped me…I worked for nearly three years in the federal government prior to this, it was good preparation for dealing with a lot of the rules/restrictions in non-profit accounting. I have a Master’s degree and a CPA [that is inactive at the moment.]

    1. Accounting/HR Associate*

      Also, my Master’s is in Accounting. My bachelor’s is in English, which was a plus for this job because it’s related to the organization’s mission.

  632. Library Assistant*

    This job is unusually piecemeal for the job title; I assist in Interlibrary Loans in the morning, Acquisitions in the evening, and Circulation on the weekends. Short version of duties: I handle the loaning-our-stuff-out-to-other-libraries part of ILLs, make purchase lists and process new items in Acquisitions, and supervise the student workers checking stuff in and out in Circulation. In previous library assistant jobs I’ve mostly done circulation.

    Geographic area: Texas
    Years of experience: depending on how you count it, 12-14
    Salary: $14.30-ish an hour, which comes out to $27k-ish a year. This is the most money I have ever made.

    1. Librarian Assistant II (Public Library)*

      Oh wow, I have always known the two library jobs I have had paid really well but for the job you are doing you should be making more than that. I hate seeing library staff paid so low.

  633. Mid-level academic administrator*

    your job: Academic administrator. I currently mangage ideas more than people.
    your geographic area: west coast
    your years of experience: 20+ (just over a decade in admin)
    your salary: $160K.
    Pension, holidays, 4 weeks vacation. Have a PhD. Unionized environment. Without longevity and education bump, I’d be about $20K lower. My salary is public and has been in the newspaper . . . but they got it wrong.

  634. Communications Coordinator*

    your job – CommunicationsCoordinator – Manage the website, quarterly magazine, social media, creation of helpful resources, speech writing, program management, much customer service for small member-based association
    your geographic area Toronto, Canada
    your years of experience 3
    your salary $50,000
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: That would be Canadian dollars.

    1. Communications Coordinator*

      I forgot to add that I get 3 weeks vacation, and 100% covered benefits for pretty much everything not covered by OHIP which I don’t have to pay for.

  635. SharePoint Consultant*

    Job: Work with site owners and end users to design SharePoint sites using out of the box features. I don’t code or work with servers. I often develop and present training. I write and organize content for SharePoint sites. I design and document processes for using SharePoint well.

    Geography: Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN metro area

    Experience: 6 years

    Pay: I work on contract, currently making $40/hour on a W2 contract basis. I purchase my health insurance through the exchanges, as insurance coverage through a contracting company ends on the last day of the contract.

    Other information: I have a master’s degree in Technical Communications.

  636. Patient Care Coordinator*

    My job: Coordinating patient flow for an inpatient medsurg unit in a smallish Canadian hospital. I deal with unit logistics, staff coordination, complex discharge planning, and basic care planning. I’m an RN.

    Area: West Coast Canada

    Years of experience: 8

    Salary: ~85k CAD, plus a comprehensive extended medical plan for myself and my family, accrued sick time which rolls over yearly, and at this level, ~170 hours vacation/year. We also have a 3-month top-up to our maternity leave, taking our pay to around 80%.

    My position is unionized.

  637. Faculty Administrative Assistant*

    -Provides administrative, clerical, editing and program support to full time, tenured faculty at a private, not for profit law school
    -Chicago, IL
    -5 years experience
    -$37,000

  638. Administrative Manager*

    Job: manage administration, HR and procurement for a small philanthropic state corporation
    Geo: Alaska
    Experience: in position 3 years; prior 6 years in procurement and 15 in administration
    Salary: $79.5k

  639. Social Media Specialist*

    I work for a brand that is both B2B and B2C — we sell most of our product in brick and mortar stores but we want consumers to buy our product and not our competitor’s product. I do social media posting to multiple channels, create and run giveaways, write blogs myself and manage the blog calendar and edit and format posts by others, and coordinate with dozens of bloggers to get them promote our products.

    Location: Charlotte, NC
    Experience: 6 years in industry, almost 4 at this job
    Salary: $42,000, which my boss and I both think is too low (she is advocating for me to get a raise)
    Have pretty good health insurance, but not fantastic, and get 10 vacation days and 7 sick days a year

  640. Operations/Program Manager*

    Jack of all trades type of job: I move along projects in marketing, HR, Accounting and Operations. This mostly means lots of emails, phone calls and spreadsheets. Sometimes I analyze data, create presentations and run events.

    Southern California

    6 years of experience plus an MBA

    $120k

  641. Branch Coordinator*

    – Admin to a team of ~70 people (including budget tracking, travel arrangements, calendar coordination, onboarding and offboarding, etc)
    – Western Canada
    – 8 years total, 2.5 with this employer
    – Just over $40,000/year
    – This is a government job – everyone at my level gets the same pay.

    1. Branch Coordinator*

      Also to note, I get benefits, a pension, flex time, lots of learning opportunities, and 20 vacation days per year.

  642. Admissions Counselor*

    your job: manage a territory of interested students. promote school and connect with students via appointments on campus and at high schools. travel for ~10 wks per year (2-3 days per week, driving only)
    your geographic area: urban upper midwest
    your years of experience: 3 yrs indirect
    your salary: $40,000
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: 100% tuition remission, meaning I’ll be able to get my master’s for free if I stick around long enough (many don’t – avg turnover is 2 yrs). Access to all campus facilities, including gym. equivalent of 7 wks vacation, although some is dictated by university schedule.

  643. Buyer of Finished Goods/Accessories*

    Location: Chicago-land
    Experience- 5 years (3 in trucking, 2 in purchasing)
    Salary: $62,000 + 3 weeks PTO + yearly bonus ($500-$1000)

    Description: Work with international vendors to make sure that they are shipping all products on time, shortening lead times, supply chain mgt, replacement parts, fun stuff!

  644. HR Coordinator*

    Job: Run the day to day operations of the HR Department (hires, terms, benefit administration, employee relations, etc.) I am the ONLY HR employee on staff (reporting to a consultant) and am basically acting as the HR Manager (without the pay, eyeroll)
    Area: Houston, TX
    Experience: 5 years (2 in this role)
    Salary: $54,000

    1. HR Coordinator*

      – lowest in the hierarchy on a team of 3 (generalist who focuses on recruiting & director), do payroll, benefits administration, leaves of absence, reporting, run the internship program, manage HRIS/timetracking, plan staff events, implement new systems and processes, new hire onboarding, compliance.
      – San Francisco, CA
      – $55,000/year currently (starting salary was $52,500) with 3 years work experience, less than one of which was HR related. Been in this role < 1 year. I am nonexempt and qualify for overtime, but worked only about 15 hours worth in 2016.
      – extra info: prominent, medium-sized non-profit org, 85% paid health (100% covered vision), $100/month commuter benefits, employer provided life insurance 2x annual salary, 10 days vacation with an additional day accruing for every year you're with the org + week between Christmas and New Years off, paid sick days. Annual gym stipend. 12 weeks paid mat leave, 6 weeks paid paternity leave. 401k with 4% match if you contribute a minimum of 5% and no vesting schedule. Due to the work I do, I can't work from home right now, but bosses are open to getting some systems in place to help me do so eventually (i.e. moving away from paper). Great, smart people in the org I can call colleagues. I do feel like I should be paid more given the city's COL, but on the whole it's fair for the role.

    2. HR Administrator*

      This sounds exactly like the last job I had as an HR Coordinator for an 80+ person company, except I had no prior HR experience upon taking the position and the HR consultant was only on board for my first couple months. Needless to say, it was a crazy and chaotic job. I burnt out pretty quickly and left after about a year.

      Crazy HR Coordinator job
      Salary: $47,000 (started at $30,000 but was increased after 6 months)
      Experience: BA in unrelated field.

      Current Job: HR Admin at a University
      Salary: $63,000
      Benefits: Amazing. 22+ vacation days, 10 holidays plus week between Christmas and New Year’s, tuition remission, 401(k) with 10% match, etc.

  645. Production Editor*

    Production editor for a big 5 book publisher. Review and manage files and schedules for individual titles from editorial transmittal (when the manuscript Word document is “final”) through copyediting, design, paging, proofing, and to the printer for production. I also do miscellaneous admin work, run the department intern program, assist the cover design department, and report to the managing editor.

    Region: San Francisco Bay Area
    Experience: 5 years (plus five-month internship at a different company)
    Education: BA in classics; certification in copyediting through UC extension
    Salary: $48k (though awesome benefits including truly affordable health care, 401(k) matching, 10 paid holidays, 10-15 vacation days, 5 personal days, unlimited sick time) — started at $36.5k as Assistant Production Editor and am on 2nd promotion

  646. Executive Assistant (INP)*

    Executive Assistant to the CEO
    Responsible for support to the CEO and Board of Directors/Board Committees
    Toronto, ON Canada
    11 years of experience
    $53K
    Not-for-Profit sector, organization with about 150 full time and 120 part time staff

    1. Executive Assistant (INP)*

      Also manage a small staff team of three people. No travel involved in this position except within the city (and there’s a LOT of that). Lots of dealing with politicians and funders, grant proposals, chairing campaigns and committees, etc.

  647. Liability Auto Adjuster*

    Liability Auto adjuster: speak with both parties following an auto accident, review police reports and assign liability. Review estimates for fixing auto, medical bills for injured party(ies), and cut checks to cover costs.

    Great benefits, standard hours, a lot of work on the phone.

    Pay is $23 an hour, I live in the San Diego area and have less than 1 year experience.

    1. Senior Claim Representative*

      I used to work in the Trucking industry handling subro for truck physical damage and bodily injury claims, so I’ll post this here since I’m still an adjuster, just in a different niche industry.

      Job: Senior Claim Rep working for a commercial property-casualty insurer, currently on the property side of the house, but desperately looking to get back into casualty claims and then risk management for one of our big named insureds. I adjust claims filed by banks and credit unions on behalf of their customers.

      Geographic Area: mid-size city in the Midwest

      Years Experience: Will have 1 year of direct experience in this role next week, and I have 2 years and 7 months in a related role on the legal side (worked at a foreclosure law firm where the clients are my current insureds). I have a little over 6 years of post-undergrad work experience in all (graduated late 2009 and couldn’t find a job for almost a year).

      Salary: $51,116 base, but with a bonus from my division President (which is not guaranteed yearly), a meager 2% profit sharing bonus based on my prior division’s performance (profit sharing bonuses are guaranteed each year as long as the division meets its goals set by corporate), and four education bonuses (guaranteed only if you complete industry designations/certifications), I earned close to $58,000 in 2016.

      Other Pertinent Information: If I had come into my company with a JD, LLM, or MBA, I could be making $10k more than I currently make. (Have a BA in journalism.) Company offers tuition reimbursement for business-related masters degrees only, but they don’t necessarily have to pay you more once you obtain one. Our health insurance sucks and is basically catastrophe insurance, dental and vision is ok, our 401k company match is low compared to other financial institutions in our area, and you start off with a combined PTO bucket of 3 weeks. I have close to 8 industry destinations thus far, working on the 9th now, and have had a couple of job offers internally from other divisions that handle different niche products within the last year. Due to the change in the federal OT laws that were supposed to take place December 1, my company reorganized our job grades and salary bands, so now I’m at the low end of my salary band. My supervisor pointed this out to me, so hopefully they right that insanity because if they don’t, I’ll be dusting off my resume and looking for another role internally and externally. I do not get paid enough for what I’ve accomplished this past year or for the rigors of the job period.

  648. Public Relations Manager*

    Job: Public Relations Manager
    Area: Greater Boston
    Years of experience: 18
    Salary: $107K, 15% quarterly bonus + spot/performance bonuses. It evens out to $125-$130K on a given year.

    I work for a global high-tech company managing PR for a portfolio of products. I do proactive, reactive and launch PR and work with larger marketing teams to integrate PR strategy into larger campaigns and initiatives.

  649. Product Marketing Communications*

    Job: Work for large Bay Area tech company to develop marketing communications that reach end clients. Lots of writing and designing. Knowledge of product and industry is crucial. No direct reports.
    Location: Bay Area
    Years Experience: 5 (+ undergrad from top 15 school with internship experience)
    Salary: $90K pre-tax + performance-related bonus (>$5k)
    Benefits are generous: insurance (employer contributes 100%), 4 weeks vacation, 401K with small percentage matched, and Bay Area tech perks like food/gym/etc.

    1. Director of Product Marketing*

      Sole product marketing person at B2B software start-up. Work includes gathering market intel, leading positioning strategy, creating sales enablement assets, and engaging with buyers and partners.

      company based in Raleigh, NC
      13 years experience
      $85k + $10k (potential) bonus + stock options

  650. Director of Event Management*

    Oversee a department of 7 Event Managers who oversee events for a large convention center
    San Francisco, CA
    4 in this position, 23 in this industry
    106,000
    The Bay Area is EXPENSIVE! so that figures into my compensation

  651. Administrative & Fiscal Support Specialist*

    Job: Construction related procurement, fiscal, and administrative support in higher education.
    Geographic area: Hawaii
    Years of experience: 12
    Salary: $41k

    Good benefits, great environment. No degree (pursuing).

  652. Non-Profit Marketing Director*

    Marketing Director – Manage three major annual campaigns, supervise three direct reports, lead all online marketing, serve on several leadership bodies within the organizations, report to the VP of Marketing

    Seattle, WA
    6 years of work experience
    Bachelor’s Degree in unrelated field
    $58,000, plus full health benefits, sick time, and 5 weeks vacation

  653. Institutional Review Board -Team Lead*

    a.k.a. – IRB
    Gulf South Region
    7 yrs industry experience, 2 years direct IRB experience
    Day-to-day operations of IRB functions including review of studies, assigning to panels, expedited review of studies. Position also includes QA projects, education and implementation of new processes and software. The bulk of my work is day-to-day with ongoing large projects in the other areas.
    ACRP certification, masters degree
    $67k

  654. Associate Minister (Protestant)*

    -Job: Associate Minister at a large ( 400+ members, 275+ weekly attendence) multi-staff suburban church
    -Geo: Suburb outside of Boston
    -Experience: MDiv, 1 unit (450hrs) of CPE, 2 units of intern ministry, and this is my first position out of seminary/first ordained position
    -Salary: base salary is $55k, with a housing allowance on top of that. The housing allowance is based off of the median rental/mortgage price in my area and is tax-exempt. Salary in my denomination is almost always determined by a formula that combines years of experience with the weekly attendance size of the church, housing allowance is always based off of median costs of living in that community.
    -Other: 4 weeks paid vacation, good amount of sick days, pension, continuing education/professional development, sabbatical, healthcare, and I’d get an equity fund if I lived in the parsonage.

    1. 1234*

      I would love for Alison to do an interview with a pastor about their job because I have no idea what pastors do besides preaching sermons. (That’s not at all meant to be disrespectful, I just honestly have no idea what goes into running a church.)

      1. Church Assistant*

        I’m a general assistant in a medium church with a couple of departments – I can tell you what our pastors do! There’s the obvious Sunday sermon, which takes prep and writing. There’s a lot of visitations to congregation members (the sick, new parents, etc.), and they field a lot of phone calls from people in crisis. They frequently attend area citizen and business chambers, to see if there’s opportunities to serve that we’re missing. We collaborate with city anti-drug and teen health measures. Fundraising with advisory board coordination to help our social services office. Small group Bible study leading or attending. And oh so much driving to help people out who don’t have cars.

        They also have several more managerial functions: coordinating with the accountants, managing the building/property itself, providing vision and guidance for the smaller staff jobs (teen ministries for example), kitchen stocking, annual statistics reports, employee reviews. Similar things to what you would see in a multi-faceted non-profit.

        It’s a 24/7 job and the burnout is real. Most pastors I know try to take Wednesdays off (since Sundays and even Saturdays tend to get eaten up), and even then that’s a luxury.

  655. Contracts Manager*

    -Government consulting firm contracts manager, so I negotiate, process, and administer client contracts, subcontracts, and vendor contracts with both private and government clients. Lots of filing, nitpicking, and emails.
    -Washington, DC
    -3 years in the legal industry
    -$82,400 (plus a mysterious potential raise for 2017 that no one has said anything about, but no one said I’d get a bonus either so that’s up in the air for the moment.)
    -I am a licensed attorney with two state bars under my belt. I was hired to do something more legally inclined and was transitioned to manage contracts about seven months ago. Company is very hush-hush around compensation so I am not sure how it compares to the other contracts managers.

    1. Contracts Manager*

      Oh, benefits info is helpful on some other folks’ posts.

      4 weeks PTO, 7 sick days per year. Most folks in my job start with 2-3 weeks PTO but circumstances were a little tweaked. Healthcare is fine but on the expensive side, no matching on the 401(k) but there’s an employee stock option plan that makes no sense and is not applicable until you have been there for 4-6 years or something like that. Dental is great. Adoption benefits, and some random personal development subsidies are available as well.

    2. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

      Does your company pay for your CLE/bar fees? Just curious whether licensed attorneys who have quasi-legal roles such as contract management have this benefit.

      1. Contracts Manager*

        I negotiated for my bar fees when I was hired rather than them giving me more money. They also paid for the application for my second bar as part of my initial package. I am fortunate enough that my states don’t require CLEs. So most of the CLE-type seminars I attend/watch are free since I’m not paying for the credits and they want bodies there.

        I’m trying to shift back into the in-house industry anyway, so this post has been crazy helpful.

        1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

          Interesting, so you are trying to make the jump back from contracts manager to in-house counsel? At my company there is an invisible wall between these roles. That might change with leadership though we will see.

  656. Senior Medical Editor*

    Job: Senior Editor in pharma marketing/digital agency

    Geographical location: Manhattan

    Years Experience: In this field, 6

    Salary: Base salary ~$81,000 + yearly bonus around $3-4K. Salaried, exempt.

  657. Administrative Assistant/Accounts Receivable*

    Job: Fee letters, contracts, client invoicing
    Area: Western Canada
    Years of Experience: 6-7
    Salary: $71,000 CAD
    Other: 4 weeks vacation, good benefits

  658. Research Compliance Analyst*

    Job: Compliance analyst for Tier One research university; I assist generally with review of human and animal research protocols, management of financial conflicts of interest, and research misconduct reviews; position is basically administration
    Dallas/Fort Worth area (Texas)
    Less than 1 year in job, two years academic experience, 15 years prior administrative experience, two degrees non-related to current job
    Current salary is low end of salary band- $38,500; upper end for position is ~$45,000

  659. Director of Project Management*

    – Director level PM at an agency that does PR, digital (social and interactive experiences) and some ATL advertising. On the digital team. Have 1 direct report, though will hire 1-2 more this year.
    – NYC
    – 7 years in agencies, 9 years professional experience
    – $117,300, plus received a signing bonus, full benefits, 401k matching, 20 PTO days a year.

  660. Quality Manager RN*

    I manage a team of data abstractors in a hospital. They pull data from charts that are required to be reported by Medicare and Joint Commission.
    Philadelphia, PA
    $93,000
    Almost 20 years of nursing experience. 10 years in quality.
    I have a masters degree as well, in a related healthcare field.

  661. Produce & Marketing Manager*

    1. Responsible for Co-op Grocery Produce Department with yearly sales of 1/2 million dollars including 4-6 direct reports. Also create newsletter, social media engagement, graphic design, event promotion, customer complaint responses, website maintenance and in-store signage. Plus about 4-5 hours a week in community partnership programs like conference organizing etc.
    2. I live in Wa State, but in a rural area away from Seattle
    3. 6 years of experience
    4. 31,616
    5. I work only 32 hours a week. When I was full time in the same position I made $39,520

  662. IT Cloud Guy*

    your job: IT Cloud specialist. I’m helping my company move to a third party data center from our own dedicated one. Every day is a different. Wear many hats. I translate between business, finance, software engineers, and IT folks.

    your geographic area: Small city in the northern United States

    your years of experience: 25+ years

    your salary: $125k for roughly 40 hrs/week

    Flexible work hours, great boss, small town, 10 minute commute, ability to work from home as needed, low cost of living

  663. TechTeam Assistant*

    Description: I work in a public library in the computer area. Mostly I just help people use the computers! It’s mostly simple things, like how to open email or search the internet. As the library has gotten more technologically savvy and as people are coming in more often with personal devices, my job has changed somewhat. I help people print from their devices, use the library apps, etc., many of the things I do on the library’s desktops. I also answer the phone and try to do troubleshooting and answer questions as best I can. And we now have a makerspace! It’s technology-focused, with a couple 3D printers and Macs with Photoshop and recording studio on them, cool little stop-motion animation kits that work with smartphone/tablet apps, the works!

    Honestly, it’s a little bit of everything. Today I took a phonecall and walked a person through downloading print drivers and how to start the installation process. Yesterday I sat with someone for about an hour sprucing up her resume.
    Location: Western Indiana
    Experience: 10 years. This is how long I’ve been at my library, and basically in the same job with different titles (computer lab attendant, tech team, etc.)
    $13/hr. Most years we get ~2% raises, depending on performance.
    Extra: The job itself required little to no experience – I started when I was an undergraduate and the only qualifications I had were a couple college computer classes and being a bit of a geek. :p I also had a couple years’ experience at my college’s music library, so I imagine that gave me a bit of an edge.

  664. Immigration Attorney*

    Job: Immigration Attorney at a small firm
    Metro area: Seattle
    Years of Experience: 2 years post law school, 6 months at this job
    Salary: $25/hour with a bonus for self-generated work
    Notes: Typically work 40 hours a week, PTO is still being figured out, small health insurance stipend

  665. Senior Instructional Designer*

    Senior Instructional Designer – I create training programs (web-based, instructor-led, distance-learning, blended, video, multimedia, etc.) and lead teams of Instructional Designers on more complex projects. I also perform job-related analyses (skills, gap, competency, etc.), and create performance support tools (e.g., job aids, guides, templates, checklists, etc.). I am an internal subject matter expert in Government Acquisition (Federal and DoD). I collaborate directly with clients and other subject matter experts, and perform some project management duties as part of my role as a Lead Instructional Designer.

    Location: Washington, D.C. metropolitan area

    Years of experience: 14

    Salary: $95K
    (I think I may be underpaid – have not had a raise in several years due to corporate financial difficulties)

  666. Program Coordinator (Clinical Research)*

    your job: project management of investigtor initiated clinical trials. Manage start up (submission to regulatory authorities); monitor data entry; assist with safety reporting, etc.
    your geographic area: southeast
    your years of experience: 5 in my current field.
    your salary: 47k (just got bumped up due to the overtime threshold!)
    I have my MPH, which isn’t relevant to my field, so it didn’t help. I started at a VERY low salary and have a great boss who helped with periodic raises to get me to my current salary level. Benefits include 10 hours of sick and 10 hours of annual leave each pay period (monthly); great health insurance, not so great dental; and state retirement.

  667. Program Assistant*

    I work in faith based social services. My work is to assist with all local operations in one branch, including front line social assistance with teens and non-english speakers, and larger program planning and implementation. I produce a lot of documents, run a lot of errands, and patch a lot of holes.
    Area: DC
    Years of experience: 3 (all in the same org, but with different titles)
    Salary: $34000
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Housing is subsidized (not free) so I can live in the area without breaking the bank, and be on site quickly for property issues. I don’t have a car but have free use of the company one during off hours. At this point though, those features don’t necessarily compensate for the low pay and frequent 60 hour work weeks. My position would have been affected by the Dec 2016 wage rule in a big way, but that has not come to pass.

  668. Admin Assistant*

    -I work as an admin assistant/unofficial communications point person for a research institute at a university.
    -Denver, CO.
    -3 1/2 years in the workforce
    -$35,109 year pre-tax / $26,765 take home
    -My last job in DC was $58,000 pre-tax, so this is a significant cut for me. Hopefully it will allow me to pivot careers, though.

  669. Higher Ed - Admissions*

    -Assistant Director of Admissions
    -Boston, MA metro area
    -8 years of experience, 5 years in higher ed/admissions
    -$60,000/year
    -I work at a very prestigious university and as a result I do not this this salary is typical for this industry in this region.

  670. Library Supervisor*

    2. List the following info:

    Your job: off-hours Library Supervisor (nights and weekends) at a large private university
    Your geographic area: Upstate NY
    Your years of experience: 1 year at this position, 3 years experience in the field
    Your salary: $40,000. Benefits include 20 paid vacation days, unlimited paid sick time, tuition remittance for dependents or self. Health insurance is real expensive though.
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I have an MLIS from an okay school, have presented at some smaller conferences, and have published a few minor articles. This is not considered a “librarian” position and I have no official instructional/reference duties

  671. International Sales Manager*

    I think it would be interesting if the Europeans who are stating salaries would let us all know if that is net pay or gross pay. I’m pretty sure for all of the Americans we are all stating our gross pay, not what we actually take home.

    1. Bookkeeper / Admin Assistant*

      I think the UK salaries I’m seeing are gross. Salaries are lower in Europe, with much better benefits. I made £13,650 as an admin my first few years out of college, which was low but perfectly workable when I was living with my partner.

    2. Marzipan*

      I’d read the UK salaries shared as the gross figure, before any deductions. That’s how salaries would typically be quoted here, anyway. For context, the average UK salary is about £28k, I think.

    3. Newt*

      Yeah, we generally always quote the gross here in the UK – my job quoted above (£18,000 per year) was gross – income tax and NI and pension contribution and student loan repayment all comes off that. That’s actually my highest paying job to date – excluding temporary admin and call-centre stuff with some quite good rates, my last permanent, full-time job before this I earned £13,000 gross per year.

      I realise reading this thread, our wages look dramatically lower than US ones quoted. But to be fair, we have a lot more built-in benefits. Mostly here in Europe governments mandate legal entitlements to sick pay, holiday entitlement (statutory for someone who works 5 days a week in the UK is 28 days per year), maternity leave (they can’t fire you, you get statutory pay for a certain period and… I think you can also take unpaid leave on top? Not certain, not having kids)… even temp staff and zero-hours staff accrue holiday entitlement at the statutory minimum rate according to hours worked in that year-to-date.

      That and, in the UK, we have national-insurance as a small additional deduction from wages just like tax, rather than needing to pay out for private healthcare… although some larger employers do also offer private healthcare as a free perk. (I have no idea how national healthcare works elsewhere so won’t speculate).

      1. Newt*

        *edit* I think in Europe also the legal minimum wage is higher than in the USA? I’m not certain. I hear in the USA it varies by state anyway.

        So yeah, swings and roundabouts. There’s still plenty of people earning big money, of course. But possibly not as much as an equivalent worker in the US in most fields?

  672. Instructor*

    Job- full time instructor teaching science courses at a community college
    Location- Maryland
    Experience- 3 years teaching at current institution, 1 year adjunct teaching, 3 years postdoctoral fellowship (research), and a PhD in relevant discipline
    Salary- $59,700 with a 10-month contract (so I am officially on duty for only 10 months but I can spread out the pay schedule so I get regular paychecks throughout the year)
    Extra info- I was hired on at instructor level because I didn’t have much teaching experience but I will be promoted to assistant professor soon. Summers off and a long winter break are fabulous for a working parent. I can also choose to teach extra classes to get “overload” bonuses. That being said, when college is in session I work like a fiend and by the end of each semester I tend to be very stressed.

  673. Sr. Customer Support Agent*

    Job: Sr. Customer Support Agent (Tier 2) -I help our partner’s support teams help their customers use our product
    Geo: Bay Area
    Experience: 2+ years in this type of role
    Salary: $21/hour
    Benefits: Pretty great health/dental/vision. Catered lunch every day + huge pantry of food for other meals, perks like tickets to baseball games, etc.

    1. Sr. Customer Support Agent*

      oh we have 20 PTO days a year and have stock options but we’re not public and I don’t know if we ever really will be. we have free passes for the lightrail but it goes nowhere near my house so I’ve never used it (my commute is grueling, at least 3 hours a day)

  674. Project Coordinator*

    Job: Project Coordinator at mid-level creative company — involves project management, marketing, copywriting, asset management, etc.
    Location: Greater Seattle, WA
    Experience: 6 years
    Salary: $47,000

  675. Data Security Manager*

    * I support our division for data security and access needs, including audit prep and execution, formulating and documenting process and policy, systems administration, security assessments, special projects, and so forth; our business is a SaaS product line; I am not a people manager (yet)
    * Mid-Michigan
    * 10 years’ professional experience – business and support analyst, program manager were previous roles; 6 years at current company and in this role <1 year
    * 89,000 plus bonus, decent benefits and great environment w/ tons of flexibility
    * I have an MBA and a PMI-ACP certification, working on CISA (degree partially and certifications wholly paid by employer). Worked my way up and into tech, starting at $15/hr as a phone rep at a healthcare company. Took 10 years but LOVE my job

  676. Communications Manager*

    your job: External communications manager for a healthcare company
    your geographic area: New York Metro area
    your years of experience: 10
    your salary: $120,000 (plus eligible for a 10% annual bonus)

  677. Special Assistant to CEO*

    – manage the CEOs workflow and priorities, close strategic advisor to the CEO, preparation for internal and external meetings involving the CEO (and usually joining such meetings), ocassionally a proxy for the CEO for internal meetings and some external, preparation of all speeches/presentations/and materials for external events and meetings for CEO, manage CEOs special projects
    – major Midwest city
    – 2yrs in this role, 5.5 yrs overall
    – $55k
    – some discussion of bumping my salary this year as it’s below market and I’ve become extremely valuable to the CEO

  678. Archivist*

    Archivist at a historical society; processing a collection on a grant, supervising two staff.
    Hudson Valley New York / historical society main office is within NYC
    8 years experience
    $59k pre-tax
    Great health insurance (with dental and eye) with a low premium, 10 days vacation, more sick time than will use barring an emergency (can’t remember exact number), 4 days personal time, retirement account (only been here 6 mos, no matching yet), no professional development money, but will get paid time off for it that doesn’t affect my vacation/personal, received relocation money.

  679. Manager of Customer Success*

    Company: Enterprise SaaS startup which recently received Series A funding.

    Job description: run a team of Customer Success Managers, serve as a point of escalation when needed, manage key accounts, author department policies and documentation.

    Region: Northern CA (not the Bay Area)
    Qualifications: bachelor’s degree, certified Salesforce admin
    Experience: 3 years
    Salary: $60k
    Benefits: medical/vision/dental, 401k (no matching), 7 days PTO

  680. Financial Analyst*

    Real Estate Financing at a Professional Services Firm
    NYC.
    3 years total experience, 2 years at this firm
    68,000/year

  681. Legal Assistant/Secretary (litigation)*

    Portland, OR.
    Almost five years of experience in the legal field. (I have a Bachelors degree and a paralegal certificate.)
    $42,900. ($46,500 if you include the monthly $300 allowance I get for health insurance and transit pass.)
    I’m still not where I want to be financially but what I make now is significantly better than the $31,600 I made when I started as a legal assistant almost five years ago.

  682. Senior Trust Relationship Manager*

    Salary: $80,500 plus receive an extra paycheck in December & annual bonus in February so 2015 salary was around $94,600. The annual bonus can range from 10% to 18%. My benefits are also great — 8% match plus a bonus payment annually on my 401K, good health benefits, and PTO. I live in San Antonio Texas — lower cost of living! I am responsible for the end to end administration of my assigned clients. I am a senior (like a team lead) and expert knowledge in product I handle. My company can act as trustee and/or as executor for our client’s trust and estate. I have to be knowledgeable in basic trust law, IRAs, IRS rules on IRAs, and investments (stocks, bonds, and what is affecting the markets). I have my CTFA certification. I wear many hats — estate planning, investment advisor on trust side only, interpret basic trust documents and discuss with clients, general advice, and IRS rules on IRAs.

    1. Senior Trust Relationship Manager*

      Forgot to include: have BA in General Business. Been with company overall for 12 years & in Trust Services for 8 years, and my investment experience is 15 years.

  683. Managing Web Editor*

    Description: Editing, writing, wrangling freelancers, managing social media content for the digital side of a nationally distributed niche publication. Company has less than 100 employees, I think, and publishes several titles.
    Location: Kentucky
    Experience: 7 years
    Salary: $44,000
    Other: Two weeks vacation with an added week for each five years with the company. Health, dental, vision insurance. 401k, but no matching. Work from home is allowed, even full-time, although maybe not for new hires.

  684. Software Engineering Manager*

    job: I help teams deliver great experiences. I work with stakeholders to establish business priorities, then translate them into stories and deliverables. I manage outward communication, including delivery forecasting and status updates, and shield my team from randomization so they can do what they do best. I also handle hiring, training, and performance management.

    On the development side, I provide architecture-level guidance, and still even manage to write code from time to time.

    geographic area: Greater metro – Chattanooga, TN, USA

    experience: 11 years (9 as a developer, 2 in management)

    salary: $125,000 + equity and benefits

  685. Operations Trainer*

    Salary: 60,400 annually
    Experience: 0-1 Years I have a Bachelor’s but didn’t need it for this job and it’s completely unrelated.
    Location: Greater NYC Area
    Description: I train people in an operations department in a corporate environment. The group can be as small as 2 people and so far as large as 20 at a time all different levels. I also develop training materials, training agenda, training exercises, assessments, etc. that are used. I am considered one of the go to people in this area for information and have to educate other areas on how we handle business items.

  686. Product Development Scientist*

    Job: development and implementation of new food products for a major CPG
    Region: Midwest
    Year of Experience: 15 years, Bachelor’s Degree
    Salary: $106k plus potential bonus of 15%

  687. Digital Marketing Specialist*

    Job: My main duty is designing all marketing emails for the nonprofit I work at. Fundraising, informative, promoting our programs, events, etc. I write about 1/2 the emails in addition to designing them and also do some basic graphic design work. Plus analysis of how our email program is performing. Secondarily I also do photography and vidoegraphy to promote our programs and events.
    Geographic Area: Denver, Colorado
    Years Experience: 4 years total, with 2 in digital marketing
    Salary: $50k
    Other Info: I don’t want to say what type of nonprofit I work at because I don’t want to be too identifiable but I will say that it is a super fun place to work because of the type of work we do!

  688. Assistant Contoller*

    – Job: Manage 8 people, review and produce financial reports, cash flow, monthly tax submissions, deal with banks and auditors, create new and better processes. High level of responsibility.
    – Area: New Brunswick, Canada (Small town, not a city)
    – Experience: 2 years in this roll, 8 years previous in other accounting rolls
    – $57,000 CAD annually, 3 weeks paid vacation, RRSP matching, annual bonus, education paid for and health care fully paid for by employer
    – When I become certified in two years my salary will go up

  689. Academic Technical Services Librarian*

    Job: responsible for all cataloging and supervising book processing,tenure track requirements like serving on committees and doing research, supervise one FT employee and several student workers, also do some reference, instruction, and assessment
    Salary: 42,800 plus up to $3000 for adjuncting online class, plus very generous vacation and holiday leave
    Location: southeast US
    Years experience: 3 in this position, 3 in paraprofessional position, 3 in public library, also requires MLS, and I have a subject master’s degree

  690. Legislative Assistant (Congress)*

    job: research and advise House member on issue portfolio, meet with constituents and organizations, administrative duties
    geographic area: Washington, D.C.
    years of experience: 5 years this workplace, 7 years in the political field
    salary: $49,000
    salary context: federal holidays and various “gift” office closures, 18 annual leave days, 12 sick days, parking or public transit contribution, ~75% health care benefit for Gold Plan (required) on DC SHOP Exchange, Thrift Savings Plan 1% guaranteed and 4% matching on 5% contribution, Student Loan Repayment Plan

  691. Litigation Associate*

    Insurance defense attorney (personal injury mostly): depos, hearings,trial etc.
    Houston, TX
    3 years out
    67,000
    Small firm, less than 10 attorneys total.

    1. Another Litigation Associate*

      Intellectual property litigator (patent/copyright/trademark)
      Los Angeles, CA
      2 years practice
      180,000 + variable performance bonus
      Large firm, nationwide pay scale

      1. Litigation Associate #3*

        Litigation associate
        (business/commercial)
        Twin Cities
        2 years practice
        $125,000 + possible bonus
        Big firm, regional pay

  692. Program Manager*

    Job title is technically “[Educational teapots program] Associate”, because at my work place Associate denotes low/mid-level management
    Job description: Run/coordinate programs across multiple sites, including supervising 15+ part-time staff, doing capacity building and trainings for staff and schools, and managing partnerships; program is grant-funded (state/city) and managed by a department of the Education School in a higher ed institution
    Location: New York City
    Experience: 10 years in education overall, 4ish of those in program coordination, 1.5ish of those in management
    Your salary: $64,480
    Benefits: 12 credits (approximately 4 classes) per year for courses in the higher ed institution (taxable), up to 10% employer contribution to 403B (after 2 years), 21 vacation days+15 sick days per year, and relatively good health insurance (including eye and dental)
    Other context: I had been previously working under another grant within the same institution when I got this job, so I was able to transfer all benefits immediately without a waiting period; I have a MA degree in a relevant field; given the cost of my institution’s classes, the tax liability of taking advantage of the educational benefit is substantial

  693. ET*

    Job: Data Quality Analyst (monitoring and improving data quality for a company with millions of customers)
    Salary: £35,000 ($42,500 currently…)
    Location: London
    Experience: 4 years in this type of role
    Benefits: optional health insurance (don’t really need and I don’t use as we have the NHS), gym,

  694. Corporate Recruiter*

    your job: Full life-cycle recruitment of exempt and not-exempt field positions
    your geographic area: Chicago
    your years of experience: ~3
    your salary: $63,000
    Benefits: WFH twice a week, 19 days of PTO

  695. Graduate Admissions*

    Job: Main point of contact, Process applications, Advise applicants

    Geographic area: PA

    Years of experience: 8+ years at current position (10 all together)

    Salary: $40,195

    Other: Medical/dental/vision benefits; Full Tuition Remission for self (Bachelors and Masters level); Full Tuition Remission for child or spouse (Bachelors level only); Price matched 403b; 2 Personal days/year (used them or lose them); 20 Paid vacation days/year (rollover, capped at 280 hours); 12 Paid sick days/year (rollover, unlimited hours accrued); Federal holidays off; Black Friday off; Week in between Christmas/New Years off.

    1. Laura*

      Admissions Officer

      Job – write policies, assess academic qualifications, verify and validate, deliver training

      Area – UK

      Years of experience – 3

      Salary – £33000

      Other – 25 days paid holiday, up to 5 can be carried over, 8 paid bank holidays, 10 additional paid holidays for closure over Christmas and Easter, employer contributes 13% to pension when I contribute 6%, discount in many businesses, discounted tuition

  696. Audit Manager*

    – Chicago
    – 9 years
    – $90,000

    (Yes I know my gravatar pic is still there – aside from the salary, this isn’t anything I haven’t already shared.)

    For context, I work at a Big 4 firm, and I’m a second-year manager, which a person ordinarily begins at 6 years of experience. But I had a detour of 3 years at a small firm between two Big 4 jobs. To my knowledge I’m being paid comparable to my other second-year managers in Chicago for my particular firm.

    24-hour availability isn’t necessarily expected or encouraged, but if you make yourself available at odd hours, you will be more effective, just with the nature of how the work tends to go. Also, during busy season, as well as when projects go south, be prepared to put in a LOT of hours.

    However, the benefits are great. When I moved from the small firm to the big firm, I took a $3k pay cut, but just the difference in health insurance premiums for my family gave me a $7k raise, completely setting aside the fact that the big firm had a better plan.

    Any questions / thoughts about small firm vs. big firm tradeoffs, you’ve come to the right place!

  697. Senior Manager*

    your job: member of exec team (but most on the exec team have the title VP); manage a team of 4 people providing services to 3 other departments internally + ~5 outside clients; online demos and sales; travel to conferences/meetings up to 5x/year
    your geographic area: Ontario
    your years of experience: in this job, 1 year; on this team, ~5 years; at this company, 20+ years
    your salary: $75K
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: not-for-profit; identifying the industry risks identifying the company, but it’s an industry that typically doesn’t pay well; very good extended health benefits & great pension plan

    1. Senior Manager*

      ETA: urban area; 24 days/year of paid vacation (everyone starts with 12 and works up from there); sick days accumulate at 1.5 days/month up to 75 days.

  698. Business Specialist*

    My title isn’t descriptive at all, and as such, I work on a lot of different types of projects. Primarily, I am the documentation lead for several software development teams. I do a lot of technical writing and editing. I also work on some internal and external marketing communications pieces for my division within the larger organization.

    Southeastern Idaho
    Four years of experience
    Gross salary: $61,200
    Net salary: $47, 402

  699. Contracts & Trade Compliance Manager*

    ◾Reviewing and managing company agreements, contracts & official documents. Responsible for all aspects of importing & exporting shipments of our products. Created and implemented trade compliance program (classification, licensing, documentation & reporting)
    ◾New York State (not NYC)
    ◾10+ years
    ◾$65K plus bonus

    1. Import/Export Specialist*

      Curious – what kind of licensing do you do? Just EAR or do you also play with ITAR?

  700. Design Consultant - engineering*

    Licensed engineer, designing HVAC, working for private company. Knocking on 10 years experience, and living and working in Alaska. $89,000+benefits.

  701. Account Executive*

    -Field Sales, Software
    -Northeast US
    -4 years experience (experience is generally not a factor–I was making this on day one with no experience)
    -$60,000 base salary + commission ($150K to $200K on target earnings)
    -Standard benefits, expense reimbursement for mobile phone, home internet, and meals while traveling, (local travel daily, overnight semi-weekly,) frequent sales contests and incentives

    1. Another Account Exec Checking In*

      I work for a technology company (software, hardware, etc). Our Account Managers are responsible for selling EVERYTHING. I am basically a specialist in one particular type of product and thus only get comped on those sales. We are primarily business to business sales and my quota is 72M this year.

      I am 100% virtual / work from home. I live in Ohio but could live anywhere.

      I was hired into this company out of college and have been here 10 years. Small raises but you generally make your money in commission vs raises anyway.

      65k base salary and 65k commission at 100% (50/50 plan) for a total of 130k if I hit 100%. If I was an actual Account Manager I’d be making 1.5 to 2x that amount, but I’d also be traveling 80% of the time. My husband makes about 180k per year and we have no kids, so I am happy to get paid “only” 130k and be able to work from home 99% of the time.

      We get 6.2 hours of PTO accrued per 2 weeks for a cap of 280 hours with full rollover year to year. Benefits / insurance is very good. The company pays my cell phone bill (they used to buy the phones, too, but no longer). For the few meetings I travel, everything is placed on a corporate card. Miles are paid at 50 cents per mile if I drive (I think…it’s been a long time since I’ve driven to a meeting). The company has a nice stock program where I spend 10% of my paycheck to buy stock at a 15% discount, which I later resell at full value to the market to the tune of around 20-30k per year.

  702. MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR*

    JOB DESCRIPTION:
    My workplace is a midsize nonprofit membership-based association related to higher education. In my role, I
    – oversee all membership renewal/acquisition/acknowledgement etc. campaigns;
    – manage 7 networking groups along with my supervisor, each of which has a steering committee, subcommittees, and a yearly conference;
    – plan, staff, and run one of those yearly conferences by myself (in conjunction with the planning subcommittee);
    – staff an additional 4-6 conferences a year & design orientations for new members at some of those conferences;
    – train all new staff on our AMS/database and keep the database clean, accurate, and updated
    – am the lead admin for our new Tableau dashboard project
    – handle most customer service calls, including membership inquiries and tech/web issues

    GEOGRAPHIC AREA:
    Washington, DC

    YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:
    2.5 years in my current position; no directly-related experience prior

    SALARY:
    $45,300

    ANYTHING ELSE:
    Our pay is notoriously low compared to the average. I will note that we have an excellent benefits package, which helps.

  703. Marketing & Communications Manager (Nonprofit)*

    Two major functions – direct all public relations/communications and direct all marketing materials including ads, collateral, presentations, etc. I’m considered part of the senior management team. I am the only person in my department so I do ALL THE THINGS – with the exception of a few interns that cycle in and out. I report to the VP of Development. This nonprofit is a community foundation.

    Palm Beach County, FL (south Florida)

    I have 8 years experience and a dual degree in Communications/Marketing.

    $65K annually plus end of year bonus (minimum $5,000). We also have great insurance and a nice 401K match program.

  704. Economic Statistician*

    Job: If the government releases economic data, I’m analyzing it to see what’s up in the economy.
    Location: DC
    Salary: 47,500
    Experience: <1, I graduated with a BA in May. I had one internship before graduating in a field related to my other major.
    Context: I'm still on my parents' insurance to save money.

  705. Community Centre Manager*

    Job: Manager of a Community Centre. The centre provides advocacy and information services to residents in our catchment area, along with training courses (parenting, computers etc.) to build capacity. I manage everything related to the centre (finances, staffing, operations etc.) and report to a board of management who just let me get on with things.
    Location: Ireland
    Experience: 2 years in current role, 2 years in a similar role, 10 years in private sector management.
    Salary: $42k US when converted.
    Benefits: None.

  706. Editorial/Administrative Assistant*

    Job: At a public university, I edit faculty publications, ensure compliance with government specs for the grant-funded publications, create newsletters/brochures (both internal & external), plus a variety of other administrative-related tasks.
    Geographic Area: Upper Midwest
    Years of Experience: Mostly related experience as opposed to direct experience. I’ll say 2 years. Graduated college in 2013.
    Salary: $38k, no bonuses, great benefits package, basic retirement plan is 5% employee contribution/10% employer contribution

  707. Executive Assistant*

    Executive Assistant for EVP/Founder of company
    In addition to the regular Exec Assistant stuff of his managing calendar, arranging travel, etc, I also travel (nationally and internationally) to support my exec and help at conferences we produce for customers; assist with my exec’s philanthropic foundation and his philanthropic work he does with other nonprofits; arrange travel logistics for his family’s vacations; use my previous experience as as proofreader/editor to pitch in for the marketing team as needed.
    RTP area, NC
    20+ in other roles; 2 years in this job
    $67,000
    Two things: I had 6 years experience in this company before I started in this totally new role so I had institutional knowledge and experience that allowed me to step in pretty easily. I have expanded the duties of my job beyond what my predecessor did (such as traveling with the boss to manage logistics and the editing jobs) so what I do has grown beyond the official job description. I feel very fortunate to have been allowed to make those changes.

  708. Executive Assistant (to managing director of department/manager of a High Yield [aka junk] bond fund)*

    Asset Management Firm

    Los Angeles, CA

    12 consecutive years experience; prior to that, approx. 5 years off-and-on experience

    $87,000 ($75K base plus $12K bonus; the bonus is more or less guaranteed), non-exempt, 40 hrs/week

    Full health, dental, and vision benefits; 401k matching…can’t remember the formula but I get another $2K put into my retirement account; approx. 8 hours vacation time accrued every month, maxing out at 204 hours (use it or lose it); all federal holidays off; sick time…can’t remember how it’s accrued but it’s pretty generous; lots of free snacks, food and drinks and one catered lunch every week.

    I have a bachelor’s degree and this is usually a requirement for assistants at my firm. Duties here mostly include coordinating travel (sometimes complicated/changing itineraries) for my boss, who travels frequently, and for the 5 or so others who only travel once or twice a year; coordinating scheduling, catering, and sundry other details for all meetings in my department; processing expense reports/reconciling them to my boss’s credit card statement; and lots of other normal and customary assistant duties.

    I work for a royal PITA boss. In my experience, working for difficult bosses garners an extra 5 or 10K more in salary. Additionally, the entire department runs lean in order to squeeze more profit out, since we only charge ½ a percent point to clients on the funds we manage. So everyone is maxed out, work-wise. Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it.

  709. Purchasing Agent/Buyer*

    I purchase stock and non-stock inventory for a large wholesale distributor. I’m responsible for all purchasing maintenance in the ERP system for the products I’m assigned. Also responsible for pricing and lower level negotiations on a regional level (national negotiations are handled on a higher level by a separate group)
    Metro Atlanta
    $65,000
    30 years of inventory management experience – I have a college degree but there is nothing about my major that really applies to my profession. I started out in retail and worked my way up the supply chain.

  710. Underpaid and Overworked*

    I work at a college under a grant-funded program. The work I do ranges from copy writing and creating/managing ad campaigns for an office on campus to hosting workshops. In the 1.3 years I’ve done the job, I’ve aided 15 students in getting into PhD programs and about 25 in getting into MA programs. I’m still working on my MA and towards a PhD myself. Sadly, this positions pays me a big-fat whopping 12 dollars an hour. I’m working a video right now that has the president of the university and the provost in it, reading a script I wrote, for 12 bucks an hour. I’m doing good work and I’m helping a lot of students, but I’m in LA county and I’m really itching to leave when I finish my MA – if not for a PhD, then something where I can at least rent an apartment and not a room.

  711. Office Manager/Miracle Worker*

    Office Manager at a small, fast-paced, high-tech engineering firm (60+ employees). Have 10-12 direct reports at any one time (admin team, as well as the inventory team). Duties include payroll, accounting, bookkeeping, controlling, heading international offices, internal controls, HR, knowing what the owner requires before he knows. I wear many hats.
    Northern suburb of Detroit
    11 years experience
    BBA Accounting
    2016 salary: $92K including 9% bonus

    1. burnout*

      Piggy backing onto this one because I could have written it. Only I work for a small law firm. Same type of role, I wear so many hats I can’t count them all.
      Central Texas
      20+ years experience
      No college degree – I went to a business school, accounting program
      2016 salary: $44k, 10 PTO days, no sick days, 9 paid holidays, 90% health insurance is paid, I pay 100% of dental/vision insurance, 3% match on 401K

      I’m leaving soon and going to try to do my own thing, bookkeeping/temp work on contract.

  712. Research Associate (Education)*

    description: researcher and evaluator for mostly STEM education projects (some federal/state funded by places like NSF or DOE, some by private foundations). Some projects are very small – repeated interviews with a cohort of 20 teachers going through a year-long science professional development program to determine efficacy and engagement – and some are huge – manage paper test data collection for a national five-year study of math curriculum with over 10K students. I like the variety of projects, mix of data collection, analysis, and writing, and getting to travel (occasionally) to different parts of the country to see students in their classrooms.

    area: SF Bay Area

    experience: 10+ years (took about a year off in the middle to get a masters in ed tech, focused on research skills)

    salary: $75K

    other: reasonable benefit premiums, employer contributes 15% of salary to retirement, 4 weeks vacation, flexible schedule with occasional WFH

  713. Executive Assistant*

    Job: Executive assistant in international professional services firm
    Area: Austin, TX
    Experience: 8 years as AA, 2 as EA – 10 years total
    Salary: $54k

  714. Software Engineer*

    Job: Full-stack software engineer for a consumer application. Windows drivers, backend with REST API, client-facing frontend. Lots of integration with firmware for various devices.
    Location: Chicago
    Experience: 8 years, almost 5 with this company
    Salary: $93,000. Full benefits including health, dental, vision, 3 weeks vacation, matched 401k. Up to $10k bonus annually if personal and company targets are both met.

    Also, extremely high job satisfaction. Worth more to me than an extra few thousand

  715. Investment Operations Client Service Rep*

    Income: ~42k + benefits after 3 years

    Job description:
    I work in a call center-esque environment for a relatively large broker/dealer. I am on the phone queue about 4 hours a day, spending the remaining time working on case follow up and special projects. I am a series 6 licensed employee, but I do not work in financial advising. I help our firm’s financial representatives with escalations from their clients.

  716. Bookkeeper / Admin Assistant*

    -Basic accounting work in a small accountancy firm. Payroll, bookkeeping, accounts payable/receivable, personal tax returns, the whole shebang.

    -Ohio, USA

    -5.5 years of experience, mix of admin and finance (I am a little overqualified for this role)

    -$17 an hour, 1.5x overtime. 15-20 hours a week of overtime is standard during tax season, the rest of the year I usually put in somewhere between a half hour and two hours of overtime a week. Comes to about $40,000 a year.

    -Great benefits. I have good health insurance and the premiums are paid for entirely by my employer, plus they put $1,000 a year into an HSA for me. 3.5% 401(k) match, profit sharing if I bring in any clients and expenses covered for pretty much any networking event I want to go to for that, a lot of flexibility over my schedule, two weeks paid vacation, lots of training, tuition assistance, a turkey on Thanksgiving and a ham on Christmas. :)

  717. Associate Curator at Art Museum*

    Job: I am an associate curator of film and public engagement. I’m responsible for creating an innovative program consisting of experiences for a wide range of audiences in the form of social practice, political action, institutional critique, or artistic intervention. Includes: leading and managing an outdoor exhibition series of temporary art installations, conceiving and executing experimental community engagement programming (art-making, performances, conversations and residencies); curating a film program that includes approximately 100 screenings annually; developing community strategies for large exhibitions, working with curators and community focus groups to conceive messaging and interpretive programming. I come up with all kinds of programming, write quite a bit, brainstorm, network, manage a small part time staff and several temporary staffers seasonally, balance a budget, speak at board meetings, etc.

    Location: Deep South

    Salary: $52,500 plus three weeks paid vacation and an additional 14 days off (holidays) annually.

  718. Proposal Manager*

    Your job: Support business development and client retention efforts by leading teams to develop targeted, winning responses to Requests for state and local governments. Review bid specifications, develop project plans, manage deadlines, and collaborate effectively with subject matter experts and the sales team in a high-volume environment. On a project-by-project basis, supervise proposal writers, editors, and production specialists in a matrixed team structure.
    Your geographic area: McLean, VA (Metro Washington, DC)
    Your years of experience: 12
    Your salary: $120,000
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context

  719. Administrative Assistant, Post-Secondary (Canada)*

    I’m an administrative professional at a post-secondary. I primarily provide department support to leadership and faculty, although I also have reception duties and work with students/stakeholders. Mine is a union position, but my union is not in a particularly strong position. My work is considered “essential” so I have no right to strike.
    Western Canada (Alberta)
    ~10 years (off and on with school and other jobs)
    $55K (Canadian, before deductions)
    Since this is a union position my annual pay bumps are predetermined and based on satisfactory performance reviews. I’m currently at the top step of the pay scale since I’ve been at this institution (in three different departments) and am hopeful regarding upcoming contract negotiations. I’ve tried to get involved with my union but not had luck. It’s not welcoming or very supportive. I’m not particularly sure I’m “qualified” for the job, or at least I wasn’t at the start (after 8 years at this company, I feel better). I’ve not finished my undergraduate degree or any professional credentials, which isn’t too common for those working in post-secondary. I’m often not sure if I want to study more out of interest, to find better work, or just to not feel so much lesser than the PhDs I work with.

    1. Development and Events Manager*

      I manage the annual fund and all special events including the annual gala. I dabble in communications by managing the press surrounding said events and coordinating social media posts. Work collaboratively with ED, Board and development committee.
      Midwest/Minnesota
      1
      $47,500
      Org does not offer benefits

  721. Legal Assistant*

    Job duties vary, but I’m somewhere in between an administrative assistant and a paralegal. Some days I’m printing envelopes, some days I’m going legal research.
    Midwest
    5 years experience, all of which have been with this firm
    $49k/year with moderate benefits
    Unrelated Master’s degree whose skills I’ve shoehorned into this job

  722. Environmental*

    biologist for a utility company
    Midwest (not Chicago)
    ~25 years
    $96,000 base pay. Does not include annual bonus ~10% of base pay, good benefits and plenty of PTO

  723. Insurance Defense Attorney*

    Job: I handle over 120 active litigation cases from inception up to trial. (I don’t do the trials, but I do all discovery, motions, depositions…)
    Geographic Area: NYC
    Years Experience: 4 years as attorney; 1.5 years doing insurance defense work
    Salary: 93K

  724. Regulatory Attorney*

    Job: Represent a large Fortune 200 company before federal regulatory agencies.
    Location: Ohio
    Experience: 8 years
    Salary (plus other compensation): $123,000; 20% annual bonus target; 15% long-term bonus target (vests over three years)

  725. Technical Editor*

    Job: Translate from engineering into English. :) I proofread and set text and images in instruction manuals and similar documents at an engineering firm. I’m not responsible for the accuracy of the technical information (which is good, because I am not an engineer), but I make sure the information is grammatically correct and conforms to our corporate standards. I work primarily in Adobe FrameMaker and Illustrator.
    Location: Washington State (in a much lower cost of living area than Seattle)
    Salary: $51,000, not including overtime or bonuses. We also have a very nice compensation package for health care and vacation.
    Experience: Going on 13 years now, all with this company.
    My education: BA in English.

  726. Volunteer and Marketing Coordinator*

    -Volunteer and Marketing Coordinator for a Nonprofit Organization that has a ~3 million dollar budget.
    Was originally hired as a Volunteer Coordinator but after a couple months was asked to take on marketing duties. Agreed for several reasons. As Volunteer and Marketing Coordinator, I wear lots of hats. I do anything related to volunteers – recruiting, scheduling, data entry (thankfully our system is now web-based but it wasn’t when I started), training, etc. I also do the same for our intern program and manage all of them except for 1 or 2 that go to Resource Development. I manage our social media and everything that entails, design and manage our website, do our graphic design work for events, create videos as needed/time entails, handle all of our tech stuff, etc.

    Geographic area: North-DFW. One of the larger cities, but barely in the metroplex.

    Years of Experience: 3-4

    Salary: $30,000…though I’m paid hourly ($12.54). I got a 4% raise after 90ish days (which, tbh, considering how many job duties I took on was kind of a joke, but that’s how it went).

    Not sure how much it matters, but I graduated May 2015 with a Bachelor’s in Nonprofit Management. I’m female and 28 years old.

    1. anononononon*

      You are my southern clone, it sounds like. Same job description + I do some program work in the field as needed.
      Geographic area: central NY state
      Years of experience: 4
      Pay: $13/hr, 30 hr/wk (so a total of something like $20k)

      Small not for profit. We get paid holidays (12ish???) and vacation and sick time, no insurance offered.

      1. Volunteer and Marketing Coordinator*

        Yeah :(

        I get about a week of PTO I think, plus the normal holidays and 1 extra. No sick days though. We do have health insurance that’s relatively affordable ($45ish bi-weekly) but it pays for nothing until I hit $6000 out of pocket…so, it’s basically the same as not having insurance for me.

        I put up with it ’cause my boss in generally fairly flexible about my schedule, and I pretty much get to run the volunteer and marketing departments like I want (’cause I’m the only one in the department and no one else here knows the marketing world as well as I do). I have a side business that hopefully will allow me to quit my job within the next year or so.

  727. Freelance Writer*

    Currently I do both marketing — composing social media posts, writing newsletters, landing-page copy — and journalism. My journalistic focus is articles about the business side of tech, with light-to-medium reporting.

    Location: SF Bay Area

    Experience: 2 years part-time, 2 years full-time

    Salary: It’s not that simple My base rate is $0.25/word, but that varies. The total depends on how much work I can hustle, and which type of work it is. Currently I net between $20k and $30k yearly.

  728. Mechanical Engineer*

    – I do mostly manufacturing engineering. We are a small firm, so I have to wear many hats. Over the past two years I have:
    – Led mechanical development on a new product
    – Managed a research and development project
    – CAD design
    – 2D drawings and assembly instructions for manufacturing
    – San Francisco Bay Area
    – 4 years of work experience (2 in this job) plus 2 summer internships
    – $82,000/year
    – Benefits: 12 days of PTO a year, 401(k) and tuition match up to $2k
    We are a very small firm in a niche industry.

  729. Sr. Pharmacy Technician- LTC*

    Job: Quality Assurance type training- utilizing med error reports for re-training purposes; processing physician orders for long-term care facilities; fill schedule gaps where needed
    Geographic Area: Great Lakes region
    Years of Experience: 5 years
    Salary: 32k / year
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: decent insurance benefits, about 2 wks PTO, flex schedule ( 1 of only 2 positions at this level that has that)

  730. Process Engineering Manager*

    Job Description:
    Responsible for engineering division in the small/medium-sized company I work for. Includes supervision of supervisors. Team consists of process/chemical engineers and technicians performing engineering design for oil, gas, chemical industries. Responsible for sales of related services thereof.

    Geographic area:
    Gulf Coast Region

    Years of experience:
    Ten (10), three (3) in current position

    Salary:
    $163,000 + ~5 – 10% Bonus + Benefits

    Other:
    My annual salary is high for my company but reflective of responsibilities and on par with the rest of my industry.

  731. Communications Assistant*

    -write and edit press releases, executive quotes, speeches and other materials. conduct media monitoring and create news clippings. assist the director in the planning and execution of events and press conferences, as well as public affairs components. monitor & maintain the CEO’s social media presence.
    -Toronto, Canada
    -2 years here, but 4+ years in the industry
    – $40,000
    -last year I was an intern for the company. This industry is also known for paying below average and is a smaller industry that relies on networking. Long hours but has good benefits and 2 weeks paid vacation.

  732. Client Account Manager*

    your job: Client Account Mananger at a regional health insurer. I’m responsible for new group implementations, plan changes, day-to-day client questions, sometimes reporting.
    your geographic area: Great Lakes/Northeast
    your years of experience: 4, all at this company, 3.5 in client services
    your salary: $56k

  733. Museum Collection Manager*

    Your job: Care and management of objects in a midsize museum

    Your geographic area: Mid-West

    Your years of experience: 5

    Your salary: $38,500

    Anything else? No one get’s rich working in a museum and you usually have to volunteer for at least a year before you will have any chance of getting so much as a part-time tour guide job.

    1. Art Collection Registrar*

      Yes, I’m a registrar at a corporate art collection! I posted my stats above. I prefer working in museums but corporations just have better salary and benefits.

      1. Museum Collection Manager*

        Oh I bet! Do you find any draw back int he corporate world? I’m in a bit of unique situation where I never have to give tours, work special events, or work Saturdays (for those out side the field, these are all very, very, very common things for everyone at every level of a museum staff). So I know I’ll be sticking with my current place for along time but I’m curious how you find the corporate work in comparison to typical museum work.

        1. Art Collection Registrar*

          The curators give the tours! I’m luckily never called upon for that. I sometimes work weekends when large scale rigging of artworks or extensive cleaning is needed, but at most that’s twice a year. The main corporate drawback is bureaucracy. If someone can figure out how to make a system more complex, they will.

      2. Museum Collection Manager*

        Also, every time someone (outside the field) ask what I do and I say “Oh, I’m a Collections Manager.” They always think I’m that person calling people to day their debts. I’ve considered just say “I’m a Curator.” Nice catch all title!

  734. Bookkeeper/Tax Admin*

    Bookkeeper/Tax Admin
    I do bookkeeping for small businesses and side business of our clients. I help with business returns, individual returns, payroll, payroll reports, year end, w2s, 1099s, etc. Since we are a CPA firm, I also help with tax related administrative tasks. I run our file sharing portal for our clients, scanning in documents, bookmarking them, and assembling tax returns. Then there is the general admin such as answering phone, scheduling appointments, emails, handling clients, etc.

    Dallas, TX – $48,000 per year
    5 years experience, some college, no degree (yet!) or background in accounting. This job was a temp job scanning that turned into full time. They’ve taught me everything about accounting I know. My degree will in something completely different.

    1. Bookkeeper / Admin Assistant*

      Man, I am underpaid. :)

      We’re doing pretty much the exact same thing in a very similar setting. I have an unrelated degree too, but very good very direct experience and a lot of training.

      Good luck in tax season!

  735. Automotive Engineering Supervisor*

    – Manage a small team that supports product testing for a major OEM
    – Southeast Michigan
    – 5 years at company, 8 years total
    – $90k (bonus eligible of ~10%)

  736. High School Teacher*

    I teach 5 sections of high school English.
    Suburb of a large city in the Midwest.
    4 years experience.
    $50,774

    I have a Bachelors + meaning I got my licensure separately from my undergraduate degree. Masters degrees and above earn even more. Also, that number will vary widely between other districts in the area. Mine is fairly well off.

    1. Teacher teacher!*

      -I teach 6th grade science plus other filler electives.
      -Central area of state in Northeast US
      – 7 years total, 3 years at this school
      -38,700 +retirement plan and some added money for opting out of health plan, 3 personal and 5 sick days
      – area is either very wealthy or very below poverty line, my school is in poverty stricken area

    2. 'nother teacher*

      HS Teacher, Suburb of a large city in the Northeast. Five different preps of HS foreign language, five years experience = $61,683. That’s with my M.Ed – without it, I’d be at $57,470.

      (Sing yay! for publicly posted salary tables.)

    3. High School Teacher*

      High school math teacher
      San Francisco Bay Area
      10 years teaching, 7 at this job
      $76,500 plus medical, vision, dental, 401k with match, FSA, up to 8 sick days (that no teacher wants to take because sub plans are so much work), personal time off when I request it although there is no official provision for PTO

      I’d also like to note that, although my compensation is high, rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in this area is more than 60% of my take-home pay.

      1. ALT with the JET Programme*

        Lord at that last note… thank you for posting this, as I’ve considered working in California after Japan (I have an education degree unlike a lot of ALTs).

        1. High School Teacher*

          Not all of California is this crazy! Even the East Bay is less expensive (for now) than San Francisco and the Peninsula.

          Good luck with whatever you pursue after JET.

          1. ALT with the JET Programme*

            Thank you again for the encouragement! My partner speaks Japanese and wants to work in translation so a city in Cali with a Japanese population is a great option for us, but I do dread the cost of living.

  737. Program Advisor (INGO)*

    “Program advisor” at an international non-governmental organization. Cross-sector (public health, social norm change, community work). I manage a particular scope of work that brings together a global network of individuals and organizations who work across different disciplines, sectors, and levels to wrestle with thorny issues related to stigma. Duties are varied: Some translation of research findings for different audiences. Setting and implementing strategies for a global network and online community of practice. Facilitate participatory meetings (online and in person). My responsibilities have exceeded my job title, so hopefully it will soon say “Senior Program Advisor.” I’m being a little bit vague since I’d be easily identifiable if I named the field. My job comes with approximately 20% travel, a whole lot of managing without authority and a great deal of personal and professional satisfaction.

