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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:21:36 PM EDT

[#1]

Not even six figures.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:21:39 PM EDT

[#2]

About 261k.

About to make a career change that will add 100k to that.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:23:03 PM EDT

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Personally I'm an older millennial software dork who turned a hobby in to a career. I know quite a few engineers who are 5 - 10 years younger than I am and make similar pay.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:23:59 PM EDT

[#4]

Be nice to add an age range for context. 25-30, 30-35, etc.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:24:14 PM EDT

[#5]

I make $69,000

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:24:27 PM EDT

[#6]

I'm at 198 YTD. Highly trained monkey.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:24:43 PM EDT

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Why?

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:25:01 PM EDT

[#8]

Yep. Not next year though.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:25:17 PM EDT

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My dad is a boomer. I'm a millennial.

Lots of millennials and X's are pulling six figures now.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:26:13 PM EDT

[#10]

I'm a self employed small business owner so not even close.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:26:14 PM EDT

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Now also consider (as you already have, I'm sure) that they had the ability to buy into a lot of equity markets early, like real estate, and have therefore benefitted from decades of fiscal and economic policy designed to make sure those markets rarely if ever lost value.

The can is kicked to the end of the cliff. Maybe it's already been kicked over it?

But yes, Arf does have a very skewed view of socioeconomics. (And a great thread on "socioeconomics and you!" (Bonk!))

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:26:46 PM EDT

[#12]

On track for 300k. But that's because I have been at the job forever and live in a location where there is an extremely high cost of living allowance.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:26:52 PM EDT

[#13]

$172k salary
$22.5k 401k maxed employer match @4%
HSA maxed out at 3850
$57k in comp so far
In accelerators for Q4 looking to come in around 260k when all is said and done

Pre Sales software engineer

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:27:02 PM EDT

[#14]

April or May.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:27:12 PM EDT

[#15]

Close but not quite unless I count 401k match.

132k salary
10k bonus
6% match pits me at 150k and change.

Next year should put me there with an increase based on my masters I finished up this year.

I do a mix of cloud security and more recently data science to go along with security initiatives

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:27:15 PM EDT

[#16]

BAHAHAHAHAHA..... FUCK NO

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:27:24 PM EDT

[#17]

No. I is a pore.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:27:37 PM EDT

[#18]

I'm an arfcommer posting in GD. Obviously I make that kinda coin.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:27:49 PM EDT

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Not a boomer (37yo). Found out I was losing my job in nuclear in 2018, fortunately had a couple of years' notice. Decided to go back to school and grind my way into cybersecurity jobs. Currently a Sr. ISSO after less than 2 years in the field.

It's 100% doable for anyone willing to put in the hours and work hard

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:28:38 PM EDT

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Personally, no, but I'm not "working" right now, either. I'll earn anywhere from 40-80k as a stay-at-home dad with two kids.

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@Bourbonator what's your hustle? You can PM me if you don't want to give it away.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:30:21 PM EDT

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Not a boomer (37yo). Found out I was losing my job in nuclear in 2018, fortunately had a couple of years' notice. Decided to go back to school and grind my way into cybersecurity jobs. Currently a Sr. ISSO after less than 2 years in the field.

It's 100% doable for anyone willing to put in the hours and work hard

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Want to move to Texas

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:31:33 PM EDT

[#22]

I am retired and I just sent in a $4k quarterly income tax payment. I also have $36k in property taxes due by the end of the year.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:32:13 PM EDT

[#23]

The 9-5 $105K
The Side Hustle @$75K
The GF $70k

all good in my hood.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:33:08 PM EDT

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About 20% of the country makes over 150k

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That is household, not individual though.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:34:19 PM EDT

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I am retired and I just sent in a $4k quarterly income tax payment.

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Ouch. I don't miss paying taxes one bit.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:34:26 PM EDT

[#26]

Unlikely.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:35:26 PM EDT

[#27]

$220k base salary.

$ 26,000 403b contribution paid by my employer

No revenue form rental property this year, transitioning some tenants and doing some major repairs.

Revenue for my share of the the family farm land management business will be about $80k this year.

Wife works as a high school English teacher, the does it for something to do. I think she makes like $48k or so.

And yes, true to GD fashion I drive an 8 year old Toyota pickup.

The IRS is going to love me tenderly this year...

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:35:33 PM EDT

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Any tips to get into your line of work?

