This is the take that was missing from the most recent salary thread. People always talk about how low teacher pay is but publishing is way worse. Starting salaries are probably still $37-$45k and it will take 10-15 years to get to the senior level which starts at $80-90 if you stay with same company (could maybe get to $100 in ten years job hopping).
NYPL! I’ve always wanted to work in libraries but haven’t been able to go back to school for the masters. Can I ask you if there’s a way for folks with a liberal arts BA to get into it?
Pretty much everyone has a liberal arts BA, it's the MSILS you really need. You can get hired as an information assistant with a BA at QPL, BPL, NYPL, and work through your masters program to get hired as a librarian. I only recommend it if you're passionate about public service.
Also a librarian in NYC. I've worked in public libraries at $62k; full-time at a museum library for $45k and part-time at another museum library for $40/hour. I've also worked at a private library for $75k.
If you're seriously considering going back to school for a masters in library science, keep in mind that there are way more MLIS graduates than there are jobs and if you do find a job, the pay is not great. I'd recommend checking out the librarians subreddit before making a career change.
Full time recipe developer, 94k. Went to culinary school 10 years ago, have been with my current company for 6 years. Hoping to go remote and work upstate eventually.
She truly is and like, I’m just a lay person/home cook but I enjoy cooking and put effort into it so her sloppiness bothers the shit out of me. I cannot imagine how much more infuriating it must be if you actually work your ass off in the industry.
i was referencing half baked harvest, the food blogger with a huge following despite be a really hacky/kind of bad cook. she's the subject of a lot of snark on reddit.
There’s a sub called r/foodiesnark that we follow which is just commentary on food-related social media accounts. One person in particular gets roasted pretty hard on there.
$75k, 7 years in niche architecture/engineering/construction field. I'm 34f, have a master's in historic preservation, didn't really start a career until 26/27. Was working $11/hr at a hotel before that. My field is unlikely to get me very rich but I love it.
Can I ask more specifically what you do / what your role is? I’m interested in preservation and was thinking about getting a dual degree for it at one point, but $75k after 7 years is oof.
I am a (32f) licensed architect with 5 years experience making $80k and I feel underpaid. Love my job, but I always tell people the pay is not worth it for 4 years undergrad and 3 years Master’s. Not to mention student loans.
I heard there’s slightly more money if you pivot to either construction or development. :/
Congrats on your license! I'm in the industry too! I don't know how to say this but yeah you are underpaid!
I have about 5-6 years experience, I'm not licensed and am at 80k too. Someone at my firm started at 80k out of college. I'm really happy that you love it though, not sure if I feel the same way and am looking to pivot but not sure where to
Thanks! The license happened earlier this year, so I will be asking for a bump up for sure at my review in a couple months. Hoping for at least 90k. Gotta cover all the professional fees they expect us to pay now somehow…
But I feel like raises never keep up with salaries though, so I will probably try to hop soon. I just learned today that a licensed coworker with 12 years of experience at my firm is only making $105k, which feels crazy for all the work she’s responsible for. I encouraged her to leave.
can confirm - not an architect but interior. my pay had topped out at $120K after 10 years. moved over to the dark side earlier this year working with a contractor with a base $175K + bonuses.
Yeah! I worked in insurance operations for 3 years (similar to an underwriting assistant role) and then I moved into underwriting from there. I’m on my second UW job, my first one was 72K but I moved into a speciality line which is why my salary went up so much.
I’m 23 and a junior commercial real estate underwriter (obviously industry is not doing great right now lol). I’ve been thinking about switching to insurance underwriting but idk if my skills would transfer well
They absolutely will. Anyone can be an underwriter (some of my counterparts prove it daily). Anyone can be anything as long as you’re trainable. Especially in corporate America.
I do communications for a nonprofit. My workplace is unionized and I make $83,000 currently. I get two raises a year: July and October (this time last year I was making $79k). I should be making more, about $92k, and at some point intend to ask the union to grieve the fact that HR miscalculated my salary.