    Based in the Southeast, but travel globally
    12 years, masters in public health and social work
    $76K
    Benefits: WFH (unique to me, not as a rule), Flex time within a 2 week period, decent holiday/sick/vacation

  738. Online Sales and Support Director*

    -Oversee a team of customer support coordinators for an academic database publisher (technical support to the public and librarians, customer service, and operations management)
    -NYC
    -2 months current position, promoted from senior coordinator on the team I now manage
    -$80,000
    -I had to fight hard for this amount; my male predecessor in this job made almost double; my previous salary in the sr coord position was $46k.

    1. JOB TITLE GOES HERE*

      Wow. Congrats on the big salary bump but I’m yucked at how you’re still not making what whoever left was making… do you think you will see salary increases the longer you are there that will get you within that range (I don’t know what his specifics are, or how long he was there) but they were able to save a lot in their budget by not giving next role close to what he was making. ick.

  739. Associate Director of Marketing*

    Job: Email marketing, web design, managing developers, blog writing, etc.
    Location: Northeast
    Experience: 5-10 years
    Salary: $62,000 before taxes
    Education: MA in liberal arts degree
    Extra: 401k matching, health insurance, 4 weeks vacation + the week off between Christmas and new years and 7 days paid sick leave

  740. Systems Analyst for Defense Contractor*

    Job: Basically my job is to make sure that various systems are doing what they’re supposed to be doing by analyzing test data and telling people how to fix any problems/deficiencies. Additionally I project out what things will be like in the future, and what the government needs to do to be ready for it.
    Region: Baltimore-DC Area
    Experience: 5 years (BS/MS in Electrical Engineering)
    Salary: $104,000

  741. Quality Engineer - Medical Device*

    Description: Support new product development in the medical device industry. Ensure that the final product is designed and tested to meet customer expectations, that risks to users have been mitigated to the lowest possible level, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
    Location: Ohio
    Experience: 15 years
    Salary: $94,000 + bonus (~5%)
    Other: I am underpaid for my experience level – I willingly made some trade offs. 22 days vacation, 13 paid holidays, 10 sick days. 401k, pension, every type of insurance imaginable, on site amenities like a gym & cafeteria.

  742. Web Application Developer*

    Job: part of the support + development team that works on our e-commerce apps
    Geographic area: Great Lakes area (not Chicago)
    Years of Experience: 5 with company as permanent employee (+1 as contractor, 6 years total here), 14 in this type of work, 24 in the industry
    Salary: $87K

  743. Architect*

    Job: Techical Designer, recently registered architect (I haven’t had a salary review since becoming liscensed). I’m trying to get more responsibilites, but right now i’m a junior team member doing drafting/modeling, selecting finishes/fixtures, little consultant coordiantion and very little client facing.
    New York City
    5ish years experience
    Base is $61,000. Twice annual bonuses (about $1000 each) plus straight time for hours over 40/week (not time and a half)
    decent/good health benefits, 14 days PTO (sick and vacation in one bucket)

  744. Administrative Assistant (Contractor)*

    ◾your job : Administrative support for Integrity department of a small pipeline company which is owned by an extremely large American one. Tasks include invoice and word directive support, contractor ISN status monitoring, company wide tech support and developmental input for 2 different internal computer programs, company wide tech support for numerous externally developed computer programs, support of field staff in 2 countries, junior technical writing for standard and procedure documents, basic bird dogging and archiving of various forms and data from all sorts of sources, back-up for the one official floor administrative assistant who covers 3 departments. (Basically, my job is almost all “tasks as assigned.”)
    ◾your geographic area: Calgary, AB
    ◾your years of experience: 4 in this job, 10 in office work
    ◾your salary: $42.50/hr or $79,900 a year for 47 weeks of work (CDN)
    ◾put that number in context: no benefits beyond paid 2 weeks vacation (which is added to my pay as a percentage, so I have to save myself). This amount is higher than average as I was originally getting paid this as an independent contractor (paying both sides of payroll taxes) and when my client required I go through an agency of their choosing, they never lowered my hourly wage to reflect a salary position where I don’t have to pay employer payroll taxes. The agency wasn’t open to negotiation on things like benefits, so I never pointed out the wage discrepancy. This higher wage also allows me to cover my own extended benefit plan and to save money so I can take sick days and more than 10 days of vacation throughout the year without feeling the financial hurt. Since the client has 17 weekday closures during the year as paid EDOs for their staff, this is important.

  745. Creative Content Editor*

    Job: Writer/editor for a marketing company. I primarily write blog posts for regional websites that drive tourism to the area. I also help with other website content and newsletters.

    Area: Upstate New York

    Experience: Less than a year writing full time, freelanced for a few publications for about a year and a half prior to this job.

    Salary: $25,000 (a little more than $12 an hour, not salaried)

  746. Operations Director*

    I manage invoicing, reporting, analysis, customer service (team of 3). I also work with the sales team on creating proposals and client retention as well as with IT to develop our website, CRM system and other reporting tools.

    Denver, CO

    1st year as Ops Director and 4 years at the company with 15 years of operations analysis/reporting experience.

    $60K

    The company is very small and basically just past the start-up phase. I report directly to the owner/CEO (a fantastic boss/manager/person). I work from home FT and have unlimited PTO. There are no benefits but I do get a stipend for my health insurance.

  747. Media Buyer*

    I’m a media buyer by title, but I do planning as well. I work for an advertising agency. I’m responsible for planning and executing media plans (all mediums – print, digital, etc.) for clients based on their predetermined goals. I work closely with internal teams (PR, account leadership) to accomplish these.

    North Carolina
    4 (2 at this job)
    $40,000
    3 weeks PTO (at 3 y ears that will go up to 4), 401K, I’m still on my parents’ healthcare plan because ours isn’t great (high deductible & high monthly). Depending on the year we had we get a bonus + 401K match. 2016 was great so I got a 10% bonus + am expecting to get a match.

  748. Lead Java Developer*

    Government
    I am the lead java developer for a small agency, working with a team of 7 other developers. We have separate BA/QA folks, but I handle a lot of server and DBA stuff as well.
    Minnesota
    11 years experience
    $80,000 (plus good health care and a pension)

  749. Software Engineer*

    Job: writing software (in the defense contracting field)

    Area: greater Baltimore area

    Experience: 2.5 years

    Salary: $90,000/year + annual bonus ~$4,000 + ESOP ~8% of salary + 4 weeks PTO + good health insurance

  750. Special Education/Learning Disabilities Specialist*

    Job: I help elementary school students develop efficient learning strategies for reading, writing and math problem solving. Many of them might have learning disabilities (dyslexia, dysgraphia, etc.) or associated behavioral disorder (ADH/D, etc.) and have trouble following their class’ rythm.

    I help them bridge the gap, regain confidence in their skills and generally feel better about school. I like one-on-one work best, but I also do small groups.

    Geographic area: Québec, Canada
    Years of experience: 5 years as a ‘regular’ tutor + 3 years as a professional with a Master’s degree

    Salary: 40k CAD annually (30K us), 6 weeks paid vacation
    25-30 client hours/week during school season (sep-may)
    5-10 hours/week during off season (june-july-aug)

      1. Special Education/Learning Disabilities Specialist*

        Thank you! ^^ It really is!! It means the world to me everytime I see the babysteps my students make and the sparkle in their eyes when they start owning X skill … and when parents are super involved in the process and they witness the progress with their own eyes and ears! Ahhh bliss :) It kinda makes up for the poor salary ha..ha..

  751. Sr. Director of Marketing*

    Focus on demand generation, content marketing, and PR/AR for a company of about 100 people.
    Silicon Valley
    15+ years of experience
    $190k

  752. Freelance Graphic Designer*

    your job: Graphic designer for print and brand identity. Design logos, ads, and layouts for magazines and brochures.

    your geographic area: New Mexico

    your years of experience: 6 in-house, 4 freelancing

    your salary: $7k in 2016, $11k in 2015 (in-house I was making $52k/yr, but that was awhile back in another region of the country).

    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: My hourly rate is $35/hr. and I have to pay my own employment taxes, health care, retirement, etc. I work part time while my son is in school, and when I do have work. NM is a very poor state and I’ve had trouble finding paying clients here (I have plenty of people asking me to work for free, however). Most of my clients are from elsewhere around the globe, but that puts me in competition with designers from every country, including those where $2/hr is living wage.

    I have discovered a few things about freelancing: 1) you need a few big clients, but be prepared to lose them. I lost mine in 2015 which is why my income went down, and I wasn’t able to replace them. I was hoping to go the other direction of course. 2) Freelancing is 50% doing the work, 50% finding work. I don’t have the mojo to do the second part, it’s the most draining part of my job by far. 3) Graphic design is unregulated and over-saturated with workers. For every professional designer out there, there are a hundred amateurs willing to work for free or for pennies. Also, the rise of $5 logo sites has been a punch in the face to my profession. This is unfortunate, there’s a lot of ugly shit out there and it puts the people with experience and industry knowledge out of work. I’m currently in career-reevaluation mode, and I’m seriously considering going back to employment in a different field entirely.

    1. Senior Copywriter*

      Your third point applies to copywriters as well and is a big reason I knew I couldn’t go freelance.

  753. Carmen Sandiego JD*

    Job: (Atty) Consultant
    Geographic area: Northeast USA
    Years of experience: 5 as an intern, plus 4 years.
    Salary: $71,000/year. Start time flexible (7 am or as late as 8:45 am), and amazing projects. OTOH, no parental leave (small company, to the point FMLA doesn’t apply, plus most here are male/self-described breadwinners so they might not understand maternity leave but just guessing, so I’m trying not to be worried about trying for kids 3 years from now. I’m putting 80% of paychecks into my savings for that very reason) ..

    1. In-House Lawyer / Attorney*

      Fellow attorney here. Is your title Attorney Consultant? I’ve never seen that before. Are you in a legal capacity at your company?

      1. Carmen Sandiego JD*

        I was brought on as a Consultant, but it’s a catch-all phrase here. I was brought on because I passed the bar and I work with another attorney (also a Consultant) here. I manage projects, 60% are policy/legal (literally writing policy from scratch), 10% is technical writing, 10% is business management, and 20% is mentoring (in a project management capacity) other people through their projects, which are very innovative (ie. involving technology, etc).

  754. VP of Marketing (Healthcare)*

    Job: I manage all marketing for a small, specialized medical practice that does mostly elective procedures. I have 2-4 direct reports at any given time, manage a marketing/web development agency, and report to the CEO/medical director. Since it’s a small business, I do a lot of hands-on stuff like writing copy, sending out mass emails, and so on, as well as more big-picture stuff. I also wear a bunch of hats beyond marketing–stuff like developing side businesses.
    Geographic area: A large urban area in Northeastern USA
    Years of experience: 8
    Salary: $90,000 (I got a $15K pay bump when the management hired someone below me at $85K recently. It was awesome, but it was weird, too, since obviously I didn’t become $15K more valuable overnight.)

  756. Unofficial Front of the House Manager*

    Job: I do everything in the world, hahaha! Without getting overly detailed, my daily duties include placing vendor orders, delegating duties to staff, writing the weekly staff schedule, hiring, some HR (personnel files, employee disputes, disciplinary issues, raises), screening calls, following up with clients for my boss, putting together menus with kitchen, running our social media accounts, keeping the front of the house running smoothly, and doing all of the food service end of things (making sandwiches, coffee, cleaning, waiting on customers, etc.)
    Location: Philly
    Experience: I’ve been here for 4 years; worked in food service for 15 months right before this
    Salary: $37,000; recently went back to hourly, and it’s ah-may-zing to only have to work 40 hours a week again!
    Other info: I started here making $9/HR part time; within 10 months, I was at 28,000 salaried. The only reason I am paid as well* as I am is because my boss relies on me so much and I can handle a higher workload than most of the people here. No benefits or breaks (with the exception of smoke/vape breaks)

    I have been here so long and taken on so much extra work for so long because I want to spin my experience into an EA/office manager/admin type of position. Boss is away for the week and it’s wonderful spending my time doing admin type work this week with minimal food service work

    * Well being relative to the industry, lack of title, and other people’s parades here. I am the second highest paid staff member (technically third, but that includes a part timer who makes about $2.25 an hour more than I do…their hours are typically no more than 24/week)

  757. Self-employed Academic Editor*

    your job: I own and operate my own academic editing business that specializes in helping students who speak and write English as their second language. A lot of ESL students are working on vital science, but they don’t have the communications skills to get their research published.
    your geographic area: Southwestern PA, east of Pittsburgh
    your years of experience: 13 with this specifically
    your salary: I made $8,600 last year, but being disabled means I can’t work a full-time schedule and it’s hard for me to hustle up work through aggressive marketing, so I operate mostly through word of mouth at the moment. And to put that seemingly low number in context, I earned that much by working only 147 hours for the year, so it comes out to about $58 per hour or $116,000 for a full year of 40-hour weeks.

    Huh. When I look at it like that, I should work more.

  758. Data Analyst*

    Data Analyst / Supply Chain Analyst

    I make a lot of reports in Excel, using AS400 (black screen/green type), IBM Cognos, TMS (Transportation Management System) and whatever else propietary tools my employer might use. I do a bit of forecasting, a bit of resupplies, but my main focus is on making attractive, functional reports for high-level management, mainly using pivot charts and pivot tables, or manual ones when I just can’t get my pivots the way I want them. I am tasked with looking for patterns and improvements to our supply chain as I drill down into the data.

    Indianapolis, IN area

    5 years experience, degree in Economics

    $25/hr, $50,000 a year. Currently in a contract role but it should move into permanent soon, not sure if that will involve a raise. No benefits currently.

      1. Data Analyst*

        It’s super common still in supply chain, logistics/shipping, and manufacturing. Good times remembering what command goes with what.

  759. Event Planner & Fundraising Consultant*

    Job: I work almost exclusively with non-profit organizations to plan & execute annual fundraising galas, typically with a large auction component. Project management, budget management, assist clients with creatiion of event sponsorship packages, auction data analysis and procurement strategy, full-scale event production. I own my company so I have all the perks of working from home and setting my own schedule but do not work in a traidtional 9-5 industry so I almost never have a Saturday night to myself.
    Location: SF Bay Area
    Experience: 13 years
    Salary: $100k. I charge primarily on a flat fee/per project basis but occasionally have clients that want to be billed for hours worked. In those cases the per hour rate is $125.

  760. Junior Web Developer*

    your job: Modify Joomla/WordPress templates with CSS. Largely, my job responsibilities are managing the timelines for website development and building off of preexisting templates. My job primarily relies on HTML/CSS with a little bit of PHP.
    your geographic area: Midwest
    your years of experience: 1
    your salary: $37,000

    I have no college degree, though I did attend community college for a few years. Many of my skills have been learned on this job and it’s my first real job as a web developer.

  761. Business Analyst*

    Business analyst for a company that does federal government IT
    Northern Virginia
    5 years experience
    $67K and good benefits

  762. Grants Administrator (Senior)*

    -I work on a grants team of two for a large state-run university. I mainly handle grants at the post-award level (making sure the Principal Investigator spends appropriately, handling payroll queries on funds, etc.) and my coworker handles the grant applications, but I can do both roles.
    -Midwest (WI)
    -1 year at this job so far, but 4 years in a similar role (not strictly grants-related) at another university
    -40k/year
    -I have both a BA and a masters degree, but in unrelated fields

    I love my job! I get the play around with budgets and spreadsheets all day and that makes me really, really happy. I also like the level of one-on-one interaction with our staff, who (for the most part) appreciate the work we do.

  763. Digital Marketing Manager*

    Overseeing day-to-day operations of the marketing department, content management, leading an ecommerce website project, marketing campaign planning, digital strategy

    Milwaukee, WI

    7 years experience (3 years corporate communications, 4 years digital & ecommerce marketing)

    $68,000

    My company also does profit sharing with quarterly bonuses/payouts being about 8-16% of our salary that quarter. Decent insurance, 401K match, employee stock ownership.

  764. Group Account Director - Media Agency*

    your job: Manage a portfolio of advertising clients in a large multinational holding company. I oversee a team of 14 who deliver digital media strategy and execution to high profile advertisers. I own my P&L and report to the Regional CEO.
    your geographic area: Toronto, Ontario Canada
    your years of experience: 10 industry, 7 this company
    your salary: 102K +15% annual bonus +6% of salary in matched RRSP contributions

    Excellent work life balance for the industry- 20 vacation days + 10 personal days +10 agency closure days (fully paid) + an extra half day before every long weekend +WFH +great benefits

  765. Community College Professor*

    Job: Teach 30 hours of classes over a 2-semester academic year
    Years: 15 with 7 years industry experience in similar field
    Location: Rural Midwest
    Benefitis (health, including vision & dental), 8% of salary mandated to pension, option to teach additional classes for overload pay
    Base salary: $62,500

    1. Community college professor (physics)*

      Job: Teach lecture and run labs. I teach two to four “sections.” A full lecture is 2 sections of 24 students. Each section gets its own lab. Lecture meets every day for 50 minutes, lab is once a week for two hours.

      Years: 4

      Location: Pacific Northwest, near Seattle

      Benefits: health, dental, vision, matching retirement, life insurance, teaching overload and summers

      Base salary: $50,000

  766. Marketing Analyst*

    Data analyst for financial services company in Mid-Atlantic US.
    4 yrs experience (plus MS degree in STEM field).
    Salary: 99k
    Extras: ~10% annual bonus, 401k matching, work from home/flex time as needed, 4wks vacation, 10 federal holidays. Plus, company recently extended paternal leave from 2wks to 8wks, though my son was born before the cutoff.

  767. Senior User Experience (UX) Manager*

    – Large software company: I manage a small team (5) of people who are responsible for the user experience design of one product. We create the information architecture, interactions, visual, and content design for our product and work closely with software development and project management.
    – I’m in the Pacific Northwest but my company is headquartered in the SF Bay area and has offices all over the world.
    – over 25 years in the workforce, 11+ in User Experience. I have a relevant MS degree.
    – $145,000 per year base, usually $15-20K in bonus annually. I am on the lower end of salary for someone at my level in this company but I have only been at this level for a short while compared to most other people in it.
    – 401K with matching up to a company contribution totaling $4500 per year; 2 weeks vacation plus a company shutdown of a week over Christmas. Decent health insurance and other benefits.

    1. Awesomeite*

      I match you almost exactly except I’m in Austin. Sr UX Design Manager at mid-size company with 17 years experience. $149,000/yr plus 20-30k target bonus. We have one more week of vacation but only one day at Christmas.

    2. Anonnie*

      I had considered moving over into UX about 5 years ago because there was no internal path for my role (large corporate with software development focus), but I was interested in how users interacted with our software, visual design, etc. However, while we had a UX team in house, there was no way to move from what I did to that team and eh, I left before I really had a chance to explore the field.

      Kicking around the idea of a career change in the next few years – how hard is it to switch into UX from a business-oriented field? At 40+? Growing need or is the market saturated? What sort of Masters is required? (note: currently have an Anthropology/Economics BA/MS combo)

      1. Senior User Experience (UX) Manager*

        Most senior people in UX now came in from other backgrounds (including myself), so we are often accepting of a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives. Anthropology, especially if you did anything in the ethnographic realm, can be an excellent preparation, as well as business experience in requirements gathering, customer engagement, or similar realms. You might not need a new degree, but some training in UX practice would be helpful. I’d suggest checking out the major professional groups (IXDA, UXPA, and SIGCHI) and see if any have a chapter near you so you could attend meetups and talk to practitioners. All of their websites (just append “.org” to each name) also have links to other resources as well.

      2. UX Designer*

        Tagging on to below. Almost no one that I work with studied UX in school. Some have since gone and gotten HCI or MS in the field but the majority of my coworkers started in something else. Some in sales, some in research, one in industrial design…I really think UX is a certain way of thinking and problem solving. Anyone can learn the lingo or the problems but if you can’t think like a UX designer then it doesn’t really matter.

  768. LG*

    Middle School Librarian

    I’m also certified to teach K-8 general education. I have a master’s in teaching and a master’s in library science.

    I’m in the Midwest in the suburban/rural area about 45 minutes from a large city.

    $55,000 with 8 years of experience

  769. Solicitor (Lawyer)*

    I’m a solicitor (a lawyer/attorney who tends not to actually do advocacy, although I can in some courts). The majority of my work is in real estate law, both commercial and residential, however I am in a small practice and am pretty much a generalist.
    I live and work in London, UK.
    I am paid £25,000 per year (that’s $30,000) – which is about £10,000 under market rate for my experience level and city.
    Experience: 2 years of on the job training, 9 months as a “qualified” solicitor.
    Other: I am given no other benefits by my current firm (other than the legally required pension scheme).

    1. Solicitor (Lawyer)*

      I should add, being in the UK, I get just under 5 weeks of vacation time, which is fairly normal.

    2. Legal Secretary*

      I work in land use (both commercial and residential) in the US, and if you moved here you would break six figures. Four weeks of vacation to start, and you’d definitely break $100,000. Want to move to San Francisco? Two of our people are leaving soon.

  770. Software Engineer*

    * Design and write custom software for clients; for a company; not self-employed
    * Virginia / Work from home full-time
    * 15 years experience
    * $170,000 / yearly

  771. Pro Bono Manager / Pro Bono Coordinator*

    Job: Pro Bono Coordinator at a large law firm
    Location: Philadelphia
    Experience: 3.5 years
    Salary: $60k/year plus bonuses
    It’s a JD Advantage job, and I love it. I get all the benefits of working at a large law firm, with the feel good piece.

  772. Sasha Sashay*

    your job – Media Buyer – I buy digital advertising space (facebook ads etc), optimize digital campaigns.
    your geographic area – Seattle, Wa
    your years of experience – 1.5 (graduated this year, have one year of full time experience at another large company, and 5 internships.
    your salary – 57,000 + full health insurance – 3 weeks vacation.

    1. Sasha Sashay*

      I typed that first post on my phone-

      To elaborate on benefits – I also get a small 401k matching, my insurance has no deductible and is very good, modern office w/ free snacks/drinks.
      Salary is 57k + 10% bonus.

  773. HR Manager*

    $100,000/year plus benefits. Sacramento regional area.
    I have a little over 15 years of experience (law/HR)

  774. Adjunct Professor - Business School*

    Job: Adjunct professor – Business School
    Teaching marketing and corporate management. Not a full time position and I typically teach two courses per semester.

    Area: Paris, France
    Experience: 20 years industry experience + MBA
    €70 / hour – $75 / hour + benefits (vacation & retirement)

  775. Equine veterinarian*

    $60,000 including emergency call fees, plus a small bonus
    7 years experience
    Southern PA
    Multi doctor practice

    So no, your vet isn’t making bank. I have $200,000 in student loans from vet school I can’t afford the interest on

  776. Sad for these Salaries*

    Anyone else feeling like the job market has vastly declined just reading these comments? Going rate for a lot of these roles was 40K when I was out of college, 10 years ago.

    1. Assistant Director for Student Services*

      Yeah – feeling a combination of happy that I’m not the only underpaid person in higher ed, but also defeated that my colleagues are underpaid (and sad for my prospects at actually being paid what I and my experience and education are worth).

  777. Nuclear Chemistry Technician*

    Job: Technician in an analytical chemistry laboratory at a nuclear power plant
    Geographic area: Rural Southeast US
    Years of experience: 10
    Salary: $38/hour ($79k/year) base salary + 5-10% bonus + overtime/holiday pay/shift premiums
    Last year, my bonus was ~$7500 and I made ~$33k in overtime/holiday pay/shift premiums, for a total of ~$119,500

  778. Consulting Engineer*

    I’m a semi-retired chemical engineer who does part time consulting in the oil/gas/energy industry
    Houston, TX metro area
    38 years experience
    $120 per hour, W-2 employee
    Note that I retired with full benefits from an operating company, so I have health insurance through them. I get no benefits through my current employer.

    1. GlorifiedPlumber*

      Nice. Some of my coworkers would be jealous of this setup. We have lots of veteran engineers with 30+ years experience who would kill for a part time gig. Really hard to find in our local climate.

      Do you end up doing full time? Or mostly part time stuff?

      Consulting on operational issues? Checking on packages? None of the above?

  779. Faculty Development Director*

    Job: This is an “alt-ac” (alternative academic) career. I oversee a team of people who provide resources for the faculty at our university to do effective teaching primarily, but we also provide career development resources as faculty move through the tenure process. I do a lot of workshops and big events, individual consultations, write grant proposals, do research into effective teaching practices, write papers, and teach my own classes. I am technically a faculty member but my position is fully administrative. I have not completely sold my soul to the dark side, but the force is not with me.

    Area: Southern California metro area

    Education & Experience: PhD in an applied STEM field; 20+ yrs teaching; 15+ yrs faculty development

    Salary: 98K, for a 12-month position (unlike a lot of univ people who have summers off, I don’t)

  780. IT Portfolio Manager*

    Job: Manage entire IT Portfolio. governance, and internal tools for 300 person IT shop in 7000 person company. Get to interact with C-level execs at the company level.
    Area: Major Florida City
    Years of experience: 20 (starting as project coordinator, many years in project management, program management, to now)
    Salary: 125K (best benefits are that I get to work on what I want to work on, when I want to work on it, and advise the organization as such. Lost a bonus moving to this company and some vacation time, but the autonomy I get here is worth the loss!)

  781. Business Development - Healthcare*

    Job: I’m the liaison between sales and services, and I’m responsible for writing services proposals for customers. I sit on calls and demos with customers to understand the full scope, travel for meet and greets, put together quotes for the project including cost and scope, and am responsible for communicating all the sales background to the project team once the project signs.

    Area: Cleveland, Ohio area.

    Experience: I’ve been in healthcare services for roughly 15 years. I’ve been in this role for almost a year.

    Salary: $81K plus ~1% sales compensation. For 2016 this was roughly $7K, but prior years it’s been as low as $2K. We don’t have a sales target on our head, but do contribute directly to sales so we get a small comp to reflect that. Also can receive up to $2K discretionary bonus, plus quarterly profit sharing.

  782. Research Scientist*

    Genomic sequencing company; research side of things; run day to day experiments, no underlings
    SF Bay Area
    0-5 yr experience
    $75k + benefits + bonuses (up to 3%) + 6% match on 401K after 2 yr w/ company
    Masters in Chemistry (due to bleeping advisor blocking me from getting a Ph.D. at 7 years in program); My academic expertise was in biochemistry, chemistry, molecular biology, electrochemistry, mechanical engineering, and analytical methods.

    1. Legal Secretary*

      I want to ask if you’re at Genetch (sp?). I’m in SF proper, and that’s where all the science-y people I know work.

    2. research scientist*

      I mostly design (& do, & analyze) experiments that involve chemical analysis on food and plants in a research group with mostly engineers at a large research university. It’s kind of an unorthodox lab and we’re within a very multidisciplinary department. I include myself as an example for what you can do if you leave academia to pursue an unusual passion, and and people are interested in it enough for some funding but not amazing funding.

      Boston area

      8 years experience (3 years post-PhD)

      PhD in applied analytical chemistry

      $45K, no benefits (get health insurance from spouse), but it’s half-time. I make probably $12-$15K on the side from freelance writing and speaking engagements and am writing a book (have a good agent, still finishing the proposal) in the other half

  783. Senior Editor*

    I work as an editor for a company that specializes in assisting clients with regulatory compliance in the EHS&S industry. My specific duties include keeping regulatory compliance data (i.e., relevate state, national, and international statutes and regulations) current on our division’s website. This is mostly a lot of HTML editing and proofreading. I also have some occasional training responsibilities.
    Phoenix metro area
    8 years in this job (three different employers thanks to acquisitions and divestitures), about 12 years of work experience total
    $45,000/annually, plus benefits
    My job title is “senior” editor because I work directly with a few clients. Only one other person on my team works directly with clients, hence why the two of us are “senior” editors and our other co-workers are editors. But as far as I know we are all paid more or less the same.

    1. Senior Editor*

      added: I’m able to work full-time from home (I’ll drive into the office, 90 minutes one way, maybe 1x per month) which is a huge perk.

  784. Digital Marketing Project Manager*

    Job: Project Manager for a boutique digital marketing agency. I oversee and coordinate the creation of editorial calendars, website content, email marketing and print projects. I’m the liaison between writers, designers, programmers and clients.
    geographic area: I live in Boston but the company is based on the west coast. WFH full time
    years of experience: I have been with this company for a little over one year. I previously worked in retail management for 12 years. I had no experience in marketing or as a PM, but a friend of a friend owns the company and gave me a shot and it’s worked out great!
    salary: $48,000 plus bonus based on percentage of client revenue which brings me close to $60,000/yr
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Benefits are only ok (2 weeks vacation, decent health insurance but not as good as my last job, no retirement or any other financial benefits) but working full time from home allows for flexibility and I don’t have any commuting costs. I also love the people I work with even though I only interact with them over email and Skype. Also, at my last job I made more money, but was basically on call 24/7. Having every weekend off and being able to disconnect from work when the workday is over is wonderful.

  785. Digital Marketing Manager*

    Lead a team of 5+ people and set a Fortune 500 company’s strategy for all things digital marketing: email marketing, content marketing, social media, web graphics design, marketing automation, SEO/SEM (though we do this at a very limited scale today).

    Major city in the Rust Belt
    ~10 years of experience
    $102k + bonus (10% target, 20% maximum, in reality was 5% last year)

  786. Hard Boiled*

    PR Manager (there are four of us working under a PR Director)
    Big city in northern Germany
    1 year experience in this job (2 more years in a different field, plus a handful of tangentially related internships)
    32,000 USD
    Note: living expenses are relatively low here compared to other big cities in Europe and the US.

  787. Director, Customer Support*

    Job: Dept. head for support team of SaaS/tech (not a start-up) company, lead team of 10+ CS reps doing incoming support work.
    Area: Bay Area
    Experience: 7 years
    Salary: $95kish
    Context: + fully paid health benefits, fully paid transit, “unlimited” PTO (3-4 weeks is typical per year), flexible/remote work possible

  788. Environmental Engineer*

    – Environmental engineer at a state regulatory agency
    – I enforce the Clean Water Act by writing discharge permits, performing inspections of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants, and reviewing engineering plans against state standards
    – B.S. & M.S. in Environmental Engineering (M.S. not really necessary, but I got it paid for, so I went)
    – 2 years experience
    – $60,000 in a low COL area – more than fair, IMO, and much more than I made in my brief foray at a consulting firm ($44,000)

  789. Program Coordinator*

    Description: Manage a 6 month season program team of 4-6 staff at a small nonprofit. Run the year round program – outreach and maintenance.
    Location: Washington DC
    Experience: 3 years
    Salary: $34,000
    Other: Great health insurance (including vision and dental), 3 weeks vacation, flexible schedule and I get a lot of flexibility/responsibility to run my program for my experience level.

  790. Luxury Retail Store Mananger*

    I manage a small high end luxury store in NYC.
    Years of experience: 10
    Location: NYC
    Salary: $91,000 plus 3 weeks vacation, full health benefits paid by company, 3 personal, and 5 sick days. My salary is standard for this industry and location. Most high end retail managers make between $80-125K, depending on the volume of the store.

  791. Senior Content Strategist*

    Your job: I am a consultant in a larger internet marketing consulting firm. I provide strategic guidance to Fortune 500 companies on their marketing content. I bring in new business, provide strategic recommendations, scope and manage projects, execute on copywriting and offer art direction where appropriate.
    Your geographic area: Seattle, WA
    Your years of experience: 12
    Your salary: $65,000*
    Your education: BA from flagship state university

    *This is a particularly apt post today since I just found out yesterday that I am making 20% less than my male direct report who holds 3 years less experience but has the same job duties (arguably less now that I’ve taken over as head of the team). Adjusted for parity, my salary should be more like $80k/year for specialist work plus an additional mark up for Department head duties.

  792. Sales executive*

    Enterprise Sales Executive
    Western Canada
    4.5 years experience (2 jobs before this after graduating from university)
    $120,000 if I hit sales target
    Made up of $80k base, $40k in commissions for hitting targets, commission accelerates if you are over target.

  793. Development Manager*

    3 years Development experience (although only 6 months in this position). 8 years working experience total.
    $42,000 annually
    Houston area

  794. Executive Assistant*

    Job: Executive Assistant to the President of a mostly Agriculture company with a hospitality arm (restaurant and winery)
    Area: Pacific NW (but the Eastern side of the state, so not anywhere near Portland/Seattle metro areas, a comparatively low cost-of-living area)
    Experience: 1.5 years. This was a career direction change for me, and it suits my personality and skills WAY better than my previous life in accounting
    Salary: $55,000 – salaried, exempt
    Other pertinent information: We’re a pretty small company, personnel-wise, so I wear many hats and switch tasks from one moment to the next. I handle everything from high-level contracts to making sure there is paper in the copier. I also get to taste wine and provide input on menu items, which is not exactly the worst job perk ever!

    1. Executive Assistant*

      Oh, and benefits include 100% employer-paid medical/dental/vision for myself, but no employer-paid coverage for spouse/dependents (they’re all on my husband’s plan anyway). Basically as much PTO as I want, but I don’t ever take any – I’m trying to change that in 2017, though!

      1. Executive Assistant too*

        Interesting that our pay is similar range and we’re opposite corners of the country. :) I also have a lot of PTO – I think it works out to 4.5 weeks, but also have the option of working from home if I’m not feeling well but feeling up to responding to emails.

  795. Human Resources Generalist*

    your job: HR Generalist – handling employee relations (discipline, talent management, terminations, policy issues) and FMLA/ADA administration (duty added within the last 6 months)
    your geographic area – Texas
    your years of experience – 10± years of various HR experience (recruiting, payroll, workers comp, employee relations), almost 3 at this company
    your salary – 2016 was 61,000 (my review/raise is mid year so it’s hard to say annual salary)
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context – This was a 19,000/annual raise from my last job doing the same thing (with a much smaller scope). Retail company has 5000+ employees, 1500+ at this location. My scope of support is around 500 employees. 6 paid holidays, 16 annual days of paid time off (sick and vacation) that rolls over but has a cap, increases based on length of time with company, health insurance, job duties are flexible so end up doing a lot of extra stuff which I like.

  796. Operations Manager*

    Job: Operations Manager at a bank. I oversee a payment processing area with 2 full time staff, a project involving development of a new bank wide software, assist with budgeting, training, daily processing, and ‘duties as assigned’ which tend to often be more than my actual listed responsibilities.
    Location: Upper Midwest, mid-large sized city
    Experience: 3.5 years
    Salary: $44k
    Notes: We do get good benefits, employee health insurance for single person is free, though I’ve heard it can be expensive for the family option. Often the issue with this job seems to be increase in responsibilities without any change to title or compensation.

  797. Development Director*

    Your job: I manage all fundraising for a growing nonprofit (~$5M in revenue). I’m a one-person department so I’m responsible for everything – writing grants, fundraising events, direct mail, major giving, publications, etc. I also do some marketing and graphic design work. They hired me to grow their individual giving – when I started individual giving was less than 1% of revenue.
    Your geographic area: Seattle, WA
    Your years of experience: 9 years, I’ve been here 3 years. This job was a big pay raise/promotion for me. Previously I’d spent years working as a Development Coordinator making $36K/year.
    Your salary: $65,000 (my annual review is next month. I’m asking to become Development & Marketing Director and hire an assistant so hopefully my salary will be bumped up accordingly to about $70-$75K). Great health benefits but only 2 weeks PLT (combined vacation and sick leave) + 12 days off. They are very generous with unpaid leave though.

    1. swingbattabatta*

      I wish we could network on here… I have a friend in the Seattle area who is completing her masters in a related area, and would love to find a position like yours (or even a foot in the door).

  798. BMET II (Biomedical Engineering Technician Level II)*

    * Mid-Ohio Region
    * 8 years experience, 6 with current company
    *$53 -55K Annually

    I’m an on-call person and there are a lot of times that I work overtime. It bumps my check a great deal when it’s a heavy workload.

  799. Program & Communications Manager*

    I lead the development and delivery of all of the org’s programs (educational nonprofit) and develop and execute the org’s communications plans (digital, print, social media, etc.). We’re very small – only 4 FTE (ED, Associate Director, Me, & Program Coordinator) and a student worker assistant and a financial consultant. However, we’re housed in a large, public university, which dictates pay and benefits.
    Midwest
    8 years experience, 2.5 at this org, Bachelor’s degree in English
    $54,000, exempt. Great benefits (healthcare and pension are state run), okay vacation/sick leave policies, yearly merit increases of around 2.5%

  800. Computer Scientist / Knowledge Management*

    Job : assorted tasks with knowledge management tools (content management, like SharePoint; wikis; enterprise search tools; databases; software development) so other people can do their job better. :)
    Geographic area : Washington DC
    Years of experience : 30+
    Salary : about $105,600

    Anything else pertinent : Federal worker; Salary is complicated. We get “Locality Pay” for being in a high cost area, and I get additional STEM retention pay to get to the above final total. These two add-ons could be adjusted or taken away at our Congressional overlords’ whim. Locality has held strong for years; the STEM one is still fairly new.

  801. Financial Analyst*

    Pacific Northwest urban area (Tacoma-Seattle-Bellevue-Everett)
    Local government employer
    25+ years career experience (including CPA license), 21+ at current employer
    $100K (just hit the six-digit mark – YAY!)
    My title is Financial Analyst because that is vague enough to cover a multitude of job duties, including:
    – systems expert on our financial, budgeting, and payroll systems (including troubleshooting, configuration, and report development)
    – go to expert on financial statement preparation issues, like implementing new GASB pronouncements
    – serve on investment committee; developing investment policy and investment strategies
    – (as part of the budget team) develop budget guidelines, budget preparation, budget tracking, etc. (need more coffee to flesh this out)
    – all kinds of other complex data analysis, like developing spreadsheets for grant reporting, cost allocation models, etc. etc. etc.
    – anything else that needs to be done (aka “other duties as assigned”)

    1. Financial Analyst*

      Oh yeah, I should also mention that my benefits are fantastic. 95% of medical, awesome dental and vision, state pension system, short- and long-term disability benefits, major sick leave, and best of all: paid-time off amounting to 312 hours a year (that’s almost 8 weeks). The PTO is so high because of my longevity plus it includes 5 extra days due to my exempt status.

      1. Financial Analyst*

        In case you wondering why I’ve stayed at the same place for almost 22 years now (in order of importance!):
        1. Bosses and coworkers are awesome.
        2. I like the work that I do. (at least most of it)
        3. PTO of 312 hours annually.
        4. Pay is very, very good.
        5. Other benefits are good.

        1. Financial Analyst*

          Nevermind #2 – I can do most of this at so many other places. PTO is #2.

          Also to note: BA in Bus Admin – Accounting, no MBA

    2. Financial Analyst*

      “My title is Financial Analyst because that is vague enough to cover a multitude of job duties.”

      Ditto for me. (I posted higher up–Financial Analyst in CA.)

  802. Materials Engineer*

    Job: Materials scientist/engineer with a metallurgy specialty at at small engineering consulting firm. We work a lot in the energy sector, developing engineering solutions for power plants to run better and more efficiently.
    Location: Greater DC area
    Experience: 3.5 years; came straight from undergrad
    Salary: $87,500 (+ overtime + bonus + 401k match + health insurance)

  803. Childrens Librarian, Public Library*

    Job: Selecting/weeding books, presenting storytimes, creating and leading programs for 0-14 years, working the reference desk, working with preschools, daycares and support services, speaking out about the awfulness of Lexile levels, matching kids to books they are actually interested in, convincing parents that databases are not like the websites they are thinking of, tech support, other duties as assigned
    Experience: 8 years
    Masters of library service required
    Salary: $50,500
    Area: Chicagoland

  804. Reference and Education Librarian*

    Work in a (public) University medical library. Provide reference service to med students, residents, med school faculty (clinical and laboratory), and staff. Teach info lit and resource workshops and 1-1 consultations. Create educational media. Plan and execute student outreach activities. Provide outreach (training in health information literacy, awareness of government & other free resources, etc) to surrounding community. Independent research/projects as assigned (often by myself).
    Midwest, smallish city
    ~3 years professional experience, 2 years paraprofessional experience
    $50,000/year
    Faculty status. Also receive generous paid time off (7 paid holidays, ~5 weeks paid vacation + several weeks paid sick time- yay higher ed!). No second masters (yet), but bachelors in the health sciences lab-research experience.

  805. M&A / Corporate Development*

    F500 Corporate Development team member. My team advises the CEO / executives on acquisitions, divestitures and partnerships / other (this bucket is the bane of my existence) at both the asset and corporate levels across our businesses. I lead specific deal executions and potential deal evaluations including managing cross-functional internal diligence teams, assisting in deal negotiations, performing financial analysis, commercial / strategic analysis in conjunction with subject matter experts
    – Location: Texas (Major city)
    – Experience: ~6 years total experience (3 directly relevant and required for this position, 3 in a tangentially related field at a major bank), 4 year Bachelors w/ no additional degrees
    – Salary: $130k + 20 – 40% bonus target
    – Other: signing bonus, 401k match, ~10% of salary additional exclusively corporate funded retirement account, health / dental / vision
    – Hours: ~45 – 50ish / week, can ramp to 60 when doing a major deal

  806. Senior Health Educator*

    Job: Cultural and linguistic specialist at a managed care (primarily Medicaid) health plan. I (try to) make sure that our members have culturally appropriate health care in languages they can understand. I manage our interpretation vendors, serve on cross-industry committees, develop and deliver cultural competency training for health plan staff and doctors. Company I work for is a for-profit Fortune 500. I have no direct reports and I report to a Director-level person.

    Geographic area: LA/Southern California

    Salary: $82,000 annually, plus benefits

    1. Senior Health Educator*

      Oops– forgot to mention. I have about 5 years experience (though only one year in health care) and I have a PhD in Anthropology.

      1. Financial Analyst*

        I’m so glad to hear of someone doing great with an anthropology degree! I loved studying anthropology, but my parents made me very afraid of my future prospects (and I was a very young, single mother at the time, so I was very susceptible to the fear). So I went into accounting, my other love. Sounds like an odd mix of loves, but I’m kind of an odd person.

        1. Senior Health Educator*

          I’m glad I’m doing all right as well! :) Jobs as an applied anthropologist are few and far between, but they tend to be pretty fun and rewarding.

      2. Senior Health Educator*

        I just checked my entry from Alison’s original post from 2 years ago, which was only about a year after I finished my PhD. It’s pretty exciting to see that 2 jobs and two years later I’m making 82% more that I did in 2014. (I will note that my current salary is more than I ever expected to make with an anthropology degree!)

  807. Senior Technical Support Engineer*

    *Provide technical support to customers who use our software. Software is industrial automation, the sort of thing used by companies as opposed to individual users. Primarily phone/email support, 40 hours per week, no work from home option.
    *Massachusetts (MA)
    *4 years experience, first job out of college
    *82,000/year gross (not take home). Health insurance partially paid for (we pay most of it), 401K matching up to 6% if we put in 3%. 3.5 weeks PTO per year, this includes sick time, etc. This is my main gripe about the company. Those 18 days go VERY quickly between snow days, illnesses, etc.
    *I started this job at 62,000/year fresh out of college. I didn’t know what a good number was so I didn’t negotiate, but I’ve had 3 raises since then and can’t complain.

    1. Senior Technical Support Engineer*

      Forgot to add – in addition to the PTO, we get 10 paid holidays per year.

      1. Financial Analyst*

        As someone who gets a lot of PTO every year, I can say that it is a huge motivator in retaining me as an employee. Second only to working for good managers.

  808. Receptionist*

    Receptionist at a medium sized location of a large corporate-chain of veterinary hospitals. Mostly answering phones,making appointments,checking patients in and out, maintaining patient records, and other various and sundry admin and accounting duties as required.
    Chicago (actually in Chicago,not the greater Chicagoland area.
    14 years experience in veterinary medicine, but only part of that was Customer Service.
    $10.50/hr

  809. Legal Secretary*

    Transactional legal secretary at law firm (this pays less than a litigation legal secretary, but more than legal secretary in-house, or at a non-profit)
    ◾San Francisco, CA
    ◾20 yrs experience, associate’s degree
    ◾$75k
    The benefits are great, and the firm is a great place to work. I’d actually had my eye on this firm for almost ten years before getting in here, so even though it pays $3,000 less than my last job, I’m happy.

  810. Program Manager (non-profit)*

    Job: Program Manager for a regional science program at an environmental non-profit.
    Location: Vancouver, BC
    Experience: 7 years experience, plus M.Sc. degree
    Salary: $60K/year (Canadian)

  811. Real estate appraisal reviewer*

    Part of risk management for a large, diversified financial services firm. I specialize in a unique property type for real estate investments. Primary responsibility is making sure our investments in these specialized property types are valued appropriately for performance reporting and investment decisions.

    Southeast US
    11 years experience, 2 masters degrees (one MS in my field, and an MBA)
    Salary: $121,000 plus 30% bonus, company matches 401K and funds 9% of my salary into a pension

    I work from home full time.

  812. Assistant Registrar*

    -responsible for the entire undergraduate population of a 2,000+ student private University
    -SW PA
    -3.5 years
    -around $37K
    -i have a Masters degree in a somewhat related field and lucked into this position about three months after graduation

    1. Course Schedules Coordinator, Registrar's Office*

      Not sure if you’ll see this, but do you focus on a particular area of registrar work? How is your office divided?

      1. Assistant Registrar*

        We are divided undergraduate/graduate with some sharing of duties in-between the two of us. I am responsible for the degree audit, conferral/graduation, and any issues that should arise between the time the student starts and finishes. There are some other things I deal with, but they are very particular to the location of my University.

  813. Sr. Computer Systems Engineer*

    –Windows server system administration, both physical and virtual, research and development, some programming/scripting as needed.
    –Midwest (not a big city, but not the boonies, either)
    –25 in IT in general
    –$62,000
    –Great benefits package, tons of PTO. Also, in Academia, so very low stress. I rarely have to do any work on the weekends or evenings unless I just want to catch up.

  814. Video/photo producer*

    Job: manage all photography and video production for a mid sized corporation — everything from hands on video field production with small crews to overseeing large-scale multi-day video and photo shoots. Also manage overall digital content strategy with marketing and agency partners.
    Location: Midwest
    Experience: 13 years – started my career in broadcast television, jumped to PR, came back to video
    Salary: $81k/year plus option for 15% bonus that can be multiplied up to 200% (entirely dependent on company performance, not personal performance). Plus some stock awards.
    I love it, I get to do what I love about video production with corporate hours and benefits.

  815. Senior RFP Analyst*

    – operations research/proposal writing for B2B proposals in healthcare industry
    – Twin Cities metro
    – 10 years direct applicable + 6 years additional professional experience
    -$78K + good benefits
    – full time telecommuter

  816. Project Manager - Architecture*

    Job: I am a Project Manager for a local homebuilder and manage the drawing developent and release as well as coordinating between different professional services including civil, structural, and MEP engineers.
    Area: Colorado
    Years of Experience: 12 total; 4 years in residential, 8 years in commercial architecture.
    Salary: $80,000/year salary plus bonuses (usually between 2k and 5k).
    Other Pertinent: I have my Master’s of Architecture, but am not licsensed. There are health benefits (in the form of HSA and high deductible insurance which seems to be standard in this area and field), there are matching 401(k) contributions.

    1. Record Label GM*

      Salary is actually $82,500 after some COL raises, I remember. PTO is okay – 10 days + holidays + sick days aren’t really measured. We also get generous winter holiday leave. 401k but no matching & decent healthcare which we pay half of. Better benefits than most in my industry but that is not saying much!

  818. Archivist*

    Archivist in research library at a museum.
    Description: I accession, process, preserve, arrange, describe, and make accessible archival collections (both paper and digital). I’m also in charge of institutional archives, and I’m the only Archivist on-staff.
    Location: Mid-Atlantic state
    Salary: $50K
    Experience in library/archives field: 8 years total
    Other: Benefits aren’t *great* (20 combined sick/vacation days per year, no 401k, health/dental insurances are not the best but are still super pricey for employees)… I have an MLIS from a top-ten program ( = mucho student loan debt, though I am enrolled in the PSLF program and should have the loans forgiven within a decade since I work for an eligible non-profit).

  819. YuliaC*

    Biologist in a university research core lab support role.
    NYC.
    Experience 2 years in this role, 3-5 years overall as a biologist. BS degree.
    54,000/year.
    Nice benefits (24 vac days a year, and employer pays 10% worth of salary into a retirement fund with zero requirement for me to contribute).

  820. Student Services Coordinator*

    Job: I am the liaison between the business office, financial aid, advisors, and the students (specifically adults returning to school). I process grades, attendance, assist with graduation, and am generally a jack-of-all-trades. Some of my current projects are revamping a resources website, researching course descriptions for our new general education system, and helping train professors to submit grades online. Ongoing daily tasks include answering the phones & emails, helping with student emergencies, and sorting incoming mail.

    Geographic Area: Midwest (Oklahoma)

    Years of Experience: 2 years in higher education, 2 years retail/food service

    Salary: $21,300

    Pertinent Information: Although I have a BA degree, this position does not require one. The university I work at does provide tuition remission, but you have to work here for 4 years before it goes up to 100% remission.

  821. Office Admin*

    Office Admin at a large HR-related corporation – less than 1 year (I’m a relatively recent graduate)
    – 22.00/hr, benefits (health, 2 weeks PTO, 401k) after 1 year of employment
    – General receptionist duties such as sorting (very high volumes of) mail, greeting visitors, directing clients/employees through phone and email, ordering for the office, etc.
    – Also cross trained in some payroll and HR duties and I do a lot of admin work for various departments
    – We get a high volume of calls and questions and so understanding the company and knowing every employee at the office was one of the biggest challenges of the job
    – At first, when I offered the position, I thought I was being overpaid, especially since the pay was higher than what they originally advertised, but with the workload and general knowledge needed off-hand, it makes sense. Also, the health insurance given is pretty abysmal.
    – Portland, OR metro area

  822. MentalEngineer*

    Job(s): Teaching assistant (PhD student) in philosophy at an R1 university; making closed captions for web video.
    Area: North Florida.
    Experience: Starting my 6th semester as a TA, have also taught independently for 1 semester; have been captioning for a little over 5 years.
    Salary: $16K plus fully subsidized insurance (no dental/vision) and conference funding during the school year, ~$3K to teach over the summer; $10-12/hour captioning depending on content. This is a bit above average for a philosophy PhD program of comparable quality in a low cost-of-living location.
    Context: This is more money than I’ve ever seen, let alone had, in my life. I’m 26. You probably shouldn’t become an academic in the humanities.

  823. Plant Administrator*

    Job: Wind Industry – Manage the office, budget prep/tracking/forecasting, database administration, report writing, accounting
    Experience: 5yrs current company, 20+ years overall
    Salary: $50k
    Location: North Texas
    High School diploma, no college degree
    Medical, dental & vision insurance, 401k match up to 6%, annual raise/bonus if contractual obligations are met.
    Love my job!

  824. Communications Director - Higher Ed*

    your job: I am director of communications for one college within the biggest university in my state. I manage a staff of four full-time people (but could always do with more) and some interns here and there. The team develops press releases and news articles, magazines and other printed materials and builds and maintains websites and other digital assets for the college, its handful of departments, and about a dozen research centers. I think my position could be described as the low end of the middle-management spectrum.
    your geographic area: Mid-Atlantic region
    your years of experience: 15 years of professional experience, but only 7-8 specifically in the communications world
    your salary: $70,000 plus tuition benefits

  825. Director of Communications and Marketing*

    Job: I manage all aspects of communications and marketing, from day to day tasks to high level strategy, for a small non-profit that is an arm of a much larger non-profit. I do not manage any people.
    Location: Denver, CO metro
    Experience: almost 2 years in this job, 3 before that in an agency setting
    Salary: $48,000/year (plus 2 weeks vacation, 10 sick days, 401k match, health, vision and dental, small yearly bonus, flexibility)
    Extras: I am quite underpaid for the work I do, however, I zoomed up from very low level employee to having the autonomy to completely shape the comm. and marketing the organizations does. I am also being given the flexibility to attend grad school full time (in a program not designed for working professionals). This is an excellent place to build skills and get my masters, but ultimately I will look for higher paid work when I am finished with school.

  826. Quality Supervisor*

    ◾ Supervisor of a quality inspection lab in manufacturing- equipment and people
    ◾ Midwest
    ◾ 7.5 years
    ◾ 87,000 with 401K match, 3 weeks vacation, bonus based on company performance

  827. Wildlife Biologist*

    1) Wildlife Biologist in a research position; I do not have supervision duties (thank the gods!), but I coordinate all aspects of research, including technicians.
    2) An area of the southeast that is experiencing a surge in population numbers, mainly from folks moving here from the northeast.
    3) 10 years of experience.
    4) Roughly $32,000-, no benefits or paid time off, however my living expenses minus food and vehicular gas are paid for.
    5) State government agency that notoriously underpays (don’t they all?); I have a master’s degree and am specialized in a couple of areas within my field (spatial ecology and predators) that is being utilized in a special research position within the organization. This position was offered to me as a “foot in the door” situation, though I am still waiting for an appropriate permanent position to open up. Aside from the non-perm aspects, this is my dream job.

    1. Biologist*

      Yikes, you weren’t kidding about the terrible government pay in the US! I can’t believe they don’t value their scientists more. How can they possibly expect to manage resources well if they won’t try to hang on to good experts?!

  828. Teaching Assistant*

    Job(s): Teaching assistant (PhD student) in philosophy at an R1 university; making closed captions for web video.
    Area: North Florida.
    Experience: Starting my 6th semester as a TA, have also taught independently for 1 semester; have been captioning for a little over 5 years.
    Salary: $16K plus fully subsidized insurance (no dental/vision) and conference funding during the school year, ~$3K to teach over the summer; $10-12/hour captioning depending on content. This is a bit above average for a philosophy PhD program of comparable quality in a low cost-of-living location.
    Context: This is more money than I’ve ever seen, let alone had, in my life. I’m 26. You probably shouldn’t become an academic in the humanities. Also, I can’t follow directions.

  829. Talent Acquisition Coordinator*

    Job: I am a full-cycle internal recruiter, meaning I recruit and hire people to work at my company. I do everything from sourcing candidates, application review, interviewing, scheduling, gathering feedback, delivering offers, and other various projects. My company is a tech startup.
    Location: Manhattan your geographic area
    Years of experience: In this role, 1 year 2 months. Total professional experience = 2.5 years.
    Salary: $52,500 base + equity + full healthcare, dental, vision + small 401k match + unlimited vacation. We may move to a bonus-eligible structure. I started with a $50k base and got a 5% raise this past summer.

  830. Executive Director (public library)*

    Director of a large public library (service area population 200,000)
    Midwest, urban
    13 years professional experience, four as an administrator
    $130,000
    I also have five weeks vacation. Have an MLS. 160 staff.

  831. Promotions Manager (Publishing)*

    -I market books and handle many of the responsibilities that would be typically fall under the umbrella of publicist. I work in academic publishing. I write and receive an endless stream of emails.
    -Chicago
    -About ten years of experience, five in the current job
    -$42,500, good benefits, about two weeks of vacation plus personal days and sick time
    -Was salaried until recent overtime law, now am hourly though still at same salary. Many of us were hoping to just be bumped up to the cap but alas . . .

  832. Salesforce.com Consultant / Developer*

    Job: consult clients in a variety of industries on Salesforce.com use, and develop custom solutions
    Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
    Experience: Salesforce.com experience: 8+ years; Development experience: 14 years+
    Salary: $132,000 + $5,000-$10,000 in bonuses + Benefits

  833. Newcast Director/Production Manager (Local)*

    I direct evening newscasts in a mid-sized market as well coordinate special broadcasts, manage 10 direct reports, handle the personnel schedule for the department & the studio schedule for the station. I work closely with our technical department regarding graphics, video playback, audio, set pieces, sets. I do the camera blocking & ensure a uniform look to our newscasts. I’m basically responsible for the production quality of our live newscasts.

    A medium-sized midwestern market;
    20+ years of experience;
    $62,000 (salaries for newscast directors in our market generally run between $30K-$40K);
    We’re a 24/7/365 business. I work mornings, nights, weekends, holidays, ice storms, blizzards, etc, etc, etc.

  834. Archaeologist*

    -Archaeologist for a non-profit. Manage department, excavations, collections, interns, and volunteers.
    -Northeast U.S.
    -13 years in archaeology – 8 in non-profits.
    -$18,000 – this is part time. No benefits. No raises. I supplement my income as a consultant while I complete a PhD.

    1. Another Archaeologist*

      Archaeologist out of Chicagoland for environmental firm
      Have master’s degree with 2.5 yrs experience
      38,500 full-time with benefits

    2. Arch, Site Lead*

      Federal Contractor – Archaeologist, but I also lead GIS contracts (resource management)

      CA high desert

      5 years volunteer during HS and college, 3 years short/random contracts during MA, 2 years permanent work (starting immediately after meeting SOI standard)

      $58k – leadership roles recently increased, likely to move up to around $61k in a few months
      Plus – benefits (pto, 401k, healthcare, RPA and SAA, etc.) and $1-2k annual contract bonuses

  835. Account Manager (Marketing)*

    Account Manager at a major international Digital Advertising Agency where I work on a very high-profile clothing/shoe/apparel brand everybody around the world would know about
    Seattle, WA
    4 years total of work experience (1 year solid being internships)
    $62,000

  836. Senior Consultant*

    Geographic area: Washington, D.C.
    Years of experience: 1 year
    Salary: $84,470
    Context: Started out at $83,000; and received a 2% raise at my annual review

    1. Senior Consultant*

      Even more context: I spent 6 years getting the experience for the job where I’ve been for a year.

  837. Business Analyst/Product Manager*

    I’m a business analyst and product manager in finance.
    your geographic area: Texas
    your years of experience – 7 years
    your salary – $75K + ~20% bonus,

  838. Area Director for Research Nonprofit*

    I am at a non-university research organization
    6 years post Ph.D. (worked throughout including high profile positons, so 12-13 years of experience).
    I oversee a division with 10 people under me

    Area:
    DC metro

    Salary: $125,000 plus great benefits

  839. Library Director*

    Library Director
    Texas
    10 years in libraries, relevant experience in other fields
    $92,000
    Staff of 30

  840. Director of Programs in a nonprofit*

    your job- I manage ten different programs for a statewide educational/cultural nonprofit – planning, implementing evaluating, grant writing and reporting, etc.
    your geographic area- northern New England
    your years of experience- 3 in this job + another 13 in similar nonprofit leadership roles
    your salary- 51K
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context- good benefits: 4 weeks vacay + 17 holidays + generous medical leave, full health coverage (I pay nothing), and generous retirement contribution.

  841. Lurky McLurkerson*

    Public Health Microbiologist III: I currently run the laboratory for a surveillance program (I don’t want to say what area because it’ll be a give away as to where I work). My job includes processing, extracting, testing, and reporting results that will be used to spot outbreaks if they occur. I also handle the ordering of supplies and basic maintenance of our machinery. We have students come in and work with us during season and I am in charge of supervising their training and monitoring their projects. I also do some research projects on the side depending on what our director would like.

    Nashville, TN

    7 years of experience-2 years as an OPS Biological Scientist I with a state lab-1 year as an CDC/APHL Fellow with a state lab-4 years as a senior scientist with a federal contractor
    MPH-Global communicable diseases, BS in Health Sciences, licensed MT (AAB) in microbiology

    Current salary: $46,452 with full benefits health, dental, vision, 2 weeks vacation with the ability to accumulated up to a month for the first 5 years and more the longer you’re here. hybrid pension plan with a 401k.

    OPS Biological Scientist I- 16.00/HR-No benefits (this was before insurance became mandatory)
    CDC/APHL Fellow- 36,452 with full benefits and a stipend of $3000 to travel for conferences or take training courses
    Senior Scientist: 52,000 with full benefits and $3000 for professional development

    With the exception of my last job I moved up in salary as well as position, I started out as a volunteer with my first lab job before they hired me as an OPS BS I. With my last job I was deeply unhappy working in the private sector and I took that job because the salary was good for working with the government in the state I lived in but the mission was not in line with what interested me and it was very dysfunctional. In my current job I am technically a supervisor but took a bit of a pay cut to be one and I am so happy I will never look back. Tennessee is good at taking care of their state employees (at least in my opinion) and has consistently given raises and bonuses so that I except to be back at my old salary in a couple of years.

  842. Senior Scientific Specialist*

    your job: non-regulatory medical writer, responsible for developing publications (abstracts, manuscripts, slide decks, PowerPoint presentations etc) to disseminate the results of clinical trials and observational studies to practicing physicians. I also provide an ongoing comprehensive review of the literature and cover major scientific conferences in my therapeutic area.
    your geographic area: I work remotely in Middle Tennessee for a company based in the NYC metro area
    your years of experience: 16 years in the workforce, of which 13 are in this general industry and 4 are at this job. I also have a Master’s degree.
    your salary: $115,000 + up to 15% bonus

      1. Senior Scientific Specialist*

        I spent nearly 8 years in pharmaceutical market research and had the opportunity to write up the results of several studies conducted by my company. I became familiar with how to coordinate feedback from clients and subject matter experts (the authors), and learned the basics of the journal submission and peer review processes. I found that I really enjoyed it, and eventually made the move to a medical communications agency that focuses specifically on publications for our pharmaceutical clients.

  843. Warehouse & Logistics Manager*

    Region: US, Pacific NW, rural
    Oversee warehouse operations and transportation activities in a production environment, and manage contracts/relationships with outside distribution center and transportation provider.
    Experience: 25+ years in transportation and logistics, 10 years with current employer
    Salary: $82K plus pension plan, 401K with matching and annual incentive bonus
    Not sure if you’re interested in gender, but a higher percentage of my peers are men, I’m of the feminine persuasion.

  844. Site Leader*

    Description: I manage instrument service for 3 customer sites
    Location: Bay Area
    your years of experience: 4
    your salary: 85K + 20K bonus

  845. Education Program Manager*

    Description: Manage Education Programs for Association
    Location: DC Area
    Experience: 6 years
    Salary: $49K

  846. Business Architect (Banking Industry)*

    Job:
    I have a technical background and work in a large banking company. Business Architect is the most real-world title that fits what I actually do. Job titles here don’t often align with our real-world function. My current role places me between a strategic and program level of involvement as a Business Architect on a large corporate-wide risk mitigation initiative. I spend most of my time designing new processes and operating as the internal business owner of a new application that is being built to support this effort. This is a very corporate/large company culture and environment.

    Location: Carolinas

    Experience: 12 years total. 4 years with this company. 1.5-2 years operating in this capacity.

    Salary: $132,000

  847. Librarian, part-time*

    Reference & Programming Librarian, part-time
    I staff the Reference desk, assist at the Circulation Desk, plan and implement programming and services for adults.
    4 years of experience
    $13.50/hour

  848. Manager III - State Govt.*

    State of CA, Manager III, Driver Licensing Policy Analyst

    In a (very) short synopsis: I review laws enacted by the legislature and write procedures for the state motor vehicle department, and handle the tests/questions. I also lead the launch of programming and projects including outreach, conference calls, memos, travelling for launch days, and reports to upper management. I work generally unsupervised with the expectation that I keep my manager in the loop.

    I work in the Sacramento area of California.

    I have worked for the state for almost 11 years.

    I make $4861, before taxes, monthly.

    I have an AA degree, but I completed it while already working for the state, and it has never applied to the work I do. I also could have promoted waaaaaay earlier, but I truly loved my prior position and held on to it as long as possible. I don’t regret the move, but I do sometimes miss my prior work (I used to give behind-the-wheel drive tests!).

    On a side note, my grandfather, mother, both aunts, and 2 uncles, all worked for the state of CA and all started with DMV. So I guess it only seemed like a matter of time until I did as well. My husband and nephew also work for the state/DMV, and a few of my outside friends I convinced to apply. The benefits, retirement, pay, and promotional ability are just too good to not try for. Especially in our area where the only other jobs are retail which is, let’s be honest, a lot harder to advance in.

  849. Editor - Content Development*

    I work for a large office-supply wholesaler in the greater Chicago area. My title is editor; my team of 4 is responsible for product content integrity, basically – ensuring our database is clean and up to date, reviewing and importing a lot of new content and corrections and doing data cleansing.

    I have 13 years of professional experience and have been with this company for close to 9 years. My salary is just a hair over $50k/year with 3 weeks PTO, two work-from-home days a week and a flexible schedule plus fairly standard health insurance/401(k)/etc.

    1. Content Developer*

      your job: I write and edit internal and customer-facing support content for an online retailer.
      your geographic area: Seattle
      your years of experience: 3 years in this role, 15 overall.
      your salary: $53,100
      anything else pertinent to put that number in context: 401k, stock, insurance, vacation, minimal overtime, can work remotely

  850. Clinical Reseatch Coordinator I*

    Job Description: Coordinating clinical research trials at a major hospital. Working with outside sponsors and local investigators to open new clinical trials, assisting with study accrual, safety reporting, and data management.
    Geographic Area: Cleveland, OH
    Experience: 1.5 years in this specific role but 10+ years in a tangential field with an advanced degree
    Salary: $44,000
    Other: Low-stress job, no late nights or weekends (40 hours/week), good potential for job growth

  851. Learning Designer*

    Job: I work at a startup where I design and develop courses that build leadership development capabilities at Fortune 500s
    Area: Pennsylvania
    Experience: 1 year
    Salary: $47500 – I took a step back in my career to move into the learning design space. I’m a little underpaid at this point but I’m at a small organization where I’m learning a lot and I don’t have as much experience as other people in this role. I plan on asking for a raise to 57K during my review.

  852. Impact Officer*

    My real title is unique, so this is an abridged person.

    I work at a tiny start-up nonprofit in a weird field. I’m part data analyst, part project manager, and part research assistant. Essentially, I was brought on to design and implement data storage systems, manage a database (that it turns out we can’t afford yet, so I’m doing a custom-build in Access for now), and have a birds-eye view of all processes related to moving our clients through our pipeline. I manage deliverables for our fundraisers. I research food and labor safety trends in our industry, and benchmark to our competitors. I also do a lot of admin work – running invoices for our department, setting up catering/etc. for meetings, all of the org’s data entry, etc.

    I live in DC.

    Previously six years’ experience in an unrelated industry, with a few transferrable skills. But this was a big step up in responsibility. My data analysis skills are not on-par yet with an entry level data analyst. I’m working on it.