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I'm doing Professional Services for AWS - I basically work for AWS, but I embed with other large companies to teach them how to use cloud services, implement their migrations, etc. Right now I'm the technical lead on a project migrating 11,000 data pipelines from on-premises servers using a proprietary tool over to the AWS cloud. I didn't know this work or these type of roles existed when I was pitched this job by a recruiter, so I didn't exactly steer into it directly. That being said, this corner of the tech world is fairly nice because *I am not on call* and it is gatekept by professional exams which I actually enjoy, am good at, and on one occasion have contributed by helping to write one. I can't stress enough the benefit of having a well-paying tech job where I am never on call. I could double my income tomorrow by taking a non-consulting tech role with one of the other FAANG companies but I would have to work in an office and also be on call, a lot. I still make a pretty good living outside of a major city in my current role. Biggest gripe is that performance and monetary reward is extremely time delayed at AWS - that bump in stock I get next year is because of top performance in 2022 . . . I got a 20% pay cut in 2023 because of the stock price fluctuations, etc.

If you want to get into this line of work (and I think it is going to be a very viable line of work for quite awhile) I would start by looking at the AWS certification exams, particularly the Solutions Architect - Associate exam. A site like ACloudGuru or Tutorials Dojo should have an inexpensive intro course to let you know what you don't know you don't know . . . if it isn't radically mind-numbing then one of the Specialty level exams (Databases/ML/Security/Analytics/DevOps) might be worthwhile. Once you have a handful of certs there are companies that will take interest, message me if you want to get more into it.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:35:37 PM EDT

[#29]

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I'm a rich Xennial. Totally different. I can meme and lack the smug sense of superiority.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:37:20 PM EDT

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I'm an arfcommer posting in GD. Obviously I make that kinda coin.

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To put it another way, nobody making less than that, should be wasting time on any social media, much less Arfcom.

Time Is Money, but ironically enough, when your Time becomes Worth more, you end up with more of it to waste.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:38:20 PM EDT

[#31]

I'm right around $250k depending on bonus, could be more could be less, and not including 401k match since that's not material to my budget now. I still have a year and a half of alimony left though, and until that's up I'm living far below where I could be.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:39:54 PM EDT

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Not even close, born in 1985, no college.

Taxation is theft.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:40:47 PM EDT

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Oh no! People making more money! Travesty! Unacceptable!

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:41:38 PM EDT

[#34]

I would if the stock market was worth a damn for the rest of us that ain't in the Big Club.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:42:33 PM EDT

[#35]

My wife is a stay at home mom.
My 2023 Annual Salary: $106,500
Bonuses: $12520
401K: 100% match up to 8%

So still under.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:43:31 PM EDT

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Many of us started out poor. Being poor, is no excuse for being Communist. Don’t Covet your neighbors. Work harder than them.
Hold Yourself to a higher standard.

If you give in, to all the lowest base instincts of human nature, you’ve already lost. Demand more of yourself. Nobody is coming to the rescue. Despite the empty promises, it’s just You, vs. the Dog Eat Dog world.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:43:38 PM EDT

[#37]

Yep, this will be my best year in terms of income.

I’ll clear $150K not including 401K match.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:44:41 PM EDT

[#38]

Yes. Wife no work. I am looking forward to social security early next year.....and retirement sometime in the next couple of years. Gonna keep working during this economic turmoil.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:44:49 PM EDT

[#39]

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I'm a self employed small business owner so not even close.

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I'm also a self employed small business owner. I'll be around 150k this year. Never know for sure till Jan 1st because of cash accounting system. Might be a bit more or less depending on when clients choose to pay year end invoices.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:45:01 PM EDT

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I make $69,000

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Posted: 10/24/2023 12:46:04 PM EDT

[#41]

Together, my wife and I will make about triple that this year. I'm a photographer, she's an editor.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:46:29 PM EDT

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It’s almost like people appreciate what they have when they have to work for it vs. being given a handout.

What a crazy concept.

Posted: 10/24/2023 12:47:09 PM EDT

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No, not even with 401k match, I'm just a blue collar POS.

I like these threads though where everyone making over 150k sitting at a desk assumes everyone who's not is a lazy retard.

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I don't work from a desk, highest schooling outside of .mil schools was High School, I'm already over $150k for the year and that's not including my Navy pension.

I move big heavy stuff for a living. Plenty of blue collar guys hitting 150k+ these days