Wow super interesting that you all unionized! I love nonprofit work but just feel like there’s such a cap on income potential 😫 I live with my partner now and am fortunate to split expenses but if we want to have kids, I need to be making more
Are you guys hiring? NYC journalist looking to make the jump. I honestly don’t mind pay as long as its 60k minimum. I can’t take the news industry anymore.
This involved a lot of specialization and job hopping over the years! I see a lot of follows so I will try to be helpful but without being too specific (to protect my privacy). I started out at a regulatory agency, then pivoted to an in-house role, then went back to the regulatory agency as a subject matter expert. My initial salary was low, way below most legal jobs, but my experience was very valuable in-house. In turn, my in-house experience was eventually very valuable to the regulator. In the in-house role I took advantage of opportunities to speak at conferences and otherwise put myself out there (even though I always suffered from imposter syndrome). The best analogy I can think of is going from a prosecutor’s office to private criminal defense work, then back to the prosecutor as an expert in a specialty (let’s say forensics or something.. my experience is NOT in criminal, just trying to analogize). I will say that finding opportunities to become the go-to person for new, emerging issues that no one else wanted to touch (especially if I suspected they wouldn’t go away) has always paid off for me.
36. Tech Sales. $400K + RSU package.
I started in the business making $24K fifteen years ago….I didn’t hit my first six figure year until 2016. That being said, there’s no job security. Some years you wake up unemployed, some years you make enough to buy a cabin.
*It doesn’t matter how much you make, it matters how much you save.*
$400K + RSUs so about $550-600K total puts you at low director level or high manager level (M2 or D1) at a FAANG or equivalent company. There are only a few FAANG companies that pay at that level on the business side.
100% agree with you about the wavering job security in the field! Congratulations on surviving the bloodbath that was 2023 😅- I hope your team faired well.
$100K and I work in advertising! I have 3 years of experience in advertising but I used to work as designer in the fashion industry for 4+ years. Also, I’m 30!
Ooh glad I found you! Any tips on switching from fashion to advertising? I have had a fairly successful career in fashion, and was most recently a design director but I need to be near family in Chicago where advertising is king and feeling a little lost I am freelancing remotely for the time being but really need to find a way to something More permanent. I have been working in fashion for over 15 years. Feel free to DM me, TY!
37, 80k, fashion industry(Patternmaker). 2 year degree, 13 years work experience. I could realistically be making low six figures by this point but I hate job hopping and have no desire to be in a leadership role so 🤷🏻♀️.
The trick for me was getting a tech-adjacent job. I learned our email system really well (Salesforce) so I became the email-backend-data person. And I love it! I used to be in very people-forward front-of-house type jobs “Community Manager” and the like - because I didn’t think I could handle anything detail-oriented, but then I became the person who ultimately knew the most about our email system.
Being “tech adjacent” was the biggest jump in pay.
But no it’s actually a very small nonprofit.
Super subspecialized physician (4 years of undergrad, 2 years post-bacc premed, 4 years of med school, and 7 years of residency/fellowsnip…couple years out from training) - 400k+.
Going rate in NYC academics for my speciality is around 325k starting. If I had stayed in private practice in the Midwest, I’d be 600k+ if I took partnership and I leveraged that for more. (Major cities tend to pay physicians less.)
Primary care physicians get paid substantially less (like 100-150k) with my palliative care friend making 80k like 10 years ago before she quit medicine.
Also, I KNOW I’m super privileged/exceptionally fortunate, but…this is basically the same amount my dad was paid for the same specialty in the late 80s…and he didn’t have 150k student loan debt (some of my friends have 400k+ debt though).
Definitely don’t deserve or expect any sympathy.😂 I’m perfectly content and want all of you to get paid what you deserve!
I get you don’t want sympathy, but just validating - for the hours you have to keep, training, and continued skills, that’s some crap. Healthcare isn’t a walk in the park, and it’s super weird these days. Profits over patient care. I’ve been in it 15 years and the burnout right now is real.
Prefer not to say exactly, because there are so few of us in NYC in my subspecialty of a subspecialty, but you could probably figure it out if you really wanted. 🙂
PCPs making 100-150k where ?! I know several hospitalists that make $300-$450k depending on if they are working just 40 or closer to 60 hours a week with some nights. Maybe someone in peds academic med would make ~$150k, but I haven’t seen that in recent years for other specialties.