    Salary: 55k/year, no bonus.

  853. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics*

    your job – pediatrician at academic center; time is 80% clinical/20% academic (education, research, community advocacy
    your geographic area – Southeast
    your years of experience -<1 year out of residency (for those not familiar with US medical education, it's 4 years college, 4 years medical school, then, in my case 3 years pediatric residency)
    your salary – $138,000
    Not productivity-based though I do have RVU targets

  854. A Public Library Director*

    Job: Director of a small public library – manage staff and programs, IT, bookkeeping, marketing and PR.
    Area: rural Midwestern U.S.
    Years of experience: 35
    Salary: $40,000
    Other: MLS

  855. Clinical Research Coordinator I*

    Job Description: Coordinating clinical research trials at a major hospital. Working with outside sponsors and local investigators to open new clinical trials, assisting with study accrual, safety reporting, and data management.
    Geographic Area: Cleveland, OH
    Experience: 1.5 years in this specific role but 10+ years in a tangential field with an advanced degree
    Salary: $44,000
    Other: Low-stress job, no late nights or weekends (40 hours/week), good potential for job growth

    (Sorry, had a typo in the title of my first post; re-did it with the correct spelling so it would come up in a search.)

  856. Museum Education Supervisor*

    Job – Run exhibit area within a medium sized museum; Supervise staff; Collaborate with community groups for special programs/events; Outreach to teachers; etc…

    Location – Mid-Atlantic

    Experience – 12 years total, 9 at current museum

    Salary – $37k plus decent benefits

  857. Software Engineer*

    your job PHP, Python, MySQL, AWS
    your geographic area, Austin TX
    your years of experience 10+
    your salary 100K

  858. Special Collections Conservation Technician*

    For my most recent position:
    job: repairing book and paper materials for special collection libraries
    New England, City
    around 3 years of conservation experience, plus about four years of library and archives experience
    ~44,000-45,000/year plus great benefits
    sadly recently let go because of financial reasons

  859. Communications Manager*

    Communications lead for a small national health charity in the UK. Manage website, all printed material (including independently certified health information), edit and layout quarterly membership magazine, co-edit international annual research review, ad-hoc projects. Some press and PR. Some social media. Writing articles. Presenting to community groups. And other stuff as necessary in a small organisation!
    Area: UK – I work remotely, full time.
    Salary: £29000 before tax and NI deductions.
    Hours: 35 hours per week, Time Off in Lieu if overtime worked.
    Benefits: 25 days leave + Bank Holidays. 5% pension contribution.
    Experience: With this organisation six years, in Comms, Marketing and PR 17 years. Acquired a semi related degree as a mature student whilst in current role.

  861. Library Associate*

    I’m in charge of all the adult programming that happens at our branch. This involves contacting local businesses, artists, authors, speakers, etc to come in and do programs at the library in addition to doing some on my own like crafts or gaming. Also regular library duties like being at the circulation desk and answer reference questions.
    DC metro area
    6 years experience in library as a library assistant and a shelver, plus 3 years as an archivist
    47k
    I don’t have a master’s in library science but I do have one in history. Benefits are quite good for the county I am in.

  862. Manager, Government Affairs - Biotech*

    Job: State-level lobbyist for a biotech company. I also manage our local (city/county) government affairs. I’m on a small team, which means I’m the go-to policy researcher as well as the on-the-ground negotiator.
    Geographic area: San Francisco Bay Area
    Experience: 1.5 years in this job, 5.5 years in government affairs (both state and federal)
    Salary: $96,000, plus annual bonuses. Benefits and time off are better than I ever had working at nonprofits in my past life, but from what I hear, they’re not as good as comparable companies in this area.

  863. Senior Acquisition & Assistance Specialist (Contractor), Federal Agency*

    I am a Sr. A&A Specialist for a federal agency. However, I am not employed by this agency as either a direct hire or a Personal Services Contractor (PSC). The agency didn’t have the budget to hire the personnel, so they issued an institutional support contract to do the work. But I have an agency contractor badge and an agency email address.

    My position is sometimes called a Contracts Specialist in other federal agencies. I support the Contracting and Agreement Officers in my agency by doing a lot of the leg work for them so they just have to be the official signatory on the work that I do. I draft answers to requests from implementing partners/contractors based on the requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and agency-specific acquisition regulations, I analyze cost proposals on federal bids, I work with technical teams to develop all of the paperwork required to issue a solicitation for a government contract including developing internal budgets, drafting internal approval requests and other mountains of paperwork. I also facilitate technical evaluations of proposals.

    Most of our team does not work inside the agency; we have our own office not too far away. A few of the junior staff are embedded in the agency so that they can get to know the systems and personalities a bit better (the agency is pretty personality driven)

    Salary: $115,000/yr (might be a little higher than if I were a direct hire, but our contract has an end date and no civil service protections)
    GS-equivalent: 13/14
    Location: Washington, DC
    Years Experience: 16

  864. Mechanical Engineer*

    -Test and Evaluation Engineer for DoD Acquisitions. Basically, if the military wants a new tool, I’m part of the team that will test it to make sure it works like its supposed to before it gets released.
    -Washington, DC
    -MS + 13 years
    -$109,000
    -I work for the federal government and get all of those benefits except that we’re on a pay for performance system (no GS scale). Since I had some health problems and took a lot of FMLA leave for a few years, I’m behind where I would be if I was on the GS scale.

  865. Project Specialist*

    Job: support project management, manage/oversee work of contractors doing work on our behalf, run meetings, implement processes
    Location: Rust belt
    Experience: 6 months post-grad, graduated in May with Bachelor’s
    Salary: $21/hour full-time = $43,680 before taxes, $31,928 after taxes
    Contracted position so no paid vacation and benefits were lackluster so I stayed on my parent’s.

  866. Asst Vice President Underwriting and Compliance*

    I handle mortgage, consumer and commercial underwriting; oversee collections department; handle all compliance items related to my areas (like TRID implementation, Dodd Frank Implementation were 100% my projects; dealing with auditors; training; HMDA etc.); I oversee risk management/credit administration and probably a host of other things I haven’t included.
    I have been in this industry for 19 years but a fair amount of the above items have been evolving for the past 6-7 years, so I don’t specifically have 19 years doing all of them.
    Boston metro area.
    Small organization under 50 employees
    I have 1 direct report and 9 people in my area that don’t report to me specifically but still have to answer to me in certain areas.
    72k per year

  867. Executive Assistant*

    Job – direct support for C-level executive as well as one SVP level. Majority of role is calendar for a meeting-heavy business as well as arranging travel, etc (whatever else is needed).

    Location – Southeast US

    Experience – 22 years total in administrative assistant (type) positions, almost 3 years as EA (13 years at current company)

    Salary – $53k plus benefits (including for my domestic partner/boyfriend)

    Other – boss is fantastic, low maintenance and I’m willingly available 24/7 via text/phone/email. Or during happy hour. :)

  868. Chemist 1*

    Demonstration Lab Supervisor – I put together the chemistry demos for undergrad classes, take demos out to the public, and hold events on campus. I supervise 7-9 students and put together~1500-2000 demos per semester.
    Central Ohio
    6 years at this job, majored in Chemistry, went to grad school for Chemistry (left w/o degree)
    40K

  869. lala*

    “Access Services Librarian” – running the help desk at a university library
    Boston area
    $48.5
    7 years as library desk manager and another 6 in library public services in general, but first (official) MLIS-using position

  870. Legal Clinic Director at a Public Law School*

    Job Description: My job is a cross between law teaching, being the Exec Director of a small nonprofit (managing, fundraising, budgeting, strategic planning), and providing direct legal services (i.e., free legal aid for very low-income communities). It’s probably most analogous to clinical teaching in medicine, but with more administrative responsibilities. The legal services part includes administrative law, transactional law, legislative/policy advocacy, and litigation.

    Location: Northern California (close to the Bay Area / Sacramento)
    Experience: 5 years legal experience, 3 years pre-law experience
    Salary: $100K
    Context: My salary is pretty normal for public law schools in California, but it’s about $50-75K less than if I worked at a similarly “prestigious”* private law school.

    * I think rankings are gross, but they can impact salaries as much as working at a public university, instead of a private university, impacts salaries.

  871. Senior AR Accountant*

    Billing, collections, credit policy, infrastructure and process improvements, CMS guru, supervisor of three AR/billing staff. I work in print/digital media/advertising sales. 14+ years experience, 2.5 years in current role. I have a BA in a completely unrelated field (Humanities… so useful!) I live in Portland, OR. $55k.

  872. Reflecting on things*

    This post is extremely timely, because I was having a bit of a crisis of sorts career-wise, and based on all of this, it appears I am exactly where I should be career-wise. I’m about to make a bit of a humbling decision in the next few days and this is more evidence that my gut instinct is right on.

  873. Content Specialist*

    Content creation (writing, some video) for a particular division of a large university. My job is to write and vet copy, proofread, and strategize content.
    Northern Indiana
    8-ish years in marketing/freelance writing/editing (I’m mid-career)
    $51,000/year
    Nothing else noteworthy except maybe a lower cost of living here. We’re not near any major cities. The university is the second largest employer in the area after healthcare.

  874. Library Assistant*

    * Job: Library Assistant/Clerk (NOT a librarian – I don’t have the credentials for that).
    I work in a public services area of a busy academic library. I help patrons find, request, and check out books. I also help patrons use some of the library’s online and offline resources, and I sometimes answer basic reference questions. If a patron has a detailed reference question or needs complex research help, I direct them to a reference librarian. Most of my “non-public” work involves data entry on patron accounts or for statistical reports.

    * Geographic area: Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas

    * Years of experience: 4 in the library field, and about 15 in the general administrative support field (my job is usually considered “clerical” or “secretarial”).

    * Total annual salary (not including tax and other deductions): a little over $36,000.

    * Additional info: This is a full-time job, while most library support staff jobs are part-time. Also, the pay is much higher than average for this type of job.
    I have a bachelor’s degree, which isn’t required for the position, but it did give me a bit of an edge. The education and higher education fields are among the few where simply having “a degree” (meaning any legitimate bachelor’s degree) is actually helpful in getting entry-level jobs. However, I would need to get a master’s degree in library or information science to qualify as a librarian. And that’s still no guarantee – a few of my coworkers have the appropriate degree, but still have the same job title and relatively low salary I have.

  876. Underwriter*

    -Retail Mortgage Underwriter
    -Midwest, but 100% remote.
    -15.5 yrs in the business, 7 years as an underwriter
    -$77000/year, plus qualified incentives.
    -annual salary is base only, but there is an incentive plan. Salary would likely be more with a CHUMS (working on getting) or VA SAR designation. Underwriters tend to be the higher paid of the process, excluding loan officers who are generally fully commissioned.

  877. Recruiting Assistant*

    Basically what the title says. I assist a team of recruiters once the offers are made, sending the offer letters, running the backgrounds, etc, for a large corporation.
    – Southeast, USA
    – 13
    – $46,000
    – Nonexempt.

  878. Admin Assistant*

    Location: Southern California

    Job: I work the front desk of a small physical therapy clinic. I manage the schedule for 4 therapists. I do a lot of assorted clerical duties with patient health info, and I spend a looot of time talking to insurance companies (mostly worker’s comp and the VA).

    I’ve been in this position for almost 6 months, and had no real office experience before. I make $15 hourly with the possibility of bonuses for hitting goals each financial quarter (two for two so far!). I’m also a full-time student, so I only work 20-25 hours a week, which works out really well for me now.

  879. Executive editor/art director, academic publishing*

    –I run a quarterly 4-color humanities journal, with 4 editorial boards; I’m in charge of the overall functioning of the journal, making decisions on our expansion from print to various electronic formats; overseeing peer review; copy editing and layout; getting the issue through press; I have one half-time assistant who does clerical work and oversees finances; we’re distributed by an academic publisher that deals with subscriptions, packagers, rights permissions, etc.
    –California
    –I’ve been in this job for 12.5 years (and I have a PhD in an adjacent field), been in academic publishing for 30+ years
    –currently $60K plus health/dental/vision, good vacation and sick leave, subsidized bus pass, and access to a lot of university resources; I should get a pension when I retire, although that is increasingly a bone of contention; however, within the university overall, I should be making at least $75K and am in the process of petitioning for an equity raise

  880. ICU RN*

    Highly specialized ICU RN in an academic medical center

    Salary: 0.75 FTE, 12-hour night shifts, about $70k/yr

    Location: Twin Cities, MN. Non-union.

    Education: BSN with 2 specialty certifications

    Experience: 10 years total, 5 with this employer

    Extra: 3% 403(b) match, $3k/year tuition reimbursement, $750/year for conferences and CEUs, fantastic schedule, great working environment, tons of overtime, and all the peanut butter and generic pop you can eat.

    1. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics*

      Hahaha free peanut butter and generic diet cola got me through many tough call shifts in the ICU as a resident :)

  881. Business Intelligence Analyst*

    BI analyst at a large public research university. I mostly do departmental and internal reporting and custom coding projects.
    Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
    3 years doing current role, 9+ years in higher ed
    $61,500/year
    I telecommute 3 days a week and have a very short commute. Our health insurance is stellar. My salary is definitely on the low end of market rate, sometimes falls off the scale it’s so low for around here, but they try to make up for that with benefits and a good work/life balance.

    1. Business Intelligence Analyst*

      Also! We pay into the Texas Teacher Retirement system for retirement, which is a pension. My schedule is pretty flexible, dress code is casual (sometimes too casual…). I am salaried, so no overtime, but I do get comp time. And enormous amounts of PTO as we are a government institution – I currently have about 4 weeks of vacation and 3.5 weeks of sick built up, I earn 10 hours of vacation PTO a month.

      To describe a little more about what I do, I mainly work with the Microsoft SQL Server stack by writing SQL reports, ETL, dashboards, data management, and also some Oracle db reporting.

      My research for market rate is 70-80k/year for a BI analyst of my skill set and experience.

  882. Trading Software Programmer*

    Job: Writing various programs to automatically trade stocks, options, futures, bonds and forex. Anything from backend numerical calculation servers to user displays to market feed handlers. Wide spread of languages: C/C++, C#, R, Python.
    Area: Chicago/Chicago burbs
    Experience: 10 years
    Education: Masters degree in Computer Science/Numerical Analysis.
    Salary: Base is 115,000 with bonus based on company/group profit. Bonus is capped at 4* base salary. Last 4 years bonus payouts were:
    0
    15,000
    12,500
    125,000

  883. Communications Coordinator*

    I create and administer marketing communication strategies across social media, media relations, eblasts, etc. I also do a lot of the basic design and desktop publishing work, as well as some event planning.

    Location: Lower Mainland, BC, CAN
    Experience: 1 year
    Salary: $35,000 w/benefits

  884. Communications Director (Non-Profit)*

    -Lead communications strategy and for non-profit social marketing campaign with national reach including media relations, partner and funder relations, and digital communications.
    -Washington, DC
    -5 years in communiations or relevant positions, less than 1 year in the field my organization operates in
    – 73,000, full benefits

  885. Junior Programmer*

    Job: I’m a software developer who works with the standard (?) Microsoft suite of technologies (.NET Framework/ASP .NET/SQL Server/etc.). I work for a client of my parent company doing codemonkey stuff. :)
    Area: England, not London/Greater London
    Experience: in the 1-2 year range; I entered the workforce in this job. I have a PhD in a STEM area, but not in computer science.
    Salary: £26.5K
    Pertinent info: I get some bonuses (travel and subsistence mainly) which add to the final amount. However, it still comes out under market rate.
    Some flexibility in the schedule, no WFH, overtime only on extremely rare occasions and only if you volunteer for it – it’s then paid at 1.5x.
    There’s a long and thorough training period when you start the job.
    My entry-level salary was £23k, which is/was closer to market rate to my knowledge.

  886. Internal Quality Officer*

    Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK
    2 years in HR and administration, brand new to quality assurance
    Office quality assurance and administration. My charity can be broadly categorised as providing support work, so I check internal processes such as how client files are stored. My role is unique in that I am on a ZH contract, but am always guaranteed full time hours.
    £7 per hour, around £1000 monthly

  887. Assistant Editor*

    Job descripton: Edit and project manage fiction and non-fiction books for a small, independent publisher.
    Region: Western Canada
    Experience: 3 years
    Salary: 30,000, no benefits

  888. Editor*

    Job: I work for a research center at a private college. I didn’t give my actual job title because it’s a recession-era frankenjob and the title would identify me. I spend about 50% of my time editing research papers and briefs, and the other 50% acting as website manager/email marketing coordinator (and very occasionally, designer).
    Geographic area: NYC
    Years of experience: 7
    Salary: 77k + 10% 401k contribution

  889. Database Administrator*

    What I do: My role is more analytics than actual administration a lot of the time–I don’t do a lot of the db tuning or maintenance. I do more schema design, advising on integrations/ETL, data cleanup, and both ad hoc querying/automated report design. I work with a couple different databases regularly.
    Where I do it: Pacific NW
    Years of experience: 4 years
    Salary: $89K
    I started out in a different field and transitioned to this role, so I have more than twice that number of years of experience in the workforce. I’m at a non-profit organization and have an unrelated STEM undergrad degree and a non-STEM MA which is related to the mission of the organization.

  890. Digital Designer*

    * Digital designer (doing web ads, emails, social posts, occasionally webpages) for a large corporation
    * Pittsburgh, PA
    * 6 years of professional experience
    * $53,000

  891. Journalism exec*

    Job: Executive editor for a trade publication
    Geographic area: East Coast
    Years of experience: 5
    Salary: $118,500. 401K match and very flexible workplace. Unlimited PTO. Yearly raises, albeit small (3-4 percent max).

    I feel very, very fortunate and will never leave my company!

  892. Anonymous Educator*

    I guess the horse has left the stable already with 1200+ posts, but could this be a Google Form in the future?

  893. Digital Campaign Manager*

    Manage clients digital marketing. Specifically I’m responsible for acting as the project manager for website builds, as well as building and managing SEM/PPC campaigns. I also act as the clients main point of contact for any communication with our company and review their data reporting with them each month.

    Salary: 50,000
    Location: DFW
    Education: BA in Advertising
    Experience: I’ve been with my company for a year and a half. I came here right out of college.

  894. Accounting Associate*

    Accounting Associate
    Cleveland, Ohio
    13 years accounting experience
    $50,000/year

    Job is for an investment firm and includes inputting all bank and securities trading activity, monthly bank reconciliations, quarterly investment valuations, basic general ledger entries

    *no degree (working on it), not a CPA

  895. Executive Assistant*

    Support director and head office staff of medium-sized not-for-profit organization that works closely with various levels of government. Also responsible for company-wide IT coordination, records retention, corporate branding consistency, and all accounts payable work.
    Location: Central Alberta, Canada
    Experience: 10 years
    Salary: $53,000 with benefits (4 weeks vacation)

  896. Deputy Recorder*

    – Deputy recorder/auditor for county government, responsible for maintaining the public record, recording real property documents, receiving excise tax on behalf of State, issuing marriage licenses.
    – Western Washington.
    – 1.5 years on job, but 10 years experience with public record matters.
    – $49,000.00.

  897. Retail Manager of an Interior Design Studio*

    Job- Studio Manager at an Interior Design Studio. Serving residential and trade clients. Reports to a corporate office but responsible for all operational duties, hiring, sales results.

    Area- Seattle

    Experience- 6 years retail management experience, Bachelor’s degree, Interior design degree

    Salary $65,000 base and $500-$1500/month in commissions

  898. Principal Technical Writer*

    Job: Use DITA authoring tool to single-source customer-facing web help and PDFs for cloud based SaaS applications. Work from requirements documents, project management documents, hands-on experience in test environments, wikis, ticketing systems, watercooler conversations, carrier pigeon, smoke signals, and psychic abilities.
    Geographic area: Utah, USA
    Years of experience: 20+
    Salary: $90,000+ USD base with possible performance-based bonuses in stock or deferred cash payouts
    Additional context: current employer is a global, recognizable brand

  899. Director of Development and Communications*

    Job: In charge of all fundraising and marketing for a 2mil budget non-profit. Includes grant writing and report, soliciting of donors, writing direct mail appeals, overseeing all communications, website maintenance, social media, branding, etc.
    Geographic area: Silicon Valley
    Years of experience: 10 years in the non-profit field (includes 3 years in grad school receiving education and non-profit management masters)
    Salary: 80K, receive full benefits, 3 weeks vacation and 12 holidays.

  900. Volunteer Coordinator*

    job :Volunteer and Events Coordinator- I recruit, organize, train, recognize and communicate with individual volunteers, groups (including sponsored group opps) and interns/AmeriCorps volunteers for various projects (about 5,000 per year). I assist with event logistics and special fundraising projects. I also assist on various development/marcomm projects throughout the year.
    area: Northern Virginia (outside Washington DC)
    years of experience: 7 years
    your salary: $48,500

    1. Also a Volunteer Coordinator*

      I manage the onboarding process for our corps of ~700 volunteers, manage one person, and do some HR work.

      area: DC
      years of experience: 2
      salary: $35,000 with pretty good benefits

  901. Group Copy Supervisor*

    Your job: I write for a pharma ad agency – specifically in managed markets (health plans, hospitals, government payers, and anyone else with a formulary). I write slide decks, websites, videos, emails, and print pieces for my own brands and also manage a team of 3 copywriters.
    Geographic area: NJ
    Years of experience: 10 (5 in advertising)
    Your salary: $120k, plus annual bonus

  902. Strategy Manager*

    Job Description – I analyze companies/markets/products and identify potential new strategies my company could undertake to improve competitively in the market/make more money/long term planning given various external scenarios. Or as I like to call it “playing chess with corporates”. My role is slightly different now that I recently changed jobs, but who I work for is unique and could be identifying. This role typically interacts with senior leadership figures so there can be a considerable amount of stress, politics, and long hours involved, depending on the location and company.

    Location: London, UK
    Experience: 15 years experience in a range of strategy and related corporate strategy/development roles. MS Economics with a lot of MBA and Applied Economics coursework
    Salary: £72K, with extremely generous pension plan, 5.5 weeks vacation, generous work from home capabilities, small bonus (approx £3k annual), employer paid private healthcare (pretty big deal here). I took a slight pay cut to market to take this job because the people are nice, the hours are easy, the work is interesting, and the stress limited compared to past roles. Seemed like a good place to ride out the Brexit mess while I wait to see if the UK govt decides to yank my right to live and work here.

  903. Criminal Attorney*

    – prosecuting attorney, misdemeanor cases (minor assaults, DUI, thefts, etc)
    -suburban area in the Pacific NW
    -experience: first job out of law school, been here for 6 months now. Various internships for ~2 years before that
    -salary: $45,000

    Other important factors: I have >$150k in educational debt. No health benefits with my job. I do get 12 days of paid vacation and 3% matching towards retirement. I work probably 50 hours in an average week, plus over an hour commute. Love my job, but the salary is not quite cutting it for me. I’ll probably move on once I have a couple years experience.

      1. Attorney*

        Sorry. I did not mean this snarky. I meant our society should value this work more and put more tax payer dollars to paying you fairly.

        1. Criminal attorney*

          No offense taken! Part of the reason for my low salary is that I’m actually employed by a firm that has a contract with the city. So the taxpayers pay $x, my firm takes cut $y, and $x – y is only $45k. I don’t know how much the contract is for or how much the partners take home, so it’s hard to know who exactly is shorting me.

          I do know that similar positions working directly for the government pay roughly $60k, plus health insurance and a pension.

  904. Manager (Public Accounting)*

    your job: manager at a mid-size public accounting firm
    your geographic area: NYC
    your years of experience: 5 years
    your salary: 103k
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context

    1. Manager (Public Accounting)*

      * 55-65 hours per week during February and March
      * 40 hours per week and 3 days of working from home rest of year
      * casual dress code unless visiting client’s office

  905. AuburnLocks*

    Nonprofit Program Director
    Midsized arts nonprofit (2-3million dollar annual budget)
    I oversee a granting program that gives out a few hudred thousand dolars a year and a bunch of educational programs and a conference.
    Large west coast city
    10 years experience (8 in another industry previous to this one).
    Salary – 65,000
    I’m in late stage interviews for a very similar job that pays 85,000. But may need to turn it down because of the commute since they aren’t looking open to a schedule that would allow for some work from home days to balance out the long drive.

  906. Executive Director*

    Region: Midwest
    Experience: 3 years as Executive Director, 10 years in industry
    Salary: $98,000
    Benefits: 5% employer contribution to a retirement plan and employer health insurance with a minimal employee cost share
    Comment: Based on my own research (easier in the nonprofit sector because of 990 tax forms), this is under market by $10k-20k probably. Organization size is about $5 million per year.

  907. EmilyAnn*

    Job: International Relations Specialist
    Responsible for building international relationships with comparative government agencies around the world.
    Geographic Area: Washington, D.C
    Years of Experience: 6-8 years (Always unsure which of my professional experiences to count, but I graduated from college in 2008 and have worked in government ever since), I also have a Masters Degree
    Salary: 94,000+ (I’d have to check the chart for an exact number for 2017), 4 weeks vacation, Federal Holidays and an Alternative Work Schedule (every other Friday off).

  908. Technical Writer*

    I’m a technical writer who writes and edits computer network security content.
    Seattle
    4.5 years as a technical writer; 10 years in IT prior to that
    70,000 USD
    I have an English degree, worked in IT for 10 years, and then combined those skills which worked out pretty well. My salary reflects SME knowlege as well as technical writing experience.

  909. Luxury car nut*

    Job: Luxury car sales (one of the major German brands)
    Area: South Central USA
    Years of experience: 4.5
    Salary: technically, my “salary” is $30,000. I made a bit over $110,000 last year. Should be on pace to do $130,000 this year.
    Other info: this is only possible at a well-run store and autogroup. Many dealerships are fraught with dysfunction, and many more just have weak sales and finance staff. Only with the right people, product, and advertising do dealerships make any money.

  910. Project Manager (Non-Profit Org)*

    Description: Manage communication and marketing campaigns for a university fundraising program (non-profit). Oversee strategy, design, editorial, digital, and video projects.
    Location: Chicago (metro area)
    Years of experience: 7
    Salary: $60k
    Additional notes: I do not have a PMP or any project management certifications.

  911. Senior Project Director*

    Client-facing role working with State Departments of Education… I carry out contract components, document all aspects of production/administration, and plan/facilitate conferences that gather educators to weigh in on products.

    Region: western Massachusetts (a.k.a. not Boston)

    ~12 years of semi-related experience, including 3 total years at this job

    Current salary is $55,000 (started in mid 40s and received two merit increases during annual reviews)

  912. Communications Director*

    Communications Director
    I am responsible for all printed materials, news releases, media relations, website, social media, speaking engagements for a nonprofit area agency on aging
    Region: Midwest
    Experience: 15 months here, 16+ years total
    Salary: $53,000 plus benefits (paid vacation, sick and personal days, paid holidays, health insurance, 403b with employer match)

  913. Management Consultant*

    -Staffed to short (2 – 16 weeks) projects for wide variety of clients, traveling to client offices most weeks. Work mostly involves data analysis, developing/testing strategy, advising on implementation, etc.
    -PA (with travel elsewhere most weeks)
    -4 years of unrelated social sector work experience
    -$160K – $195K, depending on bonuses. $20K-$30K signing bonus
    -excellent benefits (no premiums for medical/dental/vision), okay work/life balance for industry

  914. BoutiqueLawAtty*

    Attorney at a small boutique firm
    DC
    Regulatory counseling
    5 years experience
    190K plus 10-25K bonus depending on performance and billables. This is lower than biglaw, but my hours requirements are much lower as well – I end up making more than a biglaw associate on a per-hour basis.

  915. Guide Dog Mobility Instructor*

    Job Description: I train guide dogs for people who are blind, and then train people how to use them safely.
    Area: Oakland County, Michigan
    Years of Experience: almost 18
    Salary: $28.37/hour (=approx. $60,000/year)
    Other info: I have a master’s degree in a related field and an additional industry-specific certification

  916. Librarian (manager)*

    Branch Manager at a public library, supervise 14 staff, do a lot of front line librarianing

    Dallas/Fort Worth

    18 years of experience

    74K (pretty high for the region)

  917. Michelle*

    Marketing Coordinator
    Job: Manage social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google +, Instagram), webpage design, SEO, AdWords, graphic design, complete print and online quarterly newsletters, email campaigns, plan and run non fundraising events, assist development with fundraising events, coordinate outreach activities, plan and implement marketing plan for agency, department budgeting, write news releases, manage volunteer office staff, data entry and run reports on census.
    Geographical area: Washington state (non-urban)
    Years of experience: 3.5 no college degree
    Salary: 36,500 w/full benefits

  918. Executive Director*

    Executive Director
    Historical Society and Museum
    Minnesota Twin Cities
    15+ years
    $21/hr

  919. Property Assistant*

    A not-so-great name for what is essentially an Assistant Property Manager-level position.

    Job: Assist tenants and property manager in resolving maintenance issues, going over rent, charging CAMS (common area maintenance), hiring vendors, budgeting, marketing and more.
    Geographic area: Greater Seattle area, USA
    Years of experience: 4+ in Property Management, all work-based
    Salary: 42k, benefits available but not taken, 3 weeks vacation, 3 sick days, 2 personal days, and 6-8 holidays/year.

    1. Property Assistant*

      I should have tagged mine “Commercial real estate” as well. Our portfolio includes commercial, retail, office, industrial, etc.

      And yes, I know I’m getting screwed on the money. The company is up-and-coming and only has two staff members – my boss and I – so I took a pay cut to come here because I’m confident that the salary will grow as the business does. Time will tell!

  920. Systems Administrator (School)*

    * I manage imaging, deploying, and updating Macs, along with general support for Windows computers, iPads, Apple TVs, and other computer-related things around school.
    * Bay Area (Northern California)
    * 5 years’ experience
    * US$75,000

  921. Digital Services Librarian*

    – I manage our website, research databases and all digital content (ebooks, etc.). Heavy on project management and resource selection, troubleshooting. I like the job a lot, and feel like my job is pretty secure since digital content is king.
    – Mid-Atlantic city of about 500,000 population (public library)
    – 9 years professional (post MLS) experience
    – $45,000 – minimal raises, public sector
    – Insurance pretty good, I’m grandfathered into our state pension retirement system and leave system, a little over 2 weeks annual leave (this increases every 5 years), 8 hrs per month paid sick leave. New employees are on a 401k style retirement plan with 10 hours PTO per month, rather than annual and sick leave. So I’m not likely to leave and lose my benefits, even with the limited raises, unless another library that honors my current retirement/leave system had an opening. My library system pays comparatively well to others in the surrounding area.

  922. Marketing Manager*

    Job: Marketing Communications Manager at a mid-size company. Manages 2 employees. Leads team which is responsible for all external communications including print, digital and trade events.
    Geographic area: Minneapolis, MN
    Years of Experience: 10 Years, though made a career shift 4 years ago to focus more in corporate marketing
    Salary: $79,000, plus benefits, matching 401K, and an annual bonus, typically a few thousand dollars

  923. Customer analytics manager*

    Statistical analysis, design projects to measure incremental revenue etc, analyze customer and transactional data, strategic analysis. 1 direct report. Medium sized for profit company in the Midwest.
    Salary: 96K, plus approx 8 percent bonus for good performance
    Experience: MSc degree with 2.5 years experience

    I somehow ended up in this high paying job even though I don’t have much experience. Unfortunately I am completely burning out. I regularly drive to work or from work crying. I know I am lucky to have this job but I am going to start looking for something a bit more entry level.

  924. Industrial Engineer*

    Senior Industrial Engineer
    10 years experience
    $90,000
    Ohio
    I specialize in warehousing and logistics.

  925. Administrative Assistant*

    job: Typical admin work, data collection and consolidation, every kind of filing under the sun, compliance tracking and other personnel-related data maintenance
    MSP/Twin Cities area
    1 in this position, 5+ in retail management, reception
    $31K but am an hourly employee
    I have a bachelor’s degree in a liberal arts field but also have multiple professional certifications in the field i’m trained in and in the field I work in.

  926. Instructional Designer*

    Job Description: I work at a University and work with faculty to develop in-person and online courses. I do anything from editing vidoes, to helping design activities and assessments, to editing learning objectives, to helping them use our Learning Management System (LMS). I also run a series of workshops on teaching in the online environment/using our LMS with guest speakers. I also liason with our IT team to help faculty troubleshoot issues with the LMS and get access to their courses.
    Area: Philadelphia
    Years of experience: 1 (newly graduated with Masters Degree)
    Salary: $52,000

    1. Instructional Designer too*

      I have to say, it’s cool to see other instructional designers pop up. We’re a rare breed

      1. INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER FOR A HUGE MULTINATIONAL CORP*

        Crap, here I am! I put my information down lower, unable to find any other IDs!

  927. Mark Dragon*

    Data Analyst – using SQL and BI Software in
    Vancouver, British Columbia,
    8 years experience.
    Salary 61,000 + pension, dental & medical.

  928. Analyst (federal government)*

    At a medium-size agency, I research, analyze collected information and data, and write reports on a wide range of topics.
    -DC area
    -2 years of experience (plus about 1 year as an intern)
    -$80k
    -I have a PhD, which is not required for my job but was a factor in a higher salary than normal for my position and years of experience.

  929. Office Associate Senior*

    My Job:
    Receptionist in an academic department at a university. In addition to the typical stuff (answering phone, dealing visitors, mail, etc.) I also purchase all of the office supplies and provide secretarial support for about 25 faculty members. Secretarial support for 25 faculty members may sound like a ton of work but it is not as much as one would think. Most are pretty self-sufficient.

    Geographic Area: University town in south-eastern US.

    Experience: 5 as a secretary but had spent 20 years in the tech field before that.

    Salary: $13.28 hour (we are generally underpaid for the market but we do get 2 weeks annual leave plus a week off for spring break plus the entire week between Christmas and New Year off).

  930. Mechanical Engineer*

    I’m a mechanical engineer at one of those trendy Silicon Valley startups

    Location: SF Bay Area
    Experience: 5 yrs industry, 1.5 at this company
    Salary: $85,000* + stock options + benefits
    Benefits include: $5,000 moving bonus (I’m hoping that I can get this added back into my salary this year), good insurance (health/dental/eye) with premiums 100% paid for the employee, free food/drinks, free use of company product

    * You currently need $120k+/year to get a decently-sized apartment without roommates and still be able to have a meager savings account. The bubble may pop soon (hopefully!)

  931. Technical Project Manager*

    -I manage IT and software development projects at a small start-up.
    -Greater-Chattanooga metro area
    -14 years in various roles from junior project manager to analyst to software engineer to project manager
    -$85,000/year plus benefits including health insurance and 401k with matching, 3 weeks vacation, 1 week sick leave and a flexible environment where I can work from home if needed

  932. Business Officer (Department Manager)*

    Administrative manager of an academic department at a public university (R1).
    NC, USA
    10+ years
    Just over $50k
    Comparable managers in other departments make more or less (a range of at least $40-$80k) depending on the size of their department.

  933. High school English teacher*

    -Job: High school English teacher. I teach five classes of sophomore English at a smallish private high school.
    -Area: Texas
    -Years of experience: This is my first year teaching high school, plus five years teaching college
    -Salary: $51k.
    -I have a master’s and PhD in English, which helped put me slightly higher on the salary scale.

  934. Policy Analyst*

    Job: Research social, economic, fiscal, or policy related issues that affect the urban school district that I work for. Craft policy statements or prepare research briefs for our local school board. Facilitate all requests for public records, pursuant to our state’s public records laws. Supervise 1 staff person.

    Area: Midwestern U.S., urban school population

    Salary: $74,000/year

    I think I get paid more than analysts in my area simply because my Director at the time was told to create my position and had no clue what the person filling it should do or how much they should be paid. Analysts for local “think tanks” and other government sectors make about $10-12,000 less than me.

  935. Digital Librarian*

    I manage & develop a state library’s digital collections and supervise the digitization team. I also serve on internal committees, publish, attend conferences, and consult with local archives on digital projects.

    Metro area in the southeast US

    $48000

    5 years professional library experience (academic, archives, & special), 6 years academic admin experience before grad school

    I have an MIS which is required, get good state benefits & am eligible for student loan forgiveness after 10 years.

  936. Cataloguer*

    Cataloguer at an online auction house—I research artworks and verify info before sales go live. Also write copy for works above a certain value threshold (most of the ones we sell).
    NY, NY, USA
    2.5-ish years
    $43k

  937. Assistant Director for Student Services*

    Administer, revise, direct, and advise for graduate programs for the unit. See also: website supervision/updating, social media, newsletter, alumni contact and tracking, student recruitment, career advising, some funding competition oversight, assist with grant writing and reporting, student-focused programming. At a Big10 public uni.

    Location: Indiana
    Experience: 7 yrs in this position (I’ve grown it in scope and competency). I have a unit-related Master’s degree. Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and Student Affairs (2014), and have just started (as in on Monday) a Master of Science in Adult Education (expected graduation Summer or Fall 2019)
    Salary: 37K
    Context: great health insurance and other benefits, including a tuition benefit that covers roughly 2 undergrad or 1 graduate level class (minus fees, still have to pay student fees). My school has bemoaned declining enrollments for the past several years and haven’t given raises over 1.5% as a result of less money coming in.

    1. Yuppie*

      I was an assistant director for student services for 5+ years, too…until I just couldn’t afford the luxury of such a great job any longer. :(

  938. Software Developer*

    Job: Ruby on Rails developer for a startup

    Area: London, UK

    Experience: 11 years development (4 with ROR)

    Salary: £65,000 + £5,000 contribution to pension

  939. Nurse Practitioner*

    Job: Nurse practitioner for geriatric practice. I see patients in SNFs/nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
    Area: Denver
    Years: 1.5
    Salary: $95k plus up to $3k in annual bonus

  940. Technical Writer*

    Freelancer through a consulting company. Creating in-class and e-learning lesson materials for corporate-commissioned training (power point slides, presenter scripts, activities, workbooks, reference materials, and etc.). Specializing in medical/surgical instruments instruction. Some project management and client wrangling required.

    Columbus, OH
    3 years technical writer experience, B.A. in English Lit.
    72,000/year for 40 hours a week, plus bonuses and side projects.

    This is a 1099 position, so no benefits, PTO, etc.. But, I have unheard of amounts of schedule flexibility and freedom, and I’m allowed to pick up independent projects on the side.

  941. Data Scientist*

    > I do general business strategy , consulting and problem solving leveraging data and analytics. In addition, we specialize in personalization of marketing material or targeting. This involves building and executing models for use in direct marketing campaigns
    >financial industry
    >Washington, DC metro
    >3 years of experience
    > 89k salary + bonus (~30%)
    >undergrad and masters focused on statistics, analytics management and consumer behavior

  942. Risk Analyst*

    I work for a large lender in the Risk Management department. My group helps set the lending policies for the company, monitors performance of our accounts and, if necessary, adjust policies.
    Texas
    5.5 years at this company, 8.5 total post-college experience
    $84k

  943. AuthorizationAgent*

    Work at a call center as a cubicle monkey. Not a supervisor; we have different departments that are considered different levels of difficulty and I’m at a midrange department. Most of my day is spent translating from technical report English to customer English.
    Bay Area, CA
    This will make my 2nd full year in customer service; I also have another year in seasonal work doing customer service
    17 something an hour or about 35k a year. Decent benefits. Missed out on a raise in November because I was juuuustt under the time of being permanent to get it. Blah.

  944. Associate Attorney*

    I’m an associate attorney in employment and labor law with a private firm.
    Location: Charleston/Savannah/Hilton Head area
    Experience: Almost 5 years at current job, almost 6 years licensed
    Salary: $55,000
    Anything else: My last day is Friday; I’m quitting because I hate the people I work for despite not having a job lined up. The salary is not reflective because, until starting last week, the job misclassified all of its workers (including support staff) as independent contractors (they’re changing that practice because I filed Form SS-8 with the IRS and got a determination in my favor). There are no benefits. A recruiter has told me that I’m quite underpaid for private law for the greater geographic area – roughly 15th percentile.

  945. Client Services Coordinator*

    I administer trust funds for individuals with special needs. The trusts help protect beneficiaries’ government entitlements (SSI and Medicaid). Basically executive customer service for a sometimes-difficult population. I’m also in the process of creating policies and procedures for my team, and I handle accounts when the beneficiary has passed away.

    I live in a mid-sized city in a Mid-Atlantic state.

    Been on the job since last summer but all told I have about 6 years’ experience in non-profits and 3 years in social work.

    $33,000/year plus a bonus and benefits (four weeks PTO, a SEP if I stick around long enough, subsidized insurance if I wasn’t covered by my husband’s plan); other benefits include going home for lunch every day.

  946. Deputy Program Manager*

    Second in charge on a $5 million a year government contract in the educational field. Duties include knowing government regulations and managing the work of a team of about 10-15 persons.
    -Midwest medium size urban city
    -7+ years of experience
    -$70,000 salary, retention bonus varying between 2.5-5% of salary awarded annually.

  947. Corporate Recruiter*

    Job: Corporate Recruiter for large corp.
    Area: I’m located in the DC Metro area, but I work nationally
    Years of Experience: 8 in Recruiting
    Salary: $50K base with a bonus plan based on hires/quality of hire annually about $30-$40K bonus (could potentially double salary)

    Master’s in Organizational Development, full benefits, 3 weeks vacation, unlimited sick leave, cell stipend

    1. Postdoctoral Research Fellow*

      Job: Postdoctoral fellowship funded by the VA, with a dual appointment at a major research university. I project manage a multimillion dollar grant and do data analysis in the hopes of getting my own publications/grants/eventual faculty position.
      Area: SF Bay Area
      Years of Experience: 10 in my field (5 getting my PhD)
      Salary: 50K (high for my position nationally, low for the region where I live)

  948. Technology & Communication - Sr Professional*

    Job: Odd blend of tech work, implementing new software & some data/analytics, as well as tech side of communication campaigns & customer service
    Geo: Colorado
    Experience: 7 or so years hodgepodge of tech-related, functional end-user focused jobs in different fields (this niche developed organically at a few entry-level jobs)
    Salary: 61k, generous retirement match, good vacation & other benefits

    I feel lucky looking at the above but it took a couple of undesirable jobs (often underpaid) to get here. Luckily my salary is keeping up to some extent with the cost of living here in CO.

  949. Chief Communications Officer*

    JOB: Design and implement a comprehensive communications strategy for a county-level public sector organization. Provide communications counseling and guidance to senior leadership and elected officials. Oversee all proactive and reactive communications (including internal communications, media relations, crisis communications, website, social media, publications, and community relations).

    GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Southern California

    YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 16 years

    SALARY: $140k

  950. Software Engineering Manager*

    My job:

    Managing teams (up to 20 reports) building mission-critical software infrastructure for a very large software development firm. Acting as a key member of the team of software architects which help design and maintain these systems.

    Geographic area: SF Bay Area

    Experience: PhD plus 10 years experience.

    Salary: $235k salary +$400k bonus/stock = $635k annual total comp (averaged over past 4 years)

  951. Secretary/Admin Aasistant*

    I perform secretarial/admin duties for four different programs in an educational environment.
    Located in Texas
    3yrs of experience
    $22,319/year and like many education environments, it’s broken down into a monthly salary that includes days off paid and unpaid. I also get to contribute to teacher’s retirement systems rather than social security and have teacher’s insurance.

  952. Supervisory Engineer*

    First-level supervisor of 20 aerospace engineers.
    Ohio
    30+ years with BS and MS in engineering
    $122k plus government benefits (including a 1% yearend bonus! Yippee!)

  953. Communications & Training Coordinator (Nonprofit-Maryland)*

    Communications 50%
    In coordination with staff, establish and implement a communications plan to enhance awareness of [nonprofit focus], link to national efforts, and promote activities and initiatives of [organization]. This includes taking the lead and being proactive using, but not limited to, the following tools: 1) Email Marketing 2) Social Media 3) Website 4) Print. Develop an efficient and centralized contact management system. Conduct targeted outreach to media contacts at specified times.

    Training 50%
    Coordinate marketing, registration, and speakers for the six-day training and present multiple modules of the curriculum. Develop and provide workshops to allied professionals multiple times per year. Coordinate statewide workshops and speaker/consultants, including national and local consultants. Coordinate and manage webinars. Coordinate trainings, logistics, and materials with national and local contractual trainers and staff trainers. Assist with the implementation of an organization-wide database and aid in the collection of data collection and record keeping and reporting requirements to measure outcomes and impact of activities. Provide support for agency-wide events and statewide conferences.

    Geographic area: Maryland (DC/Baltimore)
    Years experience: 4
    Salary: $47,000

  954. Digital Media Strategy (Advertising)*

    I create digital advertising for clients in a regional market (no national campaigns). This includes programmatic network ads, Facebook, video, consulting on web design/copy, digital marketing strategies. No content or organic social media work. I work in an ad agency. No direct reports, and no direct supervisor either.

    :: I live in one of the highest COL cities in America. $2 for a can of tuna, $7 for a loaf of factory bread. $2.99 for a green pepper. :(
    :: Years of experience: 3 direct years, 1 additional for general marketing, and a year in semi-applicable internships
    :: Salary: $67K (I negotiated and got $4k more, thanks to AAM.) 401k (no match), decent dental/health/vision coverage, 2 weeks PTO, friendly work environment, office with ocean view. Not much room for growth. Not expecting any raises :(

    I think my salary is high-ish for my area, but average in the field, according to Glassdoor, and this post.

  955. CRM Analyst*

    Training users on and maintaining a CRM system pilot in a fairly large global AEC firm. Coordinate with differing levels and divisions of the business to determine needs and setup. Will be responsible for company-wide implementation once approval is received.

    geographic area: Midwest
    years of experience: 2
    salary: $65,000
    Was at $50k, but my team lead recently left, and they bumped me to market levels after deciding not to replace her (and trying to retain me).

  956. IT / Sysadmin / DevOps Engineer*

    junior level system administration, operations, and programming in a university research setting
    Boston, MA, USA
    $62K
    coming up on 2 years experience
    I’m staff at a big university so the benefits are excellent (4 weeks vacation, loads of sick time, many paid holidays)
    Cost of living here is high. I pay almost $900/month for a room in a run-down place I share with 2 roommates, and it’s very likely the cheapest apartment in the neighborhood.

    1. Jr Embedded-ish Software Engineer*

      Here to sympathize about the cost of Boston apartments. I split $2100/mo with a roommate for the high privilege of having a 13ft x 5ft real actual grass lawn (shared with renters on the other floor of the house). But that’s because I’m ridiculously privileged with an engineer’s salary and because my mental health goes out the window without having (mostly-)private green space.

    2. IT/Senior Sysadmin /Cloud /Architect*

      Senior Sysadmin, specialising in linux, cloud, security, web systems, scripting, coding, orchestration. Lots of documentation, design & architecture, presales, client engagement and projects.
      Canberra, Australia
      155k package (Salary & Super)
      25+ years experience. And no I don’t wear pants-suspenders, or have a beard. :-)
      I work for a private company, but Canberra is a Federal Govt town, public servants with equivalent experience are on a package around the $110k mark aiui.

  957. Children's Librarian*

    -Run a large public library’s children’s department
    -Midwest US
    -10 years in public libraries, 8 years in youth services, 3.5 years in current job.
    -$50k
    -additional context: Union library, 4 weeks’ vacation, 1 week personal, 12 sick days/yr, standard dental and health insurance

    1. Youth Services Librarian*

      -I am the youth services manager (dept. of 2 teens and a part-time associate, service pop. 24,000 – small town library)
      -Midwest US
      – 8.5 years in current job, previous experience in academic, public and school libraries through part-time jobs and internships. Masters in library science.
      -$50k (before taxes, retirement, and insurance – I take home about $33K)
      I have risen to the heights of 200 hours of PTO (that’s everything together), I have $30k in student loans, I rent (property taxes are high here – resort area) and I’m single with no dependents.

  958. Business Analyst*

    Business Analyst at a fortune 100 company
    Orange County, CA
    5 years in this capacity, 13 years industry experience
    119,995/yearly salary + 10% target bonus, more or less depending on performance of the company
    6 weeks paid vacation yearly, 100% work from home, 401k matching, some (5%) travel, flexible schedule

    I work regular 60-70 hour weeks, however, as I work with multinational teams on different time zones. My weekends are never sacred.

  959. Sr. Systems Admin*

    Job: Oversee multi-province data sharing system, maintain MSSQL databases, quality control and testing.

    Geographic Area: Canadian Prairies

    Experience: 20 years (mostly non-profit)

    Salary: Base $75,000 (Canadian) + regular overtime at double regular rate

    Benefits: 5 weeks vacation, unlimited sick leave, defined benefit pension, full dental / vision / prescription

    Context: Unionized. Masters required for position.

  960. Health and Safety Manager*

    – Manage the occupational health and safety program for a public utility with significant safety hazards (construction, chemicals, falls, traffic, etc). Although I have the manager job title, my only staff is a secretary. Work includes program management and running committees, but also field visits and inspections. I also administer the safety training program, both by teaching and coordinating expert instructors.
    – Bay Area, CA
    – 12 years of experience
    – $150k salary (+ pension & great benefits)
    – Context: I am salaried and get called off-hours to respond to emergencies a few times per month, plus attend board of directors meetings in the evening every other week.

  961. Social Media Manager*

    Oversee social media strategy and execution for a large organization. I manage a small team of coordinators who do the day-to-day content creation and account management; my time is mostly spent on high-level digital/social strategy and integration. Think marketing director focused on social media.
    Los Angeles
    8 in social media, 11 in digital marketing/production
    $130,000, benefits are quite good, but nothing breathtaking.

  962. Healthcare Analyst*

    your job : Healthcare Analyst
    I work in a multi-clinic system that sees mostly low income patients.
    My job includes clinical & financial reporting. This requires SQL programming, VBA, the ability to dig into proprietary systems and get the data we have put in back out in useful formats. I oversee &/0r run (including data entry) employee and patient satisfaction surveys. I explain how we compare to state/national measures, where we are falling behind and help dig out why we’re behind.
    My first goal is to help make patient care better – even if it’s only through automation to give clinical staff more time to see patients.
    your geographic area: Oregon
    your years of experience: 14
    your salary: $68,000/yr

  963. Anonny*

    Job: web project senior manager
    Geographic area: Washington DC Metro region
    Years of experience: Fourteen
    Salary: $89K per year
    Other info: I have a master’s degree plus web development certification. I also work for one of the largest and most prominent nonprofits in the world headquartered in the DC area

  964. Assistant Editor (Book Publishing)*

    your job: assistant acquisitions editor for a book publisher
    your geographic area: nyc
    your years of experience: 4
    your salary: $38k

    would love to connect with any fellow book editors here!

  965. Finance Manager*

    Job- Finance Manager for a $45MM revenue company with ~130 employees. I am responsible for monthly reporting & analysis, business case preparation, budgeting and forecasting, pretty much any other reporting our executive staff needs/requests, and supporting our treasury VP on any new funding source requests. I have one direct report with another possible add this year

    Area- Chicagoland

    Experience- will have 10 years of experience in June (with 1 year abroad in 2009/10 in Brazil), undergrad Finance, MBA in 2015 in Strategy and Decision Making

    Salary $90,000 + 6% bonus (expecting a bump in March)

  966. Reference Librarian*

    Part-time Reference Librarian
    Community College Library
    19.5 hours a week
    Texas
    $23.39/hour
    BA, MLIS, 5 years experience

    I’m actually full-time interim this semester, but I’m waiting to see how much I will be making – I’m not “official” until next week. I’m interested to see how much I will get and how much it compares to some of the other librarians who have posted.

  967. Office Manager*

    Office Manager for a commercial services company. Anything that has to do with spending money comes through me- payroll, payables, budgeting, purchase orders, etc. About 150 total employees, $15M in company revenues.

    I live in Arizona

    BA in Accounting, 17 years general office experience. Have been Office Manager for 8 years.

    $76K salary, 3 weeks vacation, sick time, company pays 75% of health insurance premium.

  968. Another State Government Attorney*

    – State government attorney, handling civil, administrative, and criminal matters
    – Nebraska
    – 3 years experience
    – $54,500

    Cost of living is low here, and my state has gone through budget crises before & during my time which caused the starting salary for my position to be extremely low even for this market. The benefits are great and include very good health insurance, a state retirement plan, and generous vacation and sick time. Unlike a lot of state positions, my office is very flexible on scheduling / comp time and people take full advantage of that.

  969. Compliance Manager*

    -Job Description: Accounting/Compliance/HR/Ops for a political nonprofit- Oversight of activities conducted by c4 nonprofit and PACs to maintain healthy primary/political split, assists DoF to implement payroll, develops projected spending for PAC accounts, prepares disclosure reports of campaign finance and lobbying at the federal and state level for ~10 states, manages AR for c4 and PACs and consults development dept. on sending invoices and follow up for payments, manages AP for PACs, administers grant program, general accounting and audit preparation for c4 and PAC accounts, manages employee credit cards to ensure expenditures are coded properly and receipts present, executes HR duties from recruitment to offboarding, occasional operations tasks and all other duties as assigned that fall under admin.
    -Area: Washington, DC
    -Years of Experience: 2 in this position, 6 in admin (3 while a college student)
    -Salary: $42k with COLA of 2-5% (income percentage based) but no bonuses/raises; benefits: 85% health care paid, matching 401k up to 5%, life insurance, metrobenefits, 2 wks vacation + 5 sick and 3 personal, week between xmas and new years office is closed with PTO, monthly cell phone reimb.

  970. Academic Project Manager*

    I am a project manager at a university for large scale NIH funded grants (>3 mil per year)
    Less than 1 year experience (fresh noob here!), no PMP, no formal training, kinda got chucked into this position. Previously was a clinical research coordinator.
    Southern California.
    $52K per year but will go up to around 56K once HR finishes realizing I’m a PM now. Generous benefits, union covered.

  971. Instructional Designer*

    Design and develop training for Corporate America (super creative in theory)
    In actual practice, I revise documents based on others’ input.
    Southwest
    2.5 years at current company
    $54k salaried, benefits include 401k matching, medical/dental, employee discounts, stock participation
    Master’s Degree in Educational Technology – Instructional Design emphasis

    My official job title is Learning and Development Specialist, see also Training Development, Instructional Development

  972. Social Media Manager*

    Oversee social media strategy and execution for a large organization. I manage a small team of coordinators who handle day-to-day content creation and profile management. Most of my time is spent on higher-level digital/social strategy and integration. Think marketing director focused on social media.
    Los Angeles
    8 years in social media, 11 in digital marketing/production
    $130k + good (but not amazing) benefits

  973. Postdoctoral Research Fellow*

    Job: Postdoctoral fellowship funded by the VA, with a dual appointment at a major research university. I project manage a multimillion dollar grant and do data analysis in the hopes of getting my own publications/grants/eventual faculty position.
    Area: SF Bay Area
    Years of Experience: 10 in my field (5 getting my PhD)
    Salary: 50K (high for my position nationally, low for the region where I live)

  974. Research Secretary Senior*

    – Type manuscripts for research journals, create posters, monitor finances, and handle procurement for a research lab at a major university
    – Midwest
    – 30+ years with this institution in jobs that have included data entry, medical transcription, research grant preparation, procurement, etc.
    – $55k salary
    Context: I have a Bachelor’s degree and did take a year out many years ago to teach high school. When I returned to the university, I received a huge bump in salary. I am earning probably $10k more than I would have if I had been here my entire career.

  975. Paralegal*

    Corporate Paralegal (specifically, transactional) for Biglaw firm
    Los Angeles
    4 year degree, paralegal certificate, 6 year experience
    $82,600 base, 4.5% bonus, 9.5% profit sharing
    I was able to make big jumps (started 6 years ago at $42,000) because my group switched firms twice, and I negotiated significant pay bumps both times

  976. Administrative Assistant (when I'm working)*

    *Mostly an administrative assistant, but a lower-level one . So mainly receptionist duties along with other clerical work as needed.
    *In southern Missouri.
    *About fifteen years experience.
    *Salary at this level in this area is around $8-12 an hour. Being a departmental admin in a larger and specialized company netted me $16-18 an hour, with only weekly front desk lunchtime coverage.

    The latter salary is not typical for this area except possibly for executive-level assistants, but they also have duties I am unable to perform. $13 would be really good for the lower-level positions. A hiring manager I recently interviewed with at a bank, for a fairly responsible and detailed job, said it starts at $11. I probably hosed myself for saying I was looking for something between $12-$15, but $11 is a joke. I can just barely live on $12 and things aren’t getting any cheaper.

    I’m in the third largest city in the state. The biggest city has similar salaries, which is really pathetic when you think about it. But at this lower level, I don’t think I could make enough somewhere else unless I were lucky enough to find a job similar to the departmental admin job, or something else entirely. The cost of living is lower here than on the coasts; however, it’s rapidly catching up because of housing going up across the board. Some full-time receptionist jobs still start at minimum wage, which in this state is $7.65 USD per hour.

  977. Customer Support Rep*

    I do customer support and order entry for a company that sells children’s books. Most customers are schools or libraries.

    Small town, Midwest
    1 yr experience + library background
    $31,000
    Health insurance is company paid, plus we get a lot of paid holidays, similar to what schools get.

  978. Social Media and Community Manager*

    –I manage all external social media: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc, from content curation to engaging with the audience, to monitoring responses and nurturing advocates.
    –I manage all internal enterprise social networks (ESNs) for both employees AND our customers. ESN is a fancy phrase for Slack, Jive, or whatever a company might use as a professional networking / collaboration tool. This means I train people on the tool, facilitate conversations, monitor for misuse, address technical issues, stay apprised of upcoming changes, etc.
    –And I also analyze all the data we track behind the scenes on both external and internal channels. Which posts got us the most engagement? What’s our follower increase this week? Did last month’s campaign on X do well enough to warrant running it for another month?

    –Milwaukee, WI

    –7 years that include a previous job, with increasing responsibilities and promotions up to this title.

    –$59k. It has been acknowledged that my current employer does not pay market price.

    –I also hold a fairly prestigious award and have spoken at several venues about community management & fun things like that.

    1. Social Media and Community Manager*

      More info that I left out!

      –Everyone gets a straight 15 days of PTO upon hiring; you start edging up after 5 years.
      –The company culture rocks.
      –I really feel that what I do makes a difference, outside and in.

  979. Account Executive - Branded Goods/Corporate Apparel*

    I’m an Account Executive/Manager for a promotional products and branded corporate apparel house; we primarily work with corporate clients in healthcare, oil/natural gas, and tourism/travel. I assess client’s needs and meet with them to pitch ideas and concepts for branded hard goods for use in their uniforming programs, tradeshow marketing strategies, for general brand awareness, and for employee retention and safety programs, etc. It’s a crazy mix of left brain (logistics and high attention to detail) + right brain (extensive use of Adobe Illustrator and PS to create virtuals and layouts).

    I’m in Alaska, and have 5 years in the industry + 5 prior years working in general marketing & copy-writing. I have a BA in Psychology.

    I make $68,000 salary + 45% of all billed profit over $200k (which is typically between $20k – $35k additional). I’ve been hitting $90k per year regularly, but after we close the books for 2016 I expect to be around $80k, given the drop-off in oil and natural gas production and general hit to the Alaskan economy. I have a lower than average 401k match, decent insurance, and 5 weeks PTO.

    Love reading these every year!

  980. Assistant Professor*

    – Assistant Professor (social sciences/humanities) at a private, R1 institution in Chicago.
    – 6 years experience, plus a post-doc, plus a Ph.D. and M.A.
    – $95,000
    – Do not take this as evidence you should quit your job to do a Ph.D. You should not. The market is terrible and any success I have had in my career has been a combination of luck, timing, and working 60 hours per week for a decade. Most of my friends are unemployed, adjuncts, or live in highly undesirable locations. And most academics are terrible people.

  981. Attorney - senior associate*

    Job: I’m a senior associate practicing complex litigation with a Big(ish)Law firm.
    Geographic area: Atlanta, GA
    Years of experience: ~9 1/2 years
    Salary: $200,000, plus bonus based on billable hours exceeding threshold, good healthcare plan, life insurance, phone data plan

  982. Biologist*

    Job: Baseline / monitoring study design, implementation (fieldwork), data crunching, reporting; environmental assessment; other environmental permitting; providing ‘professional’ opinions / advice; mitigation monitoring; construction monitoring; habitat restoration. Some project management duties. No direct reports, but responsible for junior staff on field crews and more generally provide mentoring and informal training for all aspects of the job. Lots of technical writing.

    Geographic Area: Vancouver, BC

    Years’ Experience: 10; I have an MSc and professional designation (RPBio)

    Salary Range: $75,000 to $80,000 CAD depending on size of company.
    I work in environmental consulting; NGOs and the province pay less, industry and the feds slightly more. I think municipalities are about equivalent? All levels of government have much better benefits – they have unions and real pensions. Standard for consulting: extended health coverage, provincial health premiums paid, usually some (small) level of RRSP contribution matching. Four weeks vacation (most places start out at three, bump you up with seniority). X$ available for professional development every year. Generally a pretty flexible work environment.

  983. Attorney*

    $82,000. Attorney in a large government agency (no litigation responsibilities), living in a fairly large midwestern city. Seven years of experience, first full-time legal job. I’ve gotten a couple of small merit-type raises as awards but am otherwise firmly on a fixed pay scale that is not subject to negotiation. Not much opportunity for advancement salary-wise at the moment, but excellent work-life balance and good insurance benefits.

  984. Associate General Counsel*

    Fortune 50 consumer goods manufacturer in a large midwestern city. Supervise one attorney, one paralegal, one admin handling all US corporate work within my practice area. Interface with global legal team in practice area. Direct report to Chief Legal Officer. 25+ years experience. $250K plus stock options.

    1. Scrooge McLawyer*

      Any chance you’re willing to comment on what the attorney you supervise makes and what their title is? I’m a biglaw associate in a large midwestern city thinking about in-house jobs in the next few years and would appreciate additional data.

  985. Executive Assistant (Scandinavia)*

    your job: Executive Assistant to CEO mid-range company (around 2000 employees, several locations around the globe)
    your geographic area: Scandinavia
    your years of experience: 8 as administrative assistant/secretary, 2 as executive assistant
    your salary: 56k
    anything else: benefits, like free lunch, free gym, flexible working hours and so on. Healthcare and retirement is provided by the State. 6 weeks of paid holidays and paid sick time off (compulsory as per the country’s laws)

  986. Admin Assistant, major university*

    job: varied duties, including helping students with registration, ordering supplies and communicating with various other departments
    geographic area: Philadelphia PA
    years of experience: 3
    salary: $15.50 / hour
    Previous office management experience.

  987. University Admin - UK*

    Late to the game but here goes.

    My job: admin in a university admissions dept. I mainly work within education programmes so I have a bit more responsibility than my colleagues in that I assess the entire application and write copious notes for my manager who either agrees with my decision or adds in reasons why. I also answer the phone and email queries for the programmes I deal with, set up interview invitations and act as a liaison when it comes to feedback time. Assess if potential applicants have the required levels to gain entry to the programme or if further study is needed.
    Years of experience: a few months in this particular job, 5 years of admin exp in general, incl another 1.5 years in university admin.
    your salary: A fraction over £20,000 = approx $24,300.
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: we close for winter break, have decent holiday allowance (32 days)and sick leave. Workplace is unfortunately inflexible re: working hours though but each dept is different.

  988. Administrative Coordinator*

    -I am an administrative coordinator in large non-profit hospital, reporting to 2 directors. My responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating committee meetings, webinars, training sessions, and external consultant activities; departmental employee orientation and payroll for over 90 staff; budget planning and projection; software super user for in-house databases; supervise temp clerical employees, volunteers, and summer interns as needed.

    -Geographical area: New York City

    -Years experience: 3.5 years in this position, 14 years total in hospital (promoted several times, starting as clerical assistant)

    -Current salary: $66,000, plus 4 weeks vacation pro-rated at beginning of each year, earning 1 sick day/month up to 26 weeks, 403(b) retirement plan, pension plan, medical/dental/vision/prescription plans (inexpensive bi-weekly payments), free life insurance covering 1 year salary paid for by employer, option to purchase separate individual life insurance, short-term and long-disability benefits, option for AD&D benefits

  989. Senior Data Scientist*

    * I write algorithms and develop visualizations to help identify potential issues
    * Chicago, IL
    * 2 years experience in this role (it’s a newer field), overall 16 years of experience. Master’s degree in Predictive Analytics
    * 136k + bonus/stock

  990. Quality Assurance Manager*

    – QA Manager for a Food Manufacturing company; Manage quality and sanitation departments; responsible for Food Safety, quality, regulatory and sanitation; ensure FDA, customer and 3rd party specifications & audits
    – Ohio
    – 3 years at current company; 7 years total
    – $75k + 10% bonus, good benefits, 6% 401k match, 3 weeks PTO

  991. Assistant Professor*

    103K USD
    Assistant prof of global health (school of public health at a private R1)
    East coast (being more specific would out my employer)
    4.5 yrs experience post-PhD, 4 yrs pre-doctoral experience. I have my own grant and am a co-investigator on several other. Teach 2 grad courses (1 lead, 1 co-instructor)

    1. Assistant Professor*

      Edited to add: this is a 12 month position and the work does tend to be very intense year round, with at least 20% international travel.
      Benefits: 12% contribution to 403(b), which is great. The university will also pay 50% of dependents’ undergrad tuition at any US institution. Mat leave can be paid at your director’s discretion (but you are generally expected to continue to do some work). Ok health benefits, although family premiums are ~$500/month

  992. supply planner*

    supply planner for Beverage co- responsible for placing production orders and maintain inventory to meet forecast and demand.
    located in So. Cal, but I cover all US production
    10 yrs in this position – 30 yrs doing some supply planning, purchasing and production planning.
    $63,000 – not including OT and Bonuses -with those included usual gross is approx $75,000.
    Health, Dental and Eye coverage paid by co. 9 paid holidays, 21 day s PTO – 5 day Sick leave – can carry over with some limitations

  993. LadyMountaineer*

    your job: Data Architect (data wrangling, integration, modeling for analysis)
    your geographic area: Denver, CO
    your years of experience: 5
    your salary: $83,500

  994. Technical Support*

    Tier 1 Technical Support, phone help desk
    Western Pennsylvania
    Three years experience
    $17.16/hr, approximately $35,700 per year
    My company has a very good health coverage package, which, due to the fact that I am transgender and have chronic illnesses, makes the job far more worthwhile than one that paid even twice as much with no benefits.

    1. Tagg*

      What sort of education/certificates do you have for your job? I’d like to get into IT, but while I am extremely competent at troubleshooting computers, my degree is in Graphic Design.

      1. Fawnling*

        Hi! I’m not OP but I also work in IT Support.

        If you don’t want to go back to school for a degree you can start with getting your CompTIA A+ Certification. This should open some entry level doors so you can get working experience.

  995. Senior Instructional Designer*

    Job: On a national level, conduct needs analysis for training requests, provide recommendations for best training assets to achieve results, design, develop, manage and update software training for field service, support hardware training, create end user simulations and videos, create assessments.
    Metro Atlanta
    12+ years
    $87,000.00 plus full benefits

  996. Compliance Manager*

    –Supervise compliance with the ACA for a health insurance issuer; including reading and analyzing regulations and monitoring ongoing compliance
    –Midwest
    –5 years experience
    -$85,000

  997. Another Attorney*

    job: associate attorney in a small firm (real estate)
    geographic area: LA
    years of experience: ~4 as an attorney
    salary: $145k + 13k retirement contribution
    other: includes good healthcare and no vacation restrictions

  998. moss*

    Biostatistician II is my job title. I have a master’s in statistics and about 20 years experience programming in various environments. 7 years experience in the CRO industry.

    $110K per year and that’s kind of low because I started low. My first CRO job was $45K , went to 50, switched companies, went to $70, raise to $90, raise to $105 and then I switched companies again to this salary. I could have negotiated a few K higher probably.

    I work from home full time for 37.5 hour per week. I try not to do overtime and only have to a couple times a year usually.

    as always, I am happy to answer any questions on the CRO industry/ stat programming /SAS etc , send an email to marjorie.sloan at gmail (not my real name obvs)

  999. Administrative Assistant III*

    My many hats (I jokingly compare myself to a reference librarian using DHR’s and data instead of books): Report and billed to Quality,
    -Quality Department: Data Entry and Reporting, Records Management; Audit Ready (FDA)
    -Document Control (plant level, multiple departments): Writing, Copy editing, Instructional Design; work with corporate for global documents
    -Plant Historian: research and acquire product ephemera and artifacts, document and conserve/preserve artifacts for our display area; write accompanying labels
    -Purchasing (office supplies, printed materials, lab supplies): create requisitions and purchase orders for multiple departments
    -Plant Relations: keep my bosses from killing each other

    Richmond/Tri-Cities, Virginia
    10+ years
    $44,230.35 (still have actual raise letter) in top 15% of my pay range so topping out at this position

    FYI: Bachelor of Fine Arts with K-12 certification

  1000. Corporate Recruiter*

    – Recruiting for all roles (mostly Exempt) for small defense contractor. Developing & implementing recruiting strategy, employment branding (partner with social media specialist), vendor identification/management/negotiation. Some compensation analysis for contract bids. Indirect supervision/guidance over 1 junior recruiter.
    – Mountain West
    – 15+ years of experience, all corporate recruiting with some HR
    – $55K
    – I have a Master’s degree in Communication, as well as a SHRM-CP certification.
    – This is a contract-to-hire rate, and I will be requesting a higher salary on conversion. My previous two positions in the same geographic area paid $65K. This was a pay cut accepted out of desperation after two lay offs in 2 years. I am underpaid for my skills and experience, as well as the expectations for the role.

    1. Technical Recruiter, Lead*

      I recruit for in-house positions of a 500 person company. My responsibility is all things technical- developers, QA, architects, network engineers, sys admins, etc. I source heavily, screen, and walk candidates through the hiring process through start date. Responsible for creating sourcing strategy and employment brand strategy and execution among other things.
      Some college (but very driven)
      10 years experience.
      $105, 000 base + bonus (usually about 7k)
      4 weeks vacation
      Southeast, US

  1001. Cost Analysis & Forecasting Manager*

    Job: Building models to forecast retail energy costs, reading detailed documentation, impact analysis of changes to cost methodologies, report building in SSRS, statistical analysis, writing VBA, writing up complex things in a way that’s understandable to non-experts, line manager to 2-3 direct reports.
    Area: Midlands, UK
    Salary: £47,000 (25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays)
    Years Experience: 4 at company, 6 overall.

  1002. Third Key Holder Visual*

    Retail Sales Associate, Team Lead/Store Manager in absence of Manager and Assistant Manager, responsible for creating all store displays (mannequins, windows, correct sales pricing, etc)

    Calgary, Alberta (which means due to increasing minimum wage, my salary should be going up over the next year.)

    Less than 1 Year of Management, 3 Years of Full Time Customer Service, 6 Years overall in various retail jobs.

    $23,000/year

  1003. In-House Counsel (Attorney)*

    I am an attorney at a large corporation with offices in many states. I am located in a city in the Mid-Atlantic region. I work in the group that drafts contracts, mostly real estate-related, all business-to-business. I am at the second tier of attorneys in our department, out of three tiers.

    I have about five years experience as an attorney, plus six years of experience in this specific niche of my industry before I became an attorney at this company. I do not currently have any direct reports, but could have one or more paralegals reporting to me at this level.

    I make about $110,000 salary, with a discretionary bonus that is usually around $25,000, and stock options that usually amount to about $15,000.

    I obviously have a J.D., and I also have a B.A. in a liberal arts subject.

  1004. Administrative Assistant*

    Your job: I am the sole part-time contracted support for a small professional association (~300 members) in Ontario. My main portfolio is assisting on their professional development courses (setting up events, working with venues, doing the catering order, promotions, etc); committee and board support; financial/budget assistance (help with annual audit, tracking line items and payables, etc); website updates; front-line member support; just about all communications pieces; and all the goofy day-to-day stuff that board members don’t want to/have the capacity to handle.
    Your geographic area: Toronto, Canada
    Your years of experience: nearly two years in this role, about five in various other admin roles
    Your salary: $18CAD/hour, which works out to about $18K a year (contracted for 1000 hours annually)
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Pros of the position: I work from home and set my own hours, and I work with a fairly active volunteer board, which is nice. Downsides: zero benefits, my employer deducts nothing (which means I’m ineligible for things like maternity leave or EI). My hourly rate is on the very low end of what an admin assistant would be paid in the corporate world, but about low-par for non-profits in Toronto…which is terrible.

  1005. Assistant Editor*

    your job: Assistant Editor, Academic publishing. Support 3 editors in all aspects of the administration, commissioning, planning and producing of book projects. Research projects, write and pitch projects to colleagues, conduct peer review, represent press at national conferences.
    your geographic area: PNW (but same in NYC)
    your years of experience: 5 years
    your salary: 38,000

    I have an MA

  1006. SharePoint Developer*

    your job
    Collaboration specialist, front end developer (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), business analyst, and problem solver, working mostly in Microsoft SharePoint.

    your geographic area:
    major northeast metro area

    your years of experience
    12 years (in current job for 1 year)

    your salary
    $130,000 + bonus

  1007. Government Attorney*

    Attorney for large government agency. No litigation; job involves mostly writing, some research and projects. I also do periodic training of other attorneys and paralegals.
    Salary: $82,000 plus full benefits
    Geographic region: Missouri city
    Seven years at this job, which is my first FT legal job. I’ve gotten a couple of small raises as merit awards but am otherwise on a firmly fixed pay scale. Not much room for salary advancement or promotion here, but I like what I do and my work-life balance is great.

    Sorry if this double-posts; my phone is being difficult.

  1008. Jr Embedded-ish Software Engineer*

    Job: designing, writing, and testing near-hardware level code for automated machinery. Not writing firmware or drivers, but close enough to the hardware that I deal with memory addresses, registers, and bits on occasion.
    Area: Boston, MA
    Salary: $81,000 (2016) up to $84,000 (2017)
    Experience: 1 year at this company, 1.5 years at previous company, 2 summer internships

    1. Jr Embedded-ish Software Engineer*

      Jr Embedded-ish Software Engineer: I’ll add I only have a BS. Company-paid benefits include 10% match to 401k, and $80/month public transport voucher. 15 vacation days per year. 40hr sicktime/yr

  1009. Data Architect*

    your job: Data Architect (data wrangling, integration, modeling for analysis)
    your geographic area: Denver, CO
    your years of experience: 5
    your salary: $83,500
    other info: government. Health, dental, pension. 12 hours PTO monthly.

  1010. Administrative Technician(Assistant)*

    Salary- $50,000
    DC region
    Experience- 3 years administrative work, new to this position
    Education- BS, MPH in progress

  1011. Specialist Mental Health Worker*

    your job: I work in a homeless hostel supporting residents with their mental health needs.
    your geographic area: London, UK
    your years of experience: 5
    your salary: £27,000 ($32,834)
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: My salary is actually pretty good for the sector, many places pay appallingly low for this work!

  1012. Actuary*

    Job: I work for a small company as a contractor for a government agency (which I won’t name because the work we do is so specialized.) My work involves lots of programming in spreadsheets and analyzing data, and it requires an in-depth knowledge of the law in addition to my actuarial expertise. I also manage several junior employees.
    -Area: DC area
    -Experience: 15 years experience, all with the same company.
    -Salary: $120,000 base salary, plus a bonus (usually around $50,000, but it can vary). The company matches up to 6% in the 401k, I pay roughly $100 a month for a decent health/dental plan, and the company pays for parking ($250 a month). I get unlimited PTO, can work from home (but I prefer to be in the office most of the time), and can set my own hours (but, as a contractor, I have to make my deadlines, so sometimes “setting my own hours” means working 14-hour days for weeks at a time.)

  1013. Manager*

    I manage administrators. They are assigned to support people and/or projects in my organization. I’m responsible for recruiting, managing their performance, and resourcing them out to projects. I also work on other operational improvement projects. I have about 9 years of various professional experience post college. I also worked for about 10 years in a non-professional healthcare role before finishing college (I was a late bloomer). I am in the DC metro area. I earn about $110,000 in regular salary with a yearly bonus that is generally around 15-30% of my salary based on performance. My title is pretty specific to my organization so can’t name it.

  1014. Librarian I*

    Public Youth Services Librarian.

    Primarily responsible for story times, programming for 0-5 and school age children, and collection development (weeding and ordering juvenile books including chapter books, picture books, and nonfiction materials).

    D.C. Metro Area

    1 year of experience

    Approximately $23.00/hr full time, for a total of $47,840 gross pay. I accrue vacation days (approximately 12 per year, not including earned comp time), sick days (approximately 12 per year), and I get several federal holidays as library holidays. I work two nights per week, and every other weekend, for a total of 40 hours per week. My pay increased from approximately $22.00/hr full time at the one year mark, and should continue to increase every year until I reach the end of my pay grade.

  1015. Librarian - Public Library*

    Librarian
    Charlotte, NC
    16 years experience
    Just over $60,000
    – job mostly involves working with adults, teaching computer classes, workforce development, technology training, project management, participating in and also leading literacy initiatives, research projects, staff scheduling and functioning as asst manager for dept.

  1016. Attorney*

    Your job: lawyer
    Your Location: D.C.
    Your Years of Experience: 7
    Your Salary: $300,000 + ~$100,000 bonus based on hours

  1017. User Experience (UX) Designer*

    User Experience (UX) Designer / User Interface Designer
    Greater Boston area (MA)
    3.5 years of experience
    $75,000

  1019. Software Developer II*

    Your Job: Full-stack web application developer, javascript and C#, plus a little SQL
    Geographic Area: Cincinnati, OH
    Years of Experience: 8+ in software development, 4+ at this company
    Your Salary: $74,000/year
    Other: I work for a software development company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of a company that is not in the tech sector at all. Benefits are based on the corporate schedule, which gives me health/dental/vision insurance, FSA, 401K with matching up to 6% (my match is 75% of my contribution, can go up to 125% of contribution), 10 paid holidays (7 fixed, 3 floating), 10 vacation days, 15 sick days. When I hit 5 years (late 2017), I’ll go up to 15 days vacation. Company pays for professional development opportunities (conferences). I have a BS in Information Technology, but several of my peers have 2 year degrees, unrelated degrees, or only partial college.

  1020. Public outreach coordinator*

    Job: I work with government researchers to communicate their work internally and externally. It requires a combination of subject matter knowledge and outreach experience. It involves much less in person program delivery than I expected compared to my previous experience in nonprofits, and more writing, planning, and trying to stay up to date on the work of a large program.

    Location: DC Metro area

    Experience: 4+ years working in outreach, finished PhD 2015, started this job in 2016

    Salary: $71,000

    Context: I am grant funded, considered self employed and not a governmental employee, so I have a larger tax burden that my salary reflects and no employer benefits. I get a separate stipend to buy health insurance that covers about 75% of my family’s premiums. Despite being “self employed,” I am supposed to take the same amount of PTO as a new employee, which annoys me because I am unable to accrue seniority the way they are. I think in my next job my salary may go down, but with benefits and w2 taxes my standard of living could stay the same.

  1021. Regulatory Affairs Officer (junior)*

    Since I work in a small company I do a lot more and at the same time a lot less than someone in a comparable position. I work in the pharmaceutical industry and collaborate with QA, R&D, as well as production; my main job should be assembling documents to send to customers and governmental agencies globally complying to their specifications in order to approve new drugs for the various markets. In reality, since we are a small company and only have a small portfolio, I also do a lot of misc stuff in a semi-supporting role for my manager, reading through documents, establishing contacts with customers, coordinating audits (customer and governments), acting as a walking data-/knowledgebase for my colleagues on all matters regulatory, advising (and in this case that often means putting my foot down) on actions of department heads.

    Geographic location: north east Germany
    Years of experience: < 1 (though I have a Masters and a PhD in a scientific field, 4 years of research experience and have on and off freelanced as a copy editor and scientific writer for 10+ years)
    Salary: ~48,600 US Dollars (equivalent in Euros; that's far below market value, even for entry level, for someone with my education)

  1022. Trust Fund Officer (Development)*

    Job: Donor relations manager for a United Nations organization in NE US. Responsible for budget management, direct communications with international government donors, portfolio monitoring and analysis. I don’t manage any staff. I have a lot of independence in shaping how I relate to the donors.
    Geographic Area: NY/DC
    Years of Experience: 9 years in nonprofit sector
    Salary: $108,000 post tax – so real salary is around $150,000

  1023. Analyst*

    Optimisation Data Analyst
    Description: I analyse website data and perform A/B, MTV tests etc on websites to increase conversion.
    3 years experience
    London, UK
    £38,000 (~$46,000) + 10% bonus, 25 vacation days + bank holidays.

  1024. HR Information Systems Consultant*

    I specialize in one HR/Payroll System and know three others fairly well. I work with whatever client is assigned to me. I might help a client implement a new system, upgrade a system, manage their system while they’re recruiting, optimize their system, fix their system and/or their data, determine their issues and present them with different systems available or options in their current system, train end users on using the system, train HR and/or Payroll on how to use the system, or I might just build a bunch of complex reports that no one else can figure out.

    I’m currently based in Cleveland Ohio, but I work from home so I can live wherever I want.

    Around 10 years experience.

    89500 annual. I also earn bonuses. Have good benefits. Get to work in jammies. Travel on someone else’s dime. Get to learn new systems for new lines on my resume!

    I’m awesome with Excel. Have a BS in Psychology and an MS in HR Administration. Around 10 years ago I was desperate for a job. I was good at Excel and had HR experience in a union environment. The literal words that made me take the job “I can’t pay you more than shit, but take every possible class you can.” That job paid me 36K and I took every class I could!

  1025. Construction Project Coordinator*

    * I work for a construction management firm, I personally deal with contract management, risk management, subcontractors, budgets, etc. I also manage a department of 6 people.
    * NYC metro area (northern NJ)
    * 20+ years (omg!) experience (three at this company), no college degree
    * $75,000 base, bonus last year was about $10K paid quarterly, good medical coverage for the US, crappy vision and dental, 4 weeks PTO, 401k, life insurance, fully stocked kitchen
    * I am very senior in my role and in my industry.

  1026. Director of Claims (P&C Insurance)*

    Job: Director of Claims at a property and casualty insurance company. I manage and supervise the operations for the casualty, field, and property depts at a single-state insurer and also manage/supervise all litigation against the company. I work with our agents on E&O claims and also do some agent training. I am an attorney and was in private practice before I began this position.
    Geographic area: Wisconsin
    Experience: 12 years
    Salary: $135k/year plus up to 6% bonus.
    Other: I have both a JD and an MBA.

  1027. Communications Manager*

    Develop donor communications strategy for organization
    Write, edit and manage philanthropy communications
    Manage website and email communications for statewide efforts and local divisions
    Design print materials and email communications

    Greater Orlando Area

    10 years of experience in communication/marketing field

    Salary: 57,000

    1. Communications Manager*

      I should add that I have full benefits, 12 personal/vacation days, 12 sick days and around 10 company paid holidays.

  1028. Yuppie*

    Education specialist for state education agency. I provide technical assistance to teachers and oversee certain efforts related to the implementation of education statutes and regulations in my state.

    I’m located in the northeast region of the U.S.

    I have eight years of professional experience in education and a master’s degree in education.

    My annually salary is just south of $54,000.

    State employee benefits (at least in my state) are known for being pretty good and fairly affordable to the employee. We are also part of a state employees’ union.

  1029. Postdoctoral Associate*

    I have a PhD in genetics, and my role is to run a scientific research project semi-independantly (with oversight by my PI), write peer-reviewed journal articles, apply for applicable grants and present my research at local and national meetings.

    Maine – rural
    2.5 years post-PhD
    $58,000

    All postdocs are paid based on the NIH stipend scale which would put me at $47k but my company deliberately increases their postdoc wages to account for the rural location which makes it hard to recruit people here. We also have better benefits than most places gives postdocs for the same reason (health and dental, 401k with 10% matching, etc).

    1. kbeers0su*

      I used to work up in rural Maine (at that big university). You wouldn’t need to pay me more to go back :)

  1030. Transcriptionist*

    Job: I provide real-time captioning for people who are hard of hearing Most of my work is at a university but I also have done meetings, conventions etc.
    Geographic area: western Canada, large city, very high cost of living.
    Experience: 3 years experience
    Salary $27/hour (Canadian) I’m contract and charge different rates for other services but that’s my usual rate for classroom services.

  1031. Nonprofit Science Program Manager*

    I administer programs to increase diversity in science. I write grant proposals, monitor spending, run conferences, and generally work to educate science professors about diversity. People are required to have a PhD in my particular branch of science to be hired into this position. As a result, I make more than someone with my experience would make in academia, and less than what I’d make in the for-profit world.
    Geographic Area: Washington, DC
    Years of Experience: 4 years, all at this company
    My salary: $85,000
    The starting range for my position is $65-75k, and we generally only get cost of living increases. The work-life balance is great.

  1032. Data Warehouse Analyst*

    Data warehouse architect and developer
    California (rural area)
    7 total/4 yrs in current
    $68,000
    Government fixed, BS in Computer Science

  1033. Director of Finance and Administration*

    your job: Handle all finance and admin at a nonprofit. Supervise office manager, staff accountant and bookkeeper.
    your geographic area: northeast
    your years of experience: 13 in nonprofit finance; 25 overall
    your salary: $65,000/year
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Did I mention it is a non profit?

  1034. Circulation Assistant at a Public Library*

    I help customers at a public library with basically anything that’s not reference-related. I check materials in and out, sign people up for library cards, organize displays, answer computer-related questions, and request materials. I do NOT help with job-searching, homework projects, purchasing, personnel managing, or book recommendations (that’s reference librarian territory in my neck of the woods).

    I live in Denver.

    I have 10 years of experience in libraries, almost all of them as a shelver, but the past year as a circulation assistant.

    I have two part time jobs: One pays me $14/hr with almost no benefits (except for PTO), the other is $15/hr plus benefits (notably health insurance). The health insurance offered me will end at the end of 2017, though. One of my districts will pay you more if you speak a second language, if you are hired to also be a security guard in addition to circulation duties, or if you are designated specifically as working with programming (library events) or education (i.e., teaching computer classes). The vast majority of positions that open up in my area doing this job are part-time (hence me having two jobs).

  1035. Lab Tech*

    Lab tech at a production facility for a large company that processes agricultural commodities for food products and renewable fuels. I do lab testing mostly on in-process and finished products, as well as some inputs, to ensure they are in spec, as well as certifying products for shipping, as well as some testing of inputs. I have a BS in biology, which is not required for my position
    Geographic area: rural upper Midwest
    Years of experience: 5 in this position (my company does not give you any credit for time in position, a newly hired person at my location with no experience would get exactly the same rate as me)
    Salary: $18.25/hour, about $43,000 per year with scheduled overtime
    -Benefits are fairly good: health/dental/vision insurance with reasonable employee contribution, holiday pay, about 4 weeks PTO, 401k with 3% match, defined benefit pension, etc.
    -I generally work 12 hour days, 3-4 days per week, including some weekend and evening hours
    -We typically get a raise of about 3% per year, for all hourly positions in my location

  1036. Administrative Support Associate*

    Support graduate and postdoctoral programs at a university. Duties include making and producing promotional materials, event planning and coordination, web-site maintenance, general office administration.

    Kentucky
    3.5 years experience
    ~$18/hour (or ~$37,500/year)
    Health, dental, and vision insurance. 10 days PTO annually + 10 days sick leave. 403(b) double match up to 5% employee contribution. (3 year vestiture required unfortunately.)

  1037. Librarian*

    Archivist/Library manager in a Big 10 Academic Library. Manage a subject specific special collection and archive. Liaison with faculty, teach embedded into classes. Tenure Track. Equivalent band- Assistant Professor. This is my review year.
    your geographic area
    Midwest
    your years of experience
    25- 4 in this position
    your salary
    84,000.00
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context
    I negotiated basing my number on public information of state employees- and because of pay equity issues not librarian salaries but faculty.

    1. Librarian*

      Also with an MLIS.
      Tenure track means additional to performance there must be research and scholarly publishing, service on University and National committees.

  1038. Director of Claims (P&C Insurance)*

    Job Description: I am an attorney that moved in house to a property and casualty insurer. I run the operations of the Claims Dept. for a single-state property and casualty insurer. Specifically, I supervise and run operations for the casualty, property, and field units at our company. I also supervise outside counsel on litigation against the company and evaluate large losses. I work with our agents on both E&O claims and on agent education.
    Location: Wisconsin
    Experience: 12 years
    Salary: $135/year + possible 6% bonus
    Other: I have a JD and an MBA. We get health insurance and they pay about 75% of the premium. Dental insurance is optional. There is a decent 401k match by the company, and they are very flexible about working from home, vacation, and sick time. They are also paying for my MBA!

  1039. Commercial Underwriter Assistant*

    Job: Support a property underwriter by rating accounts, quoting, binging and booking policies. Geographic area: Atlanta
    Years experience: 4 in insurance claims 4 months in underwriting
    Salary: $50,000, pension, 6% 401K match, 19 PTO days and 1 floating holiday

  1040. Office Manager (Healthcare)*

    3 Doctors
    2 Midlevels

    I managed 33 people total
    Located in Utah County, UT
    Make $23.10 an hour
    Have 13 years experience in healthcare ….11 as a manager (I was managing a small office before this bigger office a year ago).
    I have a Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science and a Master’s Degree (MBA in Healthcare Management)

    The clinic I work for is part of a bigger clinic with 1500 employees and multiple locations.

    1. Office Manager (Healthcare)*

      Office Manager (Healthcare)

      I also have three weeks PTO
      401K Match
      Health Insurance
      Dental
      Vision
      Long term sick leave
      flexible schedule

      I work an average of 43-45 hours a week.

  1041. Accountant*

    Accountant – responsible for 2 subsidiaries, major components of org financials, final reviewer for payables for entire organization, always busy, love my job
    Rural Pacific NW
    20+ years
    $61,600

    Relevant facts: obtained BA from liberal arts college and 5th year accounting classes from University of Phoenix, despite non-traditional educational path, was (still am?) eligible to take CPA exam, which I chose not to. Took 2+ years of unemployment to find this job, probably due to not being a CPA

  1042. Lead Administrative Assistant (School)*

    Job: Lead administrative assistant in the main office of a K-8 private school
    Area: Pacific Northwest
    Salary: $22/hr, which works out to just over $45,000/year at 40 hours per week, although I often work closer to 30-35 hours per week during school breaks. Overtime is rare and can usually be anticipated in advance. Last year I grossed $42,000, but most of that was at a lower pay rate (started at $20.50/hr).
    Years Experience: 1 year at this school (started as the other, entry-level admin assistant in the office, did that job for 9 months, and 3 months ago was promoted to the lead position when my previous colleague left), 1 year admin assistant experience before that, and then five years of teaching experience right out of college.

    More info about the job: I work with one other person running the main office at a school. Day-to-day we help sick/injured kids; respond to requests from parents and school staff by phone, email, and in person; do purchasing for just about everything at school except janitorial/facilities and technology; and I act as the school’s registrar. We have several big projects each year, most of which are recurring from year to year, so I anticipate that the longer I’m here, the more familiar this will all seem. An example is that right now our 8th graders’ high school applications are due, so I’m busy with records requests and coordinating teacher recommendations for 60 kids applying to a over dozen different schools using two different systems (I have an Excel workbook like you wouldn’t believe to track all that). My colleague and I also provide scheduling support to the head of school and take minutes at the monthly meetings of the Board of Trustees.

    1. Lead Administrative Assistant (School)*

      Forgot to add, the benefits are really great here: 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision premiums with reasonable copays (just for me, it would be pretty expensive to add my husband, but fortunately he has his own insurance), and 403(b) matching. Sick time is acceptable (accrues at the rough equivalent of 8 hours per month, and I’m pretty healthy), but PTO is not great (two weeks per year after a year of employment, and one 1-week school break is PTO for all employees in addition to those two weeks).

      One other huge perk is that although I’m paid hourly, the hours are very flexible during school breaks. They’re moderately flexible during the school year, as long as myself or my coworker is here between 7:30 and 4:30.

  1043. Insurance Brokerage Sales Coordinator*

    Sales Coordinator – support 7-8 insurance producers, primarily responsible for small group sales (1-100 lives), some large group (up to 1,000) Send all enrollment paperwork to group, pre-underwrite health insurance applications, main point of contact between groups and insurance carriers
    – SF Bay Area
    – 15 years experience (5 with my current company)
    – $55k plus approx. 10K yearly bonus paid quarterly
    – Benefits are not great considering we broker benefits for lots of other companies.

  1044. Director of Operations*

    I work for a 50-person unit within a university in northern California. I manage a 9-person team which provides centralized support (think admin, finance, event planning) for the rest of the unit. I have been in the workforce for 19 years, though only five of those years have been in higher ed administration. I also got an MBA a little over a decade ago. My annual salary is $140,000.

  1045. Library Data Analyst*

    Data analyst in a large academic library. I do the things that data analysts do anywhere, but drawing heavily on domain-specific knowledge and experience.

    Large midwestern city
    13 years total related experience, 3 in current role
    $70,000

    I have an MLIS, which is not specifically required for my current position (any master’s degree would be acceptable with the right skills/background).

  1046. Director of Student Services*

    ◾Recruitment and advising to healthcare students; web manager; alumni coordination; resume preparation and career counseling; special events coordination
    ◾Cleveland, Ohio
    ◾25+ years of experience
    ◾$58,000
    I have a master’s degree and am a licensed counselor.

  1048. Senior Proposal Manager*

    your job: Senior Proposal Manager for a small government contractor that deals with primarily heath IT for the VA
    your geographic area: DC metro
    your years of experience: 5 total (3 as a proposal manager)
    your salary: $100k, plus commission based on wins, as well as annual bonuses

    I also work from home 3 days a week, and the days I’m in the office are short days (I work pretty far from the office). I have a lot of flexibility too. We are super busy in the summer (thanks Q4!) and busy periods pop up, but during slow periods like now, I tend to work the hours I want as long as I’m putting 40 in.

  1049. Retail Worker*

    I’m a schoolteacher that works at the mall to make ends meet.

    -Cashier/apparel associate for Big Box sporting goods store that owns many other brands of sporting goods stores across the country
    -located in the central area of a state in the northeast of US
    – 9.50/hr no benefits for part timers
    -I negotiated for 10.00 and didn’t counter offer when they offered 9.50
    -scheduling is “flexible” but they’re annoying about honoring it

  1050. Budget and Policy Analyst*

    I do budget oversight, policy decision making support, ad hoc financial and data analysis, and long range planning for a large county’s human services programs.

    Seattle, Wa

    8 years experience, unrelated Bachelors degree

    $117,000/yr + pension

  1051. Big 4 Tax Manager*

    Manager for a Big 4 accounting firm in the tax area, specializing in fixed assets/depreciation/like-kind exchange reporting.
    North Texas area/DFW
    22 years experience (although not all in this particular role….most of my experience is as more of a tax generalist).
    128,000 plus bonus of 5-10%

  1052. Corporate Consultant (Employee Wellness Programs)*

    your job: primary services include developing and implementing workplace wellness & fitness programs and providing private counseling and customized programs for individual employees
    your geographic area: southeast
    your years of experience: 3 yrs. in corporate wellness; 15 yrs total experience
    your salary: $66,000/year
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I am self-employed; one of my full-time contracts accounts for 95% of my total salary. My 15 yrs total experience was factored into salary/billing due to specific writing and presentation skills necessary to perform job duties.

    1. Corporate Consultant (Employee Wellness Programs)*

      I should also add that while I have to pay for insurance benefits out of pocket and increase IRA contributions the flexibility I have offsets this expense in numerous ways. I get paid the yearly salary for a “job” – some weeks that means 50 hours and some weeks that means 0 hours.

  1053. International Services Representative*

    I work in back office banking in the International department. No special finance training (although I do have multiple degrees in other fields). Most of my job is data entry and customer service/website support.
    A larger city in the Midwest.
    I’ve been here 4 years.
    $36,250.00

  1054. Executive Director*

    Job: Executive Director for a registered charity in the health field
    Location: Eastern Canada
    Years of Experience: In management 9, in Non-profit 20+
    Salary: 62,000 (CAD)

  1055. Executive Assistant*

    Executive Assistant to a consultant at an executive search firm.
    Chicago, IL
    About 20 years as an EA in various industries
    $68k
    Annual cash bonus (last year was 12% of base); annual profit sharing (another 12% of base to my 401k); matching contribution up to 6% 401k.
    Average PTO, unlimited sick days, tuition reimbursement

  1056. Public Library Director*

    Southeastern US (rural county, population about 50,000)
    10 years library experience
    $76,000

    1. Public Library Director*

      Also- have a Masters in Library and Information Science
      2 weeks vacation
      12 sick days
      Good insurance and state pension plan

  1058. Development Manager*

    Job: I work at a smallish (c)(3) and (c)(4) non-profit. My fundraising responsibilities include database management, grant writing, overseeing our gift acknowledgement process, direct mail program supervision, major donor and corporate cultivation. In the new year I’ll be emphasizing the external aspect of my role through donor meetings and networking/policy events.
    Geographic area: Washington, D.C.
    Years of experience: 1.5
    Salary: $50,000
    Starting salary was $40,000 in June 2015; received two raises in 2016 (although the second doesn’t take effect until this month).

  1059. Business Analyst*

    Job: Finance in a Fortune 500 company – I’ve had a couple different roles at this company but jobs include material estimating, data analysis, budgeting, forecasting, accounting and a multitude of other finance functions
    Geographic area: Seattle, WA
    Years of Experience: 2.5 years
    Salary: $62,000 with decent benefits (flexible insurance packages, 2.5 weeks vacation, 2 weeks sick time, education reimbursement to fund certs and grad programs)

  1060. Training & Development Specialist*

    Job: The generic description is training & development specialist. My actual work involves analyzing workplace performance, like process improvement but for problems preventing people from doing their duties correctly. (spoiler alert: it’s usually mostly the company’s fault)
    Location: Seattle metro area
    Experience: 3 years here, 1 year elsewhere, plus years in IT and HR. Master’s in strongly relevant field.
    Salary: about $75,000. I came in with relatively little experience so I’m more than happy. There is plenty of room on this salary band to grow.

    1. Training & Development Specialist*

      Forgot to add benefits – standard vacation time with rollover and payout, separate (and generous) sick leave; different and pretty good health plans; profit sharing although we grumble about it; 401k; and amazing educational benefits.

  1061. Proposal Manager*

    Job description: Assist technical experts in responding to client requests for proposals. Review proposals for compliance, manage deadlines, run meetings. Primarily responsible for technical side (other people deal with finance and contract issues). Company is a non-profit (most of the funding comes from government clients). Do not actually manage people, just the process.
    Geographic area: DC (but company is global so there are occasionally weird hours)
    Relevant years of experience: 3.5
    Salary: $75k (no bonuses when we win work); decent benefits (but not great)
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: work is very time-sensitive; no real work/life balance; often work during the weekends then will have days with no work.

  1062. Service/Client Delivery Manager*

    IT Service/Client Delivery Manager (Senior)
    New Zealand
    18 years in IT
    NZD$120,000 with benefits/bonuses (approx $85k USD). Cost of living is 77.3, average city income is NZD$82,000 for context.

  1063. Digital Marketing Associate*

    Job – Digital Marketing Associate
    I manage web content and email marketing campaigns
    Geographic area – Washington D.C. Area
    Years of experience – 7
    Salary – 49,000

    1. Digital Marketing Associate (continued)*

      Great benefits, generous time off and a telework policy (one day a week)

  1064. Senior Software Developer*

    Job: Senior Java Software Developer
    Area: The Netherlands (Europe)
    Years Experience: 8
    Salary: $55,000/year (converted from eur)

    pertinent information: salaries are lower in europe, but job security etc. is much higher (it’s almost impossible to fire someone on a permantent contract), Employers are legally obliged to 1. pay towards pension, 2. give 20 vacation days, 3. pay through sick days (no limit). 4. pay a percentage to long term sick employees (insurance pays the rest of the salary). And a few others.

    1. Senior Software Developer (continued)*

      I’ll have to add that most companies (including mine) give 25 vacation days, and that national holidays are not counted towards it.
      Also I’ve heard that in the US often weekends count (friday, saturday, sunday, monday = 4 days) which isn’t the case here (there would be an uproar of magnificent proportions should that ever happen).

  1065. Clinical Research Coordinator*

    – Clinical research coordinator at a small, for-profit clinic. I am the primary coordinator for our largest studies and do all training.
    – I live in a large city in the Midwest.
    – I have 12 years of experience, 8 years of which was in large hospital systems.
    – My salary is $62,000 which is after 2 years of 8% raises. I make money for our company and they are happy to reward me for this. However, I also have crap health benefits and only 10 days of PTO per year (both sick and vacation combined.)

  1066. Research Associate*

    >I develop analytical methods to characterize drugs for a biopharmaceutical company. I also help with troubleshooting and train other analysts to perform these methods.
    >San Francisco Bay Area
    >4 years
    >$61k + 12% bonus. I have a B.S.in biology with a minor in biochemistry.

  1067. Proposal (RFP) Coordinator - Private/Commercial Sector*

    BASIC JOB DESCRIPTION: Respond to client RFPs seeking enterprise software solutions. Lead RFP response teams, assigning RFP questions/deliverables to subject matter experts and ensuring compliance with corporate policies. Coordinate with sales team to integrate strategic messaging into responses. Create and maintain process documentation and FAQ / canned content reference materials.
    AREA: US-based remote position; I live in South Carolina.
    EXPERIENCE: 6 years of RFP experience across a few different roles / companies.
    SALARY: $65,000
    NOTES: My salary is fixed and not adjusted regionally. I work for a public company that does have government clients but the vast majority of our RFP workload is B2B.

    1. Proposal (RFP) Coordinator - Private/Commercial Sector*

      Also should have mentioned, a pretty good benefits package and good work/life balance given the stress and hours that often come with RFP work.

  1068. Employee Trainer*

    Note: this is my new job which starts next Tuesday.

    I will be part of a partnership between an educational institution and a state agency that trains employees of the latter in systems/processes.

    Manhattan (well, that’s work; I live in an outerborough)

    9 years in education, 4 years in adult education and zero days doing this until Tuesday!

    70,000

    Great benefits package, solid PTO and 401k. Technically employee of the school so I also get reimbursed tuition after a year (and need to get my Spanish up, and learn to code).

  1069. Sr Administrative Assistant*

    A brief description of responsibilies:
    All internal/backend reporting on our SaaS product
    Administration of new accounts for SaaS product and deactivating accounts that cancel
    Submission for Copyright for new content/material
    Reporting on Marketing Leads from website
    Level 1 helpdesk support (liason between customer support and platform provider)
    External usage reports to two major accounts
    Internal Sales charts on all RSM’s activities

    Orange County, CA
    20+ years total experience; 8 in Admin; 5 at current; previous background in sales and support
    58k/yr plus bonus

  1070. Account Manager (Health Insurance)*

    Account Manager
    -health insurance
    -Connecticut (so one of the big 3)
    -63,000 salary plus commission and bonus (averaging around 95k)
    -over ten years in insurance, the last 3 in account management
    -college degree
    Duties:
    Acts as the primary contact between the customer’s HR team and broker for service issues, renewals, utilization meeting and reporting
    Preparing reporting packages
    Holding quarterly review meetings
    Working with underwriting to deliver the best possible rate
    Holding Open Enrollment meetings during OE time
    Identifying and executing cross selling opportunities to add additional benefits
    Acting as a service liaison for escalated service issues with claims, billing, eligibility

    I worked my way up from claims into account management.

  1071. Mechanical Design Engineer*

    I design equipment for food manufacturing.
    New Zealand
    6 years experience
    NZD$70,000 (about USD$50,000)

  1072. Internet Marketing Manager*

    Budget, plan, and execute all digital marketing for medium sized company. Channels include: SEO, paid search, email, content marketing, and social media.
    Cleveland, Ohio metro
    11 years experience
    $82,000

  1073. Librarian (Special Library)*

    Job: Research Librarian attached to an educational institution (but we’re effectively a special library). Reference, collection development, various projects that are helpful to institutional goals. I supervise one assistant I share with two other people in my larger department.

    Location: Boston metro area.
    Experience: Had my MLIS for 10 years this summer, this is my 3rd professional job in the field, I’ve been here 18 months.

    Salary: about $58,000. Very generous vacation by US standards (24 days a year, plus holidays), and a fair amount of flexibility about things like appointments and other life needs, good benefits otherwise.

    My institution does across the board salary raises yearly (sometimes different by broad class of staff), with periodic reviews of individual job titles to make sure they’re in line with local norms (I haven’t been here long enough for one of those.)

  1074. Business Analyst*

    Primary function is internal compliance review, also conduct compliance and process training. Industry/field is commercial insurance (Fortune 100 company).

    San Francisco Bay Area
    3 years experience
    $88k annual (exempt employee)

  1075. Data analysis consultant (self employed)*

    Self-employed data analysis consultant. Very strong SQL knowledge; database design and optimization; some scripting (Python, R); troubleshooting and debugging data; analysis/visualization/reporting

    San Francisco Bay area

    10+ years industry experience

    $90/hour

    Context: since I’m self employed the rate only applies to billable hours. My billings have to cover self employment taxes, vacation, holidays, sick days, time off for doctor’s appointments etc., computer equipment, some training, health insurance, and pension. If I visit a client site they pay for airplane and hotel, but not travel time. They will pay for training if it’s at their request on technology specific to their project, similar for software licensing.

  1076. OC Data Analyst*

    I replied to someone above, but I’ll post it here too!

    Job: Data Analyst for State Agency (lots of data management/SQL, implementations)
    Location: Orange County, CA
    Years of Experience: 1 year in this position, 5 with the agency total (6 years professional experience overall); I have a BA and MPH
    Salary: $69,000

    Really good benefits. 3 weeks vacation, 12 days sick time with unlimited accrual, all federal holidays plus some state/county holidays depending on where your office is located so 13-14 holidays off.

  1077. Junior Partner (Law Firm)*

    Nonequity partner (attorney/lawyer) at a plaintiffs’ side class action law firm
    Minneapolis, MN
    7 years experience
    $100,000 base salary and annual discretionary bonus (ranging in previous years from $30,000 to over $100,000)

  1078. Public Relations / Media: Manager*

    Public relations and communications for a large arts-related non-profit.
    Large Rustbelt City
    Less than 1 year in this role. ~4 years with PR as part of my role, with 5-6 total years in Marketing & Communications at non-profits. Bachelor’s degree in a different arts field.
    $48,500
    Great benefits. Super cheap healthcare, 403 (b) with employer contribution and match, ~20 days PTO, lots of random perks.

  1079. Project Coordinator*

    Developing and overseeing day to day running of implementation of country-wide project in one of eight regions. Mix of partnership development, working directly with project beneficiaries, managing staff, and planning/organising project events.
    Location: UK (outside London), work from home full time with regular local travel
    Experience: <1 year
    Salary: £29,000 gross (approx $35,500)
    Other benefits: 30 days paid annual leave (plus 8 paid bank holidays), time off in lieu if work overtime, very basic private health insurance, fairly flexible hours, work from home, mileage reimbursement at 0.45p/mile for all travel.
    Other considerations: work for a charity so pay is lower than would be in private sector and no bonuses are available, but I'm working on projects making a positive difference in the world.

  1080. Medical Secretary*

    Job: I run the office for a Consultant Surgeon working in a private hospital. It’s pretty much just the two of us in the office. I run his clinics, organise his diary, book patients into hospital etc. The only thing I don’t do is the billing.
    geographic area: Ireland
    years of experience: 15
    salary: €35,000

    I took a pay cut going into this job to get out of an extremely toxic environment. Thankfully it worked out!

    1. Medical Secretary*

      Forgot to add I get 23 holidays a year plus bank holidays. Don’t officially get sick pay but the few days I have been out I’ve been paid.

  1081. Archives Associate*

    your job
    Part of my job is to digitize our collections. This digitization includes scanning, Researching and writing metadata and uploading. Also part of my job is doing reference, which I really really enjoy; to a very diverse population from students to genealogists. This means sitting at our reference desk as well as answering reference and photo related questions (my co-worker and I switch off each week on who answers reference emails or emails relating to ordering photographs). Another part of my time is supposed to be done processing collections, but I haven’t done a lot of that (even though I want to, badly) since I started.

    6-7 years of experience in the Archives/Library world, with a Masters in Library and Information Science

    30,900/year (yes I do realize I’m SEVERELY underpaid)
    Upper Midwest-largest city in the state working working for academia.

    I do live in an area that does have a lower cost of living and there are some benefits that are good (health insurance) but I am way underpaid for having a masters.

  1082. Supply Chain Manager*

    – Supply Chain Manager; individual contributor role doing product forecasting and planning at Fortune 100 tech company
    – San Francisco Bay Area
    – 5 years experience in this field; 4 years unrelated work experience
    – $130K, pretty great benefits, especially flexible work hours. I’m very lucky.

  1083. Television News Producer*

    – produce live interview segments for daily programming on national television programming. Occasionally asked to pinch hit on control room producing, tape producing (putting together news pieces), and futures planning
    – New York
    – 9.5 years of experience – worked my way up at this company
    – Salary: $104,100
    – Shift differential of 10% of total week’s salary available if I work for two hours between midnight and 6a one day in that period. (Which happens) Decent health benefits (co-insurance with deductible), EXCELLENT PTO (starts at 25 days for entry level, if I recall correctly) though sick and vacation are combined. That said, I’ve spoken to colleagues who are more talented than I am at other networks, and their benefits are not as good.

  1084. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Healthcare*

    Job: I work on Lean Six Sigma Projects in the healthcare industry
    Experience: 3 years, Certified LSS Black Belt
    Location: DC Metro
    Salary: $92,500

      1. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Healthcare*

        This may be too late of a reply, but Six Sigma is all about reducing variation in processes. So the methodology uses data analysis to identify the root cause of variation and them identify solutions to those root causes.

    2. Another Six Sigma Black Belt*

      Job: Complete 6S projects to hit annual savings targets, mentor green belts, administer internal ISO 9001 audits, provide support for additional lean, 5S, and continuous improvement projects.
      Experience: 6 years at this company, first year in quality department
      Location: Dallas/Fort Worth area
      Base Salary: $69,000 – also a 2% pension, 401k matching, baseline 6% annual variable compensation tied to company’s financial performance (some years it’s nothing, some it’s more), 4 weeks of PTO plus sick time and holidays, plus various & sundry other benefits.

  1085. Assistant Program Director*

    (middle management at large nonprofit)
    Medium sized West coast city
    10 years
    $54k for 32 hours/week

  1087. Teacher - head of department (UK)*

    Job: head of science in a U.K. School. Responsible for managing a team of 20 staff, including teachers and technicians. Comprehensive school, non selective. No additional benefits other than the holidays.
    Location: UK, Home Counties.
    Years of experience: first year as HoD, seven years teaching experience total.
    Salary: £50,000

    Hopefully I’m still allowed to play even though I’m not US based.

  1088. Structural Engineer (mechanical)*

    – structural engineer – designs and produces documentation for structures (value between 500$-1.5M$)
    – Canada
    – 4 years of experience
    – 41,600$ CAD
    – definitely the lowest I’ve ever been paid. was a field engineer before making 80-100k. new opportunities though are on their way

  1089. HR Assistant*

    Human Resource Assistant
    Northern California
    0 years of experience, currently working towards my master’s degree
    $17 per hour
    2 weeks vacation

    1. HR Assistant*

      I forgot to add great benefits
      full time 40-45 hours per week
      retirement
      6 paid holidays
      life insurance

  1090. Organizer*

    Manage coalition lists, facilitate calls and meetings, plan and implement strategy for issue campaigns, and manage organizational relationships in the community.
    North Carolina
    5 years experience, 2.5 with current organization
    $34,000
    Excellent benefits

    1. Field Organiser*

      Working for a white collar union
      Australia
      1.5 years in this job
      ~75,000 AUD (about 55,000 US)
      Better than average superannuation and fairly decent conditions – well above award. We somewhat recently got DV leave added to our agreement too.

  1091. Pre-Award Administrator*

    (Note on title: there are a lot of ways my position gets referred to — pre-award administrator was used in the job posting I applied to, but in our HR database I’m a grants and contracts specialist. I have seen my job referred to as a grants and contracts manager as well. Also, for comparison, a few people have posted above with the title grant administrator, and it seems to me to be the same line of work.)

    Job (sorry if this is long, it’s a little hard to explain what I do): I work at a major university in research administration as part of their medical department. My basic job is to help faculty and fellows submit their grant applications and get their reports in on time, but that doesn’t capture exactly what the day to day work is. Our grant applications are for large medical research grants; a big part of my job is reading (and rereading) guidelines to make sure all the parts of an application are assembled and follow the rules. The faculty member writes the science part of the proposal and I do most of the rest — making the budget, filling out forms, getting approval for cross-departmental collaboration, securing letters of support, submitting the application on time, etc. If an application is funded, then I make sure the award is processed, note the report due date, and so on, then pass it to my counterpart, the post-award administrator, someone who supervises the spending on a grant. There’s a lot of little things associated with the job — I say that essentially my own work is not the most interesting, but it makes interesting work happen. I got into this from my previous position, where I was a grant writer (development associate level) at a social services nonprofit.
    Geographic area: Chicago, IL
    Years of experience: About 3.5 (10 months at this job, 1.5 years at previous job, plus earlier internship/work experience)
    Salary: $60,000 along with very nice benefits

    I encourage anyone who’s interested to check out research admin jobs — they pay well and it’s a good career.

    1. another grants person*

      a little off-topic… I’m a nonprofit grant writer looking into making the transition into research grants and it’s really helpful to see that someone else has successfully moved into that field from nonprofit fundraising! How did you get interested in research administration? How was your nonprofit experience useful in the interview process at the university? Any other advice?

      1. Pre-Award Administrator*

        Hi! I would love to answer these questions over email. (My responses will be a little too long/personal for the comments here.) Contact me at the address I’m putting in the email field — yes it looks like a joke but I swear I will check it!

        1. Another grants person*

          Oops! I forgot to check this post until now, but I just sent you an email! Thanks for replying.

  1092. Harm Reduction Project Coordinator*

    Job: Manage project budget, work in a needle distribution program, develop/facilitate peer groups and stakeholder networks over a large geographical area (mostly rural), provide capacity building, provide education, develop cross-jurisdictional partnerships, do event planning
    Area: 1 year experience in this particular role, 6 years relevant experience in related non-profit work
    Salary: CAD$49,000 (about USD$37,000) + partial employer coverage of extended health benefits
    Notes: I’m in one of the lower cost-of-living parts of the country; includes reasonable paid vacation & sick time; extremely flexible organization – high level of autonomy, I make my own schedule and can work from home; best managed organization I’ve ever worked for

    1. Harm Reduction Project Coordinator*

      Salary is based on 1.0 EFT (37.5 hrs per week). I work part time, so my gross earnings are actually less.

  1093. Lawyer (Canadian government)*

    essentially an in-house lawyer
    Ottawa, Canada
    5 years experience (post call)
    $71,000 (Canadian)

  1094. Environmental Coordinator*

    -Responsible for addressing all environmental concerns for 200 crew over broad geographic region, often hiring consultants and overseeing work (eg. haz waste, spills, wildlife, training, erosion and sediment control)
    -Northern Canada
    -10 years experience
    -$90,000 CAD
    -Salary includes an 20% bonus for living in a rural northern community

  1095. Senior Corporate Accountant (fixed-term contract)*

    Sydney
    Part of team co-ordinating reporting from subsidiaries
    6 years experience including 3 as audit trainee/senior
    100K AUD plus 9.25% mandatory pension contribution

  1096. Accountant*

    General Ledger/Corporate
    Madison, WI
    2 years
    Masters Degree
    $43k
    3+ weeks PTO, 8 holidays, great health/dental/life insurance, 10% company retirement contribution, fitness center

    1. Entry level Corporate Accountant*

      I’ll piggyback on you.

      Entry level corporate accountant in a rotational program. Three years, assigned to three different divisions within the finance department (eg: general ledger, external reporting, internal audit, financial analysis, sales and use tax, etc…)
      Chicagoland area
      No experience, save a summer internship
      Masters Degree
      $67,000
      10 days PTO plus all “government holidays”, mediocre health insurance, well-appointed campus with fitness center and outdoor activity areas and on-site restaurant(s)

  1097. Senior policy analyst (contractor, NZ govt)*

    Job: Developing and implementing policy initiatives for NZ central government.
    Location: Wellington, New Zealand
    Experience: 18 years
    Salary: NZ$80,000 starting salary (US$55,000). Currently NZ$140,000 (US$100,000). I am paid hourly, at $100 an hour. From that I fund my own sick leave and annual leave, and choose my hours.

    1. Senior policy analyst (contractor, NZ govt)*

      Reading this thread makes me feel very lucky to live and work where I do! NZ’s compulsory pension contribution isn’t as good as in Australia, but as in Australia and Canada our health care is free.

      1. Business Analyst*

        Yes, we know the American healthcare system isn’t the greatest. No need to rub in in our faces.

        1. Senior policy analyst (contractor, NZ govt)*

          Ouch! I’m sorry I seem to have hit a nerve for you, Business Analyst. Part of the brief was to add relevant details about what benefits are part of your salary so people could compare. As I stated, my pension benefit is low compared to other countries, I was just trying to give a fair comparison.

  1098. University Department Administrator*

    $65k
    Long Island, NY
    8 years experience
    HR, personnel, purchasing, management of department staff, course scheduling.

  1099. Sr Program Manager*

    -Research/evaluation/performance improvement: Design data collection strategies, conduct analysis, write reports that have national (US) exposure
    -Washington, D.C. area
    -6.5 years of experience
    -Salary: $91,500 plus pretty good benefits
    Other relevant info: Actually a low stress job. I worked 4 weekends in the last year. Left previous job a year and a half ago which had lower salary, more hours (average 60 hours and travel), and lots of stress. Have advanced degrees in social sciences which I needed for previous job, but not really for this job. Also have international experience and 3 foreign languages, but not needed for this job.

  1100. Assistant Director, Annual Fund*

    -Fundraising/Reunion Volunteer Coordination for an Annual Fund at a small liberal arts college
    -Boston Area
    -4.5 years experience in higher ed development; 2.5 in this specific position
    -$49,000
    -My starting salary was $43,000 but our office was evaluated last year and I think most of us got significant raises to get closer to market rate. Our work week is 35 hours (unpaid lunch hour). Benefits include 4 weeks vacation, about a similar amount of sick time, plus most holidays etc. and the atmosphere is generally laid back and there’s room for growth. I have a BA in Biology.

  1101. Public Librarian (first library job)*

    -I work at a branch of a city library system, where I am the only Librarian I (entry-level professional). There are coworkers above and below that step. The boss for this location/position is a III or IV.
    -San Francisco Bay Area, California, US (high COL; salaries reflect that)
    -I walked into this job with no formal library experience after working full-time and earning my MLIS online. The MLIS was a requirement; experience was a plus but not required. Now I have 2 years of experience and can be promoted to Librarian II when there is an opening.
    -$68,500/year (I took a pay cut when I transferred from the private sector, but COL increases — which we did not have at the privately-owned company — and annual pay step increases bumped it up to exceed my old salary within a year.)
    -This is a union job and union dues are taken out of my paycheck. I have comprehensive medical insurance (and have used it a lot this year), dental, and vision coverage. There is a retirement plan with a required minimum contribution and no employer match. City employees get 12 paid holidays and 2 weeks of paid vacation to start; vacation increases over years of service. The standard work week is less than 40 hours and there is almost never overtime. I consider this job to be extremely stable and intend to stay here through retirement.

  1102. Education Coordinator (Gov't Employee)*

    – I coordinate community environmental education programs for a state government agency. This includes developing programs and writing curriculum, teaching, training staff, managing budgets, forming community partnerships, and scheduling programs.
    – I work in the Upper Midwest.
    – I have a B.A. degree and an M.S. degree in related fields, and approx 6 years of experience. I’m female.
    My Salary: $21.90/hour, full-time – about $45,000/year before taxes.

  1103. Admin Assistant*

    your job – Recruitment admin, general office admin
    your geographic area – South UK
    your years of experience – 2.5 (in this job, 6m in something kind of simmilar)
    your salary – £22,500 (US $27,300)

    Plus bonuses (sparodic), 28days paid holiday a year (maybe 31 with ‘bonus’ days), working from home options, sick pay.

  1104. Beck*

    Job: Customer support at a startup
    Boston metro
    3 years experience, a few months in this current job
    $62k – work from home, unlimited vacation, annual learning stipend. No health ins, 401k

    Previous job: Sales for a tech company
    Boston metro
    Was there for 3 years
    $45k base + commission (last year made about $35k commission) – Health insurance, 15 days vacation, 401k with measly profit sharing plan

    The salary cut is still tough but I hated my old job and I like my new one. The flexibility is awesome.

  1105. Accountant*

    2. List the following info:

    Accountant for a medium sized private business, I am one of two accountants here and I am the least senior. General accounting duties, HR and Payroll
    Iowa
    6 years of experience
    $47,380.00

    1. Accountant, CPA and bottle washer*

      Hey! Ive been offered a job with controller duties as well as HR (401, insurance etc) duties. Ive never done HR before and trying to decide if this is a deal breaker for me as I know in other small companies the HR piece can be a nightmare. Can you tell me what that piece is like for you? Trying to decide what salary Im willing to accept for the aggravation.

  1106. Reporting Data Analyst*

    your job (the more descriptive the better, since job titles don’t always explain level of responsibility or scope of work): In the analytics and SEO team in a digital media company.
    Produce weekly digital visits reports, forecast visits for the next year, maintain a LBE file.
    Create analytics requirements when new web pages or features are implemented so the data scientists can use the data for various analyses.
    Data validation and QA.
    Various ad-hoc data analysis requests.
    Using mainly Excel, some SQL and Tableau.
    your geographic area : Montréal, Qc
    your years of experience: 4 years (8 months in this company)
    your salary : 55k + bonus (I don’t know the details yet.) 3 weeks PTO, a pretty good health insurance

    1. Reporting Data Analyst*

      Oh, I saw some mention of gender:
      I’m a cis-gender woman.
      Education: M.Sc. in Business Intelligence (out of the business adminitration department of my university)

  1107. Account Manager*

    Non-sales account manager for an online/mobile marketing company
    Denver metro
    5 years in the position
    $60k + commission
    Benefits: 401k match, 20 days PTO (started with 15), health/vision/dental insurance

  1108. Compliance Specialist*

    I’m an entry-level compliance worker in a small insurance company (~300 employees). I respond to escalated claims appeals and keep up with state and national law changes in our industry. I work directly with a Director of Compliance and our General Counsel.

    My city’s cost of living is about 6% below the national average, but the state average cost of living is about 5-10% lower than my city’s cost of living. I live in the most expensive city in my state.

    I had only a few months of professional experience and an unrelated internship when I started this role. I had 5 years of retail and call center experience. I have an unrelated liberal arts bachelor’s degree.

    $43,000/yr, non-exempt

    I started at $38,000/yr (offered $35k, asked for $40k, accepted $38k). At my one-year review I was offered a 13% raise to $43,000 (did not ask for a raise). I have outperformed previous people who filled this role at my company, and I think the desire to retain me caused my department head to allocate most of our annual departmental raise budget to my raise.

    My company has a disorganized HR department and does not maintain any sort of formal pay structure, which leads to disparities in pay between similar roles (or between individuals performing in the same role). I am the only person in my role. My company has a reputation for paying 25-30% below-market and a lot of people start here before moving to more lucrative companies after a few years.

    I started out exempt. My company converted me to non-exempt ahead of the DOL FLSA update. I am not allowed to work overtime. For now I am remaining non-exempt despite the injunction against the rule.

  1109. Permit Technician*

    your job: Process permits for build homes, commercial buildings and even garage sales
    your geographic area: Texas DFW
    your years of experience: 3 years of experience
    your salary: $36,000/year, health insurance covered for employee, 14 days vacation, 2to1 retirement.

  1110. Data Analyst*

    -Located in the Midwest
    -Small company (<10 people) that works in financial consulting
    -I do any needed analytics–mostly marketing, but I also look at client characteristics and revenue.
    -I have a BA and an MA in Economics, and less than one year experience
    -My current salary is $58,000/ year, with great benefits (five weeks vacation, personal cell phone bill paid, all health insurance premiums paid, catered lunch, etc.).

    1. Data Analyst*

      I should add–I could probably get paid more in the area, but I like my company and I like the benefits (and the holiday bonus is nice as well). I also get matched up to 8% in my 401(k), and the company puts $150/ month into an HSA account.

      As a side gig, I also work as an adjunct professor in anl MBA program where I make $1,200 per class credit hour.

  1111. Software Test Engineer (QA)*

    * Job: Writing test cases, automating (using scripting languages, not compiled) or manual testing those cases, submitting bug reports
    * Pittsburgh, PA
    * ~2 years experience
    * 65,000
    * I may be in tech, but it’s in big corporate not a start up or Silicon Valley shop. My education and work history prior to this position have nothing to do with QA automation or QA in general, so it’s been entirely learning on the job and working my way through there. I know I started at the minimum for the position, but I’ve shown worth over the past couple years to get moved up to a more market rate.

  1112. Art Therapist/Licensed Professional Counselor*

    job: provide mental health services (initial intake, individual and group counseling, outreach) to university students in campus counseling center
    area: Kentucky
    experience: 6 years total of clinical experience, independently licensed for past 4 years, less than 3 months in current position
    salary: $47,500 (started at 41,000 then raised to meet the FLSA guidelines)

    1. Child Art Therapist/Marriage and Family Therapist*

      job: provide child and family therapy to kids ages 3-18, run therapy groups, work in school system to help kids thrive in schools, do in-home therapy at times. I specialize in autism and behavior problems, am PCIT trained

      area: Seattle metro area

      experience: 3.5 years in this role, 1 year fully licensed (not counting internships or things prior to MA)

      salary: 42,000/year

  1113. Regional Sales Manager*

    $90,000 base plus up to 20% bonus for sales targets (full 20% not really achievable, 15 is the likely top-out).
    Based in southwest US, responsible for Eastern US and Canada.
    Manage representative (reseller) relationships and develop sales. Directly manage 1 employee.
    8 years experience in the industry

  1114. Senior QA/Software Tester (occasional lead)*

    I work at a software company (as opposed to a company which uses software as a part of their greater business strategy)
    – Manually test computer software (no automation in my current role)
    – Drive testing, planning, implementation
    – Contribute in feature planning, scoping
    – I often contribute cross teams as a test lead and resource for teams which lack dedicated testers (esp. important as people are starting to think we should all be cross-discipline and there are no need for testers embedded on a team, but then they discover that’s not the world they want to live in)
    – Drive quality across my feature and our product suite

    Geographic area: Pacific Northwest
    Experience: 12 years
    Salary: $90k + bonus up to 10% of base salary, + stock (which is often, but not always, not noteworthy)
    Education: BSc in CSc
    Gender: Female

  1115. Probation Officer*

    Job: Supervising people placed on probation.
    Location: Texas
    Experience: 7 years
    Salary: 50,000/ yr. Paid Health Insurance / Good Retirement. Flexible work schedule.

  1116. Manager, Information Technology*

    Manage a team of Senior Systems Administrators who research, test, and build out new IT solutions for enterprise wide use.
    South Texas
    11 years as Systems Admin and 6 as manager.
    $83,000 / year
    Work for a University so salary is low for the job but work/life balance is good, job is interesting, and my team is great.

  1117. Medical Physicist*

    Job (1 sentence): responsible for all aspects of quality assurance in radiation therapy.
    Experience: 6 years post masters degree

    Located in Northeast Ohio with travel to Montana every other week
    Compensation : $114k, 19 days PTO/year, 8 paid holidays a year, $2500 in education reimbursement, $500 in professional dues

  1118. Library Director*

    Job: Chief Administrative Officer for a Public Library serving a town of 20K
    Location: Suburban IL
    Experience: 17 years; 11 as a Director
    Salary: $71K, with paid health and a pension

  1119. Store Manager, wireless / cell phones*

    Been at the same company 8+ years. 90K+. Full benefits, including 6 weeks PTO and ten additional paid company holidays per year.

    1. Store Manager, wireless / cell phones*

      This is just outside NYC. I also recieve shares of stock every year and the ability to purchase more at a discount, 5% 401K match, and a huge discount on my cell phone bill for my family which adds up to a couple grand a year in savings as well.

  1120. Director of Marketing*

    Job: Responsible for all external marketing and internal communications; includes website, collateral (brochures, sales sheets), branding, messaging, trade shows, website, social media, PR, lead generation, emails, direct mail, videos, promo items, market research; I supervise a small team plus several freelancers and vendors.
    Area: Dallas, Texas
    Experience: 25 years
    Industry: Healthcare
    Education: Bachelor’s degree
    Salary: $105,000 plus 20% possible bonus

  1121. Staff Accountant - Audit Coordnator*

    Coordinate annual consolidated financial statements audit, submission of audit samples; and donor mandated financial statement audits. Non-profit, approx 650 million in revenue

    Washington, DC
    4.5 total, 1 in current position
    66,000

    Have CPA License

  1122. Program Manager/Director*

    Student Affairs/Services office- State University
    Location: Texas
    Experience: 5 years
    Salary: $48,000 (before new FLSA standards). Excellent state benefits include employer paid health insurance, decent PTO plus holidays, and employer matched retirement.

  1123. Research Assistant*

    very small specialist mostly academic department in large Ivy-associated hospital system
    Northeast
    2 years experience in this field, about 4.5 total in various non-profit/academic jobs + 2 interning
    $62000 (plus good benefits and an okay retirement match) – they also look the other way so I can keep a nice little side gig in my field, which brings in another 8k/yr
    I have one ordinary masters degree and one very uncommon one

  1124. IT System Support and Training Coordinator*

    your job: providing first-line support (30%) and online and classroom training (60%) on two bespoke IT systems and associated workflows (including writing and managing training plans and materials) plus various admin (10%)
    your geographic area: Oxford, UK
    your years of experience: as a trainer, 2 years. Previously worked for three years as a project coordinator / PMO for the project that built the systems, and before that worked in various admin / project support for 10 years.
    your salary: £27,000. This is about £5,000 – £10,000 below market rate for this sort of role. Plus contributory pension, 25 days holiday plus 8 public holidays, one day per week working from home, flexible hours, season ticket loan, subsidised gym membership and an annual bonus of between £0 and £1000 depending on company performance.

  1125. Senior Software Engineer*

    Job: senior software engineer
    Description: I work as a technical lead at a large tech company; I write code, lead projects, review designs, come up with ideas, interview, mentor, and occasionally bartend. I make the company much more money than I cost; if they could find more people in that bucket, they’d love to chat. I’ve been a manager before, but currently don’t manage people.

    Location: Seattle
    Experience: 15-20 years experience
    Compensation: $300k/year. (1/2 salary, 1/6th performance bonus, 1/3rd stock)

  1126. Tax Accountant*

    I post frequently under a different username; I’m employed as a tax accountant.

    -NYC
    -I’m an Enrolled Agent and I’ve been doing taxes since 2011. My degree was in a completely different field and I do not have a Masters. I’ve been preparing taxes since 2011, but I received my EA license in 2013 which led me to getting my first full time job, where I’ve been working currently for 3 years.
    -My salary right now is $48K. I started out at different nonprofit organizations at $15/hour. I first joined my company as a seasonal employee in 2014, at 38K. I was not made full time, but I reapplied and when I came back for hte next season, it was $42. This year my salary increased to $48.
    I’ve done market research and from what I’ve been told this is on the low end. However, we are guaranteed pay raises every year once tax season is over; basically our pay increase is tied to our performance. I know it’s on the low end, but I do enjoy my job and the stability it brings; I realize I’m in a very lucky position to not have to worry about this too much. The pay is not enough for me to jump ship for “greener pastures.”

  1127. Materials Handler*

    -I handle the special requests from warehouse staff and count/maintain client inventory.
    -Northern Lower Michigan
    -Less than a year (moved from retail)
    -$30,000/year

    My job is somewhat nebulous as the person before me had more power (they were handler and buyer) and I only handle. Still figuring out responsibilities.

  1128. HR admin*

    ◾I am a military HR administrator in the Canadian Armed Forces. I am a member of the military, not a civilian who works for the Department National Defense. My day to day function includes administrating members pay and social benefits, processing entitlement like work travel, processing promotions and leave request as well as managing their personnal files. I am also an advisor to my superior regarding HR matters. Because of my rank and job description, I am also a junior supervisor of my section.
    ◾Canada
    ◾As a member of the military: 22 years, as an HR admin: 11 years.
    ◾about 40000$ US annually
    ◾I am a army reservist working on a full time contract, unlike members of the regular force that are “permanent” full time employees. All military pay levels, regardless of the member’s status, is determined by the member’ rank and their time in rank and each rank has a maximum of possible increases from four to ten. Overall, reservists make 15% less then regular force member of the same rank and pay level but we do have benefits depending if we are part time or on a full time contract. Currently, I am a the top of my rank so unless I get promoted, my next pay increase will be determined by whatever civilian employees will have obtained in their contract negociations with the federal government.

  1129. Project Manager II*

    licensed structural engineer, design mid size comercial projects (const fees from $1-$6 million), supervise other engineers and drafters on projects
    Geographic Area: Midwest
    Experience: 13.5 years
    Education: BS and MS from a top 10 engineering school
    Salary: $83,400 (plus 5-10% merit based bonus, and stock dividends for shareholders, paid for OT/time and a half for 50+ hours)
    Gender: F
    Other: 401k with match, 20 days PTO, training stipend, healthcare/HSA plan

  1130. Assistant Archivist*

    * I work in a special collections & archives department in a library at a mid-sized public university. My boss and I are the only full-time staff in the department (her position is faculty, mine is staff) but we have 5-8 part-time undergrad student workers whom I supervise, and a half-time graduate assistant. We are the university archives, but also collect manuscript materials about our region and manage/provide access to a significant collection of rare books. I manage all our reference, collections management, and processing, do a significant amount of instruction, and am involved in acquisitions. As a department of 2 there’s practically nothing that goes on that we’re not both involved in. My position requires an ALA-accredited MLS/equivalent degree, which I have.

    *I’m in the rural Midwest– a city of about 40K that’s the most populous place for at least 100 miles in any direction.

    * 4 1/2 years post-MLS experience. The equivalent of about 1 1/2 years of archival experience while I was in school both undergrad & library school. I’ve been at this job 2 years and 4 months. I’m a man in my late 20’s.

    *My salary is $42,996. When I was hired, I was told my salary was non-negotiable as it was the highest allowed for my position by university policy. It was a nearly 30% jump from my previous position and I’m satisfied with it.

    *I only get about 2 weeks vacation and about the same in sick leave(I think). So not particularly generous. But we only work 7 hours/day in the summer, and I have zero pressure to ever work over 40 hours/week– though I sometimes do when I’m busy. I don’t pay anything for my health insurance but have a high deductible. I don’t think the lower-deductible, premium-based plan that my employer offers is grossly unaffordable, but I’ve heard it’s expensive when you’re adding spouses/dependents onto it. We have a generous HSA option that the employer pays into. Dental & vision insurance cost extra, and I don’t have them. Something like 4% of my paycheck goes to a state retirement plan that I think is in decent shape.

    FWIW, my area has one of the lowest costs of living in the country (particularly for housing).

  1131. Software Engineer*

    Software developer on large systems writing enterprise software
    NY metro area
    15 years experience
    $118,000

  1132. HR Manager*

    Title: Human Resources Manager (or “people ops” to use the local norm.) Definitely a generalist in terms of scope–I work on things like people programs, comp/ben, payroll, employee relations, recruiting, org planning, etc.
    Location: Bay Area
    Experience: 4-5 Years
    Salary: $105,000 plus bonus and equity

  1133. Instructional Designer*

    I develop online training courses.
    Washington, DC
    18 years overall work experience, 8 as an ISD, MEd
    $125,000 annually

  1134. Virtual Assistant*

    I’m a virtual assistant, but not in the usual sense. I provide both administrative and editorial support, and I also work as a freelance writer/editor.

    I live in the Eastern Panhandle of WV-about 1.5 hours from DC (the actual commute is closer to 2.5 hours each way, when I have to make it.)

    I have around 20 years’ combined experience

    For admin, I charge $18/hour. For editorial/writing, I charge $22/hour. More on those numbers below.

    I am a transplant from the DC area. My rates are placed where they are due to: My length of experience, my location–remember, I’m from the DC area. When I left my last corporate job, I was making around $22/hr as an admin (I was there a long time.) When I started my business–just two years ago–I started at the lower rate, because I was newly on my own. I’m waiting a bit longer–until I get more experience as my own employer–before raising my rates. Every potential client has told me that “they are happy with my rates,” both for editorial and for admin. I think most people understand that, when you are self-employed, your rates are going to be higher, because you are covering your overhead yourself.

    1. Virtual Assistant*

      Ooops! Forgot to add:

      I am getting off to a slow start–2016 was a BAD year–My actual take-home, on average, is a whopping $240/month. Yes, per MONTH. Some months are better than others. The most I have made in a month was $600 or so.

      A major goal for 2017 is to secure more clients, obvs.

  1135. Full Charge Bookkeeper*

    Bookkeeper for a private school
    Triangle area, NC
    30 years accounting exp.
    $39k for 35 hrs
    Master’s degree not in Accounting field

  1136. Archaeologist*

    Cultural Resource Management archaeology, which means environmental compliance work. I work for a private company. I do both fieldwork and write reports. There is a lot of traveling, with very little notice of when we will away from home and when we will be home. In the field I’m in charge but I’m not an official supervisor (official title is Crew Chief. I have a bachelor’s.

    I’m on the gulf coast.

    I have 10 years of experience.

    I make exactly $47,476 a year thanks to the OT law scare. They let us keep it. If not for that I’d make around 42/43k this year. People in the field with me with 10 years experience but who aren’t in charge made around 35k before the OT scare (now we make the same). We also get per diem, which varies greatly by project.

    My coworkers and I make a LOT for our field. 31/32k is decent pay with a Master’s degree in this field. 25k with a bachelor’s. Even if you’re in charge. There’s a glut of archaeologists in the United States, especially ones with a Master’s.

  1137. Database Team Manager*

    Job: Managing a team of around 10 Oracle/SQL Server Database Administrators.

    Location: Alabama
    Experience: +/- 15 years
    Compensation: 125k + approx. 15k annual bonus

  1138. IT Manager*

    Job: Manage the company’s ERP system and all peripheral databases and applications. It’s a hands on type job where I do a lot of programming myself as well as manage people and projects.
    Location: San Francisco Bay Area
    Description: I have around 25 years of experience. I have a BA degree in an unrelated field and started out as an accountant. I was in the right place at the right time at a smallish company to transition to an IT role early in my career. I have taken dozens of programming classes over the years and I keep current on the certifications that are relevant to my job.
    Salary: $142,000. Benefits are pretty standard. Health insurance is pretty good. The co-pays and deductibles are really high but the company pays 100% of the premiums so I can’t really complain. No 401K match which hurts.
    I also have a freelance job where I do contract consulting work for a friend’s small IT consulting business. I get $75/hour for that work.

    Additional info: I’m probably fairly low paid for my experience and skills but I have a special needs child so I have prioritized flexibility and health insurance over career advancement. I’ve been in my current job for close to 20 years and my salary growth leveled off a few years ago. Management knows I’m not going anywhere so they don’t have any incentive to give me much of a raise. I like my job and my coworkers so I can live with my choices.

  1139. Sales Operations Manager*

    Title: Sales Operations Manager
    Salary: $77K + health benefits + unlimited vacation
    Location: Washington, DC

    I administer our Salesforce database and do a lot of business analysis. I also do project management.

  1140. RavensandOwls*

    1. I’m a Program Coordinator for a university; my specialties are in STEM education, outreach, and student engagement. I do some university recruiting, but I do the bulk of coordination for a campus experiential learning program. I also help plan events, do some of the website work (content management) and am social media admin for the outreach arm of our group.
    2) I live in Southern Arizona.
    3) I have almost 2 years in higher ed, but 6 in the classroom as a former teacher.
    4) I make 41k/year + I get matching in the state retirement system + a MASSIVE tuition discount (which I used to get a Master’s for pretty cheap!)

    A little nervous, as we’re moving up to the Bay Area in a few months and I’m having to go job hunting again. ><

  1141. Project Director*

    Project director (i.e. cat herder) for medical specialty association with a small staff. Run some special projects, serve as a publications manager for several of our works, and interact with members particularly on stuff related to physician performance measurement and data.
    Location: DC
    Experience: about 15 years in associations; 8 in this organization
    Salary: $88,000; 3 weeks vacation + sick time; employer pays about 90% of health insurance.

  1142. Assistant Professor*

    77,500
    West Coast
    PhD from top 10 department in my field
    2 years on the tenure track
    Social sciences

  1143. Publications Coordinator*

    I’m a publications coordinator at a large private university. In practice, this means I do a hodgepodge of things: editing reports and working papers; coordinating the manuscript submission and peer review process at an academic journal; overseeing a big expansion of our promotional efforts (some of my responsibilities are similar to those of a communications coordinator–social media, press releases, maintaining web pages); supervising one part-time employee; and general administrative duties.

    Area: Major city in the NE with a high cost of living.

    Experience: 4.5 total, 1.5 in my current position (internal promotion). I have a master’s degree and Ph.D. in a totally unrelated subject.

    Salary: $66,000, with excellent benefits. In general, my employer pays 15-20% above the industry average in our region.

  1144. Director of Development*

    Job: served as the DoD for an university art museum, responsible for all fundraising efforts (major gifts, grants, membership, event support), raised $500k a year on avg
    Location: Louisiana
    Experience: 8 years in development with related MA
    Salary: $62,000
    Notes: earned my CFRE during my time there, received $2500 bonus

  1145. Biostatistician (Sr. Principal)*

    Job: Biostatistician for a pharmaceutical company, performing statistics for discovery experiments (the stuff that happens well before clinical trials). Lots of programming in R, some SAS, tiny bit of Python, plus lots of ongoing reading and application of new methodologies.
    Location: Philadelphia area
    Education: MS
    Experience: 2+ years in this position, before that 10 years in research academia
    Salary: $134K base, plus 25% bonus, with potential for stock options and the odd performance award.

    Before this, I made about $68K/ year in academia. Interested in salaries in statistics? See the March 2016 edition of Amstat News for academic salaries and November 2016 for industry.

  1146. vP of System Operations*

    Job: VP for co-op utility company, supervise 25 employees
    Location: Louisiana
    Experience: 10+ years as electrical engineer
    Salary: $150,000, hired three years ago at $125,000 as an engineer, promoted to fill vacancy a year later

  1147. Librarian*

    I work in the technical services department of a medium-large research university. I don’t work in any traditional tech services roles, but end up working on a lot of the more tech side of the department (rather than straight cataloging or acquisitions)

    Area: Washington D.C.

    Experience: 12 years post-masters, 3 years pre-masters

    Salary: $67,000

  1148. Associate Archivist*

    NYC
    25 years experience
    $65K
    newly hired as one of group of archivists for a large health care system

    1. Associate Archivist*

      oh, and have master’s degree (two actually but second is outside of professional interests)

  1149. Epidemiologist*

    Staff epidemiologist at a non-profit addressing historically underserved communities. I manage projects, but not people, in addition to statistical analysis and study design.

    Area: a major city in the Southwest

    Experience: 16 years out of grad school (MPH), 4 at current job

    Salary: $54000 – I took a significant pay cut to work here, but I am passionate about the topic and have gained experience I would never get anywhere else. 10/10 would do again

  1150. CRM Manager*

    I manage our company’s CRM system on Salesforce.
    NYC
    9 years experience
    115K base with bonus (last year 10K)

  1151. ITChick*

    IT Application Analyst/Business Analyst – I’m basically half of each. I do a lot of technical application support and some minor in house development stuff, but I also do business analysis and work on process improvement teams. I have also done some project management.
    Northwest IL
    11 years in current role, 17 overall in IT
    65K

  1152. Management Analyst*

    Job: Elearning design and development, rapid software design and development for smallish internal projects, a bit of business analyst work, a bit of project management, a good bit of relationship building and needs analyis
    Area: Largish Midwest city
    Experience: 4 years doing similar work here (15 years of work, in a different but slightly related field)
    Salary: $58,000
    Other: Government work

  1153. Allocation Analyst (Retail Industry)*

    -I work for a closeout retail company, I take the product the buyers have bought and decide how much of it should go to which stores in order to maximize sales.
    -Dallas, TX (there are actually a pretty good number of retailers based here)
    -6 years of experience on the corporate side of retail, I previously had about 5 years of store management experience
    -$58,000/year

  1154. Technical coordinator*

    Post-doctoral position (PhD required), time shared between operations of scientific experiment/instrumentation (70%) and own scientific research (30%).
    Spain
    This is my first job after PhD, before that about 10 years of experience in scientific research.
    30000€/year
    4 weeks of vacation/year, social security

  1155. CRM Campaign Coordinator*

    My Job: CRM Campaign Coordinator – specifically working on email campaigns & regular newsletter campaigns in the B2B & B2C space in Australian retail.
    Geographical area: Melbourne Australia
    Years of experience: 1 in CRM, 3 in marketing, 3 in media – so six years workforce experience total.
    Salary: $70k inclusive of superannuation, + 4 weeks annual leave

    Any other info – you can see that my salary is quite high given my lack of experience in my specific area, however I’ve been within the same company for three years and my current role was a lateral role where they valued my internal stakeholder management experience over my specific email marketing skills, and they brought me on at the same level I was at in my previous role. I’m also maxed out at my coordinator pay band so will need promotions to garner any further salary increases.

  1156. Publication Manager*

    Work in higher education publishing course materials online for teachers and students to use. I manage a small team of people. The job involves project management, some technical skills, like HTML, and strong communication and relationship building with faculty.

    Area: Boston Metro
    Experience: 9 years
    Salary: $76,000

  1157. Senior Account Executive (Pharma ad agency)*

    – I’m a senior account executive at a pharmaceutical advertising agency
    – New York City
    – 3.5 years in this industry, after a year working as a receptionist at a pharma agency
    -$70,000/year
    – I currently work in a pretty lucrative niche of even this industry: professional, rather than consumer, and it’s a high-profile prescription drug that involves a lot of cutting edge science/research. People working on less specialized projects tend to make slightly less.

  1158. Cataloging and Technical Services Librarian*

    Oklahoma
    10 years experience, MLIS
    A little under $32,000

    I work in an academic theological library. Our collection is large, but our staff is very small, so I single-handedly do the work of what would be several whole departments at other libraries. I handle intake, cataloging, invoicing, and physical processing of all new materials including standing orders, new purchases, alumni donations, and theses and dissertations. I do all cataloging, both copy and original. I maintain the catalog, and I repair damaged items.

    I make nowhere near market value for my work due to several factors including the people in charge of setting salaries not knowing anything about libraries or library specialties, the fact that it’s a nonprofit, and the fact that it’s an industry (graduate theological education) in decline.

  1159. Packaging Engineer*

    Packaging Engineer – work in pharmaceutical and medical device industry developing packaging and packaging related process equipment, also labeling and distribution logistics (cold chain). Think sterile barrier trays and pouches for surgical instruments or pre-filled syringes and vials (syringe/vial/needle is considered the “package” for the drug). It’s a very unique, in-demand field because well, everything comes in a package.
    Location: Colorado
    Experience: 20+ years
    Salary: $120k

  1160. Elementary School Teacher*

    I teach ESL at an urban public elementary school. In my district, because of the large population of English language learners and regulations about ESL service hours, this means I teach two different sections (15-20 kids each) of English language arts/ESL rather than serving smaller groups for shorter amounts of time.

    Location: New England
    Experience: 3 years of teaching ESL in the Peace Corps + 1 year as an in-school ESL tutor + currently in my 2nd year with my district. (So I arguably have 5.5 years of professional work experience in my field, but for salary purposes I am considered a 2nd year teacher.)
    Education: I have an M.Ed, which is unofficially required to get a job in my district. I am certified in general elementary ed, ESL, math, and moderate disabilities (special education).
    Salary: $67,649. I also teach summer school, which is about $3000 more. Can’t complain about the benefits, they’re pretty industry standard.

    After seeing other teacher salaries listed on this thread, I realize I can never move.

    1. Special Education/Learning Disabilities Specialist*

      lol yes!! I think your salary is the top one as far as teacher/special ed professions go in the comments (so far).. yay for you! If you’re in the public sector, would you say your salary is within the standard or rather low/high ?

      I feel so poor right now but the saddest thing is that when I talk to other professionnals in my area, I’m actually considered well off (40K cad/30K usd)

      1. Elementary School Teacher*

        I am fairly certain that I work in the highest or second-highest paying district in the U.S. (The downside is that the cost of housing here is astronomical.) So this is definitely on the very high side of normal. Maybe even outside the realm of normal. Many of my colleagues with comparable education and ~10+ years of experience make six figures. I love my job, but I don’t know if I would love it as much at half the salary.

        1. Special Education/Learning Disabilities Specialist*

          Makes sense! Six figures sounds so surreal whoa; it does make me want to pursue my idea of online education/private consultation service even more though! One of the challenges with my current set up is that I can only meet with X amount of students/week and I strongly rely on their attendance to make $. I think I could probably help more students, in a more significant way AND be less dependant on the ones I have if I develop an online service.. Anywho – I’m just typing as I think “out loud” …

          Thanks for taking the time to write back :) It’s been super enriching to hear about your reality

  1161. Assistant Director of Student Involvement*

    I work in Student Affairs, specifically in Student Involvement/Student Activities – I co-advise the campus programming board, Student Government, Class Councils, and do large-scale campus event planning. Job is masters-required.
    Area: Charlotte, NC
    Experience: 4.5 years full-time
    Salary: ~$47,100
    This includes a great benefits package. My take-home after taxes (NC has state income tax) is about $35k.

  1162. Construction Executive*

    Oversee Project Managers on multiple construction projects in both the US and abroad. Coordinate contracts, logistics, payables, and customer/owner/subcontrator relationships. Travel to project sites, primarily domestically, roughly 5 -10 nights a month.
    Based in the US Southeast.
    20+ years in the business, 3 years in this role
    $123,500/year, plus bonus that averages around $15,000/year.

  1163. Actor/ voice over artist*

    Stage, film, TV, voice-over actor
    In and around the San Francisco Bay Area
    I’m non-Union, so wages vary – and it’s hard for non-Union to normalize with each other. I’m especially curious what some other voice artists do with, say, all the tech products that require buy-outs.
    Stage: $300/ show (2-3 months) up to about $800/week
    Film: about $100/ day (the low budget, local ones)
    Industrial films for use within 1 company or industry: up to $1000/day (usually more like $200)
    VO: $125/ hr if I’m recording at home and editing. Depending on usage, up to $300/ hr
    No benefits, no PTO, paying all my own taxes, etc etc.

  1164. Senior (Civil) Engineer, Consulting*

    job: essentially a project manager, but also can spend even extensive time in the field, am expected to manage jobs and job teams (not a set crew, will change depending on availability and skill set), write reports, come up with solutions to problems, QA/QC our product. Despite being a PE, only Partners sign/seal drawings and documents.

    geographic area: New York City and Environs

    years of experience: 16 as engineer, previous to education 11 years in the trades, have a BSc., have a couple other languages, but I rarely get to use them in my work.

    salary: $89,400, +participation (not everyone in company gets this, rates vary between people who do have participation, and when you get offered to be a participant is subject to whims) which for me is 0.1% of profit, last year was around $7,000, +an annual contribution to our 401k which for me works out to be about 2%, paid sick time and paid holiday time on a slightly complicated scaled accrual method I’m not going to explain here, and we have to work to the job, not a clock, so there’s extra hours.

    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Our regular time is 37.5 hours per week. Over that we get straight time. As we are management, we don’t get double or time-and-a-half, but we do get paid for what we work, which is more than I can say at some places (financial institutions, I’m looking at you!) Have health and dental plans that we partly contribute to. Have option for pre-tax transit fund (“TransitChek”). Also have FSA and pre-tax child care account if needed. My gross compensation last year was just over $100K. My take home is faaaar less than that as I’m funding my 401K, transit and FSA to the max.

  1165. Senior Consultant (Defense Contractor)*

    Project coordinator for a branch of the military. I coordinate reports, remind people when things are due, and consolidate the info I receive from the various departments into the final product. Occasionally I’ll have reports I can do on my own. We are very regulated and have a lot of laws to adhere to for the work we do and I’m the first POC for anyone that has questions or needs help navigating the red tape.

    Southern California

    25 (!) total years’ experience – 3 at this particular job, 11 in the defense industry; before that was administrative assistant gigs then moved up to executive assistant for senior exec types.

    $83k (just got a 3% raise); earned my bachelors 5 years ago and just started a master’s program 12 weeks ago.

  1166. senior legal advisor*

    In-house counsel in central government
    New Zealand
    $88,000 NZD (before tax, super, student loan)
    Practising certificate required (so LLB & admission to bar – I also have a masters but that’s not a requirement)
    10 years experience not including clerkships
    25 days annual leave, plus some ridiculously large number of never-expire sick days.

  1167. Manager of HR, Finance & Operations*

    Entertainment Industry – Beverly Hills, CA
    Mid-Size Talent & Literary Agency (we represent actors, writers, directors, producers, etc)
    OK benefits (health dental, 401k but no matching), 4 weeks vacation because I’ve been here 10+ years but for the first 5 years it was 2 weeks vaca/year
    LONG-ass hours, always checking email into the wee hours of the night nightly, and a lot of type-A agents keeping my xanax prescription freshly filled (kidding, kinda).
    Fun yet stressful – time flies and it’s never ever ever boring. I love the craziness and fast pace but it’s certainly not for everyone (aka anyone sane)
    $85,000/year + $5,000 bonus (give or take a few hundred dollars) around Christmas

    1. Manager of HR, Finance & Operations*

      Forgot to say that I have a 3.5 mile commute (20 minutes from door-to-door) which can’t be beat (especially in Los Angeles) and the CFO (my supervisor) is AMAZING and fun to work with, which is probably why I put up with some of the negatives. He keeps me sane and is really supportive.

  1168. Research Analyst*

    Data collection and analysis for a government office
    6 years experience + BS
    Pacific Northwest
    $73,500

  1169. Public Librarian*

    Young Adult Public Librarian for large libray system
    Southern California
    4 years with this system, about a year of professional experience prior and 5 years of part time paraprofessional experience before getting a master’s degree
    your salary: $75,627.36 (36.22/hr)
    starting salary was 28.76 and we have annual step increase

  1170. Contracts Manager*

    – Job: Negotiate and implement contracts with hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare providers; plan and execute strategy for assigned territory to achieve financial and access targets; support operations, sales, compliance, etc (when contractual issues and/or strategy are involved). Fortune 100 company. The role has a surprising amount of administrative/clerical work associated with it.
    – Geographic area: Company is headquartered in Eastern US but markets across the entire country; have had both regional and national assignments within the same job grade/title; the standard salary range for this job grade is the same regardless of US location
    – Years of experience: 18 with the organization, 12 with this job title (during which I’ve moved laterally through a variety of assignments)
    – Salary: $150K plus up to 20% bonus (usually much less), 23 days PTO, 9 paid holidays, decent 401(k) match, comprehensive but pricey health insurance options
    – Anything else pertinent: Bachelor degree required, MBA or MHA preferred; external working titles may be different from payroll title (I’ve seen anything from manager to AVP on my peers’ business cards); need to have financial acumen in addition to negotiation and relationship skills; the position may be an individual contributor or have a team of direct reports depending on region/territory/assignment; the company is very supportive of work-from-home, with good WFH infrastructure and many full-time WFH employees in this role; flexible hours but must be willing to do early and late conference calls due to spanning all US time zones.

  1171. Research Analyst*

    I source information and produce reports for an international HR company.
    Location: London, UK
    Experience: 7 months (recent graduate with a BA in Psychology)
    Salary £25,500 ($31,000) + a yearly bonus of around £2,500 and private healthcare
    It’s a good salary, but the work is awfully tedious and there’s little opportunity for promotion so the salary (which increases by 5% every six months for the first two years) is pretty much the main incentive to stay…

  1172. Associate Director of Admissions*

    Recruit incoming students for a university for a specific and competitive graduate/professional degree program. Review, evaluate, and recommend applications for admission to said program. Analyze admissions data and make projections and recommendations regarding enrollment, especially with regards to financial aid/scholarships.

    I have my own office that is about 120 square feet in size. The position includes some supervisory responsibilities, some budgetary (planning) responsibilities, and extensive travel during the fall. Overall, I spend 40-50 nights/year on the road. Relative to my field, mastery of Microsoft Excel is particularly important in my position.

    In my field, the position directly below mine is usually titled “Assistant Director of Admissions” and the position directly above mine is generally titled “Associate/Assistant Dean of Admissions” or “Director of Admissions” (i.e., the head of admission for the degree program).

    Location: Boston, Massachusetts (metro)
    Experience: 3 years
    Education: Graduate/Professional degree in the same field as the degree program (but not from the same institution)
    Salary: $64k
    Benefits: ~20 vacation days, ~15 paid holidays/breaks, very generous employer matching for retirement contributions (matches at a rate far greater than 100%), solid health insurance with 90% of premium employer-paid, etc.

  1173. Senior User Assistance Developer*

    This is a technical writing job — they just don’t like to call it tech writing any more. I work for a software company and write online help and related user-facing content like blog posts; monitor user community postings for various products and occasionally respond to them or prompt colleagues to do so; write and create instructional videos; edit the work of other writers; coach new colleagues.

    Boston area, New England, US

    30 years of experience

    $12oK plus bonus ($18K last year)

    Good health insurance including dental and vision; 401K matching; 5 weeks of vacation plus 9 holidays and 5 personal days; generous sick leave.

  1174. Software Engineer*

    Large Internet Company You’ve Definitely Heard Of And Probably Use
    – San Francisco Bay Area
    – Graduated university in 2003, bummed around the world for a little while, been writing code since I was a kid and professionally since about 2007, so 10 years in the industry.
    – Long hours, pretty sad work-life balance unless I really focus on it, but honestly I can’t imagine doing anything else. Love the actual work.
    – ~ $300,000/year , a little less than 2/3 in cash and the rest in stock that vests over time, incredible insurance, 401k matching, four weeks of vacation and unlimited sick days

  1175. Librarian*

    Librarian at an Independent Boarding School in the NorthEast.
    3 years of experience, M.S. Library Science required for position.
    $47,500

  1176. Quality Assurance (team lead)*

    Software testing and project management.
    Midwest
    5.5 years
    $69,000
    I’m a direct manager for 10 people, in some other companies I would be considered a product manager as well.

  1177. Senior IT Auditor*

    Senior IT Auditor – Financial Services industry

    Pacific Northwest

    5 years experience

    $88,000 base salary

    -Standard 7.5% bonus (varies somebased upon company and individual performance)
    -Four weeks PTO + four personal holidays
    -100% tuition reimbursement for MBA
    -minimum 50% 401k match (may increase based on company performance, but 50% is the minimum)
    -4.5% contribution to a cash balance retirement plan
    -Solid, affordable CDHP

  1178. Med School Admin Coordinator*

    I work for a medical school’s clinical skills testing center, where I directly supervise about 50 Standardized Patients (part-time employees who portray patients in medical simulations) and oversee year-long training of new recruits. I facilitate low- and high-stake examinations for medical students and residents. In addition, I provide end-user support to college coordinators and faculty using an LMS designed for medical simulation events.
    Geographic Area: South-Central US, a major city with a low cost of living
    Experience: 3 years as a coordinator in the international division of another university; 2 years teaching ESL (one abroad, one in the US); one 9-month internship as a nonprofit volunteer coordinator.
    Education: I have two bachelors’ degrees in humanities fields from a state research university, plus a master’s degree in the humanities at a research university in the UK.
    Salary: $40,000 plus decent benefits. (It’s a little above average for higher ed admin jobs in my state.)
    Notes: Originally I had planned to pursue a career in academia, but I took time out to work between my bachelor’s and master’s degree, and again before starting my PhD. I left my PhD program because the academic job market is hopeless. I count myself fortunate to have been able to make the transition to non-academic work–many ABDs and PhDs find it difficult.
    I took my current job because I relocated for personal reasons.

  1179. Instructional Coach*

    I train novice teachers in my grade/subject area. (I’m a former teacher certified in a current subject shortage area.) I work for a nonprofit, not a school or district.
    -Area: SF
    -YOE: 2 (5 years teaching exp. prior)
    -Salary: ~$65,000 + good benefits and decent PTO

  1180. Government Management & Analysis (not a real title)*

    What I do: Manage a team of technical experts, providing program management and policy advice to government on a major area of activity/expenditure. Using maths!

    Based in a metro area in Australia with high cost of living

    12 years experience with 7 at middle manager level

    Salary: $AUD 140,000ish + 15.4% superannuation

    Australia so health coverage linked to your employer is not a thing. My conditions include
    * 20 days annual leave per year, rolled over annually without a cap. Any excess balance will be paid out on leaving the service or death, whichever comes first :)
    * 20 days personal leave (for my own illness, injury, or medical appointments, or the illness, injury or appointments of someone I have caring responsibilities for). Also rolled over annually without a cap, but not paid out on separation.
    * Long service leave. After 10 years in the sector I received 3 months LSL at full pay, which accrues an additional 0.3 months each year. Unused balance to be paid out on separation.
    * Leave balances transfer between departments and agencies within the federal service

    1. Government Planner and Modeller*

      That’s where I’m trying to head! Also based in an Australian metro area with very high cost of living

      Salary: $110,000

      Experience: 7 years, including 2 at manager level (not currently at manager level)

      What I do: Various! Modelling service demand/utilisation/need and where or to whom resources should be targeted, and what type of resources. Other analysis and modelling, etc. Using maths too! But not as much maths as I’d like.

      Similar benefits for me, but about 10% super. My annual leave isn’t exactly capped, but when we hit 30 days, we are strongly advised to take leave to get the annual leave balance to under 30 days.

      Additional benefit we’re both likely to have: access to parental leave (I think it’s 16 weeks for state, 26 weeks for federal at full pay if you are the primary carer), flex-time (unless you hit executive level) – that is, late nights mean days off at a later stage, special leave categories: bereavement, moving, working with army or emergency services, automatic pay rise every year (although quite small, not really tied to performance, and no bonuses). When we act in a higher position, we get paid for the higher position, even if it’s only for 2 weeks.

      Additional benefits: family and community leave (carer leave separate to sick leave although sick leave can be used as carers leave), can access proportional amount of long service leave at 7 years, length of service and leave balances travel with me if I move to any other state agency (my length of service actually followed me from federal to state, but it does not go in the other direction!)

      1. Government Planner and Modeller*

        (I should have been more careful with my commas, but I hope it’s understandable)

  1181. Legislative Director (Congress)*

    Manage a team of 4 to further policy agenda for Member of Congress
    Washington, DC
    5 years off Capitol Hill, 6.5 years on the Hill (2 of the 6.5 years as Legislative Director)
    $80,000
    Currently receive $833/month in student loan repayment (in the next year will probably hit the lifetime max of $60k); employer pays 75% of DC small business exchange gold plan; employer matches up to 5% in Thrift Savings Plan (1% auto contribution); same pension plan as other federal government employees

  1182. Construction Project Manager*

    Responsible for building people’s homes. Maintaining Trade Partners schedule and quality, to meet said goals. Budget is assumed.

    SE in the US 275xx/276xx.

    22.

    $64,480, with the possibility a 20% bonus for schedule and quality.

  1183. Momonga*

    Senior/Principal Graphic Designer
    Los Angeles
    15 years experience
    $95,000

    I work for a defense contractor and have a security clearance, as well as a master’s degree which explains part of the high salary. I’ve also managed to develop a really great reputation and management makes it clear they want to keep me.

    I don’t currently manage anyone but manage projects. Benefits are so-so (recently forced to switch to an HSA). Decent work-life balance for the most part. Not always the most creative of design jobs but I do enjoy the stability and the fact that I’m surrounded by a great deal of thinkers/engineers who I relate to a great deal. On the flipside, that stability means you’d basically have to stab someone to get fired here, so there are some truly bad apples to deal with that would have been fired, without question, at the other smaller, less risk-averse companies I’ve worked at.

  1184. Senior Product Owner/Business Analyst*

    Job: I manage a set of products currently deployed to several sites around the world. I talk to customers to manage business change requests and feature enhancements, and work with the internal product managers to scope internally funded product enhancements. I ensure that the documentation for the products are up to date and distributed appropriately. I manage two other business analysts.

    Area: Sydney, Australia.
    Experience: 4 years in this role. 12 years in another company as a consultant business analyst.
    Salary: AU$190,000 (around USD140,000) plus 15% bonus if certain KPIs are met.

    1. Senior Product Owner/Business Analyst*

      I should also add my benefits in addition to the bonus:

      – We do get health insurance (not common in this country). Something about being an international company and benefits being common to all employees. Insurance covers eye/dental and my spouse.
      – 20 days annual leave/10 days sick leave (separate buckets)
      – Government-mandated retirement fund contribution (superannuation)

  1185. Bookeeper & Operations Manager*

    I manage HR, benefits, payroll, office administration and bookkeeping for a small (~15 people) non-profit organization.

    Experience: 6 years post-college, 2 colleage internships, related certificate program
    Location: Seattle, WA
    Hourly: $18/hr (this is a half-time position)

    I’m going to be lobbying for more this year!

  1186. IT Support Specialist*

    Job: I handle Tier II requests, supervise Tier I/intern employees, image and deploy new machines, order new hardware and software, plus general Helpdesk duties when we don’t have a Tier I to cover the phones. I also do some systems administration and networking duties with configuring patch panels, switches, VLANs.

    Area: Eastern NC
    Years Experience: 6 years total, 3 1/2 with this company
    Salary: Almost $48,000 after a small increase soon.

    I work in local government so the position is budgeted and raises are scarce. There is little room for growth here in terms of upward mobility.

  1187. Research Associate (social science)*

    – Job: Data cleaning and coding, report drafting, logistics, transcribing/note-taking (general support to research projects)
    – Location: Boston, MA
    – Experience: 5 years experience (2 years at this employer)
    – Salary: $68,000
    – Other: Master’s degree required for this position (for better or worse, it pretty much has to be from an elite university).

  1188. Computer Operator*

    your job: Monitor computer systems to ensure appropriate functioning. If something fails, ensure secondary systems take over appropriately.
    your geographic area: Austin, TX
    your years of experience: <1
    your salary: 33k/yr
    There is an overnight differential of 15%, and lots of performance based bonuses. Overtime is often available, to the point that many are able to make over 50k/yr.

  1189. Editor (digital media)*

    I edit about 5,000 words/week and manage about 20 freelancers.
    NYC
    2 years experience
    47k

  1190. nurse practitioner (hospital)*

    -NP, inpatient cardiology ICU and step down in a 500 bed teaching hospital.
    -Midwest/Great Lakes. Urban
    -25 yrs as an RN; 15 yrs as an NP. 22yrs with current org. Masters in nursing, certificate in Adult NP. Organization paid for my masters degree w a 2 year employment commitment post graduation.
    -$114,500/year
    -5 weeks vacation, 2.5 weeks sick, 13 paid holidays, excellent health benefits, 403b with matching to 3%; M-F, core hours 8:00-4:30p but I usually work 7-5p but that’s on me, my org doesn’t require it.

  1192. User Experience (UX) Designer*

    UX Lead for a mid-sized nonprofit, coming up on ten years of experience in tech
    4 weeks vacay/PTO
    some insurance is covered, but it’s more expensive than I’ve had before
    $95K with a generous 401K match vested after a number of years
    Atlanta area

    at my recent previous corporate jobs I had 15 days of PTO, some insurance covered, bonuses they never gave, long commutes and ranged between 100-106K for Sr UX Designer positions

  1193. Editor of commodity newsletter*

    Job: Assess commodity market prices; write and edit news articles; develop new market assessments; regularly develop new contacts; train new employees; and attend conferences.
    Geographic area: Washington, DC
    Years of experience: 25 years (20yrs at current company)
    Salary: $79,000 plus health, 401K contribution
    Anything else: I have a BS in journalism but others in similar roles at the company have degrees in other fields. Many have master’s degrees.

  1194. QA Analyst/Software Tester*

    Job: I manually test a variety of different types of software and sometimes write test scripts.
    Geographic area: Chicagoland
    Experience: This is my first QA job, and I just started two months ago. I also have about a year of experience as an IT technician.
    Salary: $15/hr, ~30 hrs/week
    Other context: The only “benefit” I get is slightly flexible hours. The company is a non-profit and so I’m pretty sure that our pay is lower than usual for the field. In fact, I was initially offered $12/hr, but they bumped the pay up after I excelled at the training. (It helped that I’ve tested software before as a hobby – I have weird hobbies, okay.)

  1195. Maggie98765*

    Proposal Project Manager, $75k per year. Less than one year’s experience in proposal management, but about 12 in proposal writing. Mostly in tech companies, but the last two in healthcare. Benefits so-so; good vacation but 401(k) match is stingy and the health coverage is very expensive.

  1196. Scheduler (Vertical/Building Construction)*

    I work as a construction scheduler for large projects ($50M+) Most of the job is building and maintaining/updating detailed construction schedules in Primavera P6, although up to half of my time can be analyzing those schedules or schedule updates and writing reports for my firm or our clients. I generally work alone/unsupervised, although there is coordination with the project team (to build the schedule) and a senior scheduler periodically checks-in/checks my work.

    Boston, MA (Urban)

    BS in an Engineering Field + 13 years exp (not all in scheduling, but all on large construction projects)

    $115,000/year
    4 weeks vacation, 1.5 weeks sick, 11 paid holidays, 8 personal days (w/ time restrictions), OK health benefits, 401K with matching to 3%.

  1197. Technical Design Assistant*

    Apparel start up with about 30 employees – Dallas, TX

    I assist the technical design and product development teams with whatever they need on a day to day basis. Sometimes it’s working in tech packs, sometimes it’s creating design sketches, sometimes I’m helping out our samplemakers, andsometimes it’s just general housekeeping (taking inventory, organizing fabric, whatever).

    I was hired with a year of freelance experience outside of school – not a lot, but had a basic understanding of manufacturing that I didn’t get in school. My degree is is Fashion Design.

    I will have worked here for 1 year as of next week. They started me as an IC (which I later realized was probably incorrect, but didn’t fight). and I worked until the end of April when I was laid off due to budget. Got a call a couple weeks later asking to come back, and I started back at the beginning of June. I was then promoted to full time in mid July with a start date of August 1.

    I’m paid $15/hour with overtime. I’m one of few hourly employees and I try to work closer to the number of hours that the salaried people in my department do, which is usually 42-45 hours a week. I’m now eligible for health/dental/vision that I pay some portion of (I think it’s half or a third?) I get 10 vacation days (10 can rollover) and 6 sick days (no rollover) per year. We also have a 401k with up to 3% match, a monthly gym membership stipend, free lunch once a week, and 50% employee discount. There are additional bits to these benefits for people with dependents/a spouse, but I don’t have those.

  1198. Volunteer Coordinator*

    Job: Recruiting and managing 100+ volunteers for a small education non-profit.
    Geographic area: California Bay Area/Silicon Valley
    Experience: 5 years
    Salary $48K

  1199. Translation Project Planner*

    Job: I plan translation projects of clinical outcomes assessments for international pharmaceutical companies. My position includes researching translation availability, preparing proposals/contracts, and working with a global network of linguists and clinicians to develop translations. I additionally function as the department trainer, which can take anywhere from 12-20 weeks; sometimes I have multiple trainees at once. I carry a slightly reduced workload during the early weeks of training.
    Geographic Area: New England, US
    Experience: BA in Linguistics & Psychology, 5.5 years at the same company
    Salary: $26/hr, so ~$54,ooo/year
    Misc: After 5 years, I have 3 weeks paid vacation, 1 week paid personal time, 2 weeks paid sick time, and 2 floating holiday days. I am compensated for OT at 1.5x my hourly rate and I receive a bonus for every employee I train. I have the opportunity to receive a referral bonus for employees I refer. I have great benefits and receive a Christmas bonus. I’m pretty pleased!

  1200. Project Manager I*

    My title in our HR/Payroll system is leveled at a Project Manager I. The work I actually do is Strategic Program Manager at a Director level (my boss is working on getting my title and salary realigned to what I actually do). I work in Marketing creating and executing against key cross-functional programs that are aligned with the strategic objectives of the company.

    Location: Los Angeles area
    Experience: 10 years in my company, 9 in Marketing, 4 in project/program management with steadily increasing responsibilities.
    Education: BA in Political Science, Project Management certification (PMP)
    Salary: currently $90k/yr (the Sr. level is $120-125k/yr, I’m not sure what the director level pays), 13% bonus dependent on company performance, 27 days pto, ability to manage my own schedule, work from home, etc. Basically unlimited sick time (the policy is basically just “work with your manager to make sure the work is getting done if you have to be out sick”). Not the best health insurance plan compared to what we had a few years ago, 401k matching up to 5%. Company paid professional development opportunities.

  1201. Program Specialist*

    My job: Program specialist a government agency on a variety of public health projects related to implementation of electronic health records and consulting with medical providers on complying with government regulations and receiving incentive funds from various government healthcare programs
    Salary: $59,000 per year
    Area: NYC
    Experience: 2 years
    Misc: 4 weeks of vacation, every holiday, 3 personal days and 12 sick days

  1202. Software Engineer*

    Midwest.
    8 years experience.
    MS Engineering.
    $175k ($115 base, $20k bonus, $40k stock).

  1203. Managing Editor*

    Editor, reporter and photographer at an approximately 2,000-circulation, six-day-a-week newspaper in rural Michigan. Work hours include days, evenings, weekends.
    Thirteen years of experience (two as reporter and photographer; 11 with editor title added)
    $28,600

    1. Editor (digital media)*

      What do you like most about your job? What makes you want to do it? This sounds like a really interesting gig.

  1204. Sr. Employee Relations Manager*

    Orange County, California
    $70/hour contract
    oversee 2 HRBPs covering northern & southern CA and Pac NW/Construction
    Employee Relations, Investigations, Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Background Checks, Terminations, Manager coaching and development
    Construction/Oil Industry

  1205. Anon retail specialist*

    I handle receiving vendors and entering invoices for a grocery store that’s part of a chain of about 50 stores, along with being responsible for changing all the tags for prices changes and sales and managing our newer program for tracking and processing expiring food, plus pitching in on ordering and lots of other odds and ends (smaller store).

    I’ve been with the company for about three years and in this role full time for the past 6 months and currently make $32,000 a year (hourly) in the Midwest United States.

  1207. Senior Secretary*

    job: it’s really an office manager for a program at a school district. I handle financial reporting, deposits, payroll, enrollment, ordering, etc.
    area: Southern California
    experience: 12 years in administrative work. read: shuffling papers in offices
    salary: $38,592
    My annual is my monthly rate, $3216, out of which my benefits, retirement contributions, and union fees are deducted. Our unions negotiate for raises on an annual basis, which I have never known not to be approved, so that rate jumps every year.

  1208. Auction House Specialist*

    ◾appraise and catalogue antiques
    ◾Northeast
    ◾15 years experience, BA and MA in art history
    ◾$75000 plus $15k to $20k bonus depending on the year
    ◾full medical, dental, vision, 3 weeks vacation.

  1209. Associate Professor - Education*

    Tenured Associate Professor in a school of education at a medium sized (6-9k) 4 year public university. Responsible for 3/3 teaching load plus research (1-2 papers a year) and service.

    South/Southwest/Gulf Coast

    11 years experience at current job, 5 with tenure, Ph.D. in field

    $68k plus standard benefits

  1210. Community Supervision Officer (a.k.a. Adult Probation Officer*

    A portion of my job duties are as follows:
    Managing a caseload comprised of 150 misdemeanor/felony offenders, enforcing court-ordered conditions of probation, accompanying offenders on field trips to local prisons, conducting field visits at the offender’s residence, conducting jail visits on offenders that are incarcerated, conducting urinalysis tests on offenders, collecting court-ordered fees, conducting pre-sentence investigations and submitting sentencing recommendations to the courts, locating offenders that abscond, referring offenders for mental health and substance abuse treatment and testifying in court related matters.

    Area: Texas
    Experience: 13 years
    Salary: $56,400

  1211. Technical Writer*

    Write customer facing documentation (user guides, RoboHelp, release notes, etc.) for a company creating software used in the medical field.
    Upstate South Carolina
    2-ish years of experience
    $50,000 a year
    3 weeks vacation, 401k employer match up to 4% of salary, health, dental, vision and life insurance, plus very flexible scheduling and remote work options

  1212. Strategic Change Consultant*

    Provide consulting expertise to senior leaders and teams in healthcare
    Canada
    20+
    Bill by the project but it turns out to be roughly $150K/annually

  1213. Program Manager*

    1. Program manager for a university research program. I plan and coordinate a weekly seminar series including all logistics for outside speakers, oversee a government-funded training program and am heading up the transition to a new mechanism, coordinate many initiatives of the program, including several large workgroup and study project meetings, organize community activities like grant writing workshops, as well as random other duties, mostly to do with helping junior research faculty succeed. I report to the program director and keep his insane calendar as well as maintain his to-do list and force him to do things. I also am HR liaison for our group so work with HR on increases and recruitment.

    2. Southeast

    3. 27 years of strange and disparate experience total but 1 yr in this role, I transitioned from an administrative assistant to program coordinator to program manager in the last 3 years.

    4. 65,000. My progression at this institution: admin asst 36K, program coordinator 45K, about 1 year in each position.

    5. I have a MA in something totally unrelated but higher degrees appear to be valued here regardless of relevance. I also work for a very generous guy and in a research field that is well-funded.

  1214. Business Development Associate*

    Description: Leads global marketing initiatives, communication campaigns, event marketing, and B2B proposals for a Fortune 200. No direct reports, but manage proesses and people involed in completing projects.
    Geographic Area: Remote in Washington, DC
    Years of Experience: 8
    Salary: $96,800 ($88,000 base + 10% bonus)

  1215. Client Support Specialist*

    -Boston
    -6 yrs of technical/client support
    -$52k, plus standard benefits
    -at a university, so free/reduced tuition is part of the benefit package

  1216. Licensed Insurance Agent*

    Position: I am a licensed insurance agent for a decent size insurance company. I don’t sell any products. My work is focused on member retention.
    Area: Midwest
    Experience: 2 months in this position but I have 9 years of relevant experience
    Salary: $58,000 base pay + eligible for bonuses
    Additional Info: I have my MSW though a master is not required for this position

  1217. Research Analyst*

    Research Analyst
    Not-for-profit research/analysis firm
    Washington DC
    7 years of experience, Masters degree
    $99,000

    I perform data analysis tasks, manage projects, and support technical assistance activities. I’m also fairly involved in our business development and proposal writing.

  1218. Senior Operations Analyst*

    Job: I do mostly project management, which includes assigning incoming projects to team members, creating templates and process guidelines for different products, and problem solving and identifying issues with current processes. I also manage one direct report.

    Location: Washington DC
    Years of Experience: 4
    Salary: $60,000

  1219. Underwriting expert, insurance company*

    I advise other insurance underwriters on a particular insurance coverage and related topics. I don’t manage anyone
    15 years experience
    Large city in the Midwest
    $147k plus significant bonus (30% of salary at minimum)

  1220. Community Support Specialist*

    (outpatient behavioral health caseworker)
    the middle of nowhere in IL
    3 years experience
    $27k/year + bonuses/incentive
    I just started this position so I haven’t had the opportunity to earn bonuses yet, but when I did the same job at another organization I was getting about an additional $3k/year.

  1221. Graphic Designer*

    Job: I’m a designer at a small boutique agency, so this means I do a little of everything (logos, layout design, social media graphics, image editing, client presentations etc.). But I was specifically hired for my skill set and speed in publication design and anything that falls under that umbrella immediately goes to me.
    Geographic Area: The South, US (I want to specifically emphasize that this is in a smaller city of 160,000+–so not Atlanta.)
    Experience: 3.5 years (I’ve only been at my current job six months, but worked freelance for a year and a half before that.)
    Salary: $30,000
    Anything Else: None of us have any benefits but we do have unlimited vacation days, sick days, and the ability to work from home when warranted. About once or twice a month the company also foots the bill for lunch or ice cream. I love my job and the projects I get to work on, so that’s worth its weight in gold in my opinion!

    1. Senior Graphic Designer (from above in PDX)*

      Wait, those are actually pretty good benefits if you work in a place that doesn’t punish you for taking vacation or sick days!

  1222. Question for Alison*

    I really love these posts! Would you consider asking people to identify their gender next time? I’m very curious about that. I always assume more women are on here than men, but I certainly could be wrong.

  1223. Physician*

    Location: East Coast
    Specialty: Outpatient neurology (subspecialty trained) including two half-days of procedures weekly.
    Salary: $70k pre-tax = about $48k take-home

    I work 7:30-4:30 five days a week, plus call one weekend per month to see emergency room patients with neurologic issues. My employer pays my malpractice insurance; I also have basic health insurance (no dental or vision though) as well as transit benefits. Considering that my education and training cost almost a half-million dollars, my salary is a joke, but the intangibles are worth it for me. I’m very very lucky that I had a big windfall shortly after graduating medical school that allowed me to pay off my hefty loans as the grace period ended.

  1224. Public Library Director*

    My job – Handle all administrative tasks related to running a public library, including budgeting, staff management, strategic planing, technology management, toilet plunging (seriously, so many of my “Library school didn’t prepare me for this!” moments involve the toilet). We are a fairly small staff, so I also perform the tasks of a librarian including collection development, reference help for the patrons, and marketing.

    My geographic area – SE Michigan
    My years of experience – 8 years as a director, 20 years total in libraries
    My salary – $60,000/year

    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context – I have an Master’s Degree in Library and Information Services. Like many SE Michigan communities, my city struggled during the recent economic downturn and we are still trying to find our way back.

  1225. Librarian - academic librarian, manager information technology*

    Academic Librarian – managing number of academic libraries across three states. Managing librarians, technicians, assistants etc.

    Approx 7 years experience in library field, 20 years experience in IT/admin etc.

    $120k plus 17% superannuation and parking perks.

  1226. H.Y.*

    Executive Assistant at global consulting firm in NYC with 12 years of experience. I make 85k (not including OT). I get a yearly raise of ans bonus of about 2-3% respectively. I have a B.A. in an unrelated field.

  1227. Human Resources Assistant*

    Duties include: Recruiting (update/maintain job descriptions, update/maintain salary ranges, coordinate req process, post, review resumes, support hiring managers with phone screenings as requested, offer and onboarding); HRIS (update, configure, provide end-user support, and a LOT of custom report-writing); Administrative (coordinate and process status changes, pay changes, built and now maintain various reports); Analytical (build custom reports, research, write assessments of possible new employee programs and initiatives in support of VP of HR – Excel guru for the whole team and just generally The Tech Person who comes up with, builds, and implements tech-enabled solutions to problems rather than relying on older manual processes); Special Projects (major employee events, training development, misc. as needed by executive team); Some payroll and benefits support.
    Location: San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay)
    Years of Experience: 3 in HR, 2 more in general administrative and accounting roles before that
    Education: almost done with my B.S. in HRM; have an aPHR cert.
    Salary: $17.34 (hourly) / $36k-ish (annual)
    Other: Mid-sized nonprofit environment, 23 offices in 3 states, HR team of 5 for about 260 employees. Full-time with occasional OT as needed. 10 holidays, 3 weeks vacation and 12 days sick per year, full benefits (medical, dental, vision, life ins, 401k with 6% match and additional 3% employer contribution regardless of employee’s contribution level or lack thereof).

  1228. Member Services Manager*

    Trade Association in Washington, DC with 5+ years of experience. $70k a year with up to $1,000 performance based bonus with substandard benefits (not so great medical, dental, ok-ish 401k) and 2 weeks vacation.

  1229. Program Manager (Non-profit)*

    Duties: Administer national service programming statewide and at our own org
    Years of experience: 8 in workforce, most in semi-related roles
    Education: I have a MEd but don’t get paid more because of it
    Location: Smaller New England city
    Salary: 42k
    Benefits: full health coverage for me AND my family, 15 vacation 8 sick 3 personal with no rollover, 3% 401k but no option for employee contribution

  1230. Production Manager*

    Production Manager/Post Production Coordinator (I wear many hats) for an adult entertainment business.
    – Create, disperse and track schedules for multiple studio partners. (On average there are 8, up to 12 at a time that I juggle.)
    – Receive and disperse new content from studio partners, then send out to printer & replicator. (multiply the number of studios by 5 and that’s how many I do this for per month.)
    – update logs, server files, make legal documents. (Same math as above.)

    San Fernando Valley, CA

    14 years – started as a compliance assistant, jumped around to various other positions at various companies.

    $35k 2011
    $28k 2013 (company forced paycuts)
    $33k 2016 (after using AAM to negotiate a raise, had to pull teeth to get this much.)

    Our industry sees a lot of ups and downs, DVD sales are harder, licensing is better, internet is a nuisance and threat, but also a necessity. Historically, the industry numbers go up under a Republican Government (the party likes to put more regulations and enforcements in place, which makes the product harder to get, creating a supply and demand bump.)

  1231. data analyst*

    data analyst in the financial services sector — pivoted to this role from research roles that were becoming increasingly data-y.
    Good SQL knowledge; duties are mostly in excel. i put together client reports but have no account management duties.
    London.
    5ish years professional experience, first data analyst role.
    £35K/year (plus, i hope, substantial bonus, but I have not yet been there for bonus season)

    1. Technical Editor*

      Forgot to list benefits:
      -pension
      -health and dental insurance
      -11 paid holidays
      -generous vacation and sick leave accrual
      -option to WFH one day a week regularly and whenever needed for one-off days

      I have a liberal arts BA. Have worked as a copyeditor, writer, and editor.

  1233. Senior Communications and Engagement Officer*

    I am the sole communications and stakeholder engagement position at a small state government agency (sub 25 employees). Mine is a new position, and reports to a senior manager. I have no direct reports, but due to my ‘ranking’ in government terms, am considered a senior employee of the office with over half the office junior to myself.

    Geographic Area: Major Metro, Australia

    Years of Experience: 6 months in this role, 4 years in a Marketing Communications Coordinator role, 3 years in event management and administration.

    8 years of relevant experience altogether. I was straight out of uni (unrelated Masters Degree, relevant Bachelors Degree) into my event/admin role.

    Salary: $93K AUD ($68K USD) + 9.5% superannuation contributions + all public holidays off + 4 weeks paid leave every year + 4 weeks sick leave every year. Also includes entitlements to 3 months paid long service leave after 10 years, 14 weeks paid maternity leave, etc.

    Union agreements also mean that I get a regular boost to my salary every six months – I think around 1%? I just know I started on about $92K six months ago, and have already been boosted to $93K.

  1234. Librarian Assistant II (Public Library)*

    Duties include copy cataloging all materials we receive that do not come pre-cataloged. This includes all DVD’s, music CD’s, Audiobooks and Playaways as well as most large type books. My duties also include cleaning up the catalog, which involves making sure the MARC records are accurate for the materials that we hold as well as the authority records that allow people to search by spelling or topic variations. I also help create and run adult programming ideas with two other coworkers. I am one of 3 shift supervisors in addition to the Children’s Librarian and Circulation Manager/Adult Services Librarian. Those duties include opening in the library one morning a week, closing the library one night a week and working one weekend a month. When I am the shift supervisor on duty I make the calls on any questions that the library aides have as well as counting down the cash register, making sure that items are checked in properly, and making sure that the library is locked up securely. I also have general duties that all staff members are responsible for, including checking books in and out, helping patrons find materials that they are looking for, helping patrons to use the computers and assisting with any questions that they might have.
    Location: Greater Omaha Nebraska area
    Years of experience: just over 2 years
    Education: Bachelor’s of General Studies Library Science Concentration, minor in Public administration and Information technology.
    Salary: 15.4473 (hourly) / $32k (annual)

  1235. Administrative assistant*

    My job is pretty self-explanatory. I do admin support for 4 managers, as well as their teams.
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    10 years experience as an admin
    $45k (Canadian, obviously)
    I have a bachelor’s degree in education, I am perfectly bilingual, and proficient in translation.

  1236. Academic Librarian (branch manager)*

    Academic Librarian ( branch manager ) – I manage a branch library that is part of a larger campus

    Northeastern Pennsylvania

    20 years professional experience, 16 in academic libraries

    $83,000

    Librarians are faculty at my institution and I have tenure. There are other benefits- generous leave, retirement, and professional development funds. I’m pretty happy with my situation and for where I live, I’d say my salary is pretty high.

    1. Academic Librarian (branch manager)*

      Wanted to add that my first academic library job was in 2000 in a fairly large and affluent metropolitan area and at the time I earned $36,500…

  1237. ResearchNerd*

    your job: Research Analyst for a large nonprofit mental health agency
    your geographic area: Southern California
    your years of experience: ~3 yrs full-time work experience, plus I have a master’s degree in a very relevant topic area
    your salary: $49,440… to be exact, haha
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: We’re a nonprofit, so there’s that. :/ I actually started out 3 years ago as a Research Assistant making only roughly $35,000. I was promoted last July. I appreciated the “big” jump in salary but it’s still super hard to get buy on this salary living where I live

  1238. Professor (Assistant Prof, so entry-level in this field)*

    Assistant Professor at a private religiously affiliated college
    – Teach. so much teaching.
    –research
    -direct program, be on committees

    rural Ohio
    3 years experience
    42500, plus 4% match, health premiums paid for a high deductible plan
    cost to mental health of toxic work environment? untold $.
    “resigned” effective end of school year, using AAM to find a new job

  1239. Senior Software Engineer*

    I write embedded software in the automotive industry. I make various devices on cars actually function, talk to each other, and diagnose themselves when they are broken.
    Detroit, MI
    15 years
    $107,000

  1240. Senior Animal Trainer (and zookeeper)*

    – zookeeping & animal care, including all associated tasks such as creating and delivering enrichment, preparing animal food, exhibit and housing maintenance and construction, etc.; preparing and presenting animals for educational, interactive programs, PR events, live TV and radio segments, VIP tours, and school groups; exercising and training animals; educational talks and presentations to public; making sure animals have a great life; yes, occasionally playing with baby animals.
    – large city in Southern California
    – 13 years of experience
    – $26/hour
    – I’m in a union

    1. Zoo Educator*

      -As a Zoo Educator I educate preschool and toddler age children. I do get to use education animals to include in my programming and I take care of a few animals (rabbits, chinchilla, bearded dragon, etc.
      -As a “lead” I make $9 an hour. I believe non leads make $8.50 an hour. I also do birthday parties and occasionally help out with scouts.
      -Ohio
      -I have 2 summers of zoo camp experience for a total of 6 months experience in zoos. I also did an unpaid internship in Environmental Education for three months.
      -When I was a summer camp counselor the first summer was volunteer in a zoo in Alabama and the second I made $9.44 an hour at a zoo in South Carolina.
      -No benefits

  1241. Cost Analyst*

    Description: government cost analysis
    Location: Maryland
    Experience: 2 years, plus 2.5 years in related field
    Salary: $54,500
    Context: very generous benefits (except sick leave, which leaves a bit to desire) and generous contributions to 401k/stock

  1242. Operations Analyst*

    Not exact title as it is specific to company.
    Create, document, and implement division’s standard operating procedures.
    Atlanta – Fortune 500 company
    20 years experience, PMP and Six Sigma certified
    $71k (eligible for 20% bonus based on company earnings)
    Generous vacation and company holidays, including days off for volunteering. 401k with match and several medical insurance choices.

  1243. Administrative Specialist*

    I review packets of documentation for project assets and ensure all documentation is accurate, complete, and appropriately entered in database used for data mining and reporting enterprise-wide. (Often, it’s seriously just specialized data entry. We have a hard time finding people who can do it well and stick around, though.)
    Midwest
    2 years in this position, 4 in this industry. 5 years previous un-related work history with transferrable skills.
    $75k/year. Contract position, no benefits. (actual take-home ends up being $38k)

  1244. Librarian - Public*

    Public librarian, at a city library in the southwest.
    – 4 years experience
    – MLIS
    – $57,200
    – 20 days vacation, accrued sick time, solid benefits, state pension system

    As added context, I’ve worked for the same city for 7 years total in benefitted positions, so I’m a bit ahead in the payscale compared to others who were hired at the same time.

  1245. Public library supervisor*

    Description: Supervise 2 work areas and 13 people. There are 2 other supervisors and report to the Library Manager, who reports to the city Public Administrator.
    Location: Minnesota
    Experience: 5 years, 1 as supervisor
    Salary: $62k
    Context: Union job, the library is limited to 3 supervisors total which means a wide area of responsibility and imo too many people to supervise, good benefits, size of city means limited opportunity to change jobs

  1246. Director of Development & Communications*

    1. Oversee all aspects of fundraising, volunteers, donor services, marketing & communications, and program evaluation.
    2. Minneapolis
    3. 16 years
    4. $80k (+ full benefits, including 7 wks PTO)

  1247. Sr. Manager - IT*

    Manager over the company’s Data Warehouse. Responsible for a team of 7 people (ETL developers, System Administrators, and Data Analysts). Responsible for the day to day functionality and long term planning and growth of the Warehouse

    Chicago Metro Area

    20 years in IT, 2 years in this position

    $118,000/year + possible %15 Annual Bonus
    4 weeks of total PTO, ability to work remotely

  1248. Physician*

    your job: Physician for the federal government
    your geographic area: Maryland
    your years of experience: 4 years plus residency
    your salary: 190k+ medical/dental, 19 day PTO+federal holidays, TSP with 5% matching, conferences. I also work for two local hospitals seeing patients, so I get that on top of my salary. The hospitals cover my malpractice as well.
    other: 4 years medical school, masters in bioinfomatics/biochem, plus engineering degree, plus residency, plus fellowship (two post-grad certifications).

    Mine is actually a fairly narrow medical niche, and I’m even further subspecialized above and beyond that. Because I have a very, very specific skill set (and hold a somewhat undesirable job), I probably get above market value, since docs in my field actually are historically poorly compensated given our training. Starting can be under 100k.

  1249. Field Service Technician*

    Manage 3 state service territory, approx 120 customers, servicing industrial equipment 10 years
    Midwest
    $44k

  1250. Digital Account Supervisor*

    At a large international agency, managing large accounts, two direct reports
    Large city in Texas
    $85,000, full benefits, 3 weeks vacation, potential for annual performance-based bonus and raises
    10 years in the workforce, 8 years of relevant experience, reporting into a VP

  1251. Technical Writer*

    I write/edit/compile/curate policies and best practices for PR and communications for a multinational tech company.

    Seattle
    15 years of experience
    $43/hour
    I have a nearly completely flexible schedule and I work from home three days a week.

  1252. District (nonprofit) executive*

    I work for a youth organization over a regional area of about 40 chapters and 1400 youth. Responsivilified include fundraising and soliciting more members.

    Indianapolis IN

    2.5yrs

    $51,000
    Our org recently upped a lot of salaries due to the FLSA rulings and mine was part of the compression.

  1253. Technical Editor*

    I edit and rewrite technical papers for a Department of Defense Contractor.

    Southern Arizona
    5 years of experience
    $29/hour ($60,000/year)
    3.5% 401(k) match, but crappy PTO package

  1254. RN - CDI manager*

    Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) is nursing/medical coding specialty that isn’t well known – mostly because we don’t do any patient care and CDI departments are usually quite small, even in large hospitals. I manage a small team of nurses and medical coders who review medical records and work with physicians (and their documentation) to make sure that all patient conditions get translated into appropriate codes. Medicare pays based on medical codes (i.e. by diagnosis rather than charges) and many quality rankings are based solely on medical code set data mining so making sure that everything coded provides a clinically accurate and thorough picture is essential for hospital survival.

    In addition to managing my team, I work with physicians one on one, provide educational presentations to large groups and committees, monitor/explain/adapt to hospital-wide coding data, and I’m constantly developing new programs related to CDI. My team directly increases hospital revenue by $2.5 million/year (I know that kinda sounds like we’re “milking the system” but we barely break even on caring for Medicare patients).

    Salary: $137,000 + 5 weeks vacation/year in addition to paid holidays (thanks to a generous company and ask a manager negotiation tactics!!)

      1. RN - CDI manager*

        I’m sorry, I keep leaving things out. I have have 7 years of experience as an RN, 3 of them in CDI. I am very unusual in the field though – most of the people I manage have decades of experience as nurses or coders and extensive training in the field. I have a strong natural aptitude for the job and I love it! Some strategic job moves put me in a great negotiating position and I returned to this hospital at a higher level position.

        1. I Like Pie*

          This is so interesting to read! I recently have begun taking courses through the LACCD for medical billing and coding, so I’ve been exploring the differently directions this can go. I think I’m going to go in the medical coding specialist direction, but in because I manage a lot of coordination in my current job, I’ve been looking for something that can combine the two. Thank you for sharing this information! :-)

    3. interesting*

      It is startling that the medical coder gets paid nearly double what the medical doctor above is paid who is a Neurologist with subspeciality training (see listed above) that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to medical school.

      Something is wrong with this system, you know?

  1255. Program Assistant*

    I am a department secretary in the College of Arts and Sciences at a private university. I work fairly autonomously and essentially support faculty and students, from basic secretarial duties to advising to events. It is a union position and I have been there 10 years.

    your geographic area: Bay Area, California (San Francisco specifically)

    your years of experience: 27 years

    your salary: $60,000/year

    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I work in one of the most–if not THE most–expensive areas to live in the United States. I am very very fortunate that I have a large one bedroom by the ocean for $1,500/month (I live alone), which equals about half my take-home salary (I contribute to a 403(b), a flexible spending account and have union dues that eat a bit of my salary).

  1256. Thrift Store Cashier/Associate*

    Job: Retail worker for private thrift store (Full-time)
    Geographic area: Central FL
    Experience: 2 years
    Salary : $21K/yr ($10 and change hourly)

  1257. Operations Manager and Licensed Customs Broker*

    Pacific Northwest
    1 year as manager, about 10 years total in Customs/imports/exports/freight forwarding
    $60,000
    3 weeks vacation, up to 5% annual bonus

  1258. Academic Advisor*

    Undergraduate student advisor at a large public research institution. College advisor: graduation requirements, students who are in academic difficulty, significant delegated authority involved in this position, my 4th advising position, each with progressively more responsibilities.

    Located in Northern California, Central Valley

    10 years of experience, I have a bachelors degree.

    63k year

    I work at the institution where I am also an alumni, started working right after graduation. Great gig!

  1259. Associate Director*

    Associate Director at a small professional services firm in Boston. There are about 35 employees. I manage 5 people (and have 3 indirect reports) and also manage processes, train new hires, etc. I report to the Director of the department who reports to the owner of the company (it is hard to be more specific without giving away where I work).

    I have been here 5 years (started in our entry level) and graduated college in 2008. Live in Boston. Make about $57k/year. This year my bonus was $7500 but last year it was $10k (dependent on company performance).

    Company has a decent 401k match (fully vested immediately, matches 100% up to 3% of salary and 50% up to 5% of salary), pays 50% of health insurance, offers a group dental plan but employees pay the entire cost.

  1260. Bilingual Medical Claims Adjuster (P&C Insurance aka auto insurance)*

    Job: Investigate coverages, determine liability, review and assess medical bills to make it’s related to the auto accident. Monitor for fraudulent and duplicate claims. I follow up with customers every 30 days for treatment status and claim status update (what’s paid, still outstanding, how much money left under coverage to pay bills, etc…). That’s the gist of it.
    Area: Central Ohio (there are many major insurance companies in the area)
    Years: >1 year, all with this position only – previous experience was in non-related fields (3.5 years in marketing/sales, 2-3 years in entrepreneurial and business management)
    Salary: $49,000 non-exempt (and that’s with a 5% language differential)
    Other: Traditional 401(k) and Roth 401(k) available, pension after 1-2 years (it starts January 1st after you hit your one year… so if your one year is January 2nd, you have to to wait till almost 2 years before you have a pension) 18 PTO days, if you work an offset shift there’s a 10% shift differential.

  1261. ALT with the JET Programme*

    ◾Assistant Language Teacher working with Japanese Teachers of English to improve English education.
    ◾Large city in Japan (Not Tokyo, not Osaka)
    ◾3+
    ◾330,000 yen a month plus reduced housing costs and paid travel
    ◾JET is the government supported ALT program so we generally make the most and have the kindest contracts out of the many ALTs in Japan. My hours are 8:30-4:15, although it’s expected that work hours will extend before and after that many days. In my city, we get 20 days of PTO plus 5 extra days during summer break and 20 days of sick leave (or more if the illness warrants it). Unused PTO can be rolled over into the next year. There’s also great maternity leave options. If you want to teach in Japan, I highly recommend JET.
    Downsides: invasive mandatory yearly health check, awkward yearly mental health “stress” cheks, must have a clinic’s receipt to take sick leave, people work like 7 AM -10:30 PM here every night (and weekends) so there’s a lot of pressure to stay past finishing time

    1. Parenthetically*

      What’s your education background, if you don’t mind my asking? I LOVE the idea of training teachers but I reckon I’d need another degree.

      1. ALT with the JET Programme*

        Oh, this isn’t a job where you train teachers but one where you assist them. There ARE sessions where we work with the teachers specifically for training but they’re a few times a year at most. It’s basically an ESL position where you work with the teacher to plan and teach lessons instead of teaching independently. You only need a bachelor’s of any sort to apply. I have a BA in English Education, which gave me a huge advantage when applying.

  1262. Project Manager - Pharma*

    Project management for research and clinical projects for a pharmaceutical company.
    Ph.D. with 9 years of industry research experience who transitioned to PM 1 year ago.
    Boston area.
    $115K +bonus, great benefits.

  1263. Nonprofit Finance Director*

    Salary: $53,000/year, total package value of $67,000 includes health premiums, long term disability, IRA match, paid sick, paid vacation, and 12 paid holidays.

    Description: Oversee $1.25m budget, supervising grants staff of 1. Handle all finances and HR for 15 member staff at a conservation nonprofit.

    Region: Northern Nevada

    Years Experience: 5 years

  1264. Finance Manager (Canada - Higher Ed)*

    Job: Financial manager in a university department. Responsible for a budget of 7 Million (base funding) plus an additional $3 Million in incremental, one-time funding (excludes most research funds). Manages all financial aspects of the department, payroll, personal reimbursements, management accounting reports, costing of new courses / programs, etc. We have a central finance department with central AP / AR functions but in terms of operational reporting, I do it all for my department. I have one Financial & Administrative assistant, several functional reports.

    Geographic area: Ontario – not Toronto
    Years of experience: 5 years in accounting, 6 in a former career
    Credentials: CPA (Canada), MBA
    Salary: $75,000 (Canadian), 4 weeks of vacation, office closed between Christmas and New Years. Generous sick time policy.

  1265. Business Intelligence Report Developer*

    Job: Writing reports in a Business Intelligence department, specifically for Healthcare and using the Epic System. We use SQL, Crystal Reports, and WebI depending on the request and the customer. My employer is a healthcare system that is connected to a major state university. My title is BI Developer and my team is called Analytics. I’ve been at this job about 3 months.

    Education: I have some college, no degree.

    Geographic area: Seattle (Inside the city limits)

    Years of experience: 17 years programming, about 10 years writing SQL for healthcare organizations.

    Salary: $110k/year. I had to take a pay cut to come here but it was totally worth it because of the benefits and the improved working environment. Benefits include:

    –100% matching up to 10% (yes, you read that right…..100% up to 10% of my salary!!!)
    –Affordable insurance ($70 a month something like that)
    –3 weeks vacation to start, along with 12 days sick leave per year (!!!!) and 11 paid holidays.

    1. Business Intelligence Developer*

      (Actual job title is too specific.)

      SQL-based reporting in higher ed, including supporting the Institutional Research office for mandated state and federal reports (and those “optional” ones like U.S. News) but also building dashboards with tools like Tableau and Cognos, and training and supporting new users.

      Based in Alabama.
      4 years in this specific role, but ~9 years in very similar.
      Salary $70k
      Good benefits, especially affordable health insurance, free tuition and retirement matching.

  1266. Deputy Director Non-Profit*

    2nd in command. Run the day-to-day of the organization’s programs/comms, manage senior program staff, chair relevant management/program committees, oversee all hiring, contract consultants, oversee communications staff, thought partner to ED (hard to believe that this is all *after* I cut out a whole set of work around finance and operations that I was mercifully able to hire someone else to do)

    Washington, DC
    2 years in this role, 6 years in senior program role
    moving from 66K to 70K this year

    Notes: The 70k represents the highest salary ever for any position other than the ED (we have a relatively flat/low-ish pay scale, it’s a 2:1 ratio from the top to the bottom). Also, we have fantastic benefits (platinum level pre-ACA grandfather plan that is fully paid, employer match 403b, I get like 5wks of vacay plus sick and holidays, 3 mos additional paid parental leave, flex time/telework, etc. and I do take those into account when considering it all together.

  1267. Admin assistant/ business support officer*

    your job – Business Support (admin assistant) in a New Zealand government department (a Ministry of XXXX). Work is a combination of general admin and work specific to my government department. Some project work too.

    your geographic area – New Zealand.

    your years of experience – 3 years in this job, about 10 years total in other Public Service/public sector jobs.

    your salary – about $43K (NZD). Salary for full time work, which is 38 hours per week. I get 4 weeks annual leave per year as per NZ legislation, and 10 days per year sick leave. Employer contributes to my Kiwisaver account (http://www.kiwisaver.govt.nz) as per NZ legislation. Kiwisaver is retirement savings.

  1268. Mechanical Engineer*

    I work in the manufacturing industry with a maintenance and reliability engineering focus. I coordinate and manage all sorts of projects from new equipment installations to replacement and/or upgrades to existing equipment.

    Located in Midwest

    7 years of experience

    $100,000 salary

    17 days vacation per year, company match 401k to 6%, no weekly cost for family healthcare

  1269. Senior Program Manager (Non-profit)*

    I manage communication between the domestic and international stakeholders within an international non-profit. This also involves conflict resolution, when needed. I also manage applications for the participants of our program. Since we’re a young program within a larger organization am very involved in development of new materials and training. I also manage a Program Manager and Temporary Interns/Assistants during our busiest season.

    Chicago

    3.5 years

    $50,000

    30 days PTO, in addition to national holidays. Yearly opportunities for international travel.

  1270. Director of Privacy and Compliance*

    Job: Director of Privacy and Compliance in a medium-size technology company. Oversee the privacy and compliance program in the company.
    Geographic area: NYC
    Years of experience: 7 years
    Salary: $165,000, no bonus.
    Other background: I am an attorney. Benefits are very basic: my monthly premiums are several thousand dollars a year, there is no 401K matching.

      1. I Like Pie*

        This is what I’m currently enrolled in school for! May I ask, what sort of education did you need for this position? I am told that a lot of it is on the job training, but with the current changes in coding that having some educational training is a plus.

        1. Medical Coder / Coding Team Lead*

          I’m a different coder than the one you originally asked, but in my organization, we don’t hire coders who aren’t credentialed, and most of the credential options require education. Even our cadet program requires a credential and specific educational classes (A&P, medical terminology, intro to billing/coding, for example). One of the two primary credentialing agencies won’t let you sit a credentialing exam without a certain level of education (how much depends on which exam), the other will let you take the exam but won’t get you past an apprentice credential without either education or work experience.

        2. Medical Coder*

          I’m also a different coder than the one you asked, but it is a field that is very hard to get a job in unless you have experience. If your program has an externship or practicum requirement that is a great way to make connections and show a potential employer what you can do. We’ve hired several students who impressed management during their time in our department. Another way to get a foot in the door is to get a job (pretty much any job) at a hospital or health system or wherever you want to work. That way you get access to internal listings and can take advantage of potential educational opportunities or internal training they may offer. Good luck!

          1. I Like Pie*

            Thank you both so much for the information! It’s a new-ish program with Allied Health at my campus but has been around for a few years. My campus is just starting to explore the billing/coding, another one has a full HIT program that has an end at either an Associates Degree or a variety of specialist certification. My current instructor used to work in a hospital and has introduced me to friends of hers in the field with Dignity Health. I’m also starting a volunteer position that’s clerical at the local hospital to help familiarize myself with any information I can absorb! I’m fortunate that I have a BF who’s very supportive and offers to help work out a way that I can leave my FT job for PT and be able to enroll in more classes so that I can get through the courses faster.

            Thank you again for the insight! :-)

  1272. Lead Auditor - Biotech*

    Internal auditing for regulatory compliance.
    Boston
    13 years industry experience, 6 years Quality/Compliance experience
    $93k base, $101k total

  1273. Forensic Accountant - Large Accounting Firm*

    Forensic accountant / litigation support
    Large accounting firm
    Los Angeles
    15 years experience
    $150,000 / year

  1274. Conflicts Analyst (Legal)*

    Conflicts analyst at leading global law firm. Ensure that all conflicts of interest are resolved in taking on new firm business and in hiring lateral attorneys and personnel. Avg. 50-60 hrs/week. Evening and weekend work expected.

    Washington, DC

    $85k/year + 6 weeks vacation, 401k match and employer contribution 12%, telecommuting possible, very good benefits

    5 years experience

  1275. Senior Consultant*

    Role: I work in health care consulting for a mid-size (for-profit) consulting firm. I serve as a project manager/content SME for a set of contracts funded by the federal government, all of which focus on the quality of health care services.

    Education: Masters in health policy

    Experience: 7 years in health care; a little over 5 years at my firm

    Geographic Area: Washington, D.C.

    Salary: $105,000 + 10% to 15% bonus, based on performance

    Other benefits: Flexible hours/working remotely; employee stock options; 28 days of PTO. We have health insurance, but it’s laughably bad (so much so that I wouldn’t call it a ‘benefit’).

  1276. Marketing Project Manager*

    Job: I’m part of the marketing department at a B2B software company. I lead marketing communications projects (so unofficially manage 12 writers, graphic designers, multimedia experts and digital team members) and connect multiple departments together to make projects happen. I also manage vendor relationships.

    Education: BA in English, MA in Creative Writing (and do hardly anything with these degrees)

    Geographic area: Southern California

    Years of experience: Roughly 5 years in marketing and business development altogether, but 6 months in PM specifically.

    Salary: $68k USD/year (salary only), a 66% pay jump from my last role. I gave up the awesome PTO package from my last company but relocated to a less toxic environment with better benefits overall. Relocating from the Midwest to a sunny state was an added bonus. I could probably make more at a different company but I’m happy overall.

    Benefits: Free lunch every day, on-site yoga classes Monday and Wednesday, company clubs and sailboat outings, 100% employer-covered HMO. 10 days PTO and 6 sick days (but I can take more time off unpaid).

  1277. Junior Front-End Developer*

    Location: Vancouver
    Salary: $40k (Canadian)
    Experience: <6 months (I finished a boot-camp type program at the end of June), I also have an unrelated B.Sc.
    My job: I work at a Salesforce-based software company building specialized apps using mostly a javascript framework, plus pretty much any and all of the CSS needed by the whole team. I also do a bit of basic Java/Apex as needed, but like 90% of the time I'm doing JS. I've only been with the company for a few months, but am hoping for a sizeable raise in the spring.

  1278. Medical Coder*

    Coder for a medium sized health system handling mostly inpatient hospital accounts. Review patient records after discharge and assign appropriate codes based on the diagnoses and procedures documented. Basically I read a whole bunch of documents and summarize the information contained within them in a few alphanumeric codes to make the data useable.

    Northwestern US
    9 years of experience
    $58,000/year and there is almost always overtime offered if I want it…last year I made close to $65,000
    I have a total of 9 years of coding experience plus another two in general HIM work. I do have my certification (passed an exam/need to maintain my education) and a BA. Where I work at least having the degree is rare but most coders either have or are working towards their certification.

  1279. Independent sex worker - professional domme*

    Job: Providing fetish services to clients, planning individualized sessions, law reform advocacy, peer mentorship, professional development and networking, bookkeeping, marketing, web design and maintenance, copy writing, responding to emails/phone, strategic business planning, managing social media presence – all your standard small business owner work.

    Geographic area: Canadian city

    Years of experience: 3 current business/15 total in various forms of sex work

    Salary: Quite variable, as with all self-employment. $300/hr billable, probably about $50-60/hr after expenses and unbillable time.

    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: This business is a part time endeavour. This particular type of sex work requires lots of skill development to do safely, the purchase of (often expensive) equipment, and usually a dedicated work space; as such it’s one of the higher billing types of sex work, and higher paying once you recoup the cost of equipment.

  1280. Program Manager*

    Direct a semi-annual leadership program for local community/neighborhood leaders of all ages. Engage the network of alumni and run some related workshops. Level of responsibility or scope of work: Coordinate all aspects of the training program 2x/year; make decisions about curriculum, scheduling, staffing, etc; manage a broad team of presenters and our planning team; oversee an intern; build relationships with local communities; represent my organization and the program in public; other miscellaneous tasks to support our organization.
    Geographic area: Mid-sized city in the midwest.
    Years of experience: 12 in professional settings, 4 closely related to this job.
    Salary: $47,000
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Full-time, exempt position with reasonably flexible schedule. Somewhat generous vacation time. Good health benefits with no monthly premium.

  1281. Software Engineer*

    RTP, NC
    5 years experience, no degree
    $129,900 + 3 weeks vacation, unlimited sick time, 10 holidays

  1282. Communications Associate*

    I work with internal and external communications, digital marketing, and social media teams for a non-profit
    NYC
    5
    $48000
    I also get an annual bonus, three weeks pto, unlimited sick leave, and food on site.

  1283. HR (Human Resource) & Admin Assistant*

    This is my first posting :)
    Job: Assist in payroll and recruitment, handle insurance paperwork including claim, data entry, monthly report, administrative works (from petty cash to dealing with choked toilet bowl)
    Geographic area: Singapore
    Experience: Almost 3 years in this field (same company)
    Salary: $28k

  1284. Education Coordinator*

    I organize/plan the adult ed classes at a small non-profit community center. Includes scheduling classes, interfacing with clients, recruiting & supervising(ish) instructors, supervising volunteers, coordinating childcare, community outreach, and other duties here and there. I also teach one of the classes and am paid for prep time.
    Portland, OR
    MA TESOL
    1 yr of experience in this job, +2 years experience teaching
    $18/hr, no benefits or PTO
    part time, 20 hrs/week

  1285. Medical Transcriptionist*

    Primary duty is medical transcription in Pathology department of major regional hospital system. Other job duties are varied and primarily administrative in nature.
    Geographic area: Dallas, TX
    Years of experience: 9 in transcription (mostly here), a couple of decades of admin experience.
    Salary: 24.10 hourly (about 50k annual)
    Plus: 27 PTO days yearly, 5 illness; decent retirement match; health/dental/vision; overtime; small yearly bonus; cafeteria discount; paid garage parking; more benefits I really don’t use.
    Pertinent: I have a high school diploma only, no college degree – although I completed several adult education classes to qualify for hospital/pathology work. Field in my geographic area is very “who you know” in terms of opportunities. I am occasionally allowed to telecommute. Opportunities for advancement are very limited. My hospital culture and management are excellent, diverse, and spiritually rewarding.

  1286. Pharmacy Technician*

    Job: Pharmacy Technician, hospital
    Location: Ohio
    Exp: 0 years prior to hire
    Salary: 38,000 pre-tax with benefits of 2.5 weeks PTO, 401K match up to 4%.
    Extra Details: My place required certification after a certain amount of time on the job.

    1. Pharmacy Technician*

      I have a college degree but it doesn’t relate to my job duties. Opportunities to advance are out of the question unless you put in the 4-6 years of education in to be PharmD, so I am passively searching after just 1 year on the job. Also forgot to mention we’ve got medical benefits too.

      1. Also Pharmacy Technician*

        Job: Pharmacy Technician, Specialty Pharmacy
        Location: Seattle Area
        Experience: 7 years
        Salary: 40K + benefits

        I agree about no real opportunities for advancement unless you want to go to pharmacy school to be a pharmacist.

      2. Retail Pharmacy Technician*

        Also a Pharmacy Technician at a major retail chain.
        14 years at the chain
        11 years in pharmacy
        7 years as a Pharmacy Technician
        Sacramento, CA
        $15.83/hour
        I learned on the job and took the PTCB. I didn’t have any formal school training. I wish I did, because I can’t get a job at a hospital because I don’t have IV experience. :(

        1. Also Pharmacy Technician*

          I work at an IV pharmacy, not in a hospital. I personally don’t mix IV, but other technicians in a different department mix IV. A few of them came from retail without any mixing experience, but the company gave them on the job training. You might be able to do the same thing, if you’re interested in mixing IV.

  1287. Product Manager (software)*

    Job: Manage the conception, development, and launch of product lines by either enhance existing product lines or launching new ones. This is in the Software Industry servicing the Medical Device market.
    Region: SE USA, but i work from home. The company is HQ’d in NE USA.
    Experience: 9 years total experience directly relevant in the same field, but in different roles. 2.5 years of that 9 are in the current position.
    Salary: $85,00 base, 7-10% bonus based on company profits, typical benefit package with matching 401k, health, short and long term disability. Also includes 4 weeks parental leave. Full vested so 4 weeks vacation (up from starting pt of 2). Additionally, I work from home with 30 to 50% travel requirements per quarter depending on what’s going on with a minimum of 8 trips to HQ expected yearly.

  1288. Executive Assistant*

    I support two directors in a tech company. Calendaring, travel, doc review, meeting and event coordination, etc.

    Location: Seattle
    Experience: 1 year prior to hire
    Salary: $60k+ bonus and stocks, PTO

  1289. Title Officer*

    Job: Examining property titles and issuing title insurance reports
    Location: small town in Pacific Northwest
    Experience: 10 years – learned on the job
    Salary: $23/hr fully paid for health, vision, dental insurance + 25 days/year FTO

  1290. Oracle EBS Specialist/Project Manager*

    – Job: Direct and coordinate efforts of test automation engineers to design and execute automated test scripts to be run in Oracle EBS (Financials, Projects, HR, etc) for clients. Manage projects, work with clients to understand their business processes, customizations, and localizations. Work with the test engineers to show them the process so they can design the test scripts, or tweak generic test components to suit the client’s needs.
    – Location: Denver metro area
    – Experience: Almost 20, as a user and an implementer. Requirements gathering, gap analysis, solution design, testing events, and post production support.
    – Salary: $115,000

    This is a new role for me; I’m about 3 months in. I got a moderate salary bump, and included in the compensation package is stock options, 401(k) after 6 months, and medical/dental. The benefits are more than I was paying before, but this is a very small company and my last employer was a huge multinational corporation. 3 days a week working from home, and a lot of flexibility with hours in the office. I can leave at 2:30 or 3, miss the worst of the rush hour, and finish up the work day from home.

    I’m certainly not the only person on the planet with extensive Oracle expertise, but the skill set is somewhat specific. There are jobs out there, but they’re not a dime a dozen.

  1291. 2nd Grade Teacher*

    Second grade teacher in a Title 1 school
    Southern California suburbs
    $77,000 plus great health benefits
    This is my 10th year teaching (though only my 2nd year in 2nd grade)
    I have a BA, a teaching credential, and a Masters degree

  1292. Systems Engineer*

    Systems Engineer for mid-sized Federal agency
    Mid-Atlantic region
    Approx. 30 years experience
    Approx. $139,000/year

  1293. Budget analyst*

    Virginia Beach, VA
    $72,500/year
    Have been in the industry almost 10 years
    Position requires a security clearance
    Employer pays half of health insurance, 3 weeks PTO, 401k match

  1294. Managing Editor*

    Not my exact job title, but more descriptive than my actual job title. I work in content marketing for a software company, managing several people along with editing and producing content myself.

    Geographic area: big city in the U.S. Midwest
    6 years of relevant experience
    Salary: $90,000

    Sometimes my salary seems embarrassingly high to me! I’ve been extraordinarily fortunate in my career considering my credentials and experience, having received a swift succession of raises and promotions at both my current position and my last one. I’m also lucky enough to be in a hot job market at a company that really values my work. As a liberal arts grad from a working-class family, I certainly never envisioned this.

  1295. Business Researcher/Special Librarian*

    Secondary research focusing on business information–company and industry information, market details, competitive intelligence, etc. There is also some report writing and project management.

    Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul area
    Experience: I’ve been in the library/research field for 15 years
    Salary: $50,000

    I work for a very small company (<10 people). In a similar position at a much larger company (10,000+) I made $65,000 a year at the high point.

    1. Business Researcher/Special Librarian*

      Should also have mentioned that I have a Master’s in Library Science, but other people at my company doing similar work do not.

  1296. Lawyer*

    Two jobs – the first is document review (basically reading people’s emails in response to civil litigation discovery requests) – a bunch of lawyer temps sit in a large room in front of computer screens for hours on end reading and clicking buttons. It’s exactly as glamorous as it sounds. The second job is representing disability claimants before the Social Security Administration.

    Location: Southwestern US

    Experience: 3 years

    Salary: It varies, but I’ve been averaging around the $25,000 mark (that’s combined; that’s the reason I have to work two). I end up working about 60-70 hours per week when I’m working, but the work comes in fits and starts.

    Other: The social security work is as a 1099 contractor for an out of state firm, so I’m also responsible for self-employment taxes. Friends don’t let friends go to law school.

  1297. Senior software developer*

    Job: I develop computer software used by large companies (which is the product that the company I work for sells).
    Area: NYC.
    Years: 30+
    Salary: $195K

  1298. Comms Manager*

    Job: Communications Manager

    Location: Australia

    Experience: 12 years of industry experience plus MBA

    Salary: $115,000 plus leave loading of 10% on four weeks of annual leave, car leasing arrangement and car bay

  1299. Customer Relations Representative*

    Job: Customer service in a call center handling escalated issues/complaint resolution.
    Area: Dallas
    Years: .5
    Salary: $16/hr
    Other: I work as a contractor, but the majority of the employees at my company are full-time and have a different salary/benefits.

  1300. Research Associate (social science)*

    I work at a consulting firm and conduct research for government agencies and the occasional nonprofit. I develop research methodologies to fit the clients’ needs, conduct surveys, interviews and focus groups, analyze data, write reports, and present findings.

    Seattle, WA
    10 years experience, and a PhD
    $68,000
    plus bonuses ($4k last year) and free health insurance

  1301. IT - Helpdesk Tier 2*

    1) Job description: I take phone calls from residential and business customers. We provide just about every computer service you could imagine, but our strength is WAN/LAN and VOIP.
    2) Area: Interior northwest
    3) Years: 5 total, associates degree in related field.
    4) Salary: $35,000 a year, plus OT, stipend for on call time, performance bonus, etc. I will gross $40,000+ this year. Full benefits package with vacation, sick leave and generous retirement.
    5) Other: Above number doesn’t include what 2017 raises will be. COL is US-average in my town. Wages are low though, so I am actually doing very well compared to my neighbors.

    1. IT - Helpdesk Tier 2*

      To clarify — I have 5 years of experience in IT/help desk total, but I’ve only logged about a year and a half of that with this company.

  1302. Office Administrator*

    I’m the admin for a small company of just over a dozen employees. I manage the office, handle our finances, provide customer service, plan special events and attend to a handful of special projects throughout the year.

    Texas
    5 years admin experience
    $48,000 annually
    My employer also pays for my cell phone bill and my health insurance

  1303. Engineering Manager*

    USD $180,000 / year

    7 years experience as an engineering manager. Before that, 9 years experience as a software engineer.

    I have a BA in an unrelated field.

    As an engineering manager, I manage and coach software engineers while also acting as a senior software engineer. My team is 6 people.

  1304. Archivist*

    Job: Manage corporate archive, supervise 3 FT + 1 PT staff
    Area: Southern California
    Experience: 8 years
    Salary: $75,000
    Have master’s degree in library science

  1305. Medical lab technician*

    Medical Lab Technician
    Chicago IL
    I make $19.50 per hour but I work a lot of overtime so I make about 44k+ per year plus 18 days PTO

  1306. IT Project Manager*

    Job Description: manage large-scale implementations of my company’s software, generally projects of about 18mos in duration. Involves roughly 75% travel.
    Geographic area: Midwest
    Years of experience: 1
    Your salary: $82k. I started at 60k and got a 36% raise; I’ve heard second raises are also large and then they level out. My Christmas bonus was $8k, I get a travel bonus calculated by the number of trips I take over a certain threshold which this year amounted to about $2k, and I also get the frequent flier miles/hotel points from all the travel. Oh, and meals comped while on work trips (we do reimbursement, not a per diem).

    2. Another Project Manager*

      Pretty sure we’re in the same role at the same company (I’m at 5 years, myself). Annual raises are pretty consistent each year, and bonuses tend to increase.

      Congrats on your first year and good luck on your future projects. :)

  1307. Digital Marketing Manager*

    Australia
    5 years of experience
    AUD 90.000
    I specialize in a niche market, but my salary is the average for a marketing manager

  1308. LM*

    your job: Social work. LICSW or MSW level
    your geographic area: Large city in Minnesota
    your years of experience: 9
    your salary: $32/hr, some bonuses for increased productivity
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: LICSW in a health care field

  1309. Accounting Manager*

    your job: Full Charge accounting and financials (separate and consolidated P & L’s, forecasting, AP/AR, etc etc for 14 companies (U.S based and International), Payroll, Human Resources, Tax Prep (Don’t do the actual returns, though).
    your geographic area: No Cal
    your years of experience 35 years escalating responsibilities, 8 years at this particular company.
    your salary $84K plus bonus, averaging 89K per year.
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: 12 days vacation, 6 sick days (caps @ 48 hours-CA means we don’t lose unused sick), 401K w/ 4% employer match, medical dental benefits (employer contributes 50% of the employee premium monthly), somewhat flexible hours. Salary exempt, meaning I work…ALOT! From home, or in the office on the weekend, depending on workload).

  1310. HRBP in Japan*

    HRBP (HR Business Partner)
    bigger Tokyo Metropolitan area, Japan (don’t know whether anyone is interested in numbers outside the US though)
    2 years of experience, 1 year in the job (the other one unrelated)
    roughly 3.5 million JPY, 217k/month (annual depends on the flexible bonus)
    the direct company has around 10k employees and is part of a big international manufacturing mother company; the salary is below average compared to other peers

      1. ALT with the JET Programme*

        I’m curious what your hours are. As an ALT I work in a cushy foreigner-friendly bubble so I don’t do the brutal hours my middle school teacher co-workers do. And I’m also curious what your commute/housing situation is like.

        1. HRBP in Japan*

          Sorry for the late reply.
          My hours are very decently around 40/week since our company enforces “zero overtime” in the HR department. Which means I can take days off to compensate for hours of overtime.
          Though I’d like to add, that this also can also mean “service zangyo (= unpaid overtime) in other departments, which are not this generous.
          My own commute is over an hour, but fully paid (I chose to live in central Tokyo, the company is in the bigger area). Housing support is 25k/month.

          Btw if someone is interested: there are no sick leave days in most Japanese companies. Either you take one of the sparse paid holidays or catch up the non-worked hours with overtime (if your company allows this practice)

  1311. Marketing Communications Specialist*

    Nonprofit health care organization. Patient communications and marketing projects (produce a brochure on how to manage your high blood pressure, gallbladder surgery prep instructions, etc.), writing, editing, proofreading, etc.
    Denver, CO
    12 years post-college experience
    $59,000/year

  1312. Program Manager*

    College Arts Program
    Western, MA
    12 years experience, 3 years in current position
    ~40,000/yr
    Public college = State benefits

  1313. Liaison and Communications Specialist*

    Job: Responsible for content creation and editing for C-suite level executives as it relates to achieving our org’s mission and goals. (Vague, I know.) Manage relationships and projects across an immense,bureaucratic, non-profit organization. Handle most communications projects that relate to said executives.

    Experience: 10 years
    Salary: $68K base, with $19K incentive for extra duties assumed ($85K annually)
    Geographic area: Full-time teleworker; office is located within the greater D.C. area

  1314. Pastry Assistant/Dog Walker/Florist/Freelance Writer*

    -The job descriptions are pretty straightforward!
    -$45,000/year
    -San Francisco
    -I worked 50-70 hours/week between the four jobs
    -At each position less than 3 years

  1315. Project Manager*

    I am a project manager.
    Working in the greater Los Angeles, CA area
    I make 64K a year and while I have 35 years of work experience, I only have 2 1/2 years in my current role. I had 20 years of experience in another industry and switched careers and industries about 12 years ago.
    I am paid rather low for my field, but I didn’t have direct experience as a project manager and I don’t have PMP which most employers prefer. I do have a BS degree in Business Administration and I’m working on acquiring a PMP soon.

  1316. Senior Financial Analyst*

    Job Description: Responsibilities include building various types of financial forecasts, supporting operations with analytical tools, performing ad hoc financial analysis, etc. The vast majority of my work is done in Excel, but I also need knowledge (or be able to quickly learn) on how to source the data I need across multiple data systems.
    Geographic Area: Greater Seattle Area
    Years of Experience: I’ve been in finance-related positions for roughly 6 years, but in different industries. I just started a new position in yet again, a new industry.
    Salary: $90k (no annual cash bonus for my level, but some RSU plus health insurance)
    Misc: I honestly don’t have a ton of finance-specific knowledge. Past employers and my current one placed a strong emphasis on my Excel skills and eye for process improvement. Somehow I always luck out at a place with dysfunctional processes and have to set them straight. Before starting my current position, I completed my MBA, and took a full-year off to travel. Yes, job hunting was a pain, but both my compensation and title are better than before I took off.

    1. Senior Financial Analyst*

      Forgot to mention, I get 3 weeks of vacation. This was an item I had to negotiate on since the company’s policy is 2 weeks for new employees. My last company provided a minimum of 3 weeks for new employees, but their compensation structure was different: lower industry salary, but cash bonus based on performance.

  1317. Internal Audit Manager*

    the job: I work at a privately held financial services company in NYC. I am second in command for a smallish audit department (18 people). I am responsible for developing our annual plan, planning/overseeing audits, reporting to management, training staff, and various odds and ends.
    geographic area: New York City
    years of experience: 12 years experience (that was fast)
    salary: $150,000 plus 10-25% bonus (depending on the success of the company). Benefits also include a 4% 401(k) match and a pension that contributes approximately 10% of salary for each year of service. Company offers (expensive) medical/dental/vision coverage. But if you decline medical coverage, they offer a stipend of $5k.
    time off: 4 weeks vacation, 3 personal days, 5 sick days
    anything else: Started my career in management consulting at $53,000. Stayed at the consulting firm for 7 years before jumping to my current company. Got a 10% bump in salary at the time ($100k-$110k). I have a bba in finance, a minor in accounting and hold relevant certifications (though no CPA license)

  1318. HED COS*

    College administrator at 4-yr private university
    DMV area
    14 yrs total experience, 11 yrs in management
    $134,000/yr

  1319. Associate Fashion Trend Forecaster*

    Associate Fashion Trend Forecaster (Seattle)
    $59,000 (started at $52K, promoted after 1 year)
    1.5 years full time experience, combined ~3 years of internship experience
    Master’s Degree (international) + BSc from Ivy League University

    1. Candy Crush*

      Would be interested in learning about your background if you’re open to it! This sounds interesting.

  1320. Newspaper reporter*

    Cover social services and do some data reporting
    Spokane, Washington
    4 years experience
    $17.50/hour = $36,400/year (a little more in practice with OT and holiday shifts)

    1. Opinion page copy editor/writer*

      We just had some newsroom training on data reporting. I am really hoping to add some of that into my own work, though a lot of times opinion writers are expected to simply build on what the newsroom has already done.

      Mid-sized Florida daily newspaper. Twenty-plus years here (started as a reporter) another seven in newspaper journalism before that – I’ve been at $53K a year for quite some time, good insurance, more vacation than I could ever hope to take (I think it’s up to five weeks a year now plus PTO and sick leave, but I have never taken more than two in any given year so…)

      I absolutely love my job and my boss is wonderful..

  1321. Architectural Drafter*

    Creation of architectural drawings from schematic through construction documents. Creation of 3d models for renderings used for presentations, selection of finishes for projects, review of shop drawings from contractors, specification writing, in-house IT ( including, but not limited to, maintenance of computer equipment and printers/plotters, installation of new software, trouble shooting problems)

    Gulf Coast Texas

    50k

    11 years

    hired directly out of college with a Bachelor’s of Architecture degree

  1322. Corporate Communications Assistant*

    Industry: Religious/Non-profit

    Job Scope:
    — Managing and running company’s social media channels
    — Content management of company’s website (HTML only, thankfully)
    — Creating and editing of marketing collaterals
    — Editing/proofreading of company print media, with occasional writing for the magazine
    — Advertising & PR support; basic design

    Geographic Area: Singapore

    Experience: 2 years

    Salary: SG$28K (about US$19.5K); variable bonuses depending on the status of the company and economy

    And after looking at this, I’ve just realised I’m not, strictly speaking, an assistant, since I’m the only one in the corpcomms department. Ah well…

  1323. Program Coordinator*

    Job: Assist with study abroad programs for an American University
    Geographic Area: Beijing
    Experience: 2 years (3 additional years of experience in unrelated field)
    Salary: RMB 18,00/ Month (USD 2,599/ Month)

    They pay for foreign health care coverage.

  1324. eLearning Course Developer*

    I’m in the Washington DC metropolitan area, but my company’s HQ is in Silicon Valley. My primary responsibility is to create eLearning courseware for customers, but I’m also responsible for doing onsite customer training if requested, as well as internal employee training for new releases or advanced topics.

    Experience: 10 years

    Salary: $95,000 + Bonus

  1325. Process Engineer*

    Process Engineer / Lead Process Engineer
    Chemical process engineering for large A&E firm, specifically within their high tech manufacturing group. Generally work as a lead for a “overall project with many little projects.” Producing construction packages and doing first of a kind projects for a local client. Team generally 15-20 people, half designers, half engineers.

    Otherwise, I am generally a “process engineer” for a specific set of systems, responsible for design of that set of systems as part of a huge project, usually have leadership over a few junior engineers, but less on the designer side in these circumstances. Currently in one of these phases.

    West coast, Oregon.

    10 years of experience, licensed PE, 6 years specifically in this industry, 4 years working refinery turnaround projects.

    108,000 base, with straight OT, I expect to be ~ 15-20%% higher than that at end of year (last years average OT hit was 10%, this year will likely be worse given the projects). Bonuses usually amount to ~2,000 a year. HORRIBLE benefits otherwise.

    Probably low for my peers, high for company. Big time shifting winds at the company as the mid levels are moving into senior positions.

  1326. Administrative Assistant*

    Job: Combination admin assistant, receptionist, office manager. I get to support specific projects in addition to the usual tasks of running the office. I’ve added more responsibilities than what I originally started with.
    Area: Southern California
    Years of experience: 7+ including retail and temporary; 2 years in this job.
    Your salary: $35,000-37,000 depending on hours worked.
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: PTO, decent healthcare benefits, 401k…balanced by a relatively HCOL area. It’s never slow, but I don’t usually work OT, and then not crazy amounts.

  1327. Engineering Manager*

    Technical Lead for a big, novel, crazy, secret medical device project within the tech industry. That means I run basically everything about the project – technical direction, business strategy, hiring, people management, project management, partner relationships.
    California
    PhD+10yrs, all very relevant
    $165k base
    ~$50k in add’l bonus and equity

    I’m incredibly lucky. While there are plenty of trials and frustrations (as there are in all jobs), I do something I’m passionate about and am well paid for doing it well.

  1328. Advertising Strategist*

    Consumer research and communications strategy development for a major ad agency
    West Coast USA
    About 20 years experience
    Salary: $175,000
    Other: matched 401K, three weeks vacation, no bonus

  1329. Metadata Librarian III*

    your job: Also called “Cataloger” or “Technical Services Librarian.” My job is to add information about titles to our database, & to update information about existing records when needed.

    your geographic area: Southeast

    your years of experience: 19 years

    your salary: $62,000

    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I work for a library vendor, performing essentially the same role that I did in a library. In this geographic region, most public libraries do not pay nearly as well (hence my jump to the “dark side”)

  1330. Client Manager - Market Research*

    Location: Chicago, IL, USA
    Total experience: 13 years
    Relevant/Direct Industry Experience: 8.5 years
    Salary: $85,000 + up to $8000 annual performance bonus

    (Good Lord, I’m due for a better raise! https://www.askamanager.org/2014/01/how-much-money-do-you-make.html#comment-351682 )

    My job as Client Manager is to perform a host of market research analytics, while keeping the customer happy. While it’s not at all a sales position, it definitely is a mix between keeping the client satisfied, delivering market insights, and drawing out opportunities for upsell.

  1331. Senior Game Designer*

    your job: I design new features for a popular mobile game. People always think the designer is an artist or engineer, but they’re not. In laymen’s terms: if a mobile game were a board game, the designer would be the one who writes the rules, not the one who does the art or makes the board.

    Geographic area: Europe

    Experience: about six years

    Salary: $115,000

    Note: depending on what part of the game industry you’re in, six years is pretty early for a senior title, but I’ve had it since my second year (and second job) in the industry, which has helped with salary.

  1332. Project Manager*

    – Project Manager in the aerospace industry (coming from a mechanical engineering background)
    – northern Germany
    – 8 years of experience
    – 60,000€ + performance bonus
    – For context: I have 2 MSc. Permanent contract, 40 hour week (overtime is discouraged but paid at the same rate), 30 days of vacation per year plus national holidays, and for COL this is one of the more expensive cities of Germany but among other valuable social programs daycare is free (significant as I have a little one on the way)

  1333. Project Managaer / Translator*

    Job: I do project management for a small team of developers working on a website and I do some translation on the side.
    Geographic area: Eastern Europe
    Experience: 15 years
    Salary: $5,500 US/year
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Enough to live off of if I’m careful.

  1334. Registered Nurse*

    Position: RN, Med-Surg Unit, Part-Time Charge Nurse
    Location: Indiana
    Experience: almost 4 years as RN, 10 years in healthcare
    Education: Associate of Science in Nursing
    My average gross: $55,000-$60,000/year

    This number includes base salary, pay differential for working as charge nurse, weekend pay differential, holiday pay differential, and some overtime (not a great deal this year).

  1335. Software Consultant*

    Job Description: I write code, lead project teams at clients, train/mentor junior colleagues, and manage one of our software development teams. This includes occasional overseas travel (3-4 days/month) which can be at sub-6-hours notice (usually around 1-2 weeks’ notice).
    Location: London (UK)
    Experience: 13 years post-university, of which 9 are with my current employer. This started as a software developer; I had several roles in that area before moving to consultancy within the same organisation.
    Education: Undergraduate Masters degree (4-year course; studied engineering)
    Salary: £100k basic + benefits; £25k target bonus (usually around £30-£35k).

    I sometimes feel massively overpaid, and sometimes vastly underpaid.

  1336. Ambulance Dispatcher*

    Job: dispatch ambulances for urban county (NOTE: I do not work for 911, I work for the ambulance company). Keep status with units (making sure they arrive on scene, putting them en route to the hospitals, clearing them, etc.). It’s mostly sitting at a bank of computer monitors, talking on the radio, and typing a lot.

    Geographic area: Pacific Northwest

    Years of Experience: 3 1/2

    Salary: $23.11/hour (time and three-quarters for scheduled OT, double time for holdover)

    Other: We are union. We work 12 hour shifts. I accrue 5 hours of PTO every pay period (130 hours per year), which increases periodically up to a maximum of 251 hours per year. We have amazing health benefits, thanks to the union. Since we are an ambulance company responding to 911 calls, we never close, so we don’t get federal holidays off. Vacation is based on date requested (up to 1 year in advance) and seniority (for example, if 5 people ask for 12/25/17 off on 12/25/16, the 2 people with the most seniority get it). The biggest perk of the job is that in between calls I get to read.

  1337. Agrochemical BD*

    Job: Business development of agrochemicals
    Location: Belgium
    Years: 10 of experience, 4 in this position
    € 57000

  1338. Head of Marketing Communications*

    Job Description: I manage the MarComms team (of 5) for a mid-size technology company. Includes branding, PR/AR, events, content/inbound marketing, product marketing. Also dotted-line manage digital marketing (website, email, social).
    Location: South East (not London) UK
    Experience: 13 years out of university. 9 directly in this type of role, the other 4 in tangentially related roles. Just under two of those nine years were taken off, one each for maternity leaves.
    Education: BA Communications from a North American school (so only reluctantly acknowledged here)
    Salary: £50k + up to £4k bonus (based on company performance, not usually paid at 100% thanks to insane targets). Slightly better than standard benefits – 26 days leave + bank holidays + 2 weeks sick leave. Private health care. Company matching (up to 3%) pension. Salary sacrifice schemes (where you get to save pre-tax dollars for things like childcare, or environmentally friendly commuting options like train tickets or bikes)

  1339. Head of Marketing Communications*

    Oh, and I can also take advantage of a fairly casual environment in terms of flexibility – it’s not a benefit everyone gets by default, but I am able to shift my schedule around when I need to, work from home, etc. Makes a massive difference when trying to sort out life with two full-time working parents and two small people at home.

  1340. Network engineer*

    Working for a telecoms company, building/maintaining the access network and some work on the core network. Project management as necessary.

    North England

    10 years

    £33k

    8 weeks leave inc. bank holidays, company matching pension, private health care, extremely flexible hours/wfh policy, annual bonus usually around £1,500-2,000, 6 months sick leave, free telephone/broadband/TV.

  1341. Sales Insights Manager*

    Working for a large multi-national corporation, I analyse sales data to identify areas of strength and weakness in our sales and implement sales programs to address those findings.
    London, UK
    11 years
    £68,000
    Retirement plan match (company pays in double employee contribution) 6 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays, private health care, flexible work from home arrangements.

  1342. Call Center Sales Rep*

    Location: NW Pennsylvania
    Years: 5 yrs
    Salary: $30,000 (includes incentive based income) (base salary $9.50/hr)
    A nice benefit package is included including matched 401 K, 4 weeks paid vacation, 10 holidays, and partial paid healthcare. Also, a 10% over cost employee discount on products sold and many prizes (big and small) to add to income. No cold calling – customers call you to place orders. Some Customer Service.

  1343. General Manager*

    Description: I manage all aspects of a mid scale hotel in a national chain (corporate, not franchised). Sales, ordering, quality control, hiring and firing, HR (as our HR person is remote): onboarding, training, employee issues, etc; customer service.
    Location: South Florida (ie. The really expensive part)
    Salary: 54k base + 12.5% revenue based bonus and 12.5% TripAdvisor based bonus (got both for 2016)
    Experience: 2 years
    Education: Bachelor’s in Business Management from a state school
    Other: My salary is right is line with the region, but South Florida’s cost of living is incredibly expensive. I’d live much more comfortably with a lower salary in a cheaper area, and I’m searching for jobs elsewhere in the South.

    1. General Manager*

      Oh and benefits: 4% employer match on a 401k; health, vision, dental for fairly cheap (but from what others told me, the healthcare was far cheaper and more expansive before the ACA went into effect); 4 weeks of PTO (which is difficult to track, as everybody is remote, so I don’t get charged PTO if I leave early on a slow day, and since I have an assistant manager, we just cover each other when one is sick, rather than burn vacation days); free hotel stays at any property in my company anywhere in the world (big company)

  1344. Research Scientist*

    Job: An entry level Research scientist in Pharma (Biologics) (my exact title is slightly different as my “program” allows me to move freely to projects I think are interesting).
    Geographic area: Sweden (south).
    Salary: 36,000 Euro , with up to 20% bonus possible. (This is very high for an entry level scientist in Europe, or at least was the highest I’d found, although the American figures seem a lot nicer, I think I saw someone around the same level making 70k in this thread)
    Other: 32 days holidays + an additional paid week off at christmas, sick time as needed (First day of sick leave is unpaid then you get your normal rate, I believe thats Sweden wide not a company exclusive though). Flexi-time , work from home when allowable I.E not doing lab based work. Health insurence except dental, Gym membership, tax assistance and all the free tea, coffee and sauna use you can handle.
    Excellent work life balance, I have a degree and a masters with 1 year of practical work experiance.

  1345. PA & Admin Manager*

    My company is an Owners Corporation Management business. I’m a Personal Assistant to one of the Portfolio Managers (who manages 80 properties) and I’m also Admin Manager of the office (small office of 10 people).
    Melbourne, Australia
    10 years
    $50k

    Hrs 9-5, 1hr for lunch, 4 weeks annual leave, 10 paid sick days, easygoing office, flexible, generous boss, casual Friday’s (lol), 15 mins drive from my home, closed over xmas for 2 weeks.

  1346. Digital Producer*

    Digital Producer at a non-profit. Do everything from project management, front-end development, and ux design.
    DC
    8+
    $80k, plus annual 10% bonus and really great benefits.

  1347. Sales & Marketing Coordinator*

    Job: Sales and marketing for a small travel company. The only person in marketing & support for 3 sales reps.
    Australia (not Melbourne or Sydney)
    4 years experience
    $50,000/year
    Includes 1-2 famils each year, rarely have to work more than 38 hours/week

  1348. Analytical Scientist*

    Analytical Scientist in R&D at a large biotech company in the Boston area. Bench scientist in development and testing of clinical phase biotech drugs.

    years of experience:13
    your salary: 95k

    1. Research Scientist*

      How do you find the Salary to be for the Boston area? Does it allow you to live comfortably while saving?

      1. Analytical Scientist*

        My husband’s salary is comparable to mine and we wouldn’t attempt to live in boston or cambridge on that. House prices are very high here especially in the city, but pay is good in my field and there are lots of options so companies are competitive. I have a BS with a partially completed masters. We are swimming in PhDs so it’s hard to land a job based only on education. Experience is key.

        1. Pseudo-Fed*

          “Experience is key”

          The further along I get in my career, the more this is true. It seems that when you’re first starting out, degrees and education matter a lot. When you’ve been working for decades, it matters much more what you’ve done. Also, how well you’ve kept up with new developments in your field.

  1349. Critical Care RN*

    I care for complicated post-surgery patients (and their very anxious families). I have a BSN.
    TENNESSEE
    18yrs
    $80,100/yr
    I work for the government. Health insurance insurance, sick leave, 5 weeks vacation/yr. I work 40hrs/week, mostly 12hr shifts with $8/hr extra for working nights.

  1350. Mental Health Clinician*

    My job: I work as a therapist at a psychiatric hospital.
    Salary: $53,000 per year
    Area: Southeast
    Experience: 5 years post-Masters
    Misc: 5 weeks of PTO, pretty average health benefits

  1351. Higher Education Administrator*

    I work at a local public university, for a specific graduate program. I oversee operations, technology, and data analysis related to admissions for this program. I supervise a small team.

    Bay Area, CA

    6 years of experience in higher education
    12 years experience post-BA

    $81k annual salary. This is somewhat low for the area, but I’m OK with that considering the generous benefits and retirement plan.

  1352. Resume Writer*

    Job: Critique or write resumes, cover letters, and/or LinkedIn profiles, mainly for clients of outplacement firm but some from other companies or my own clients.
    Location: Michigan (but work remotely).
    Wage: $25/hour as work as available. ($250-$300/week, no benefits but can usually take time off as needed — without pay of course).
    Education: Bachelor degree in journalism but as long as a resume writer has at least on of the several credentials available, there’s work out there somewhere.

  1353. Marketing in the art sector*

    Marketing in the art sector

    Region: NYC
    Total years of experience: 10
    Salary: $110,000

  1354. Information Security Consultant*

    I work for a large professional services firm providing consulting services to companies related to cyber/information security.
    UK – North
    1 year (2 years previous in an unrelated field)
    £30000
    I started at entry level last year on £28000, I will be automatically promoted in two year’s time and will then be on approximately £40000. I’m quite happy with my job but sometimes can work long hours and do a lot of travel (some international which I see as a perk). It’s quite a competitive field and there are thousands of applicants for each entry level position.

  1355. Personal Assistant to Regional Head of Department (Investment Bank)*

    ◾ London, UK
    ◾ 5 years’ experience
    ◾ £43,000 GBP (this is around $53,000 USD in the current climate but I think it would normally be closer to around £65,000-ish)

    1. Personal Assistant to Regional Head of Department (Investment Bank)*

      Oh and sorry I forgot to mention I also expect a bonus of around £8,000

  1356. Manager of Membership Services, Trade Association*

    Responsible for retention and recruitment of membership

    Columbus, Ohio
    Years in this area: 5
    Salary: $41,000

  1357. Healthcare Sales Director*

    Job: develop the healthcare vertical for a company that sells capital equipment. Involves marketing, merchandising, contract negotiation and training.

    Area: my territory is the whole US but I’m based in the Midwest

    Experience: about 7 years in this role, 20 of n the industry

    Salary: $97,500 plus bonuses ($10-20k), 4 weeks vacation and standard benefits.

  1358. Research Compliance Program manager*

    I lead one area of expertise in a research compliance office at a university. I work with faculty to teach them about regulations applying to their research, to complete the necessary requirements, and to train their staff. I review and approve research projects. I am the only full time staff member in my expertise area, With one administrative coordinator shared with another area of my office.

    A smallish midwestern city.

    $60k per year, with good benefits and work-life balance

    I have four years of experience in my area of expertise, and 16 years in other areas of research.

    My education was not related

  1359. Training Specialist*

    Training design and delivery, both in-person and e-learning. I’m in charge of the operational L&D for my division.
    Location: Major centre in Canada (yes, we have a few!)
    Years in field: 12
    Salary: $74000 (CAD)

  1360. Science Analyst*

    My real title is unique, but this is the gist of it.
    Government contractor for a large federal agency. I do portfolio analyses on scientific research portfolios, survey program success rates, respond to ad hoc data requests – lots of data analysis, primarily using statistical software.
    Region: DC metro
    Total years of experience: science PhD plus ~2.5 years post-doctoral/teaching experience; < 1 yr in current position
    salary: 90K/yr plus good 401K match and health benefits (for me and spouse), federal holidays and 2 weeks PTO, 1 telework day/week and good work-life balance

  1361. Information Systems Manager*

    – I’m in charge of a three-person team of developers, responsible for custom internal application development, website development, and web app development for a Canadian non-profit with 100+ employees, which is the Canadian arm of a US parent organization. Worldwide, the organization has about 5,000+ employees.
    – Location: Southwestern Ontario, Canada
    – Years of Experience: 25+
    – Salary: 77,000

  1362. DataAssistant*

    ◾I assist a Senior Data Officer with managing and overlooking a data system which our frontline users input to. We are responsible for submission of our data to government departments per our statutory duties. Other duties include: input of information, running reports, liasing with external agencies and partners, providing system support and guidance to system users, social media communications and some other things which fall under the ‘any other duties’ aspect of my job description (including some procurement and executive support).
    ◾NW England
    ◾Almost 3 years experience (I started as an Apprentice and was then promoted to an Assistant and am not university educated)
    ◾£16,474, approx. $19,951 (gross, no bonuses)
    ◾32 days PTO per year, flexible working hours, paid sick leave and maternity/paternity pay, a good pension scheme, access to occupational health (if needed), good terms and conditions with (optional) union representation

  1363. Adult Services Manager (library)*

    I directly supervise 8 salaried librarians and a whole gaggle of hourly staff and oversee the day-to-day operations of the adult services department in the library. I have a master’s degree in library science.
    Location: Michigan
    Years of experience: ~8, 4 as a professional librarian
    Salary: 54,000. Good benefits.

  1364. HR & Scheduling Assistant*

    -This is a home health aide agency, I take in and process all the applicants. I also do all the hiring and, orienting, processing the paperwork of all new hires. I’m responsible for keeping all our workers paperwork up to date and catching the phone overflow for the schedulers.
    -Boston
    -2 years
    -30k
    -Sick time and vacation time earned per hours worked, there’s medical insurance but it’s prohibitively expensive, dental’s okay. No other benefits.

  1365. [b]Medical Chart Coder[/b]*

    – I code medical charts for a large insurance company. We have locations all over the country and I work from home.
    – I live in the Mid-Atlantic, in a state touching the ocean
    – I have 10 years in the medical coding business
    – I make $25.00 per hour of $52,000 per year. I could make more if I supervised people, but the only person I want to be responsible for at work is myself! I get 28 days of PTO per year, of which I can carry over 40 hours.

  1366. Project Manager*

    -Project manager at a software company for electronic medical records (I work with health organizations to help them implement our software); travel 3-4 weeks a month (M-Th).
    -Wisconsin
    -5 years
    -$144,000 (plus bonuses)
    -Annual raises are “merit-based”, not always directly tied to years of experience; sick and vacation accrued monthly; great health coverage, which you no longer pay a premium toward after 5 years; fully matched 401k; “sabbatical” provided every 5 years (4 weeks paid vacation and paid travel expenses to any country of your choice, provided you have never traveled there); “work-from-home” option 1 day/week for positions with heavy travel

  1367. Development Associate*

    Description: provide general administrative and fundriasing support to a development/fundraising team of four (three plus me) at a nonprofit including database mangement and intern management
    Location: DC
    Experience: 3 years
    Salary: $42,000 (plus occasional overtime) plus benefits

  1368. Program Manager (Non Profit, Adult Education)*

    Program Manager for a mid sized nonprofit
    Oversee planning and execution of a 500+ person adult education program (management training, leadership skills, etc.), contribute to strategy development, growth, change management, etc.
    Washington DC
    10 years of experience in the nonprofit sector
    $83K salary, 2 weeks vacation, 10 sick days, telework whenever I need/want to, all the standard benefits (health, dental, 401K with match, parental leave)

  1369. Marketing Analyst*

    I am the marketing department for a company newly interested in marketing their services. I am responsible for marketing plans, branding, graphic design, copy writing, social media content, and the website.
    East Texas
    3 years experience in marketing/communications
    $56,500
    10 days vacation, 4% 401k match, company savings account with 7% interest, at least one free lunch a month

  1370. Sr.Manager, User Experience*

    I manage 6-person team of user experience designers for a well known website.

    11 years in User Experience

    Southeastern US

    $136,000/year, target 15% bonus, ~15% long-term inscentive plan

  1371. Systems Administrator*

    Systems Administrator for a Maryland state contractor. I’m sort of like a project manager/helpdesk manager/programmer/network engineer all rolled into one.
    Baltimore, MD
    9 years of IT experience, just started this job in November
    $65,000 salary
    I’m probably underpaid, but the office is close to home, my boss is awesome, and despite the many hats I wear it’s actually a pretty laid back job.

  1372. Associate Director - Social Media*

    Description: Social media strategy for the alumni relations office at a major research university.
    Location: Boston, MA
    Experience: ~ 4 years
    Salary: $60,000 (also get free tuition for grad school)
    Since I’m in higher ed/non-profit, I’m actually at the lower end of the range for my position in my area. That being said, I was lucky to have college internships that immersed me in social media strategy right when the field was emerging. So even with “just” four years of experience I’m at the upper end of what you can even expect to find in such a new field.

  1373. Risk Manager*

    I manage a publicly traded company’s insurance programs. This includes renewals, claims, and assisting with safety.
    – Greater Chicago Area
    – 5 years experience
    -$105,000 salary, 15% bonus target

  1374. Payroll Admin / HR(?)*

    I handle the payroll for a union construction company.

    Collect hours from field (phone calls).
    Enter hours into payroll program.
    Sign pay checks. Distribute checks.
    Make deposits.
    Pay weekly and quarterly taxes for two states.
    Maintain employee information.
    Update pay rates for mandatory bi-annual raises.
    Update mandatory employee union deductions for bi-annual raises.
    Handle worker’s comp cases.
    Create time cards to track and bill projects.
    Collect field reports.
    Accuracy check job field reports.
    Track labor costs in general and break down according to job for client billing.
    Create, maintain and send Certified Payroll Reports for public works jobs.
    Handle petty cash from office and field. Collect receipts, disburse cash.
    Track vacation time for employees.
    Distribute safety meeting worksheets to job sites and collect completed worksheets.

    Answer phones, open mail, print specifications and drawings for construction projects. Scan specifications and drawings for construction projects. Download specs and dwgs from client sites. Upload specifications and drawings to FTP website for bidding by sub-contractors. Maintain FTP site. Maintain three email accounts for work (one is for my techo-phobe boss). Other miscellaneous tasks normal for secretary/admin assist. on top of payroll duties.

    Salaried – $35,100.00 per year
    Employed here 15 years.
    Woodbridge Township, NJ

    1. Sr. Payroll Specialist*

      NJ pay scale is usually higher than the midwest but in Kansas City this position (with little experience) would start at $35-40k. In my opinion, with 15 years experience you should be at least at $45k. I hope you have some serious perks that make up for the low pay! I feel for ya!

      1. Payroll Admin / HR(?)*

        There are some perks. They do pay the premiums for my health ins. There is no company health ins so I buy it through the ACA. And a few years ago I had to move and was not having any luck finding a place. They had a recently vacated old farm house that they wanted someone to move into so I got a 4 bedroom house for $1,000 per month in rent. They have paid for new brakes on my car, new tires. And I get a very generous bonus at the end of the year usually between $3k – $5k.

        It did take 14 years to get to that $35k though. It’s a weird place. Family owned in business for almost a 100 years. Very set in their ways. The person in my position before me made $500 per week and my immediate boss (and owner at the time) felt that was just how much the position paid. It took a financial hardship on my part necessitating a part time job for them to realize that I really needed more money. I negotiated what I needed. $100 more per week in take home pay which translated into $175 per week before taxes. I know what I do is worth more but between the insurance premiums (around $300 per month), the 4 bedroom house for a $1k a month, the car repairs, no grief if I need a day off with no notice I felt that was fair. And I am salaried so I get paid no matter what.

    2. Payroll Admin / HR(?)*

      Oh one more thing. Except for the actual payroll program everything is done by hand. I mean pen and ledger books by hand. The company has been in business for decades and this is just how things are done.

      1. Sr. Payroll Specialist*

        THAT is absolutely crazy! But, they are still in business so I guess there’s something to be said for that.

    3. Senior (Civil) Engineer, Consulting*

      How many people on the payroll? I read your expanded comment below, but this still seems like a huge list of duties for that salary.

      (I posted above, in NYC…I’m wondering if I know your company, too. We do a lot of work in NJ.)

      1. Payroll Admin / HR(?)*

        Obviously it varies as construction work does but usually in winter there are about 20 people on our payroll. But that is not an accurate reflection of the amount of work we do. Rough payroll numbers for 2016 (without including union benefits) $1.5m Add union benefits? $2.2m We also use subcontractors for a lot of the work. Summer? Summer it can expand to 50 workers. Carpenters, laborers all with different pay scales, different union deductions.

        1. Senior (Civil) Engineer, Consulting*

          Yeah, that is complicated. Thank you for doing it, as I generally like being on union sites more ’cause (ime) they are a bit less cowboy-ish. My specialty tends to intersect with a very high-risk aspect of construction, so I like a lack of excitement and flying-by-seat-of-pants.

          I’m still in agreement with Sr. Payroll Specialist in Kansas City, I’d think for all that you should be getting all your perks AND another $10k minimum. Or more. I haven’t had a chance to ask our dept. to see what they’d say.

  1375. Staff Attorney*

    -Provide direct legal services on civil matters to low-income clients at a non-profit law firm (think Legal Aid). This involves a good deal of in-person client contact, time in court, as well as researching and writing legal documents. I work at one of six smaller regional office (12 attorneys, 2 paralegals, 2 admin) but our service area is about 40 counties.
    -Southeastern Wisconsin
    -1.5 years of legal experience
    -$47,500
    -4 weeks paid vacation, 4 personal days, 10 sick days per year. Health and dental, no vision insurance. My firm also pays my annual bar dues ($250+) and local bar association membership dues ($50+) and are also pretty generous about paying for conferences, trainings, etc. There is also a standard $2,000 COLA bump every June.

  1376. Nonprofit Program Developer*

    Description: I design new programs for a social service nonprofit and write grants to fund those new and existing programs. I also do report writing, manage funder relationships, and handle the contracting process for government grants-to-contracts. I think about strategy for my whole department and where funding trends are going. I write private, local, state and federal grant applications, all of which are complicated to various degrees. I bring in ~4 million in funding each year.

    I don’t do anything related to software or coding.

    Location: Twin Cities, MN
    Years of experience: 8
    Salary: $65,000 with a 1%, 3% or 5% bonus based on performance.

    My salary is on the high end for grant writers in the Twin Cities, but slightly less than/comparable with what director-level nonprofit grant writers doing special projects funding from the government earn (based on what I know about salaries at my past and previous jobs).

  1377. Sr. Payroll Specialist*

    Sr. Payroll Specialist
    -Payroll problem resolution (pay discrepancies, missing pay, voids/reissues, etc), internal reporting, ad hoc reporting, policy and procedures, compensation analysis, tax law updates, W-2’s, W-4’s, auditing)
    Kansas City metro
    10 years experience
    Salaried $55,000 with annual bonus up to 12%
    (Just started the above position. At previous position I was the Payroll Manager at $45,000 with no bonus potential)

  1378. Customer Service/Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable*

    Job: Support sales reps, process orders, process invoices, generate customer statements, take credit card payments, answer phone calls, communicate with vendors, answer emails, train incoming employees, etc.
    Area: Midwest, USA
    Years of Experience: 1.5
    Salary: $40,000/year
    Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, degree in finance & accounting
    2 weeks paid vacation, 2 personal days/year that carry over from year to year (I’m up to 4 – woohoo!), great benefits for a small/medium sized, growing company.

  1379. Senior Accountant*

    Publicly traded company
    5 years experience; licensed CPA
    City of San Francisco
    $95k + 10-15% bonus

  1380. Mainframe Programmer/Application Developer*

    Mainframe Programmer, Application Developer
    Description: Cobol, CICS, JCL, Assembler (z/OS) programming team lead.
    Location: Jacksonville, FL
    Years of experience: 20+
    Salary: $99,000.

    I’ve been “lucky” to stay with the same core company, even though it has been bought/sold multiple times. Cash cows never truly get put out to pasture, they just get a bunch of fancy ornaments hung on them. :)

  1381. IT Director*

    IT Director
    -Manage 3 people. Mostly handle ERP system support, SQL, Report writing, and also workflow system implementation as well as new software project management / liaison between end user and implementers. Also make software recommendations, negotiation service contracts, problem solver, etc. Most days are a mix between moving projects forward and day to day support on items my team cannot do.
    -Rural Midwest, about an hour from a major city
    -15+ years experience
    -Salary $87,000 plus profit sharing 8%
    -4 weeks vacation (no roll over :|) Health, dental, vision, etc. split 50/50, 401k with 3% match

  1382. Software Deployment Manager*

    – my job: I don’t manage people (at present) but rather deployments of our software to our clients. It functions like a Project Manager role (timelines, resource (people) allocation, etc. but has the added benefit (HA) of being a liaison between dev and sales, as well as a liaison between clients and the company itself.
    – my geographic area: midwest (plains states)
    – years of experience: 2 at this company, almost 13 in IT
    – $76,000 with (few) random bonuses for extra time spent on major projects
    I don’t know if it helps with context, but there’s a very strong startup/tech boom happening in my general geographic area. Competition is highish, which is a bit strange given the fact that we’re not in, like, San Francisco. So, salaries are commiserate with demand. That said, I know I make more than others doing similar jobs at my company. I also haven’t had a compensation increase since I started and I’m planning to ask for that this month. It’s a tricky balance of wanting to be humble/fair and also asking to be paid what the market would say I’m worth. Since others have shared, we have incredible benefits – free health insurance premiums (my family pays a small premium to be on my plan), unlimited vacation, free snacks, etc. I don’t ever want to leave. ;)

  1383. Customer Service Manager*

    I manage a team of customer service agents in a call center environment, working in a service industry. My team includes 7 non-supervisory Leads and 18 agents.

    SoCal.

    15 years Call Center, 8 years Management, 2 years in current company.

    Salary is $65,000, mediocre benefits, okay 401k, and 500 shares of stock.

  1384. Librarian/Assistant Professor*

    I work in Access Services (circulation, media, interlibrary loan and reserves) and Reference. I work one weekend per month, and I serve on various University committees.
    Southeastern United States
    16 years at this job
    $44,000 annually
    I get sick and vacation leave, 12 paid days off per year, health insurance and participation in a Flexible Spending Account. I also have a boss who understands family issues and is generous when I need a day or two off for them.

  1385. Analytical chemist*

    Method development for LCMS, HPLC, GCMS, GC FID. (We are usually testing new and novel compounds for toxicity and degradation in the environment, I analyse how much is still present throughout the study) General laboratory work and analysis. I also assist with biodegradation studies. I write all of the SOPS for my department and provide training. I’ve also ended up responsible for our computer systems.
    6 years experience in science, 1 year in this role.
    East of England
    £19000 approx $23000
    Plus 25 days holiday, 10 days sick leave (frowned upon to use it all)

    1. Analytical chemist*

      Sorry, lots of acronyms!
      In case not sure:
      LCMS = liquid chromatography / mass spectrometry
      GCMS = gas chromatography / mass spec

      A bit like on CSI but no where near as glamorous, easy or quick. You can’t just plonk a load of soil in and get an identification!

    2. ResearchTech*

      Analytical Chemist. Prep/run samples, train users, troubleshoot, set up new instrumentation, including method development for trace metals work in a small academic lab. Implement QA/QC program to run clinical samples for our decidedly non-QA/QC oriented lab.
      Location: Chicago
      Experience: in field, 6 years; in role, <1 year
      Salary: $49K with benefits. (Sounds good, but with the high COL it all goes to rent.)

  1386. Research Analyst*

    statistical programming and analysis for medical research studies
    small city in the Midwest
    4.5 years + MS
    $74,000 as of now
    I work for a nonprofit.

  1387. Processing Archivist*

    -my job: process large institutional collection as part of a team
    -your geographic area: NYC
    -my years of experience: 6 years unpaid/intern/contract/temp work
    -my salary: 42,000
    -anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I have 2 masters degrees, and this is a contract position

  1388. Library manager*

    I’m a library manager for a large mental health provider, doing clinical librarianship, literature searching, and other library duties.
    I live in the East of England (think Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex)
    I have 12 years experience as a librarian of which six years are as a library manager.
    I make £38,683 PA ($46.647, was more but the exchange rate is terrible at the moment), plus 29 days paid leave plus public holidays, plus sick leave on a “use what you need” basis.
    NOTE: as I work for the NHS, my salary is a matter of public record and agreed at a national level through a scheme called Agenda For Change http://www.nhsemployers.org/case-studies-and-resources/2016/04/agenda-for-change-2016-pay-scales

  1389. Systems Manager*

    Project manage system implementation and system management. Nothing overly techy. Local Government Job
    London England
    8 Years
    £35’000 ($42’245)

  1390. Freelance Writer and Editor*

    Job: I research, write and edit a mix of consumer education materials (like the pamphlets you get at the doctor’s office or from a government agency), marketing copy for a grocery retailer, and corporate newsletters.

    Area: Southern California, though 2 of my steady clients are on the East Coast.

    Experience: 10 years in the field, 3 years freelancing.

    Salary: $62,000 after expenses. I work about 35 hours per week and take off about 3 weeks off each year. (No benefits or paid PTO, of course. But I’m fortunate to have a very flexible schedule and great health & dental insurance through my partner’s employer.)

  1391. Senior Editor*

    Senior Editor, proofreading and web-formatting of mostly corporate content; additional responsibilities in training new team members and helping guide department policies
    Region: US, midwest
    Years of experience: 7
    Salary: ~$60,000 with good benefits

  1392. Technical Editor*

    Job: I work for a telecom training company. I edit material written by SMEs for clarity, grammar, spelling, etc. I draw and edit SME-created Powerpoint slides and I also convert their PPT slides into PDFs/printed course books and other course materials. I create images and graphics in Photoshop, InDesign, and PPT. I edit video and audio. I produce eLearning.

    Area: DFW, Texas, USA

    Years of experience: 3.5 at this company, 1 year other writing/editing experience, 1.5 years retail

    Salary: $38,000 (received a 5% increase this year)

    Other: My title is not accurate due to how much my duties have expanded and I don’t think I could make a transition to any other technical writer/editor job because it’s so different from anything normal tech editors do. I feel that I’m underpaid and the job gets really chaotic. However, we have really good benefits, the location is great, and there is a lot of mutual company/employee loyalty.

  1394. City Administrator*

    I oversee the daily operations of a mid-sized suburban community and lead its continuous improvement program and strategic planning efforts

    Area: Midwest US

    Experience: 17 years in the field, Masters in Public Administration, BA in Urban Planning & Public Administration

    Salary/Benefits: 102K, Good health insurance with a low employee premium, public retirement program, generous sick & vacation leave

  1395. Virtualization Engineer*

    your job: build/maintain/support a large virtual server/network/desktop/application environment for a federal agency, using a specific virtualization platform. i work directly for a company that is contracted to provide services to the government, but my direct team that i work with on a daily basis is a mix of government FTEs and contractors.
    your geographic area: metro atlanta area
    your years of experience: 11 months in this job, ~2 years in virtualization before that, and almost 11 years total in IT
    your salary: $92,000 plus bonus, but not sure how much bonus is as i’m about to have my first formal review/bonus since starting
    other relevant info: if my position were filled by a FTE, it would be a GS-13. i get to work from home half the time (every other week), which i love. benefits (insurance, 401k, etc) through the company i work for are OK but not great, they were better at my last job. i have the highest certification available for my specific area of expertise, but no college degree. we get federal holidays plus 15 days of PTO (combined sick/vacation/whatever), which is also OK but not great in my view. there is potential to move from working as a contractor to working directly for the government in my role, which is definitely something i would be interested in. and overall i love the work i’m doing and the people i work with, this is the first job i’ve had in my career so far where i can honestly say i’m still very happy almost a year in.

  1396. Clinic Manager*

    What an awesome thread.

    I manage a not-for-profit women’s health clinic, which involves a blend of work you’d see in a normal healthcare setting, plus community and advocacy work.

    Area: Upstate, NY

    Years of Experience: ~10 in management, but only about 2 directly in this sector.

    Salary: ~$56k/year plus benefits (comprehensive, though pricier than what you’d see in say a hospital), generous PTO, minimal weeks/no holidays, matching 401k.

  1397. Postdoctoral Fellow*

    I research infectious disease and am funded by my own fellowship from the NIH.
    San Francisco Bay area
    9.5 years experience in research (6 years from PhD)
    $54,000: $49k from the fellowship, $5k extra for cost of living. Exempt, 24 days vacation, 12 sick, not eligible for any retirement benefits.

    Nice to see other postdocs here! I read AAM regularly to educate myself on good management, since academia often lacks good examples.

  1398. Sr. Digital Research Analyst*

    Job: I track and report on web, mobile, and OTT (e.g. Roku, Apple TV) consumption of television programming, as well as assist in the implementation of said analytics on new platforms
    Location: Large metro in Southeast
    Experience: 9 years in the TV research industry, 2 years in digital
    Salary: ~$73,000, plus flexible schedule (including teleworking), three weeks vacation, full health benefits, 401K matching, volunteer day, and corporate discounts

  1399. Marketing Analytics Manager*

    I manage a small team that provides various insights and analysis to the company (very data heavy)

    New York City

    9 yr of experience

    135k plus benefits

  1400. IRS - Contact Rep (SBSE)*

    Job: I take calls from small businesses including Sch. C’s (sole prop.), partnerships, corps and S corps, explain tax law as it applies to their filing requirements, set up payment plans, refer to revenue officers, take financials to determine the ability to pay, file both levies and liens. I do much of the same with individuals and their 1040 filings. A lot of what I do is educational in relation to the tax laws people should following to not owe money and pay their taxes.

    Area: Metro Denver, Colorado

    Experience: 9 years, prior call center experience and everything else has been in the food industry

    Salary: $53,000, this is a combination of a base pay, pay and step increases. I work 40 hours and overtime is rare as Congress has to allow enough money in the budget to allow for overtime. I have health, dental and vision available to me. Sick leave accrues at 4 hours a pay period and annual leave accrues at either 4, 6 or 8 hours a pay period depending on the time on the job. My personal opinion is the benefits were better in the private sector. Our raises are few and far between and yet, everything else continues to go up so I cannot afford to take advantage of what is available to me.

  1401. Copy Editor & Staff Writer (Blog)*

    Job: I work for a small game company’s blog. I write articles on roleplaying games, card games, and video games. Some of these include creating game stats and mechanics. (Similar to what a professional roleplay game developer would do except mine are *unofficial*.) Sometimes a general topic is assigned (“Superhero games” or “Halloween themed”) but usually it is whatever I want. I have fairly strict deadlines.
    I also proofread and do minor edits on the other writers’ pieces, which does include telling writers (even my boss, the Managing Editor) to clean up their typos and grammar issues.
    Geographic area: Arkansas, USA (Southern state), but this is a remote position
    Years of experience: 2.5 at this position; equivalent of 3-5 in related positions (editing/essay scoring)
    Salary: Stipends of US $40/month for writing and $20/month for copy editing
    Anything else pertinent to put that number in context: Not freelance. This was a volunteer gig that turned paid due to Patreon. Never intended to be full-time, although this is handy for job search since I show as currently employed and both boss and company co-owner are great current references.

  1402. Director of Paralegals*

    I manage a team of about 35 paralegals and specialists at an AmLaw 200 law firm’s DC office.

    Washington, DC
    20 years of experience
    $200K + annual bonus in the mid-four-figures + fairly good benefits + more vacation days than I could ever use (though never truly a “day off”)

    Salary is commensurate with higher cost of living in the DC metro area AND the hassle of serving attorneys, sometimes 24/7. :)

  1403. airline customer service agent*

    job: passenger-facing duties at the airport – ticketing, gates, baggage office etc
    location: Chicago
    experience: 1-2 years
    your salary: ~$32,000 plus benefits (free/cheap flights, three weeks vacation, somewhat pricey healthcare, 6% 401k match)

  1404. Admin Coordinator*

    Admin coordinator @ a non-profit- work includes finance & contracts, calendar management and travel planning.
    Washington DC
    4 years experience, 2 in this job
    $42,000/yr

  1405. Business Analyst*

    I’m an IT business analyst in the DC area and currently make $65k. This was my first job after college (graduated in May 2014), but I started out as a Project Administrator/Coordinator. I was originally offered $45k to start but negotiated that up to $51k. I got a 6% raise the following January to $54k. Last summer, I was promoted to the Business Analyst role and negotiated a salary increase to $65k.

    So I have about 2.5 years of experience with this company and around 6 months of experience as a BA.

  1406. Rachel Massad*

    Special Ed Teacher
    Atlanta
    20years teaching special ed, only on year 15 in GA
    52,000

    Everyone is getting me depressed because I am working on a MPA and now am convinced I won’t make as much as I would still being a teacher. I wanted to give up teaching and start working at a nonprofit next year.

  1407. Elementary School Secretary*

    Job: General front office duties and registrar
    Area: MD
    Experience: 2 years
    Salary: 16.50/hr ; With Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

  1408. Customer Service Representative*

    Customer Service Rep/Account Management
    – Answer phones, process orders, track shipments, assist sales on all aspects of managing customers in a manufacturing industry.
    – Central Massachusetts
    – Little over a year with current copy, over 8 years in this job field (I have my BA of Arts)
    – Salary: $48k/year
    – 10 vacation days (will go up to 15 after 5 years), 3 floating holidays, 8 company holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance (not the best coverage but not too pricey), 401k with up to 6% match

  1409. Editor of Niche Publication*

    Northeast USA
    ~10 years experience
    $75K/year – (pretty high for this field IMO)
    Basic holidays/vaca
    Basic health/dental, 401K

  1410. IT Consultant - Release Management*

    Job title sort of says it all.
    Atlanta
    Role specific – 3 yrs, Professional 10
    $66k + company matches 2% shared purchase stocks, and 2% 401k. 15 PTO days, 7 statutory holidays, 2 floating holidays, unlimited sick time.
    Also I WFH 3 days/week. I work over night 2-3 times/month.

  1411. Editorial Director and Co-Owner at a Branding Agency*

    Funny to see all the Book Publishing posters! My background is in Book Publishing and I left to join my husband’s Graphic Design agency. We work mainly with large NGOs and non-profits. Good for my work-life balance as I start work early so I can pick my kids up from school and take a lot of days off during school breaks.

    There are two parts to my job–
    Brand Strategy/Copy Editing/Writing: Research, writing, brand voice, proposal writing for big projects with RFPs; Assigning projects to freelance writers/strategists.
    HR: I also do all the bookkeeping, office manager tasks, invoicing and follow up, hiring, payroll, etc.

    your geographic area: NYC
    your years of experience: 20 years
    your salary: my net income around $70,000 (plus healthcare, vacation and sick leave as desired, flexible hours)

  1412. Office Manager*

    Job: Office Manager for single attorney firm, supervise 1 employee, handle all billing and bookkeeping with exception of payroll, maintain calendars, supplies, mail, develop client files as needed, etc.
    Location: TN
    Experience: 5 1/2 years
    Salary: $40, 250/year plus $200/month health insurance stipend. 10 days of vacation plus week off between Christmas and New Year’s. 1 sick day/month. I started the job making $30,000/year and was given an annual raise the first 3 years but do not think my salary will go any higher. 37.5-hour workweek.

  1413. Customer Service Representative*

    I work for a local government in the Great Lakes region answering phone calls for all the city departments. About 1 week a month I also work in a store front working with people in person.

    I have about 3-4 years of Customer Service experience. I had about 6 months experience in local government when I accepted this position.

    $~18/hr ($38,000/yr) plus retirement, vacation and sick time. Health insurance is offered but I’m not on it so I get an extra $150 a month put into a retirement account.

  1414. Environmental Engineer*

    Job – Environmental Engineer for state agency – site remediation work
    Location – New England
    Experience – 9 yrs
    Salary – $73k/yr + 19 vacation days + 14 Sick days + 10 Holidays, affordable health care. No merit raises or COLAs. At top of pay scale for position.

    1. environ. geologist occasional poster*

      I figured I’d stick mine here. I work on the consulting side, same area (not metro Boston, so lower COL).
      Experience – 15 years
      Education – MS
      Salary – 75K/yr, std benefits (2 weeks vacation, 1 weeks sick, a smattering of personal days)
      I’m a bit underpaid for the level of work I’m doing (technical/scientific lead). Hope to parlay that into a promotion, but am trying to avoid management track and that leaves a narrow path indeed

  1415. PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY*

    your job: Associate-level attorney at a niche plaintiff’s firm.
    your geographic area: Southeast, headquarters are in midwest
    your years of experience: 5
    your salary: 85,500
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I’m underpaid even within my firm. My hiring process was a little weird (came in the backdoor as a paralegal temp) and I’m fighting to get paid equal to my peers. It’s not going particularly well, but the job is good.

    1. PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY*

      forgot to add benefits: five weeks paid time off and no pushback for scheduling it. Firm pays 100% of our medical/dental insurance and contributes to an HSA almost to the maximum. Safe-harbor styled 401(k), fully vested. Basically, our benefits are pretty good. Bonus structure is a mystery; I think they’re still trying to figure it out. Life insurance covered to 1xannual salary; short and long term disability offered (and I took it).

  1416. Director of Operations at Nonprofit*

    -Oversee all aspects of operations for a small nonprofit, both onsite and compliance for member sites. Responsible for all financial matters, IT and website as well. Also develop new programs as needed to serve our clients.
    -Los Angeles County, CA
    -3 years of experience in this role, 13 years total work experience
    -$84,000 plus Safe Harbor 401k match, 20 days vacation, 12 days sick time, health benefits (fully paid for employee, dependents require % contribution) .

  1417. Administrative Assistant*

    your job: graphic designer, staff support, printing, various other office-like duties including phone and front desk, etc. I do a lot of different things usually…just all the stuff that helps our office run smoothly.
    your geographic area: greenville, sc
    your years of experience: 18 years
    your salary: $11,000 (part-time hourly)
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: still looking for full-time employment after getting laid off several years ago :(

  1418. Deputy Director of Programs*

    Managing from technical and operations perspectives existing programs (development/humanitarian), setting portfolio strategy and creating a coherent set of programs, managing senior technical staff, fundraising

    West Africa (Liberia)
    6 years of experience
    67,000 base

    I work for a large international non-government organization, so in addition to the salary, I have some benefits that are ‘standard’ for the sector. Receive $833 location differential each month, health insurance that is affordable, 401k contributions matched up to a certain amount, housing/internet are paid for by my employer, and I receive a round trip plane ticket to ‘home’ (or anything the equivalent cost of going ‘home’) and extra vacation days every 3 months. I also accrue 2.5 days of vacation each month (based on years of service + salary band). The additional benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the program, so the salary, health insurance, 401k, and vacation days accrued is the only thing guaranteed. I suspect I am at the low end of my salary scale, but I also have fewer years of experience than others.

  1419. Commercial Administrator/Sales Support Coordinator*

    – Currently leaving a job as Commercial Administrator for a team where I’m responsible for order entry, any follow up paperwork, export despatch etc. as well as PA type duties for all of senior management and the sales team – moving on to a similar but slightly different job in a major city where I will be one of two administrators rather than the only one!
    – Currently in SW UK, moving to South UK
    – £16,000 p/a – new job is £17,500 after probationary period during which salary is £15,000
    – <1 year experience (first job post-graduation)
    – Anything else pertinent: bit bummed at the slash in the proposed salary during probation – the job was offered as £15-20K but by the time I'd heard anything about final salary I was told by the recruiter that there was no room for negotiation. Possibly didn't help that I was very keen – told the recruiter I would definitely take the job if asked. My error!

    1. Commercial Administrator/Sales Support Coordinator*

      Oh it also might be pertinent; 20 days + bank holidays leave at my old job, 20 days + Christmas + bank holidays at new; 45 hours a week at old job (officially 40 but lunchbreaks were never enforced and even somewhat frowned upon) + any overtime needed (unpaid), 40 hours at new job and I’m going to try to get lunch breaks at this one

  1420. Sr. Developer*

    Location: Eastern Europe
    Salary: USD 27.5k + benefits (private medical insurance, 25 days PTO, sports discount etc.)
    Experience: 10 years
    This is a very good salary for my country, so basically I can live comfortably, and can even afford a few trips abroad without any penny pinching.

  1421. Research Analyst*

    Manage and analyze data submitted by field agents for program funding
    Kansas
    8 years in position
    28,000/year
    state employee :) Tried to be generic enough in the job description that it won’t be traced to me

  1422. Program Coordinator*

    I’m the coordinator for one department of a board of elections in northeast Ohio.
    I liaise, create/edit/review source documents/procedure manuals/election reports, perform ballot reconciliation, tabulate election results, and manage calendars/inventory/etc.

    I’ve been with the agency about 6 years, 3 in my current position.
    A regular work week consists of 35 hours. Comp time is earned during large elections (70+ hour weeks; 20+ consecutive hour election days/nights).

    Salary: ~ $47,000 We receive retirement, medical/vision/dental insurance options, and accrue sick and vacation time.

  1423. Social Media Specialist*

    Social Media management in recruitment/talent acquisition for a number of clients.
    Midwest, Work from home.
    Less than a year in this role.
    $45,200
    Been working for this company for 2 years, started this role Nov 2016. I have prior experience in social media marketing totaling 2 years, but took time off from that world for about 3 years before accepting this role.

  1424. Executive Assistant*

    Administrative support for 3 executives and the CEO (including calendar management, travel coordination, expense reimbursements, corporate credit card reconciliation, report generation, payroll, HR, training and mentoring admin staff, event planning, benefits management, employee engagement, etc.). I also sit on the Board of Directors as Secretary. Company has ~100 employees across Canada. Occasional travel with executive team is required, with all costs and a per diem paid by company.
    Western Canada
    6 years Administrative experience, 1 year in this role
    55K CAD , 2 weeks paid vacation, 7 paid stat holidays, 5 PTO days, flexible work schedule, all health and dental insurance paid by company, access to company vehicle, eligible to participate in bonus program

  1425. Accounting Manager*

    I’m an accounting manager at a publicly traded company (managing GL and financial reporting).
    Located in the bay area (silicon valley adjacent)
    6 years total accounting experience, 1.5 in a management role.
    Salary is $90K plus bonus (dependent on company performance).
    Additional note: It is acknowledged by myself and my manager that I am at the bottom of the pay scale for my role. I was an internal hire and it is my first management position, which both affected my salary. I would say typical salary for this role, at this size company, in this area is more in the $100-120K range. I expect to hit that range within the next two years.

  1426. Credentialing Coordinator (Medical)*

    Boston, MA
    6 months as a credentialing coordinator/a year in the field
    $45,000 + 3% matching 401K, medical/vision/dental, paid sick and vacation

  1427. Customer Service/Account Manager*

    US, Chicago area
    5 years experience total, 1 year current job
    53,000 USD annual, plus 10 vacation days, sick days as needed, full health benefits and 401k

  1428. Principal Consultant, PeopleSoft Financials (implementations)*

    your geographic area – All over (100% travel)
    your years of experience 20
    your salary 138,000
    Switched to unlimited PTO to help the bottom line look better, minimal job security, minimal training, can be high stress, great benefits including a wellness program

  1429. Mechanical Engineer*

    Engineering work supporting utility energy efficiency programs
    Pacific Northwest
    9 years in this industry. 5 years in current position.
    $79,000
    PE and CEM

  1430. Editorial Coordinator (Medical Journal)*

    Prepare manuscripts for copy-editing and typesetting as well as scheduling issues and managing social media.
    2 years of experience as an editorial assistant, 1 year in this role
    Chicago, IL
    $40,500

  1431. Compliance Manager*

    My main responsibility is to make sure that we are spending federal funds appropriately and within very strict federal guidelines or within the parameters of a gift given to us by a foundation or rules on a clinical trial from private industry.

    I work at a large University in the Northeast.

    Salary is $94,000; 23 years experience, but 20 of those were in accounting / financial analysis. I sort of fell into the compliance role 3 years ago.

  1432. Special Project Manager - Nonprofit*

    Administration & Project Management – manage two different teams, oversee major grant compliance, some event planning & strategy, report to Chief Development Officer.
    10 yrs experience, 1.5 at this job, Master’s Degree
    $64,300, PTO, Insurance, 401K
    Salt Lake City

  1433. Finance Manager at large bank*

    your job – management reporting & analysis, budgeting/forecasting, and now I also deal a bunch with statutory reporting for some subsidiaries and some regulatory stuff.
    your geographic area – Toronto
    your years of experience – 15 years total
    your salary – $86K CAD base, ~10K bonus

    I’m pretty sure I’m underpaid since I’ve never moved companies. I have an accounting designation.

  1434. Dare*

    your job: Grocery home shopper. Customers place their orders online, we fill them and take to their cars. I also train new employees in this, help in accounting and on the registers, deal with customer issues. Challenges are making good substitutions for out of stock items, and dealing with customer idiosyncrasies and/or hostilities.
    your geographic area: large city in the Southeast
    your years of experience: 4 years with this chain
    your salary: $17,000
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I’m pretty sure I’m underpaid but I have no idea of the market range (fairly specialized apparently). I do have great health coverage, 401K matching, free life insurance, and a flexible schedule.

  1435. Mechanical Engineer*

    Job: Mechanical engineer for a large multinational corporation in the building systems industry. I do R&D and product support for mechanical and electromechanical components as well as a hefty dose of my own test engineering work.
    Area: Northeast US
    Experience: 14 years post-B.S.
    Salary: $86,000
    Other: I have an MS in engineering, an MS in management, and am working on a third (and final) graduate degree. I’m underpaid and I know it.

  1436. archivist (junior level/associate/non-senior, whatever you wanna call it)*

    collections management (acquisitions, organization and inventorying/cataloging, maintaining our database that contains the descriptions of all our materials and where they’re located), reference and research (answering questions but also working in-person with scholars, sometimes full-time for several weeks with an individual), writing (I do the Cool History Stuff column on our internal and external company blogs, document processes and write procedural manuals, write policy that relates to archives/library/records schedules/maintaining the history of the organization), outreach (user satisfaction surveys, serving on committees that represent librarians/archivists/info geeks on all the various branches of my company), literally anything else that needs to be done

    Manhattan, NYC

    experience: 11 years as an archivist (8 years at this specific job), also master’s degree. In general I’ve been working since I was 16 (I’m 32), everything from dog groomer to newspaper editor.

    salary: $95,000

    other: I’m closer to a corporate archivist than I am the standard historical society/library/National Archives one that comes to mind, although not exactly either and I can’t be more specific without giving it away entirely. (This is not a judgment on anyone or where they work but rather that the nature of what I do and the environment in which I do it is a little different than from what most folks picture when they think about this job)

    1. archivist (junior level/associate/non-senior, whatever you wanna call it)*

      oh yeah and this year I’m also developing the internship program for the library and archives system, and I also assist in the onboarding of new employees by giving building tours and stuff like that.

      can you tell i need a certain amount of manic in my job in order to stay sane? heh.

    2. archivist (junior level/associate/non-senior, whatever you wanna call it)*

      also I am really into how many librarians/archivists/records managers/info geeks are in these comments. Yassssss

  1437. Property Appraiser*

    Job: I appraise residential and residential income properties
    Area: Southern California
    Year: 12
    Salary: $70,000+ depending on bonuses (technically it is overtime since our bonuses are based on work we do extra from a 40 hour work week).

  1438. Receptionist*

    Part-time receptionist/office assistant for non-profit
    Spokane, WA
    6+ years experience – but this is my first receptionist job
    $13.50/hr
    My experience is in nonprofit finance/database admin and I had recently been making ~$60k/year (in a geographic area with a higher cost-of-living – it would probably be $40K here) but personal circumstances have me only able to work part-time right now.

  1439. Research Manager, Higher Ed*

    Job – Manage institutional research projects, supervise junior research staff; includes designing & executing projects, analyzing data using statistical software, writing reports and presenting results.
    Geographic Area – Bay Area, CA
    Salary: $101,000
    Years doing this: 10
    Other: I, and most others, in my workplace who are doing this type of work hold PhDs in social science

  1440. Senior Marketing Associate*

    Online marketing for a book publisher, handling all the in house copy for the press
    The SF Bay Area
    1.5 in this job, 1 year of freelace copywriting, 4 years of copyediting experience
    40K
    Publishing tends to be pretty low-salaried, especially since most presses are located in places with very high cost of living, like the Bay Area and NYC. I’m non-exempt as well thanks to the new law, so occasional overtime pay is also a factor.

  1441. Senior Associate (at a lobbying firm)*

    Job: lobbyist representing non-profit organizations at the federal level. The firm I work at is quite small (under 10 people). I provide strategy and advice to clients to achieve their goals with Congress and the administration and, for many of them, do the day-to-day work of implementing those strategies.

    Area: Washington, DC

    Experience: 2 years as a lobbyist, 7 years total (previously worked on Capitol Hill)

    Salary: $78,000, plus good vacation and other benefits. I suspect my salary is lower than those typically in my position given the client base my company works with.

  1442. Lawyer*

    Job: Associate
    Geographic area: DC
    Experience: 3.5 years (class of 2013)
    Salary: $110k + $10k bonus
    Boutique firm with 25 lawyers, annual billable threshold is 1700 (expected to be closer to 1800), which does not include any pro bono, professional or business development, marketing, CLEs, etc. – only billed client hours.

  1443. Anon Guy*

    Job: Technical Writer/Business Analyst
    Geographic area: SF Bay Area
    Experience: 20+ years
    Salary: $100k, 3 weeks vacation + week shutdown at holidays
    Was a programmer but got tired of working so many nights, weekends and holidays so moved over to tech writing. Pay is a bit lower but it’s normal hours, telecommuting once a week and no more late night phone calls!

  1444. Economic Development Practitioner*

    Job: Staff for an economic development organization; strategic planning; commercial real estate/site selection database management; community presentations; business retention and expansion; some marketing; website development
    Area: Midwest- small, suburban community
    Experience: 3 years, BBA Economics; lots of people in my field have other backgrounds, like general business admin., communications, marketing, chamber of commerce management, etc.
    Salary: $52,ooo + health insurance (<$100 per month for family plan, including medical, mental health, dental, and vision), retirement plan, and flex dependent care spending; Cost of living is extremely low compared to other areas of the United States (it's cheaper than, like, 40 other states)

  1445. Senior Program Manager*

    Job: International development, non-profit organization
    Area: DC
    Experience: 10 years, 2 graduate degrees
    Salary: $86,500

    1. Senior Program Manager*

      Oh and all the usual benefits: 3 weeks vacation, 10 sick days, federal holidays, good health insurance, 401K match, etc.

  1446. Director of Prospect Development*

    Job: Hired to build a small centralized propect development office for a decentralized public university system. Provide back-office support for fundraisers in a wide geographic area, working with institutions of various sizes. Supervise a small staff, develop processes, solve problems.
    Area: Southeast, college town near large urban areas
    Experience: 6.5 years in this field; in this role for 2.5 years. Finished my MLIS during my first prospect research job, which was instrumental to getting a promotion to senior researcher but I don’t think had much influence in getting me hired at my current role. There’s no particular background required for prospect research – what I look for is someone with natural curiosity and an ability to connect dots, which can come from anything. You see a lot of MLS/MLIS holders here, as well as folks with liberal arts backgrounds (history seems to come up a lot).
    Salary: $69,000 plus benefits, which used to be much better as a “hey state employees don’t get paid crap but here’s your awesome benefits!” but as with every other government or tax-supported position, those benefits erode more and more every year

  1447. Associate Director*

    1. Associate Director at a small liberal arts college
    I manage two leadership development program for college students. I oversee a $250k budget and supervise 1 FTE Program Coordinator.
    2. Amherst, MA
    3. 5 years experience
    4. $49,885 (exempt employee – 4 weeks vacation plus week of Christmas off), flexible schedule, work from home some days

  1448. Integrated Logistics Support Manager (Aerospace)*

    Job: Quasi-military logistics manager for aerospace (civilian) radar company, managing supportability, supply chain, obsolescence/disposition, customer service, training, documentation, schedules, and budgets for individual programs.
    Area: Northeast US
    Experience: 5 years in the role (25 years in the working world), transitioned from tech writing. Earned MBA in supply chain management to assist in transition, which was really helpful
    Salary: $83,000 plus industry-standard benefits (and, I will say, an excellent, respectful, professional company culture, which, the more I read here, the more of a unicorn it appears to be). That’s the very low end of market scale for the job.

  1449. Sr. Associate Scientific Analyst*

    Job: Content input and analysis for global journal/patent database (like Lexis/Nexis but for science)
    Area: Central Ohio
    Experience: 12.5 years in this job, Master’s degree in relevant field
    Salary: $86K, 4 weeks vacay plus 10 sick days, 401K matching (6%, fifty cents on the dollar), good health insurance, fitness reimbursement, awesome on-site cafeteria

    1. Sr. Associate Scientific Analyst*

      That last item is serious bizness. Today for lunch I had herbed-lemon salmon with tomato-dill couscous and spicy peas with edamame. And a soda. $7.50.

  1450. Senior Mechanical Engineer*

    Job: I work for an MEP firm (we design mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems for new buildings and renovations, working with architects) and I’m the most senior mechanical in my location. I do some project management as well and I am considered part of the management team.

    Area: “Big” city in the Midwest

    Experience: 16 years in the industry, PE

    Salary: $90,000, bonues are possible but not guarenteed (based on how well the company does and personal performance), plus 18 days PTO, 3 sick days, I pay $1 a year for family healthcare and other good benefits

  1451. Associate Director of Institutional Research*

    Job: I work in institutional research in higher education. I analyze data and provide information on institutional data (student outcomes, enrollment projections, resources and planning, lots of other stuff) to leadership and other departments in the college. I pull, clean, organize, analyze, report on, visualize and present data; I run statistical analyses; I conduct college-wide assessments; I conduct surveys; I [many other things related to information at the college].
    Location: I have worked in NYC and Raleigh doing roughly the same job at the same level.
    Experience: I have 6 years of experience in IR.
    Salary: I made about $89,000 in NYC and I’m making $85,000 in Raleigh.
    These salaries are decent for higher ed, but I have lots of experience along with a MS and a PhD, and if I were to take my skills to tech or business I would be making quite a bit more. Higher ed is known for being a humane, cushy, somewhat underpaid environment.

  1452. Membership Coordinator*

    Job: Maintain and update Member Directory for 10,000+ members; Coordinate annual membership renewals with varying dues rates for ~70 chapters of our organization; Maintain and update chapter committee and Board of Director information & participant lists; Assist accounting in monthly dues reconciliation reports and distribute (via email) to 70+ chapters. I also am in charge of the staff “fun” events like birthdays and holiday parties, but that’s not part of my regular job duties.
    Area: near KC, KS
    Experience: at this job for 3+ years, about 6 years of admin experience overall
    Salary: ~$32k after a 6+% increase at my last performance review :)
    Other info pertinent to put that number in context: 2 weeks vacation, 5 days sick leave, plus paid holidays and the week between Christmas and New Years off (paid). 401k is matched, but I can’t remember at what %. Health insurance and dental is 100% paid by my employer, and it’s a good plan – my out-of-pocket is only $1100 a year. VERY flexible work environment and hours – we can work from home as long as it’s not ALL the time, and staff members routinely bring in their kids for one reason or another (baby has a doctor appointment, daycare is closed and staff member needed to get something done really quick, school is closed so older kid just hangs out lol). Most days it’s jeans-and-a-t-shirt, but I did dress up the other week just to prove to my coworkers that I still own a pair of heels HA! I mentioned I handle the staff “fun” stuff – I get the perks that come with that, too. Since I have to buy the food for staff parties and whatnot, I can wrack up fuel savers points like nobody’s business. Last year, I literally did not pay for gas from October to March (no joke).

  1453. Public Library Systems Administrator*

    Manage technology applications and strategy for large urban public library; part of administrative team
    Florida
    Master’s degree in Library Science
    >15 years of experience (>10 as supervisor/manager)
    Salary: $62,500 with full benefits

  1454. Audience Development/Social Media Associate*

    Audience Development/Social Media Associate in New York City: report on metrics and data-infused content strategy for a popular digital content site.
    Bachelor’s Degree in Communications
    6 months
    Salary: $47,500

    1. Analytics and Insights Manager*

      Role: Quantitative and qualitative research and analytics at a digital media company, taking care to help fulfill RFP requests from ad sales and also track and give insights to digital site performance across all properties and social media handles
      Geo: NYC
      Experience: 4+ years
      Salary: $75,600 – we receive small annual bonuses and yearly raises, though I’ve only been here for about five months so what the actual raises are like, I don’t quite know. I got a small bump but nothing huge thanks to starting in October. We have a lax WFH policy and a good deal of vacay time.

      1. Analytics and Insights Manager*

        Just an addition- I actually received my B.A. in Creative Writing/Religion. Everything about my role is mostly self-taught and being a nerd in high school. :)

  1455. INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER FOR A HUGE MULTINATIONAL CORP*

    My job:
    I create training materials for satellite installers. I create instructional videos from the ground up: casting, scripting, directing, line producing, editing, etc. I also create one-of-a-kind style projects such as updating an all print curriculum to an app-like mobile learning experience or content strategy and management for our in-house Wiki/KB which is on WordPress. In short, I do graphic design, video production, technical writing and research.
    Denver, CO
    7 in the my current field, 10 in customer service, which is my area of expertise in ID
    69 base, up to 5K more with bonus (bonus is dependent on performance)
    I also have some RAD perks (I work for a mega corp that is the middle man for services everyone uses) such as 1/2 off my mobile phone bill and *all the TV channels I could ever want*. :)

  1456. Senior Life Underwriter*

    * Work for a major insurance company assessing applicants for life, illness, disability and income replacement insurance. Look at occupation, income, avocations, personal habits, family history and complete medical history to decide whether we will accept, and under what terms. Requires proficiency with accounting, contact law, risk analysis, ability to make difficult decisions and particularly strong medical skills to understand medical records, order and interpret medical tests and make a prediction re future risk of any illness or injury. Also need to determine that the amount of cover is appropriate for the applicant.
    *Australia
    *10+ years
    *$85,000 USD, plus 9.5% superannuation, plus up to 20% bonus (reality ~5-10%)
    *4 weeks paid annual leave, unlimited paid sick leave (at employer’s discretion, 3 months paid parental leave, plus paid leave days for moving house, study/exams, community volunteering.
    *Must have degree. Some are former lawyers, nurses, accountants, financial advisers, even doctors.
    *I am significantly underpaid for my level of experience (market $110-130K). There are other trade-offs that make it worthwhile staying where I am though: I’m well regarded, love my team, am given opportunity to contribute to decision-making, and have flexibility to work when/where/how I like as long as service outcomes are met.

  1457. Senior Accounting Director*

    Senior Accounting Director in Chicago, working for a family-owned real estate company: prepare financials for company, supervise accountant preparing financials for family related entities, supervise accounts payable, supervise reception, manage all banking administration.
    Masters Degree in Accounting & Financial Management (no CPA designation)
    12 Years at same company (my entire career: started as staff, moved up to senior director)
    Salary: $105,000

  1458. Menacia*

    IT (Generalist: tech support, systems/applications administration, project management, etc.)
    Still working on my Bachelor’s, only 7 courses to go!
    Worked in three different states, and have had about 8 different jobs
    Been at current company for going on 13 years
    Salary: $80+K

  1459. Admin Associate*

    Administrative Associate for a private university
    Central Texas
    4 years of experience
    $16.50/hr. 40 hours/week (full benefits plus 10.8% of salary automatic retirement plan- no vesting)

  1460. Office Manager / Accountant*

    I work for a tiny company (14 employees total) that does blue collar work, as one of three people in the office. My job title is Office Manager, but my duties are more of accounting clerk duties. I do payroll, A/R, A/P, take payments from walk-in customers, etc. I also help out with scheduling our deliveries, working with trucking companies, etc., on a back-up basis for the other employees. We have a CPA firm that handles the financials and taxes.

    Rural-ish Oregon, NOT Portland metro

    I’ve been in this position for 2 1/2 years, but have over 12 years of prior experience starting as an A/P clerk and working in various areas of accounting, plus an accounting degree.

    $65,000 this past year, including bonuses.

    I probably make way too much for the actual job duties I have, but not enough for the environment and lack of benefits (I have to buy my own insurance, get 5 days of vacation and 5 days of sick a year, our 401(k) plan sucks and isn’t matched at all), and probably just about right for those factors combined, plus the fact he can just trust me to do my job and do it well.

    My boss started me at a weekly figure that seemed fair (and was), and now likes me better than my other counterpart in the office, so has given me a few generous raises to basically make that point clear to me. I wouldn’t be able to find a similar position that pays as well, though it would be guaranteed to have better benefits. There’s the potential for becoming an investor in this business without any actual cash outlay when the boss decides to retire (he’s discussed it with me), and I’m not unhappy in the job, and am actually doing okay on this number of paid days off for now, so I’m sticking with it to see what happens on that front. If it doesn’t pan out before I feel like I need to move on, I’ll worry about that then.

  1461. Membership Coordinator / Ecommerce Specialist*

    Membership Coordinator / eCommerce specialist – 65% customer service, 10% data management, 15% transactional email deployment, 10% Event planning/participation
    Napa, CA
    8 in Current roll/ 12 in overall hospitality industry
    $44K base or $49K with incentives for meeting/exceeding sales goal, retention and new signups. Full benefits, 10 days vacation, 3 sick, 11 annual paid holidays, annual product allowance, and 65% discount on all brand purchases.

  1462. In House Counsel (Fortune 500 company)*

    In House Counsel at Fortune 500 company
    Houston
    Experience: 10 years out of law school
    Salary: $152K + 20% bonus + 10% of salary in annual equity award
    Benefits: Among other things, generous health insurance, vision, dental, 401K with match up to 6%, 4.5 weeks PTO per year.

  1463. Sr. Director of Engineering*

    Job:
    Span of control includes regression and security testing, deployment automation, incident monitoring and management, build pipelines/continuous integration, environment management, release planning, and improvement of Engineering process and methodologies.

    Your geographic area: Southeast US
    Your years of experience: 20

    Your salary:
    $225k base salary; $5-10k annual bonus (distributed in quarterly chunks); performance based stock grants; “standard” benefits package

  1464. A Mostly Happy Federal Contractor*

    IT System Administrator
    Exp: 25 yrs
    Salary: 97K
    Geographic Area: Upper Midwest
    Benefits: Pension, 401(k) in addition to Pension, Health Insurance, HSA, FSA, tuition reimbursement.

  1465. Associate Project Manager*

    Job: basically junior PM in IT department of a large Canadian non-IT company. Manage financials, scheduling, resourcing for a multi-year multi-million dollar software implementation project. Supervise 2 project analysts. Also lead one of the workstreams of that project (1 developer, 2 analysts, 1 tester).
    Area: Canadian prairies
    History: 4 years, all at this company; started as project analyst & was promoted 1 year ago. Bachelors degree in unrelated field & previous work history in a second field not IT or PM but related to my company’s main focus.
    Salary: $55k CAD; defined benefit pension, stock purchase option with employer matching, excellent health benefits, 3 wks vacation (increase to 4 at 10 years and 5 at 15). Eligible for paid OT at this level & next 2.
    Other: writing the PMP exam in the spring; company is paying the exam fees & study course costs.

  1466. Software developer*

    LA metro area
    ~1 year at this job, ~4 years work experience total. Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field (but not CS or engineering)
    $75k/year, salaried exempt, 3 weeks vacation, health and dental, 403(b).
    Real title is specific to my org. I work for the government (kind of; it’s complicated).

    Some stuff I have done in this job: front-end web application development, batch application development, compiler development, rapid software prototype development, enterprise architecture, evaluating COTS software.
    Some stuff I have done in my previous job: front-end and back-end web application development, production support.

  1467. Software Engineer In Test*

    Job: Coding the automated testing frameworks for a company whose application has multiple codebases.
    Experience: 2 years
    Salary: 105k
    Geographic Area: NYC
    Context: Full medical/dental/insurance benefits, some stock options, no 401k match, discretionary bonuses, quite generous PTO (roughly 4-5 weeks).

  1468. Desktop Support (Tier 2)*

    Responsible for all non-server IT and AV for a medium-sized nonprofit
    Washington DC
    10+ Years experience
    55k plus a modest holiday bonus

  1469. Product Manager*

    Job: Product Manager in tech
    Location: SF Bay Area
    Experience: 4 years. M.Eng
    Salary: 180k + bonus + stock = 250k takehome
    Other: 401k matching, great health insurance/days off/other benefits

  1470. Senior Associate*

    your job: Senior Associate at a mid-size communications/GR agency
    your geographic area: metro-DC
    your years of experience: 3 in the field, 5 years out of college, less than one at this employer
    your salary: $70k + bonus
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: health / vision / dental all 100% covered, PTO is not great (2 weeks plus week between Christmas and New Years), but generally flexible schedule

  1471. AV system programmer and engineer*

    – I work for the US government (indirectly) doing programming, troubleshooting and rework on installed audiovisual systems. Usually fixing someone else’s awful code. I am not management.
    – Washington DC
    – 29 years in the business, spread over four employers
    – $132,500 US annually
    – mediocre health insurance; 10 holidays, 15 days catch-all PTO; 401(k) with no company match; no bonus; no pension; no equity. Telework is not available. I feel like I’m somewhat overpaid for what I do, but I’m working way below what I’m capable of.

    1. AV system programmer and engineer*

      Should have mentioned… I have a B.S. in electrical engineering, and I’m about 5 months into working for this employer. And I have a pretty bad commute, with paid-out-of-pocket parking at the end of it.

  1472. P/T Library Assistant*

    Job 1 – P/T Library Assistant in the children’s department of a mid-size public library (I lead storytimes and other children’s programs, provide readers’ advisory, create promotional materials for our events, help with the computer, etc.)
    Job 2 – P/T Library Assistant in a small community college (I give presentations on library services, provide one-on-one research assistance, troubleshoot computer issues, etc.)

    Georgia
    ~3 years
    I’m not salaried. I make about $9.75 and $10/hr respectively. I do have retirement and PTO benefits from Job 1. Since we’re on break for several weeks out of the year at Job 2, I actually make a decent chunk more at Job 1 (even when I was making less at 1). I think I took home about 15k last year.

  1473. SueEllenCrandell*

    Job: Senior Product Leadership Role in Publishing/Media
    Context: Working cross-functionally with teams throughout company and subsidiaries including dev, sales, ad-ops and editorial in order to fix whatever is broken, decrease/eliminate inefficiencies and redundancies across tools/systems used across org, product intake, testing & rollout, and a whole lot of hand-holding/babysitting in addition to an ongoing mission to innovate and improve whatever my team comes across or whatever the org identifies as a priority.
    Geographic area: NYC
    Experience: 10 years of experience in startups/ad-tech/publishing in various roles, but weirdly enough, I started out in oldschool advertising and worked mostly on the ideation and copy side while still in college. Side-notes: I was never fortunate enough to be able to complete my degree (due to financial hardship at the time) and instead joined a startup, and things kind of just happened from there. Haven’t really had a chance to go back to school since (though I’d love that from a pure curiosity & learning perspective), as that would be disruptive to my career and earnings at this point.
    Salary & Benefits: $170K (base), 25% annual bonus, 401K matching, full health/dental/vision, pre-tax transportation discount, 3 weeks paid vacation + company holidays + generous sick leave, volunteer/charity matching (not necessarily great for my wallet, but good for the heart as well as for corporate responsibility), free snacks/beverages/occasional catered meals.

  1475. Children's Librarian I*

    I plan & conduct programs for children and teens aged 0-18, and manage collections and provide reference services for the same age range. Other duties as required, from sitting on committees to picking cheese off the floor.
    Large city in Canada
    4 years of experience as a librarian (additional 4 years in other library jobs, shelver through library assistant)
    Approx $61,00 before taxes (CAD)
    Other info: This is a mid-sized public library, unionized environment in a fairly high cost of living area. I have an MLIS.

  1476. Air Traffic Controller*

    job: Air Traffic Controller
    San Francisco Bay Area
    25 years
    $175,000
    I work at what is considered a difficult facility, so between pay for difficulty and locality pay for a high COL area, my base pay is considerably bumped. (Most controllers don’t make this much.) 5% TSP match, federal holidays (usually paid as I generally work them), 26 days vacation and 13 sick leave days/year that can accrue. I will be forced to retire at age 56 so I can’t keep earning this salary until age 65 or more!

  1477. Clinical Data Entry*

    • I work for a CRO prepping clinical trial documentation and images (CAT scans, MRIs, etc) for review in whatever way each trial requires. I then put that data into a database. There’s also some technical troubleshooting and what are essentially specialized administrative duties involved. It’s a bit of a mishmash of core duties and things other departments don’t want to do.

    • Southeastern PA

    • 3 Years experience

    • 33,891, minus medical & dental (But yay! Medical & dental!)

  1478. Director of Human Resources, Risk Management, & Compliance*

    If it has a rule, regulation, mandate, statute etc., I’m responsible for making sure we comply. Healthcare organization that has Pediatrics, OB/GYN, Internal Medicine, Behavioral Health, and Dentistry. Federal, and State funding adds layers of extra i’s & t’s. Also HR generalist, recruiter and benefits administrator for 100 employees. I recruit from physicians to call center staff. I credential physicians into malpractice insurance and payer (insurance) panels.
    Metro New York
    15+ years of experience
    $93,360/year

  1479. Flight Test Engineer*

    Flight test planning and test conduct for military and experimental aircraft. Lots of coordination with pilots, maintainers, engineers, business development, and customers.
    Midwest USA
    15+ years of experience
    $108,000/year

  1480. Legislative Director*

    Legislative Director – legislative, regulatory, and political research and analysis on a wide range of federal government affairs matters (budget, judiciary, health, labor) to support lobbyists and clients at one of DC’s largest law/lobbying firms. Lots of research, writing, dealing with big egos and cutthroat office politics.
    Washington, DC
    7 years experience in government/politics, 5 years on legislative work
    $60K plus commuter benefits, 401K match, life insurance, health insurance, small annual bonus (about $1500). Generally normal hours, a nice change from working on Capitol Hill. Occasionally free food left over from meetings!
    Context: A lot of people in my field have a master’s or law degree, I do not and do not plan to get one because I’ve constantly worked besides attorneys/MPPs/MPAs doing the exact same job for probably the same pay. Why go into all that debt if I’ll just end up back where I am already?
    More Context: DC is hella expensive, and unless you want to move to Baltimore or West Virginia and commute every day there’s no relief.

    1. Virtual Assistant*

      Ugh. I make the commute from WV to DC 1-3 times/week. It can be hellish! No way I could do it every day!

  1481. Environmental Advisor*

    I’m certified in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), so I do desktop work and fieldwork for monitoring of impacts to the natural environment. My work is third party leveraged so I work with contractors, NGOs, government and academia.
    Papua New Guinea (Pacific Island country–think Moana)
    3 years experience
    US$ 28,500. Sounds low, but cost of living in PNG is low. Most people get by on <10k/year.
    Benefits: retirement savings matching, separate savings plan, housing payment plan, family health/dental/vision/death insurance, mandatory technical training (your manager gets in trouble if you're prevented from going), really clear advancement/career planning, 3 weeks paid annual leave, fantastic coworkers and bosses.

  1482. A/P Specialist*

    Enter invoices, cut check, and other regular payables duties.

    Chicago area

    5+ years of A/P experience. 15+ years of A/R experience. Some college; no degree.

    $18/hr part-time

  1483. Social Media Associate*

    Plan strategy and create content for a large arts nonprofit. Plus some videography and photography.
    2 years post-college experience, less than a year at this job
    $45,000 salaried

  1484. Web Developer*

    I’m a code monkey. I write front-end and back-end JavaScript (mostly Angular) and Java for a contractor that mostly does projects for various State of Michigan departments. I do a little database stuff as well. Generally speaking, I do the tasks that get handed to me or fix bugs that come in; I don’t get to make decisions about the direction of a project or interact with the users/customers very much at this point.

    Geographic area: central Michigan

    Years of experience: 2.5 years (plus 2.5 years as an intern–spent a year and a half of that doing SAP stuff, then did a year doing programming in very similar circumstances to my current job). I’ve been at my current job 3 months. I have my bachelor’s degree in computer science.

    Salary: $60,000 annually (USD). 3 weeks vacation, decent health coverage, no sick day limits.

    Other notes: I’m a woman. I have no clue how this impacts my pay, but I’m one of the few female programmers at my company. (we do have a number of female employees in technical fields, just not programmers) I’m also in my early 20s.

  1485. Nacho*

    Customer service for a hotel booking website (people call me when they need to change their hotel reservation, especially if it’s out of policy)
    General Seattle Washington area
    1.5 years experience, 8 at this company
    $15.75/hour plus quarterly bonuses of 10-14%, and 20 days vacation/sick leave per year. I’m set to get another 5% raise in 4 months, then that’s the end of regularly scheduled raises.

  1486. Veterans Serivce Officer*

    Human Servicesesque gig in which we assist veterans access VA benefits, mostly disability compensation followed by wartime pension and survivors pension. There’s also a heavy emphasis on public outreach, and we also argue cases before VA administrative judges.

    Denver Metro Area

    5 years experience

    48k, as a state employee. Some county service officers make 50-60k, some barely make 28, it depends on how wealthy and how willing county commissioners are to pay for a position they don’t understand. Which is part of our outreach, helping elected officials understand that vets can bring in lots of money.

  1487. Registered Nurse -- ICU -- Bay Area*

    I’m an ICU nurse at a county facility in the Bay Area. We’re all ACLS certified. Ratios are good — max of two patients — thank California laws! My health insurance is thru my facility.
    9 years experience
    Between 80-110k — depends on how much overtime. Some years, I’ve powered it out, others, not so much. I’m part-time (technically) and on dayshift. I hear other hospitals in the area make more than us hourly and have better differentials, but I’m tied into our retirement plan, and my management (on my floor) is excellent which experience has taught me is worth sticking around for.

  1488. Researcher and Data Coordinator*

    Job: Half the time doing policy and other research for a small nonprofit, the other half of the time managing the organization’s database and other data needs.
    Geographic area: Seattle
    Years of experience: 5 years at this job, 10 years since graduating college with an unrelated BA
    Salary: $55,000
    Other pertinent information: The staff at my organization is unionized and our salary scale originated with a large union local we’re affiliated with, which is why the pay is higher than most other small nonprofits.

  1489. Training Manager*

    Training Manager
    Texas
    I’m specifically involved with development of training content- manuals, online training modules, etc.
    95k base with up to 20% annual bonus
    Health care benefits and about 25 paid days off plus the major holidays.

  1490. Senior Associate (CPA)*

    Public Accounting generalist; prepare individual and business tax returns during the season, prepare audits during the rest of the year; typically function as engagement lead
    Seattle Metro Area
    6 Years (including CPA) with this company, 3years prior in non-accounting roles
    $76k base, 10% bonus; full benefits, 2 weeks vacation, plus flex time (which can be another week of vacation) plus holidays

  1491. Director of Development (arts)*

    $70,500, three weeks vacation, plus about two weeks of holidays, basic health care
    12+ years experience
    Pacific Northwest

  1492. Product Director*

    My job is in the property & casualty insurance industry. I work at a large insurance carrier and develop our products (commercial insurance coverage forms) in a way that provides the coverage people need, keeps up with our competitors and that is acceptable to state departments of insurance. I also make sure that our systems get the right forms on the right policies for the right customers, while charging them the right premium. I provide training and answer questions internally on what the forms mean, when they should be used, and what to do for particular customers.

    I’m located in a large, upper Midwest city.

    I have 2 years of experience in this position, but 10+ in the insurance industry. Before I got this job, I was a property & casualty insurance underwriter.

    $93,000 base, plus mid-4-figure bonus (depending on company performance and how much the board decides to award non-revenue-generating people)

    Benefits are really good here. The health insurance is excellent, dental/vision are OK, there’s life insurance available for post-tax purchase for both employee and spouse. 401(k) has good investment option and there’s a 100% match up to the first 5% of salary. We have a company gym that’s only $15/month post-tax. There’s subsidized, pre-tax mass transit options. PTO starts out at 20 days/year and goes up to 30 depending on years of service, plus 8 paid company holidays.

    I really recommend the P&C insurance industry to anyone starting out in their careers or looking for a new one. It’s a great living, and we really do help people in some of the worst parts of their lives (injuries, fires, auto accidents). It’s not a flashy or sexy industry, but it’s a good living.

  1493. Business Intelligence Developer*

    Microsoft BI stack, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, PowerBI; reports, data warehousing, cubes.

    Milwaukee, WI metro area
    4 years experience
    $115,000, three weeks vacation plus closed over winter holidays, 4% retirement match, poor high deductible health insurance

  1494. Archivist/librarian*

    Archivist/librarian
    25+ years in the profession
    Lots of computer work, formerly manager (which is where the biggest salary bump came from)
    Boston/Cambridge Massachusetts
    $95,000

  1495. Marketing Manager*

    Marketing manager for a public university. It’s kind of a hybrid marketing/communications director role. I set the overall marketing strategy for the team and handle media outreach.
    Greater Philadelphia area
    MBA and a dozen years’ experience
    $75K/year

  1496. Archivists hollaaaa*

    Job: Academic archivist, member of library faculty. I split my responsibilities with another archivist – they work the “front end”: advocacy, outreach, teaching, reference, and I manage the “back”: collections from birth to death or processed/available. We both manage students and interns, not other staff or faculty.
    Geographic area: Mid-Atlantic in a moderately sized city
    Experience: as an archivist, 5+, as a post-college professional, 10
    Your salary: $53k thanks to annual cost of living increases
    Anything else pertinent: I have a Masters degree. I am making just a little more than I did right out of college pre-recession :((((( Can’t beat the amount of time I get off annually, though it’s use it or lose it, and we have generous professional development.

  1497. Franchise Relations Project Manager*

    Job: Automotive Franchise Relations Project Manager for a large auto-manufacturer (not one of the two with a headquarters in Atlanta; most other manufacturers have at least a regional presence here in Atlanta)
    Location: Metro-Atlanta
    Years of Experience: 6
    Salary: $80,500 + bonuses + good benefits (which I didn’t opt into because my husband’s are SO much better)

  1498. Consulting Industry - Project Leader*

    Job: Project Leader with healthcare specialty, at one of the big-3 consulting firms
    Location: Metro-Atlanta
    Years of Experience: 6 + MBA at Top 10 ranked program in USA
    Salary: $180,000 + bonuses ($30-50k) + really good benefits

    1. Emac*

      That’s so interesting; I’m surprised that the salaries start so low. I’m assuming the step has to do with years of service, is that right, and what determines your class?

  1500. Accounting Specialist*

    Job: Accounting Specialist at a nonprofit – AP/AR, payroll, GL, etc. support for the director of finance
    Area: PNW
    Years of experience: 4
    Your salary: $42,000 + generous benefits & PTO, flexible schedule, good commute

    With no degree (in spite of many random college credits, zero math- or business-related) and having found my way here sort of as a fluke, I went out for this job expecting to be rejected as unqualified. I’ve worked in retail AP roles for a few years, but nothing this responsible. It’s a big step up in duties and salary for me. And yet – I got the offer last week and can’t wait to start once the snow here melts a bit.

  1501. Manager of Global Desktop Operations*

    Job: oversee a small group of people who handle escalations from field PC support techs and work with desktop engineering team to push out new standards/projects
    Area: Northeastern United States
    Years of Experience: 11 + 1.5 of internships while in undergrad +MBA (mostly reimbursed by company)
    Salary: $94 k plus merit based stock grants and generous benefits

  1502. Marissa*

    Clinical Trial Assistant

    2+ years industry experience
    Nashville, TN
    $38,000/year
    Possibility of 3-5% bonus per year
    21 PTO days, 401k, contribution towards medical/dental/vision

  1503. College Professor*

    Job: professor in a business/social science area (think applied economics) at a Canadian college that has both degree and diploma programs. Teaching 4-5 courses per semester, plus doing research and advising students.
    Experience: PhD, 10 years’ work experience between academia and industry (some of which was during the PhD program); I am in my early-mid 30s.
    Location: major Canadian metropolitan area.
    Salary: $81,000/year CAD in salary, plus about $40-50,000/yr in additional private consulting. 9 weeks off per year in the summers plus additional statutory holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year’s, exceptionally good benefits, pension, sick days, etc. Very strong union.

    Full time academic jobs are EXTREMELY rare. I taught part-time and consulted for years before landing this one, which I’ve been at for about a year. I am really, really lucky.

  1504. Sr. Photographer*

    Using high resolution cameras, I photograph objects in a museum collection. This includes documentation of new acquisitions, incoming loans, and collection objects. As well, I perform conservation photography including Infrared, Ultra Violet, transmitted, and specular light.

    Los Angeles, CA
    11+ years
    $63,000/year, non-exempt
    Our employer provides full benefits, but as of 12/31/16 eliminated the defined pension retirement plan for employees and replaced it with an annual end-of-year 6% contribution to our 403(b) accounts.

  1505. Property and Casualty Customer Service*

    I work in the customer service department of a local insurance company helping insureds with their policies. I have a bachelor’s in communications (not required for the job) and am a licensed insurance agent. I take calls and am held to very high call standards.

    I make just under $17/hour. I have full benefits including a generous 401k. They match 200% up to first 6%. They also pay for the continuing education required by the state as well as classes and tests for insurance designations.

  1506. Procurement Officer I (Buyer)*

    I am a contract officer, which means I create, solicit, and award contracts, primarily for services (janitorial, lawn care, snow removal, HVAC) for my agency’s offices state-wide (I’m in Virginia). I also have to run interference between the site managers and the contractors, and I have to hold the contractor to the contractual obligations frequently.

    I have a VCA and VCO certification, and I’ve been in my current job for just over 2 years, although I’ve had the VCA for almost 5 years now (in my previous job, I didn’t do much buying though). My current salary is $54,117 (after 2 recent raises, which I largely credit to Alison!).

  1507. Retail Store Manager*

    Retail Store Manager: Big Box Chain
    Oversee all aspects of retail management.
    20 years experience
    4 yr Bachelors Degree
    $80,000

  1508. Immigration Consultant*

    Immigration Consultant: I’m really an immigration program specialist employed with an middle-sized speciality law firm and work directly with the client on-site to manager on their immigration program.
    Located in the SF Bay Area
    5yrs direct experience (5yrs in related HR role)
    $90,000 (15 PTO/12sick days), decent health benefits, no 401k match.

  1509. Vice President, Communications*

    your job: manage department in a non-profit that produces a magazine as well as loads of print material, handles public relations, keeps the website and social media up to date (as well as all electronic communications) — typical communications work
    your geographic area: Baltimore/Washington
    your years of experience: 20 years/ 10 at current non-profit
    your salary: $150K
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: includes $20K bonus, also a very generous retirement package and holiday/vacation package. Plus, a terrific mission to work toward.

    P.S. Yes, I am aware of how very lucky I am.

  1510. Accounts Payable Specialist*

    Mid-sized law firm. Although AP is my official title, I also do a significant amount of billing work, recruiting, and assisting with HR and administrative projects.
    -Baltimore, MD
    -5 years experience
    -$50,000
    -15 vacation days, paid holidays, unlimited sick time, health/dental/vision, 401k w/ profit sharing

    1. Accounting Specialist*

      Curious as a fellow AP type – do you have a degree related to accounting? I’m always interested in how others ended up in the field.

      1. Accounts Payable Specialist*

        I don’t! I actually have an Associate Degree in a totally unrelated field. I kind of accidentally fell into AP; I used to work at a large hotel in an admin-type role, and my position was eliminated due to budget cuts. They were scrambling to find something for me to do, and there happened to be an opening in AP. That was my first AP role. I did that for a year, but quickly burned out due to a hellish commute and difficult boss. This is my second AP position, and I’ve been here 4 years.

        1. Accounting Specialist*

          Interesting! I ended up here by accident, too – retail sales -> admin for retail chain -> AP when they cut my reception duties. People still seem pretty surprised when they hear I don’t have any formal education in accounting, but it hasn’t held me back so far. I’ve dithered over whether to try my hand at something new, but I’m thinking more and more that, four years in, it might be time to commit to some classes/certification so I can level up.

          Do you think you’ll stick with it, or do have another goal on the back-burner?

  1511. Medical Office Administrator*

    phones and scheduling plus: billing both provincial and private, multi-location schedule co-ordination, triaging and copious amounts of scanning. It’s a one-staff member to 2 doctor set-up so I get to do everything, but triaging and schedule management are probably my 2 main responsibilities.
    Located in Nova Scotia, Canada
    5 years direct experience, 3 years in this job, one completely unrelated BA degree, and don’t actually have the required diploma for the job!
    17/hour or 34,000 per year (this job maxes out at 20/hour – I make an excellent salary for the amount of time I’ve been doing the job).
    No benefits but free medical samples which can add up to hundreds of dollars a year.

  1512. Medical Laboratory Scientist*

    -Diagnostics services for a medium-sized health care clinic. I work with blood and other samples from patients, and run tests to provide lab results to their health care providers in order to help with their diagnoses.
    -Pacific Northwest
    -3 years experience
    -$66,500 (hourly position, i.e. I get paid overtime, shift differential, etc.)

    -This is a very competitive field right now because it’s not very well-known as a health care occupation, so many people aren’t aware of it as a career option. Additionally, many people in the field are nearing retirement age, so wages are very good, particularly in the PNW and California.

    -A bachelor’s degree and clinical certification is required for MLS positions; there are also some associate-degree level positions called MLT, which offer lower wages.

  1513. Manager, Foundation/Government Relations*

    –I work for a large nonprofit organization as a fundraiser, specifically manager of foundation and government relations. I’m responsible for about $2m of income annually.
    –I’m in the SF Bay Area.
    –I have a BA and a Masters degree in fields related to my work, and 8 years of experience.
    –I make $76,000.

    My job used to be two people but now I am doing the work of both of them.

    I’ll add that I made a huge salary-related mistake when I accepted this job: when I met with the department head to let him know I was interested, he quoted me a salary of $85K. When I got the offer letter, suddenly the salary was $75K (I got a small bump to $76K since then). This was still such a big jump from my previous salary that I didn’t question the change, but in retrospect of course I should have.

  1514. Manager, Digital Business Analysts*

    Manager of <10 business analysts who work on digital platforms (web software/sites/etc.) for a company in healthcare/health insurance (non-prof)
    – Each analyst is assigned to a different product suite
    – Small component of a 100+ member web development department

    Minnesota
    6yrs BA/SrBA experience, 2yrs PM experience, no certifications, MA in English
    $88,000

  1515. Marketing Assistant*

    @ small supplemental educational publisher, mostly coordinate print promotion and smaller trade shows and events; design some of the promo
    CA
    1.5 yrs in this role, MA in publishing
    38K

  1517. Assistant to Senior Executive*

    Executive assistant to a high level exec in financial services
    Boston
    10 years
    $93,000

    1. Assistant to Senior Executive*

      Reading some of the responses, I’ll add that I also receive student loan payment assistance, great benefits, and 5 weeks PTO. I work in a great environment, everyone works hard but balancing life and work is encouraged here through flexible schedules as needed, and the ability to work from home when needed.

  1518. Production Manager (TV)*

    Production Manager NYC – large cable TV network, oversee short-form and social media production, inclusive of production logistics, budgeting, contracting etc.
    3ish – I am newer to TV but have background in event management as well as an MA in corporate and organizational communications which cumulatively aids in experience level
    87,000 + 25 days PTO, 10 holidays, excellent med/dental/vision, 401K and other perks I know I am forgetting!

  1519. Auto Claims Adjuster*

    I write estimates on damaged cars, negotiate with shops on repairs, and handle totaled out cars.
    Minnesota
    3 years
    $54000 + annual bonus and full benefits

  1520. Network Admin I*

    Network Administrator/Help Desk
    Portland, OR
    18 years of experience
    $52,000 p/y
    I am pitifully underpaid.

  1521. Nonprofit System Manager*

    “System Manager”, but basically Database Administrator. Provide leadership for department team of approx. 8 but have no direct reports, field any/all questions on donor database for anyone at the organization, assist with massive database revamp with other business units, will be shifting into a staff training role as well once we finish migration this year. Received highest level of certification currently possible with our software platform. Thinking about more certifications – Microsoft in particular – to shift to NPO IT Manager/Director eventually.

    * NYC / Westchester
    * 12 (started as a data entry person, moved up the chain, took on other IT training/responsibilities as well)
    * 85K
    * 403(b), 20 Days PTO, some flexibility with work arrangements. Business paid for certifications as part of our ongoing support/maintenance agreement

  1522. Communications Manager (Contract/Freelance)*

    Job: Handle all communications (social media, website, email marketing, interdepartmental comms, some print) for a small department in a huge company. I’m a contractor, and they will never hire me as salaried even though it would probably be cheaper for them in the long run.

    Location: Large Midwestern city

    Income: Contractor wages=$125,000 in 2016 (paid hourly, work OT every week), Freelance work=$20,000 for occasional projects

    Working experience: 23 years

    Education: Liberal Arts BA

  1524. Sales Supervisor (retail)*

    First time posting so hello all!
    * I supervise the sales floor and manage all systems-related tasks for a high-end retail store. Lots of office time.
    *$14.50/hr +3% commission (rough if you’re not in a position to sell often)
    *A few months away from a BA (I’m lucky to be very successful in my degree area but enjoy my full time job even more)
    *Houston, Texas
    *First job in retail and have been here for 3 1/2 years. Started from the very bottom and am happy to say I love my company!
    I’ve been following AAM since I first decided to go out for a manager position almost 18 months ago. I’ve learned so much more that I imagined and always look forward to your next post!

  1525. Finance Manager*

    your job: Not a typical Finance Manager role exactly. Working with leadership to develop goals for their teams that are measurable and then I measure them and people get bonuses on that.
    your geographic area: NYC Metro
    your years of experience: ~16 years. Worked my way up in accounting without a bachelors degree. Went back to school while working and got a degree in Econ three years ago and moved into financial analysis type roles.
    your salary: $100k + 20% bonus
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: huge company, excellent health benefits, decent work/life balance

  1526. Para-Educator/Teaching Assistant in Autism classroom*

    Public middle school in Michigan.
    $14.05/hr starting pay for 7 hrs/day, 10 months of the year. Plus good benefits including low-cost health and dental insurance. Pay at nearby school districts is up to $1.50/hr less and benefits are not as good.
    I’ve had this job 4 months. Some people in this role are taking night classes in education to become teachers. For others, like myself, it is a dead-end job but offers the satisfaction of enabling special needs kids to obtain an education. Also, for me the pay is supplemental family income so I can manage with the low pay. Many others work second jobs.

    1. Special Educator - Life Skills*

      Public School in border town Texas
      $43,000 plus $3,000 for critical need area and $25/hr for overtime duties
      Master’s Degree in Special Education
      1st year teacher
      Health insurance is good but I get better through my spouse’s job.

      The job is good and my students are very medically fragile so the classroom isn’t too chaotic. Working in public education means hardly getting the resources you need and having no power to influence the people above you (unless you have students with very savvy and pushy parents). I have a large para-educator and medical support staff which is unusual for a teacher and there is nothing in the job description to account for the time (and drama) of managing a large staff. Otherwise it is an exceptionally good teaching job.

      The paras only make $15,000/year here.

  1527. Special Education Aide/ Paraprofessional*

    $22.75 an hour (about $30,000 over the school year), plus good benefits. The salary is negotiated by my union. I am on my 6th year, and there are annual raises.

    My job is at a public elementary school in Alaska on the road system. I provide instructional support for special needs students in and out of the classroom. There is a small amount of paperwork.

  1528. Senior Business Analyst*

    Elicit requirements and design systems
    Johannesburg, South Africa
    15 years of experience
    R770,000 (South African Rand) approx. $57021 per annum

  1529. Scientist*

    Organic chemistry supporting medicine chemistry programs in early stage drug discovery at Big Pharma through scale up and method development
    Cambridge, MA
    10 years
    95000 + bonus (typically 10k)
    MS degree, no PhD

  1530. Engineering Manager*

    I manage a group of eight engineers (highly specialized, very experienced [4 have 35+ years experience at our company, three have advanced degrees]) at a natural gas transmission pipeline company.
    Houston, TX
    25 years
    $175,000 + ~15% bonus and some long-term incentives (restricted stock)

  1531. Development Technical Designer*

    I work at a larger private label apparel company. The designers pass me their hand sketches or tears and I sketch them out very detailed on Adobe Illustrator, call out the construction, and send to our overseas factories.
    Los Angeles, CA
    7 years experience (from assistant designer to technical design)
    $60,000 (plus small bonuses and perks throughout the years–it’s a great company, which is very rare in this industry)
    I have an AA in Fashion Design from a for-profit college (it was an 18 month program) which has come under fire in recent years, but I’m satisfied with the education I got. I worked hard to learn as much about the industry as I could and I felt that I got a lot out of it.

  1532. EA*

    Ohhh – I love this, what a great idea, and I will definitely play along!!

    Title: Executive Assistant

    Job Description: Directly support CEO, manage company travel program and act as the meeting/conference call/calendar planning guru!! Provide additional support as needed/able to – for several other executives.

    Area: Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex

    Experience: 18+ in various aspects of administrative and operational support/oversight. 7 months at current company, 10 at previous.

    Salary: $75,000 annualized

    Benefits & Extras: 4 weeks paid vacation, 4 personal days, partial employer paid medical/dental insurance (pretty competitive overall) and eligible for 10% bonus of base salary. Also company 401(k) match up to 2.5%.

  1533. Administrative & HR Coordinator*

    The bulk of my time is spent verifying reimbursemnt requests and invoices, general office admin work, some event organization and basic on-site IT work.
    Chicago
    5 years
    $48,000
    I have an amazing vacation package and health insurance plus the potential for a 10% annual bonus, but no company 401k match and minimal annual raises.

  1534. Senior Immigration Advisor*

    I do immigration advising for international students at a college campus, and manage an additional staff member.
    central VA
    8 years experience
    $48K

  1535. Federal Worker XYZ*

    Office Manager comes closest to describing what I do, but I also have recognized expertise in a very specific (and easily identifiable) function here.
    Washington, DC
    15+ years of experience in this area
    $75,000

  1536. VP*

    2. List the following info:
    VP client Service (report to COO who reports tonCEO). Manage team of ~25, 4 direct reports. Department head. Responsible for B2B customer service for a technology company of about 100M year revenue

    your geographic area- Boston metro area

    your years of experience- 10 relevant years

    your salary- 215k + $30k bonus. Have gotten various stock options along the way.

    Other- promoted twice at this company. I make less than other VPs due to this but the company is working on it.

  1537. User Experience Researcher*

    your job: I use social science research methods to evaluate user interfaces for computer applications for their usability. It’s a little more expansive than that; some of the things I do borders on market research a bit. Basically, I represent the users’ interests to developers and designers.
    your geographic area: Seattle, WA
    your years of experience: 1.5 years at this company, but 1 year doing research in a related field before
    your salary: $113,700
    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: I have a PhD in a social sciences field and did consulting, research, and teaching work for about 4 years while in graduate school, including an internship in my field.

  1538. Marketing Manager*

    Description: I handle everything marketing and PR-related (and sometimes general administrative things) for a small 10-person software company – trade show planning, advertising, press releases, coordinating with editors/sources to set up interviews for articles, website updates, brochures, etc.
    Location: Western Connecticut
    Experience: 1o years at this job, 2 years of customer service prior
    Salary: $67,000
    Other: We get a cash Christmas bonus which varies – this year mine was $1,500. No fancy perks or 401k match, but work-life balance is great with 40 hour weeks and flexibility with time off, plus I recently asked (and was granted permission) to work from home 1 day/week.

  1539. Medical Librarian, Nonprofit hospital org*

    Librarian–assigned with providing research and support for clinicians and staff. I do a lot of literature searching, article retrieving, on the spot instruction, and working with med students.
    Largest city in SW
    Depends–honestly I’ve been doing information work 20 years, but it’s 4 years in this job full-time (and first full-time job librarian job since getting my master’s in 2007)
    $25.19/hr or about $52,400. Potential twice a year org-wide bonus of $200-400 if we meet our numbers.

  1540. Operations Market Manager*

    your job (the more descriptive the better, since job titles don’t always explain level of responsibility or scope of work)
    Operations Market Manager — day-to-day operations of the Operations dept., managing Field Supervisors to make sure they are completing their schedules, getting sponsors connected with their areas of interest, keeping the highways clean by efficiently creating schedules that the FSs work with their crews, payroll for the FSs, scheduling/organizing any Operations trainings/events…
    Southern California
    1 official year of experience in this particular position, but I had been doing it under the title of Operations Admin Asst. for 5 months prior
    Salary: $45000 or $46350 (depending on if that cost of living wage increase has kicked in as of today)

    1. Operations Market Manager*

      I should mention we also have some insurance (vision, dental, health) and some 401K plans, and those are varied depending on what you opt in for. Instead of sick leave and vacation we get a pool of PTO that varies by years worked for the company.

  1541. Managing Editor*

    Managing editor/content director (custom magazines/websites/marketing content) – serve as editor of 3 magazines and manage a content team of 5 who work on about 30 magazines a year plus 5 websites
    A major city in the Southeast
    10 years experience, 90% at this job (started as editorial assistant and moved my way up)
    $64k/year plus 3 weeks vacation, decent health insurance (for one person)

    I felt like my salary was low based on conversations with other people in my city, but looking at this list, it’s barely below what it is in NYC, and our cost of living is much lower. Feeling good about this!

  1542. Sr. Financial Analyst*

    Title and Industry: Sr. Financial Analyst currently working in state government
    Geographic Location: Upper Midwest, United States
    Relevant Education: B. S Accounting/math minor and MBA with a focus in Strategy.
    Career Info: 13 years in accounting and finance roles –
    First 2 years as a Staff Accountant in the grocery industry and as a Fixed Assets Accountant for the manufacturing company I interned for while still finishing my Bachelor’s
    11 years a a financial analyst/Sr. FA – manufacturing and technology companies (5 years) and state govt (6 years)
    Salary: $90K per year, obviously no bonuses.
    Other Information:
    I work as part of the Financial Planning & Analysis team for an government office that supports 64 state agencies and other statewide customers (think cities, counties, K-12 Education, Higher Education, etc). We are not given an appropriation by the state Legislature; we are required to set rates for services that state agencies and entities purchase from us in order to cover our annual expenses. I work as part of the team that establishes our biennial budget, the rates we set for our services, and analysis of our actual performance compared to budget. This role is a team lead sort of role, responsible for mentoring the 3 Financial Analysts and making C-level presentations and recommendations to our organization’s CEO, CFO, COO, and VPs, as well as providing occasional information that is presented to the Legislature and the Governor.

    4 years ago, we worked with a vendor to implement a software tool to help us manage all of this activity, and I helped lead the effort to select the vendor, define requirements, QA/test the software as it was being built, and train our budget team end-users on how to get information into it. I am one of two financial systems administrators of the software, including security, database management, and SQL programming, and as my other administrator noted in a conversation yesterday, I am the more technical one of the two of us and he’s just trying to keep up.

    I am also involved in some amount of benchmarking of our organization to other state/local govt organizations and all industries.

    I took a $10K pay cut to come to state govt from private industry 6 years ago, but I have more than made that up thanks to 2 significant promotions that were created for me over time.

    What I don’t know yet is what the next step is for me, and whether there can be one here in this organization, or whether I will have to go to another state agency, or whether I will need to go back to private industry.

  1543. Trader*

    Place trades in clients’ discretionary accounts at a financial advisory firm.
    Rust belt city
    About 2.5 years in the industry, about 1 year in this position
    $48,000
    I have a masters in an unrelated field.
    3 weeks vacation, 1 week sick, 1 week personal, 8 paid holidays, 401k with match, high deductible insurance with HSA

  1544. Program Finance Manager*

    In the international development field, I work with a program manager, but I am her counterpart in finances. I do the financial reporting to the donor, coordinate the budget, work on financial compliance, and help manage subawards. I manage about $10m annually. The role is not a traditional finance and accounting, and entails knowledge of the program and logistics so that our program can run while satisfying all the rules and expectations of donors.

    NYC metro area
    11 years in the workforce, 6 of them career-track
    $66,000

  1545. Operation Manager*

    -Oversee a Service Operations Division (1 of 5 in United States) for Global Manufacturer of Industrial Equipment.
    Manage over 3.0 million in sales per year.

    -Omaha, Nebraska area
    -(6) years current job, (15) total years experience
    -Salary $90,000 / year + between 5% to 15% yearly bonus (depends on performance)

  1546. Talent Development Specialist*

    I work at a staffing firm where I support both our Sales and Talent (recruiter) team. I do reference checks, schedule interviews for the recruiters and for our sales team with their clients. I manage the full cycle candidate experience. I also am the Salesforce administrator for our newly implemented ATS. I also project managed the selection and implementation of that new ATS. My job is really a lot of trouble-shooting and dealing with things that pop up in the day to day of a staffing firm.

    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    6 years of experience
    $52k

  1547. Global Program Director*

    Title: Global Program Director
    Salary: $105,000 + annual performance bonus (5% first year, 15% second year due to retention agreement)
    Location: Washington, D.C.
    Experience: 7 years experience (straight out of Undergrad). No master’s degree although completed post-graduate fellowship (Fulbright).

    Role: I oversee the international programs for a large, national non-profit (leadership and membership association), meaning:
    –I manage one FTE and negotiate for percentages of time from staff across the organization (3.5 FTE equivalent) for global activities. Also regularly hire/manage consultants.
    –I developed and lead implementation of our global program strategy, offering a mix of capacity building offerings, event planning for in-person and virtual events, and writing and publishing reports.
    –I represent the organization in sector-specific global convenings and lead organizational thought leadership on my areas of expertise (writing articles/op-eds, drafting speeches for senior leadership, etc.)
    –I mobilize financial resources for my program (generating revenue and securing grants) and manage annual program budget of $300K-$500K (not incl. staff/overhead/etc.)
    –I travel 30-50% of the time throughout the year (domestic and international).

    Benefits: unlimited PTO (“take what you need”), cell phone reimbursement ($90/month), transit benefits ($50/month for parking or metro), good health insurance options, high 401K match, lots of flexibility around schedules/working from home/early “out” before long weekends/etc.

  1548. Senior Business Analyst*

    Role: Business Analyst working with multiple enterprise software systems. Mostly functional work – requirements-gathering, project management, user support, etc – but also technical abilities required e.g. writing SQL queries
    Area: Large Midwestern city, private university
    Experience: 2 years in IT, previously 8 years in various roles where I was a user of these systems. Bachelor’s degree in a completely unrelated humanities field.

    Salary: $92,000 plus excellent benefits (medical, PTO, retirement, other)

  1549. Lead Software Tester*

    Concoct and perform tests/validation on in-house financial software (PnL, accounting, accruals) for a financial services company.
    Location: Philadelphia
    Yrs Experience: 20, no CompSci degree (only a BA in unrelated field)
    Salary: $110K, bonus 5-10k (based on personal and co performance), unlimited paid sick time(within reason), 2wk vacation to start with gradual increase to 4wks after 7 years, high 401k match

  1550. Quantitative and Policy Researcher*

    Seattle, WA
    $60,000
    Amazing health benefits, 100% employer-paid
    5 years experience (3 of them here)

  1551. Project Policy Analyst 2*

    I make 63,000 gross per year.

    This is an entry-level position at a high administrative office at a state university system n the Bay Area in CA. There is a pay “halo” for being in this office; people elsewhere at this level make about 5-8k less.

    I had very little experience as I was returning to the work force after rearing children. I had stayed in education in one form or another and freelanced, but very little W2 work. I got lucky I think.

    1. Project Policy Analyst 2*

      Forgot to add the benefits. Full medical/dental. Defined benefit pension – which is not as good for folks going forward, but I made it under the wire, with 7% from me and matching employer funds. Optional 401k plans, no matching. Life insurance. Pre-tax options for transit and health care copays. Other benefits also, like legal coverage, pre-tax childcare, etc.

      Holidays. Smart people to work with. Shared sense of mission.

  1552. Marketing Manager California*

    Marketing Manager
    SF Bay Area, CA
    $85,000
    Healthcare/401k/vacation
    9 years experience + relevant B.S. Degree

  1553. Sr. Director, Product Marketing*

    Manage a team of 8 responsible for strategic product marketing and market intelligence including demand generation, sales enablement, and customer engagement.
    Portland, Oregon
    22 years starting at entry level marketing
    Salary: $163,000 plus bonus
    Benefits include 6 weeks PTO, 15% retirement contribution regardless of my contribution, 100% paid insurance premiums paid, telecommuting options.

  1554. Front Desk Agent/Guest Services*

    Front Desk Agent/Guest Services at a Hotel
    Phoenix, Arizona
    $15/hr (Recently got a raise).
    Started at 8/hr three years ago. Was $14/hr for most of 2016.

    I hate my job! I don’t actually hate my job duties or what I do all day. I hate my boss and my company.
    But the money is good for what I do. I am guessing it helps I am reliable and have a college degree.

  1555. Technical Writer/Editor*

    I edit internal and external technical documents and manuscripts at a government
    agency.
    Metro Atlanta
    Writing/editing: informally, 16 years. Post-grad school consulting: 10 years. Formal copy editing: 2.5 years.
    $38/hour as a contractor; $50/hour freelance
    I was an editor who got a technical degree to change careers. After a number of years, I returned to editing, but this time doing high-level technical reviews.

  1556. Scientist/Physicist*

    Job: Applied nuclear physics research in various national security areas. Mostly experimental and data analysis work, some project management.
    Geographic Area: Rural Washington
    Years of experience: Total: ~10. 3 years in undergraduate part-time around ~25% hours, 7 years in grad school at about ~75% hours of normal work, and 4 years after PhD at 100%.
    Salary: $94k
    We are in a moderate cost-of-living area. We get ~2 weeks vacation/year, good health benefits some limited matching retirement contributions, and oddly enough, a modest pension if you work here long enough. The work has some unusual health and safety risks, along with moderate amounts of travel.

  1557. Research Associate*

    A bit late coming in, but…

    Job: Data analysis and database management
    Area: NYC metro area
    Years of Experience: 4
    Salary: ~$72k, plus very-low cost health and pension plans, 5 weeks of paid PTO, and lots of professional development opportunities.

    Other note: I have a Master’s degree.

  1558. Admin Support - Health Information Management*

    My job: I work in a hospital. I’m still currently training, but depending on what role I get assigned to I could be answering phones, scheduling appointments, reception duties, handling patient referrals, linking documents to patient files, and many other things.
    Location: Alberta, Canada
    Experience: One month in this role, completed a 5 month course in a technical school. My varied job history is mostly unrelated.
    Salary: $22.56/hr
    I’m designated as a casual worker, so after I complete my training I am not guaranteed any hours. I’ll be covering vacations and whenever someone calls in sick they will call me in, which happens very very often. I get a percentage of my wage extra on each pay check which is my “vacation pay”. Full time employees get health, dental, and vision benefits, the option to work a flex schedule (work extra time each day and get an extra day off every two weeks), vacation time that accrues based on hours worked, paid sick days, and special leave. All the positions in my department, except management, are unionized, so there are also regular raises.

  1559. Associate*

    Job: I work in financial services. Our team does a lot of different stuff including projects, policy stuff, reporting, etc.

    Experience: Three years

    Location: Australia

    Salary: About $80,000 + bonus

  1560. Senior Accountant*

    Job: Senior Accountant for fortune 100 insurance company
    Experience: Four Years
    Location: Boston, Mass,
    Salary: $75,000 + 6.5% bonus

  1561. (Junior) Account Planner/Strategist - Advertising*

    Job: Junior Planner (but on the senior end of junior). I’m a strategist for a creative advertising agency – I research and analyse markets, brands, competition and mostly consumers to find insights and business/marketing opportunities. I develop those into initial ideas for campaigns/brands, before briefing a creative team to work their magic on those initial ideas. I present strategies, research and opportunities to clients, and am involved in pitch strategy.
    Location: UK
    Experience: 3.5 years
    Salary: £28k

  1562. Health Educator*

    “Health Educator” at a local health dept for about 2 yrs, team lead for grants related to health policy & system change (explaining this since my title doen’t make sense, as I do not do any direct 1-1 services, people assume that I do health teaching).

    I have two BS degrees, one of which is a licensed health profession, some of my coworkers have a masters, but make less than me, because the clinical license is important (but I am also the team lead and have more responsibilties too and was told that this is what justified the postition being attached to a license).

    Made more as a clinician, but the 12 hr shifts were awful and not a good fit, due to my husband’s erratic work hours (we have children, so childcare is always an issue)

    Pros: State retirement system, no evenings, weekends or holidays, relatively set work hours, lots of autonomy, I actually get a lunch break and get paid for overtime (yes, sadly I didn’t when I worked in a hospital).

    Cons: Wish I had my own office so I could better perform my job instead of open office design, stereotypical public agency dysfunction, low pay, grant work is unstable, can get stuck with shitty coworkers due to being in a union organization, pay is topped out once I hit 4 yrs, work is intellectually challenging.

    Annual pay, including overtime ~ $45,000

  1563. HR Assistant*

    Job: Human Resources Assistant
    Location: Michigan, USA
    Experience: 4 years + undergraduate degree in the field + professional certification
    Salary: $22.50/hour
    Duties: Administering corporate policies, developing metrics and reporting to report out to senior leadership, maintaining employee files assuring employment law regulations are followed and creating/executing programs to enhance company culture.

  1564. Receptionist*

    Job: Answering phones, greeting clients, keeping office supplies stocked (both some out where others can use them, and ordering when we’re low), some paper-pushing and data entry. Getting contractors’ computers connected to our internet and printers, basic IT troubleshooting for them, and acting as a go-between for them and IT if it’s beyond our skill.
    Location: San Francisco Bay Area
    Experience: 7 years
    Salary: $13/hr or $16/hr
    Other: I just got a promotion from weekend to FT weekday receptionist. The lower amount was what I started at as a weekend receptionist (with my most recent non-promotional raise putting me at $13.90). Once my promotion goes through, I’ll be bumped up to the higher number.

    1. Receptio*

      Forgot to note the benefits (as I only just recently started receiving them).

      PTO is combined, and the total amount is based off of how long you’ve been with the company. New employees start out with 14 days and maxes out at 26 days. Medical is with a high-deductible plan. Company also offers vision, dental, life, 401k.

  1565. Program Manager (international development)*

    Salary: $60,000
    Location: DC
    Experience: 6 years out of college, 2 years in this field; BA in a related field

    Description: I work for the HQ of a fairly small private company that implements USAID-funded international development contracts overseas. Lots of coordinating with the overseas offices, managing requests for USAID approval, ensuring compliance with regulations, some budgeting support, writing reports, etc. Requires foreign language fluency. I oversee (but not manage) one junior position – in general it’s project management, not people management.

    Other relevant factors: Requires frequent (~25%) overseas travel – on the plus side, this means I get per diem when I’m traveling, and it’s non-taxable. Good benefits: health care premium fully paid for employees (though they don’t pay the premium for dependents), 401K with employer contribution of about $8,000/year (flat amount for all employees, varies depending on the company’s profit each year), 12+ vacation days depending on length of time with the company, etc. No work from home, though.

  1566. Policy analyst (federal govt)*

    Large federal agency. My official title is too specialized to put here, but it’s essentially public policy analyst. Write memos and research papers, policy research and analysis, a little bit of data analysis, etc.

    Washington, DC
    6.5 years experience (2 in this agency); BA in a related field
    $94,796 (GS-13, step 1 for the DC metro area). Good benefits.

    For full context, I think I’m overpaid for this field, at least compared to doing the same work in nonprofits. Before I joined the government 2 years ago, I worked as a policy analyst in a small nonprofit think tank in the same policy field in DC, and I was making $50,400 a year (with 3-4 years experience at the time). I had started in the same nonprofit when I was right out of college at $34,000 and got a series of raises fairly quickly over the 4.5 years I was there.

  1567. Data Scientist*

    “Senior Data Scientist”. Rather than the “big data” tasks typical of that title, I focus on experimental design, and on causal inference in experimental and observational settings — more of a traditional statistician role, but that’s not a sexy job title. Lots and lots of R, some SQL; lots of communication with less technical teams, both planning experiments and communicating results from experiments and predictive models.

    San Francisco Bay Area, but not *in* SF

    5 years of experience after a PhD

    $425000 plus benefits but no bonus or stock, nearly double my starting salary 3 years ago

    I’m in tech, at a large, publicly traded, profitable tech company (i.e. not a startup). I have a PhD in a social science field, with a strong math/stats background. I’ve spent the 5 years after grad school feeling shocked at how much money I make.

  1568. Animal Curator*

    Job: Zoo Animal Curator – oversee the staff, animals, and facilities in a particular section of an accredited zoo
    Geographic area: Midwest
    Experience: 28 years in the field, ~20 in supervisor and management roles, 2 at current facility
    Salary: $72,000 plus benefits (health, vacation, sick, holidays, retirement)

  1569. ADA Coordinator*

    Job: ADA Coordinator, state agency
    Location: Midwest
    Experience: Master’s in public policy, previous state employment
    Salary: $51,000
    Duties: Ensure agency complies with federal and state laws.

  1570. Research Associate*

    I work in a biotech company on the development of immunoassays. Planning, execution, and documentation of experiments.

    Minnesota, Twin Cities area

    2 years of related job experience (post undergrad) and a B.S.

    Salary: 45,500, good health care and dental. Two weeks vacation plus one week personal time.

  1571. Commercial Ins Admin Assistant*

    This is a great idea! :) I know I don’t post a lot, but I’m happy to chime in.

    JOB: Admin assistant for commercial ins broker. My main duty is processing Professional Liability/General Liability/Workers Comp, etc. certificates of insurance and returning them to the requester within 2 hrs. I field about 50 requests per day, as well as printing renewal certificates when an Insured renews (can sometimes be 2,000-3,000 to mail and print. Also responsible for answering phones and keeping track of office supplies.

    GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Washington DC
    YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 10 years of ins experience, previously personal lines (auto & homeowners) and health and life insurance
    SALARY: Started at $47,500 and just got a $2,500 raise so am now at $50,000
    OTHER DETAILS: Medical, dental, vision, 401k, FSA, etc. 15 days of vacation, 3 sick days

  1572. Chief of Staff*

    Job: Chief of Staff at a boutique PR firm. Responsibilities include project management and business development.
    Location: NYC
    Experience: Masters, <1 year prior work experience
    Salary: $60,000 + minimum 15% EOY bonus

  1573. Financial Aid Officer*

    Job: managing $3M budget and distribution of financial aid funds plus student support related to financial aid at a college within a large research university
    Area: Boston, MA
    Years of Experience: < 1 in current role, 3 in financial aid field. BA complete; MBA in progress.
    Base Salary: $58,000
    Additional Benefits: generous tuition remission benefits for self, spouse, and dependents applicable at the university, medical, dental, 403(b) with ~8% salary employer contribution, FSA/HSA, 16 paid holidays, 20 days paid vacation, 22 days paid sick.

  1574. Awesomest but hardest job ever*

    Veterinarian
    Area: Suburb of a large Southern city
    $78,000 total compensation (salary and some benefits)
    24 years experience

  1575. lawyer (in-house counsel)*

    125K.

    In-house counsel at a tech startup in Silicon Valley, 5 years experience + patent bar. My role is IP counsel and commercial generalist–employment, contracts, product, regulatory, etc. Benefits package includes health, 20 days vacation, retention incentives.

  1576. Non-Profit Program Manager*

    Non-profit Program Manager: non-staff management role, responsible for budgeting, grant writing & deliverables, and coordinating community-based non profit programming
    Hawaii
    2 yrs
    48,000

  1577. Development Director*

    Part-time Director of Development for a small nonprofit with $400K budget.

    Build development plan from scratch, board development, governance coaching, major donor campaign, strategic planning, annual fund, events, website, other marcom work.

    ~10 years experience if you count the time I’ve done pro bono work while having kids off and on over the years.

    Boston area

    $40/hour part time, no benefits, BYO laptop, flexible schedule/work from home.

  1578. Senior Research Analyst*

    Job: conduct program evaluations and other research projects for a state agency
    Area: Large Midwest city (cheaper than Chicago)
    Education: Ph.D.
    Experience: With this job less than 1 year, before this I had 3 yrs work experience after PhD
    Salary: $67,000

  1579. Customs Broker*

    Customs Broker importing into Canada
    LCOL Canadian city
    ~10 years
    $46K
    Have professional certification in my field

  1580. City Planner (sort of)*

    Job: City Planner (work in a specific area that isn’t exactly a planner, but I work on some HUD compliance issues)
    Salary: approx. $56,500
    Area: larger Midwest city
    Education: BS, working on my masters (pay scale will then increase more quickly)
    Experience: Seven years in another city department that has a tangential relationship to what I do now (I’ve been in this position for less than six months.)

    This is a local government job so there are no salary negotiations and there’s no concern about men and women not being paid equally (promoted equally may be another story in other departments but this one does not make me concerned). Our benefits are quite good (but do not include vision unfortunately). After seven years I have about 3.5 weeks vacation a year, 3.5 of sick, and with this position, I’ll get 40 hours of “salaried leave” that I can for slightly more restricted use (can’t use right before or after a holiday, can’t use multiple days in a row) to do things like run errands or go to doctor’s appointments etc. All in all, it’s pretty great.

  1581. Digital Marketing Manager*

    Job: Digital Marketing Manager.
    I handle website related projects, make sure we are hitting our lead targets, maintain and improve our marketing automation programs and integration with our CRM, handle buying advertising space online and design and implement online marketing campaigns + SEO, SEM, online presence, etc.
    Salary: $75.000. Between raises and job changes, I doubled my salary since I started in the field.
    Area: Southern Ontario
    Education: Master degree
    Experience: 6 years in marketing, 3 in social media, 3 in digital marketing.

  1582. Clinical Study Manager/Prin. Clinical Research Specialist*

    I manage global IDE clinical research studies for a major medical device manufacturer (90k employees worldwide). I do not have direct reports, however I do provide work direction/dotted line manage a team of 4 that works on the studies I am responsible for.

    Location: I work primarily out of Minneapolis (combo of home office and in-office) with ~ %25 travel (mostly domestic)

    Experience: 15 years in clinical research, 19 in biotech

    Education: BA Business Admin, although many people in this field have a Biology degree or medical degree (MD or nursing)

    Salary/benefits: Annual salary $115k, annual bonus ~$15k, 12 paid company holidays, 6 wks PTO, flexible schedule (however this typically ends up working out to me being ‘flexible’ and working 50-60 hrs/wk,) several options for health insurance, good dental, vision, & life insurance, ESPP, 401k match to 6%. They also have a decent tuition reimbursement package that helped while I was going to school.

    It’s a lot of work and a lot of responsibility, but I work for a great company and the work is rewarding – the work we do actually saves lives!

  1583. Construction Project Manager*

    Short of running the actual work in the field (which I also assist with), I am responsible for all activities on the project (i.e. schedule, financials, client and consultant relations, subcontractor relations, solving daily problems, administrative duties, etc.)

    San Francisco, CA

    4 years (no collegiate studies or prior work experience in this field)

    $100,000 annual salary + generous bonus, all healthcare expenses covered, 3 weeks vacation

    *I’m 30 years old and a woman. I started out as an administrative project assistant at $50,000 and worked my way up through a young and growing company*

  1584. Trainer, Customer Service*

    I train Customer Service Representatives at a health insurance company. Class types include new hire and strength training. Training includes company history, common health insurance terms and processes, customer service principles, conflict management, and telephone procedures. Supervisory responsibility of participants during class. When not facilitating training classes, I create and edit curriculum and manage projects.

    Little Rock, Arkansas

    2.5 years in position, 5.5 years at company, Bachelors degree in unrelated field

    $47, 900 annual salary (starting is currently $46,800) + yearly incentive of 10% of salary if company goals are met (they typically are), no-cost health insurance and low-cost dental insurance for employee (small premium for spouse/dependents), low-cost vision and life insurance, starts at 5 PTO hours per pay period and increases with tenure, 401k matching, on-site medical clinic with $5 payroll-deducted fee for services, tuition reimbursement, retirement plan, on-site cafeteria with reduced cost, free fitness center, free parking

  1586. Copywriter*

    Mid-level copywriter at ad agency
    2-3 years of agency experience
    (+ 2 years of portfolio school)
    Atlanta, GA
    $80,000

  1587. Product Manager -- Banking*

    * I manage three products offered to banking clients. One is a mature product bringing in about $300,000 in revenue a month. I mostly concentrate on marketing, sales awareness and connecting the right folks to fix any operational issues for that one. The second is a product actively under development (Agile environment). I’m working on refining user stories, approving demos and getting the collateral ready to go to market. The third is a speculative product where we are conducting research and focus groups to figure out the scope of opportunity and right design.
    * Located in the Gulf South currently but the position is being moved to the Northeast in the spring
    * 15 years experience including MBA
    * $130,000 plus bonus ranging from 10-35% annually based on performance rating
    * Great benefits, 401k plus match, 4 weeks vacation and work from home once a week

  1588. Env. Health & Safety (EHS) Specialist/Project Manager*

    I support software used internally at a large manufacturing company for EHS compliance. I am both a subject matter expert in our flavor of EHS and a “project savior” who gets sent in to help teams and fix projects. I also do a lot of strategic planning and big-picture thinking.

    Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul
    Experience: 15 years experience, PMP for the last 6 years (work paid)
    Salary: $148,000 which includes 12.5% annual incentive bonus
    Benefits: Pension (they stopped offering to new employees 10 years ago but I’m still accruing), 401(k) match, generous parental leave policy, 6 months of sick time/STD per year, 4 weeks vacation, flexible work arrangements

  1589. Office Administrator / Human Resources*

    I am the main admin for a small (17 employees) outpatient medical office. I am the go-to person for all of the front office questions (insurance authorizations and benefits, Medicare guidelines, HIPAA compliance, and so forth) as well as the person in charge of deposits, contracting, A/P, admin support for the business owner, etc. I am also Human Resources (SHRM-SCP) and do onboarding, firing, performance reviews, payroll, benefits, etc. I basically wear a LOT of hats. I have been here 12 years and know the business and applicable laws well.

    I’m in far northern California.

    I have been in medical admin for about 15 years

    I make $61.2k/yr as salary exempt. This is great compensation, especially since I live in a rural town, but I have continued to increase my skill level and education every year at the company and have made myself an asset to everyone in the company. I also work a lot of hours that would otherwise be overtime.

    I earn 23 paid days off per year (our top tier) due to my many years of service at the company and my health insurance is 50% employer sponsored. My employer covers a membership to our local health clinic, $25k life insurance, EAP, AD&D, and long-term disability insurance. I do not have dental or vision insurance.

    1. Office Administrator / Human Resources*

      OP here:

      Forgot to mention I have 401k, with up to 4% employer match. Employer also adds a lump sum to our 401k annually if the business does well.

  1590. Talent Acquisition Manager (Recruiting Recruitment Manager)*

    Job: Talent Acquisition Manager (Recruiting Recruitment Manager) for Retail Fashion company. I hire mid to senior level employees at our Corporate HQ in Manhattan and smaller satellite office outside of NYC. I manage 2 people- 1 recruiter and 1 Coordinator/Scheduler. We collectively source, screen and interview candidates for positions from housekeeper to VP/SVP level positions. As part of a small HR team, I also handle other HR projects or responsibilities.

    Location: NYC Metro
    Exp: 10+ years in recruiting; 6 years in previous similar role in higher education
    Years in role: 2.5 years in current position with current company.

    Salary: $117k ( 1 raise of 2% after 1 year, no raises since then and none expected on the horizon)
    Bonus: Potentially up to 15% of salary, but company hasn’t made bonus for a bunch of years
    Benefits: healthcare, dental, vision + 4.5% 401k match + 26 days PTO (negotiated up from 21 days)

  1591. Writer / Editor*

    My job title is actually Program Specialist, but I work for the government, where titles don’t mean much. I’m a career government employee, and I write and edit various internal and policy publications.

    *Area: D.C.

    *Years: 8 in this job, 11 in government, about 20 overall. This isn’t the only field I’ve worked in, but it’s definitely what I do best. I have a bachelor’s degree and some graduate school, but haven’t finished a master’s.

    *Salary: $107,595 (GS 13-6)

  1592. Production Services Specialist*

    what my job is: I work in the IT department and am 2nd tier support for Peoplesoft Financials issues. I work mostly with Peoplesoft technical/functional problems, but also do 2nd tier support for MS CRM and other specialized applications. I receive tickets to work on that our help desk couldn’t resolve. I do a lot of SQL work – I get requests from people to build or modify queries. It would be fair to call me a Jr. Peoplesoft Analyst. I worked on our help desk for 2.5 years, then got promoted into this role back in June.

    my area: Columbus, OH

    years of exp: 8 months

    my salary: 55k

    helpful context: Like I said above, I was hired on to our help desk 2.5 years ago, then received a promotion back in June. I have about 4 years of prior help desk/desktop support experience prior to coming to my current company. My job now is 95% Peoplesoft support, and I didn’t have any real in-depth Peoplesoft experience prior to my current role – I just knew it existed and where to go to create a new requisition or expense report, but that was about it :) Before I got my promotion, I was making 52k a year on our help desk. I only got a salary bump of 3k when I accepted the promotion, but I didn’t really feel like I could make a case for more than that since they basically had to teach me and/or let me self-learn all this Peoplesoft stuff. I have no college degree, only my prior work experience and a hs diploma.

  1593. Associate Attorney*

    – Associate Attorney in small firm (one other atty), mostly family law
    – 1-2 years experience
    – Boston Area
    – $41,000/yr

    God, this is depressing me to see attorneys making twice as much as me and saying, “my salary is lower than most in my area” lol

  1594. Senior Technical Recruiter*

    –Recruiting & hiring software developers
    –Seattle, WA
    –10 years of experience, give or take
    -$92,000/year + 10% annual bonus

  1595. Software team manager (non-profit)*

    Job: Manage our quality & operations team, comprised of five QA analysts, two DevOps engineers, and two middleware ops engineers. We are focused on internal-use software, we don’t have any software products we produce for external consumption.
    Location: NYC
    Experience: 11 years as a software engineer, 3 years managing/leading a single team, 3 years managing multiple teams.
    Salary: $165K
    Other: I work at a non-profit. We pay well for non-profit, but below market overall. I investigated a bit a couple of years ago, and found that I could probably get 30-50% more if I wanted to work at a finance company, which would probably be on the higher end of the for-profit world.

  1596. Fraud Analyst*

    Global Financial Insitution
    Location: Texas
    Experience: 5 years
    Salary: $14.00/hr
    Full benefits, retirement, employee perks and a diverse (and wonderful!) corporate culture
    RARE overtime

  1597. Store Manager*

    I manage a big home decor store in Southeast Georgia with about 40 employees who are mostly part-time. Bachelor’s degree and Master’s in Illustration (seems unrelated, but, weirdly, it’s come in pretty handy at times over the years). I travel a fair amount for the company (about 40 days a year). Also, the degrees weren’t required to move up, but my original plan was to be a professor at a great university; then I discovered how much I loved managing a store.

    Experience: 15 years with this company; 3 previous at a similar-type store

    Area: Southeast Georgia

    Salary: 110,ooo which includes a yearly bonus; 4 weeks vacation; 401k with 4% match; great insurance at a great rate (medical, dental, vision, life, disability); paid holidays; multiple days of pto. It’s a really great company that has a very progressive attitude towards females and minorities, and a lot of opportunities to advance (look at me, sounding like a commercial for my company!). One of the unperks is that my hours are everywhere. Another is that I am first on the call-list when the alarm goes off in the middle of the night (you wouldn’t believe how many people will walk by a closed store and pull on the doors to see if someone forgot to lock up; they do it to the back doors, too). I started out as a cashier and moved up while going to college.

  1598. Payroll Tax Manager*

    Job: Manage 3 person department responsible for payroll tax reporting/filing and issuing all payroll related W2s, 1099-MISCs, 592Bs, and 1042-Ss

    Location: Los Angeles, CA

    Experience: 10 years in Payroll

    Salary: $103,000

    -I work at a huge entertainment company, so compensation includes generous benefits/vac/401k/employee stock purchase

  1599. Account Executive in Telecom*

    3 years of experience in current company
    Los Angeles
    Base Salary 30000
    On Target Earning 15600
    3-week PTO, Basic health insurance, no 401K

  1600. Lobbyist*

    Super late but hoping this might help someone as I couldn’t find any information when I was researching my job.

    Job: Senior policy advisor at an industry association
    Location: Australia
    Experience: 1 yr at current company, 4 years in government
    Salary: $70,000
    Benefits: 4 weeks recreation leave, 9.5% super, time in lieu provisions

  1601. Director, Client Services*

    Your job: Service client accounts. Usually means solving problems while staying within contract and regulatory requirements. Set strategy and goals for department. Lead a team of 7 client relationship managers.
    Geographic area: Upper Midwest, USA
    Your years of experience: 8 in this role, 14 in industry (health care)
    Your salary: 100K annual, solid benefits, 401K match, 7 weeks PTO (due to tenure – base is 4 or 5), annual bonus dependent on company performance. Multiple locations across the US, so salary bands are wide.

  1602. Risk Manager*

    I work for a small company, so I wear a lot of hats. I do all of our service contract underwriting, and our analytical reporting and IT staff report to me.
    – Small-ish city in the American Southwest
    – Experience: ~15 years as an actuary and doing other financial forecasting
    – Salary: $105 K annual, great health insurance, lousy 401K match. 4.5 weeks PTO.

  1603. Prospect Researcher*

    I’m a Prospect Research Analyst for the central Development office of large public university in California. I identify and screen prospective donors.

    I have worked a little over a year as a prospect researcher. This is my second job in the field. I have a MA in English literature and am ABD on a PhD, so my background is in teaching and research. I had several years of admin assistant-type experience before going back to grad school. I think my degree has bumped me up to a higher salary level than I would have had without it.

    My salary is $61,000 a year, plus health/dental/vision, and they contribute 7% of my salary to a retirement account. I think we accrue 12 days of vacation and 12 sick days per year.

  1604. Outsourcing Manager, Film (post)*

    I handle all management of a process at a post production film studio, including all our outsourcing and some internal management.
    Location: Canada
    Salary: 73k
    Benefits: comprehensive insurance and 2 weeks vacation

  1605. Senior Production Engineer*

    My job is a cross between a front-end software engineer and a technical program manager (at most companies, I would have one of those two titles). I write code (both build automation and front-end javascript), I gather requirements and write specs, I do a lot of CSS work, I spend a lot of time with our marketing and content teams making their dreams come true (or shattering them), I coordinate with full-stack devs, UX PMs, and designers on things I can’t do myself, and generally do whatever needs to get done to get things out the door for a variety of websites (both internal and external) and saas offerings.

    Location: Seattle
    Experience: 6 years related work experience during university + grad school, 12 years post-graduation
    Salary: 130K + irregular small bonuses + some magic money in stock options that I don’t pay attention to
    Benefits: meh

  1606. Marketing Specialist (Publishing)*

    My job: In charge of advertising, direct mail, catalogs, and email outreach for the publishing arm of a large non-profit institution.
    Geographic Area: Bay Area, CA
    Experience: 9 years total, all in publishing. 2 years in this job.
    Salary: $57,000
    Other: Fantastic benefits, due to being part of a larger organization. Retirement matching; inexpensive health, dental, and vision insurance; pet insurance; on-site gym and classes; health/wellness bonuses; tuition reimbursement for degrees and continuing education.

  1607. Corporate Counsel/In-House Counsel/Legal Counsel (Attorney*

    Total compensation: ~$200K/year (~$170K base + $30K in stocks/bonuses)

    Geographic area: San Francisco/Silicon Valley

    Years of experience: Hard to qualify. I graduated from law school 2007 and took the bar in CA (and passed), then started working in a quasi-legal field due to poor legal job market at the time — contract/temp basis in various areas of law (criminal, family, litigation, etc.). I switched to a legal/in-house role ~2 years ago.

    Duties & other relevant info: Small legal department (5 people including support staff); small tech startup, privately-held; contract negotiations; corporate/government compliance; provide legal advice to various internal departments (sales, HR, product, finance); some light IP work.

  1608. In-House Counsel/Corporate Counsel/Legal Counsel (Attorney)*

    Total Comp: ~$200K (~$170K base + ~$30K in bonuses/stocks)

    San Francisco Bay Area Silicon Valley

    Duties: contract negotiations, light IP, light employment law, product, privacy, corporate compliance, run of the mill in-house work.

    Medium-sized startup (about 300 employees), small legal department, 2 attorneys and 1 support staff.

    1. In-House Counsel/Corporate Counsel/Legal Counsel (Attorney)*

      Forgot to mention years of experience: 10 total, but only ~2 of those 10 years are relevant. The other ~8 years were spent in various fields of law or quasi-law, non-tech or in-house related.

  1609. Production Manager*

    Went to school for writing but found myself at a fashion brand managing production and inventory of wholesale product. Started out as a temp, learned everything on the job, asked to come an as permanent a few months after leaving the temp position. Same company/department for last 10 years, started at $50K in 2007 as an analyst and now title is senior production manager.
    NYC
    10 years experience
    $72,000 (3 weeks PTO, benefits, 401k)

  1610. Billing Specialist*

    Legal billing at a mid-size law firm.
    DC
    $42,000/yr + good benefits
    3 years semi-related experience

  1611. Cultural Marketing*

    Not exact, because that would give it away too much. But I work with cultural organizations (museums, performing arts, etc.) in the greater Boston area to enhance their reach.
    Almost ten years
    72,000
    Good health insurance. Free vision & dental. Citywide transit covered to help with client visits.

  1612. Lead Trial Attorney*

    Trial (Front-Line) Attorney for State Government Agency in a very rural and low COL area. Although not applicable to other areas (esp. metros), I work 35-40 hours per week with court 3-5 times per month, with a handful of trials per year. Pretty much unlimited expert witness budget (when needed). Some training responsibilities for other 8 attorneys in the Agency within my Circuit. No administrative duties (by choice). Some travel (2-3 times per month, not usually overnight) with per diem & mileage reimbursement (usually about $150 per month). On Call for emergencies & exempt from overtime. JD & bar licensed in two states (but because I work for the State Government of one of those states – the other license is inactive).

    your geographic area: Southeast US (State does not have an income tax)

    your years of experience: 7 in this job; 10 with the state; 12 of overall legal experience+internships

    your salary: 60K (from staring salary with judicial branch at $38K in 2007)

    anything else pertinent to put that number in context: JD required. 4.4 Weeks of Annual Leave + all major holidays & 2.6 weeks of sick leave per year. 1 hour of Admin leave per month to attend kid’s functions. 1 hour of Admin leave per month to mentor and/or volunteer. You can “collect” up to 12 weeks of annual leave in your “leave bank”, then it will rollover to sick leave (unlimited). FMLA, but no paid maternity leave (can use sick & annual leave). Excellent Benefits (Low Deductible PPO Family Plan, Family Dental & Vision, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Group Life Insurance (for employee & spouse), Tuition Reimbursement, Qualified for Loan Forgiveness). My 2016 Benefits were valued at $30,000 (I paid about 5% of that as premiums). Defined benefit pension plan (I pay 3% mandatory), full vesting at 8 years with Deferred Retirement Option Program. FSA, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, and Tax Deferred Employee Investment Plan available.

    NOTE: Salaries are very transparent as the Governor decided a few years ago to publish all State Employees salaries in a searchable database. Everyone exempt from overtime gets one benefit plan and “career service” non-exempt employees have access to the same benefits, but at a higher OOP cost.

  1613. Marketing Communications Manager/Senior Writer*

    Region: Southeast US
    Experience: 20 years
    Full-time W-2 contract employee for global IT company
    Position: Writing, editing, copy editing, and project managing marketing communication collateral
    Salary: $68K
    Health Insurance Premiums: $650/month for individual
    Three weeks PTO

    **I was offered a similar FT position at a similarly-tiered company at $90K to start, but the offer was tabled after my current salary was revealed in a background check and HR wouldn’t honor the offer/approve that much of a bump.

  1614. Research Associate*

    What I Do: run analytical methods at biotech company
    Geographic Area: San Francisco Bay Area
    Company Size: 250+ employees
    Years of Experience: 2 years
    Salary: $55k plus 10% bonus, 3 weeks vacation, 10 holidays, 4% 401k match, medical/dental/vision (~$80k total compensation)

    Other Stuff: My company is notorious for paying under SF average, which is high because of cost of living. Expect to make more if you’re at a larger company.

  1615. Robby*

    Algorithmic Trading, Software Engineer
    $280k – 180 salary, 100 bonus
    NYC
    30 years old, 9 years experience

    1. Equipe Femme*

      Hi Robby – how does your employer structure your bonus? Also have you held the same position since college or have you increased compensation by changing employers? I was considering the financial field but the recent murmurs of downsizing of analysts and traders raises concern.

  1616. Senior Financial Analyst*

    Contracted to provide financial analysis for large federal agency (16 billion annual budget), project management and expertise in developing new data architectures for improved financial reporting. Function as team lead on some data projects.

    Washington, DC
    13 years
    125,000

    Also have grad degree in statistics from ivy league school (this bumps my rate up some)

  1617. Victim Advocate*

    WHAT:assist crime victims through the court process, provide referrals and intercession with landlords and employers, help people recoup medical expenses caused by the crime, ensure all witnesses appear at trial promptly.
    WHERE: Denver metro
    HOW LONG: over 10 years
    SALARY: $53k
    MISC: I’m a government employee, non profit advocates make a lot less- maybe 10-12k/yr less or so.

  1618. Trisha*

    Human Resources Manager in the Agricultural Sector (Propagation Greenhouse)
    Southwestern Ontario, Canada
    Less than a year (7 months)
    $18/hour and I work 9-5 Monday through Friday.
    I do make less than half the industry standard ($40/hourly is pretty normal for a similar position), but I am only 21 and have no formal training, just to put that number in perspective. They will hopefully be making up a bit of the difference by paying for classes towards an HR diploma and certification under the HRPA.

    1. Trisha*

      Also, we are currently working on setting up benefits for members of our management team, and I have no set vacation, I just take what I need.

  1619. Assistant Professor of Psychology*

    Teach 2-3 classes per semester, conduct and publish independent research, advise 30-40 undergrad students, serve my department, university, and profession.

    Central Virginia

    55,000 per year

    1st year in position (after 6 years in grad school for MA and PhD).

  1620. Adjunct Assistant Professor*

    University professor – humanities.
    Rome, Italy
    Four years university teaching; fifteen total years related experience in my field.
    $15,000-$21,000 variable
    This includes 3-4 classes per semester, and an average of 20-30 hours per week in administrative and program work, in addition to whatever research and writing i can squeeze in. Adjunct means i am hired per course, per institute. I sometimes have five different employers simultaneously. I spend a significant amount of time just getting from location to location, and have little of the professional support or funding tenured faculty would have. This is almost exclusively the only way to teach in higher education here, though.

  1621. Administrative Assistant*

    Twin Cities, Minnesota
    13 years experience, some college (no degree)
    $41,000

  1622. Practice Manager*

    Manager of a mid-sized primary care office, including budgeting, staffing, process improvement initiatives, physician contracting, etc.
    Mid-Atlantic region
    Masters’ degree in healthcare administration (not required for job), 6 years of experience in healthcare
    $76,000

  1623. Senior Office Support Assistant*

    Senior Office Support Assistant – I work in a support role for our agency’s training unit. I arrange travel for our trainers and employees attending training. I track certain data about our new hires, including how long they stay (we have a retention problem) and whether or not they complete required trainings. I do menial things like assemble course materials and order supplies. I attend meetings and take minutes. I pay bills. I put together and submit data for various reports.
    I also proofread course materials, and assist with editing and formatting when necessary.I track allocations to each geographic area, as well as current vacancies in those areas. I design activities for our new hire classes. These items were not assigned with the role – I have taken them on due to the fact that the job as stated did not fill full-time work hours. This is a government job and my manager has no say in my compensation or benefits, so she is pursuing the only avenue available to her – reclassifying me. Maybe I’ll be back next month with a new title and salary.
    Rural Missouri
    3 years with this agency, 4 prior as a student worker at my university doing clerical work
    $26,300
    This is an extremely poor geographic area (in one nearby town, gas is less than $2/gallon). I am a state worker and MO state employees are the lowest paid in the nation.

    1. Senior Office Support Assistant*

      I forgot – I have a Bachelor’s degree in a completely unrelated, hard-science field.

  1624. Paralegal*

    Bankruptcy
    Midwest US (metro area)
    coming up on 4 years, all with this firm; I have an associate’s degree in paralegal studies and a BA in English
    ~$35k, paid hourly with overtime pay, and good benefits. I started at $24k and had 7% raises for my first three years, after which I managed to advocate for a more significant bump.

  1625. Sarah*

    Sr. Category Analyst (for an Insurance Co.) this is basically an analytics position for the sourcing procurement area

    Madison, Wisconsin
    8.5yrs work experience in various financial roles, almost done with evening MBA.

    $95k + 10-20% bonus

    I have switched jobs about 3 times in the past few years due to a mass layoff here. I think that is part of the reason my salary has increased about 45k in the past few years.

  1626. ACT Team Clinician*

    — Providing assessments to determine the appropriate level of care and individual therapy to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness who are frequently in and out of the hospital. Also facilitate groups and provide case management support as needed.

    — Central Maine

    — I have 2 yrs experience as a licensed clinician, but another 6 years in other roles on ACT teams. I have my conditional LCSW and a full alcohol and drug license.

    — $40,400/year

  1627. Novelist*

    Anything from $60k to $100k a year, depending on when I’ve signed a contract (which are front-loaded on signature advances), foreign rights deals and TV/movie options. No benefits, naturally, bur huge advantages when it comes to deductions for research/self-employment.

  1628. Educational Diagnostician*

    I assess, diagnose and create an educational plan for students with disabilities (K-12) .
    I work a school schedule (summers off!)
    -60K/yr as a first year

    Masters in Education, Bachelors in Journalism
    K12 Special Educational Teacher Certification
    EC-6 Generalist Teacher Certification
    Ed. Diag. Certification

  1629. Web Coordinator*

    – Job: Updating and daily maintenance of website. Light front end web development (HTML, CSS). Light Photoshop editing to save graphics for web use. Some Google Analytics reporting. Sometimes some more complicated web development (JavaScript).
    – Location: NYC
    – Years of Exp: 5
    – Salary: $60k (paid hourly, ~$33/hr)

    Non-Profit. Have been here less than a year. Started here as a temp (after a year and a half of unemployment) and then was asked to stay permanently pretty quickly. I think I am slightly overqualified for what they originally had in mind for the position, so I am slowly taking on more responsibilities. I know they went over their original budget for the position when they made me the offer.

    1. Web Coordinator*

      Oh, also I have a Bachelor’s, and our benefits package is pretty good.

  1630. Project mana,government health agency*

    I work for the government of Ontario in the city of toronto. I make 83,000 a year. I have 1year of previous experience as a project coordinator which was my first job after graduating. However i have 6 year experience volunteering and working part time in similar roles in high school and university. This allowed me to build a solid foundation and make a quick salary jump!

    1. Project manager,government health agency*

      I forgot to mention a have a bachelors degree in health science

  1631. Project Manager Associate*

    Job: I work for a very large, international semiconductor company. My department reviews SW code prior to external distribution. I currently do not manage anyone from an HR perspective, but do direct work for a small team (5).
    Area: SoCal
    XP: 12 (3 overseas with another company)
    Salary: $92,000 + stock options + yearly bonus (determined by how well the company does)
    Very nice health coverage with minimal co-pay ($35/doctor visit, no rx costs, free preventive care)
    15 days vacation, 11 work-mandated holidays, 1 employee health day, unlimited sick time (honor system)
    The EHD is cool because you can use it for whatever. It can’t roll over, so you have to take it within the calendar year.
    401k match
    Note: I would like to point out that I don’t have a secondary degree. Don’t even have a PMP or CAPM. I count myself very lucky I have gotten to the point I have without either of those things, but it also shows that it is possible to make a healthy wage without traditional university/college degrees.

  1632. Aliea Mcbooth*

    Position: Business Process Analyst
    Duties: Work with goverment offices on developing new processes and business solutions for IT, Adminstration, Operations and Engineering related issues.
    State: Ohio
    Background: Ten years with company. Including 2 years as intern and 8 years in field.
    Education: MBA in Operations and Supply
    Chain Management. BA in Oganizational Leadership and Management.
    Salary: $80,000.00
    Benifits: Goverment employment, great low cost medical and dental, pension and deferred compensation plan, two weeks vacation and two personal days, 120 hours sick time per year with ability to rollover time, eligible for comp time, yearly longevity pay, job stability

  1633. Marketing Coordinator*

    All marketing work for an insurance company, including advertising (prospects and current clients), sales support, requests for proposals, etc.
    Western Massachusetts
    2 years of experience
    $37,128/year or $17.85/hour

  1634. UK charity employee*

    Job: advice and information for a charity. I research and write guidance for the public, train and coach helpline advisors, respond to enquiries from other organisations (e.g. emergency services, prisons, other charities) and run in-house training sessions. I’m an individual contributor so no direct reports.
    Geographic area: London, UK
    Years of experience: 11 years in media and communications, 2 years relevant volunteer work, first role in the charity sector, also did a relevant postgrad course to retrain
    Salary: £30k approx and will go up about £1k a year to £34k (this is gross pay, would be pointless listing net as everyone’s different e.g. my net pay if after student loan deductions)
    Benefits: 25 days paid holiday and you can sell 5 or buy 5 more, plus 8 bank holidays and 5 days we’re closed – so effectively up to 43 days off a year, flexible hours, 35-hour week with comp time for anything worked over that, can work from home once a week, interest-free travel loan, generous employer pension contribution, subsidised yoga and Pilates classes, a very good EAP, 8 weeks full sick pay then 8 on half pay (goes up to 12 weeks/16 weeks after 2 years and keeps going up based on years of service).

    This is an above-average salary for the UK with an unusually short working week.

  1635. Television Writer/Producer*

    – Job: On Air Promotion
    – Duties: I write and produce commercials for prime time shows on a major TV network. It’s a pretty niche field and I’ve always worked on teams with 5 or less people
    – Location: Los Angeles
    – Years of Exp: 10+ years
    – Salary: $92,060/yr (paid hourly, ~$44.26/hr)

    Addt’l info:
    – Education: B.A. in Communication
    – Started my career in NYC before moving to LA. I was able to significantly increase my salary by moving to new companies about every 3-4 years
    – Career trajectory: Apprentice (rate: $10/hr) > Production Assistant (starting salary $41k/yr) > Associate Producer (starting salary: $57k/yr) > Freelance Producer (day rate: $350/day OR hourly rate: $40/hr) > Writer/Producer (starting salary: $90k/yr)

  1636. AGirlNamedViolet*

    your job: tax assurance specialist (essentially working in a payroll company and ensuring that the back-end of payroll is properly completed; ensuring all payrolls have been loaded properly for IRS and state payment/940/941 reporting and year end verification)
    your geographic area: South Florida
    your years of experience: 7 years in payroll
    your salary: $20 p/h. generous PTO and floating holidays, but required to work Saturdays/Sundays and holidays if they fall into the quarter and year end dates

  1637. executive assistant*

    EA at Legal dept at medium sized privately held company. Support 4 execs and general office management.
    Location: SF Bay Area
    Salary: $70k/year

  1638. Corporate Business Continuity Manager*

    Region: US East Coast, New England, major (expensive!) big city
    Salary: US$125,000 base (got 25% bump on moving here)
    Bonus: up to $15,000 (but never near that high yet)
    Leave: 3 weeks paid vacation, maternity 6 weeks paid, sick 5 days? (manager focuses on job being done, no need to even notify of absence unless there’s a reason.)

    Responsibilities: independently coordinate international business continuity and emergency planning for a megacorp’s warehouses & corporate.

    Experience: 15 years, MBA and industry professional certs, prior first responder

  1640. Business Services Coordinator*

    Midstream oil and gas company in Calgary, AB (Canada)
    I coordinate an owner/operator program, mainly dealing with insurance premiums/claims and general administration. I supervise three people.
    Years of experience: 9 years with this company, 12 years in professional office jobs
    Salary: 74,100

  1641. Marketing Coordinator*

    Job: Entry-level marketing and proposal coordinator for a small civil engineering company. Develop responses to Sources Sought, RFIs, and RFPs. Create marketing collateral including newsletters, brochures, and exhibit materials. Although entry-level, I’m the only full-time marketing staff member; I often act as the main point of contact for the company when it comes to teaming with other companies.

    Geographic area: Orlando, Florida

    Years of experience: 2.25 years if you include full-time internship; 1.75 if you do not include full-time internship

    Salary: $48,000

    Pertinent info: I started at $45,000 and got a raise with my 6 month review. I believe the raise occurred primarily to put me above the minimum amount in the overtime law that everyone thought was going into effect at the time.

  1642. Elle*

    District manager- Corporate Dining contract food service

    12+ years experience in the industry
    $7M+ managed volume
    12 salaried management direct reports w/ a team of 100 combined hourly’
    Midwest
    $81k base + 40% potential bonus, 6% 401k match, health benefits split, 20 days PTO

  1643. Staff attorney*

    STaff attorney for a state court in a southern city.
    6 year starts at this job, 2 years at previous court
    Salary is currently $103k, with frequent COLA raises.
    10 holidays off, 15 annual leave and 15 sick
    3% 401k match
    I don’t use our health insurance, but it’s not great
    I get to telework 2-3x per week

  1644. Kornbred*

    Welder/ welder helper (husband,wife team)for natural gas pipeline.we earn approximately $250,000 annually.we weld pipe, but sometimes spend long hours at work,and many months away from home.

  1645. Actuary*

    Job: qualified actuary – recent ACAS working in property/casualty consulting
    Geography: NYC
    Years of experience: 4.5
    Salary: $105,000 base, I’m new to the position and don’t have a target bonus explicitly but expect 5-10%

  1646. Senior UX Copywriter*

    Boston, MA – soon to be transferred to the SF Bay Office
    6 years experience
    $81K (about to be $106k with a SF cost of living increase)
    Unlimited sick time, 3 weeks vacation, ok health insurance, shitty 401k match.

  1647. melliza*

    – Legal Assistant / Secretary
    – Los Angeles, CA
    – Less than one year
    – $36,000 (before taxes)
    – Female
    – Still living with parents

  1648. Museum Curator*

    Curator
    Canada-Ontario
    3 years of experience
    $73k
    Plus: matching funds pension, 3 weeks vacation, good sick/family leave, opportunities for $10k raises every 5-10 years.

  1649. Bookkeeper*

    And then some
    Chicago area
    3 years experience
    $45,000/year
    I work in a small insurance office (<30). I handle invoicing, payables, receivables. BUT also lots of general office stuff like ordering supplies, equipment upkeep, and IT liason/troubleshooting. BA but not in accounting.

  1650. Account Manager*

    Account manager (50% sales 50% support B2B SaaS product)
    Dallas, Texas
    1 year on the job, 10 years in the industry I am now selling to.
    $61,000, unlimited time off, catered food, insurance (health, vision, dental, life, short-term, long-term, AD&D)

  1651. HR Systems Admin*

    Implement, configure and troubleshoot multiple HR systems (specializing in applicant tracking systems)
    SoCal
    8+ years experience
    $85K+
    (I am project lead, team lead)

  1652. Instructional Designer*

    Job: Instructional Designer for a 4-year private nonprofit “elite” higher education institution. I work directly with faculty members to design, develop and deploy online courses for graduate and certificate programs. I build courses in LMS, consult with faculty on design, do occasional tech support.
    Geographic area: DC
    Years of experience: 5
    Salary: $62k
    Other: 8% matching 403(b) contributions, free tuition, ample professional development funding, yearly salary increases, decent medical benefits

  1653. Research Administrator*

    The job: I run grants from the cradle (proposals) to the grave (post-award and closeout) for a university.

    My area: the Southeast

    My experience: in this position, 1 1/2 years. Though I did some work in other positions on/with grants for 5 years.

    My salary: $52,552. Generous benefits, including a 2:1 employer match for retirement contributions up to 10%. My health premiums in the U.S. are currently $28 a month. I get 12 days of sick time and 15 days of vacation time a year.

    Other pertinent information: I have two master’s degrees and a Ph.D., though none of those are directly related to the academic departments with which I currently work. The downside is that this can be an extremely stressful job.

  1655. Underwriting Assistant*

    Commercial Insurance – Underwriting Assistant.
    I have 5 years of underwriting experience making 37k/yr as a Personal Lines Underwriter in Berks County, Pa.

    This month I accepted a position in commercial lines as a Commercial Underwriting Assistant making 42k/yr in Philadelphia and will start in two weeks.

    I analyze incoming new business for risk. I bind coverage, accept or decline applications, and explain coverage to agents.

    1. Additional Information*

      Benefits: 401k 5% company match, 30 days PTO, dental/medical coverage, up to 5k tuition reimbursement, company gives $500 to HSA savings account at start of year for medical expenses

      Education: Associate degree

  1656. Director of Major Gifts*

    Hi Everyone!

    Can we reinvigorate this thread? Here’s my info:

    Title: Director of Major Gifts (and project manager for a few organizational initiatives)
    Salary: $88K
    Benefits: 17 vacation days + 2 personal days + 2 volunteer days + 10 sick days annually + decent health insurance and commuter benefit plan (been with my org for 6 years and have 10+ years experience in nonprofit sector)
    Geographic Area: Greater Philadelphia

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