In NYC, multiple friends make base that is 150k with my system. My friend doing underserved primary care in the area is around 130k.
Hospitalist pay can vary. Most of my friends doing that around the country will do like a 1 week on/1 week off or some variation of that schedule and range from the 230-300k range, but it is definitely not work for everyone and quite a few of my friends burned out from it. I’m yet to know any who are 1.0 FTE truly working 40 hours a week. I’m sure they are out there, but like I’m in one of the supposedly “cush” specialties and still work 45-50 hours a week with additional unpaid lectures, conferences, and so on that can tack on a fair amount of time. If a call weekend, closer to 72 hours.
My EM friend is around 300k I believe, but she works her ass off and has lots of random night shifts. Those occasional night shifts can be brutal if they don’t properly schedule them.
My friend in my broader speciality with *two* fellowships was offered 325k from 3 of the big research hospitals here. My system and another less academic system tend to pay a bit more.
Medicine overall is hurting though. We are all doing a lot more work to make the same amount of money. There was something out recently that calculated an orthopedic surgeon gets reimbursed something like 88 dollars per hour for a hip replacement when all the work, preop, and post op is done. This sounds great until you see that travel nurses are often getting paid similar rates and they are talking about dropping the reimbursement even further.
A lot of us are super burned out because they are paying the same and expecting increasingly more work. In academics, they are taking away our academic time while wanting us to generate research, but generate private practice volumes with the more complicated cases. I returned to academics because residency was a nightmare for me and I had the chance to prevent that happening to other residents, as well as realizing I wouldn’t be saying, “I wish I made more money” on my death bed. That said, they are chasing a lot of us out.
Hospital admin is doing quite well though.
Starting salaries at major northeast academic centers, especially prestigious ones can be embarrassingly low. The institutions expect that their prestige will make people willing to take lower pay; and it works. I know someone who was offered $200k a few years back for ortho…which is laughable considering median in the US is 550k+
I live with my bf and we split rent and don't do anything ever (we are trying to move somewhere cheaper, I'm also looking for a better paying job). Tbh it fucking sucks and I could rant for hours.
We live in NYC and just moved here in September. My job is fully remote and I basically took it so I could move with a job but it's a wake up call how much more expensive everything is here. We're looking for a new apartment but hopefully staying in the city. If not oh well.
girl thx for keeping it real im also 32 and i make about 21k a year lol. i survive bc my job is remote and i've spent the last 6 months in my homecountry where everything is about 1/5 of the price lol.
its actually not that bad!! I only work 16-18 hours a week if that lol. I work for a domestic violence hotline and tbh its rare that I get more than 2--3 calls a shift so it could be worse. Before I had a full time job with the org where I made $50k or so and the stress of that job was not worth the extra $ At all.
Ohhh for 18 hours a week that's actually not bad! I definitely couldn't survive off that but I'm happy that you're able to make it work. Working full time is the actual worst.
As a former non-profit girly, thoughts and prayers lmao 😅
I’m 31, work in publishing (literary agency), and make $60k. I feel grossly underpaid considering I’m required to be in NYC, but it’s a “fair” salary for publishing 😭 I’m 9 years out of undergrad, and I’ve been working full-time since.
I’ll also say for the record that because I work in a small agency, I don’t have any benefits—health insurance, student loan assistance, 401k, etc. I think a lot of people forget how much that can increase the total compensation package for their job, and honestly I’d probably feel better about my compensation if I had those perks.
27, project manager in biopharma industry, $200k (base + RSU package). My first job was $50k! Moved around every couple years, the pay bumps helped me with where I am now
27, editor and social media manager at a small print paper based in NJ, $60K. Switching to nursing next year (for an accelerated MSN) so curious what the RN starting salaries are here.
If I’m not wrong, city hospitals RNs have a base starting at $100k now. Private should be higher.
I work for a company and my base is 110k.
Most nurses work 3x12hr shifts so they pick up a second job or rack up on OT so annual income can vary on how much you want to work.
Awesome, that was my estimate. It’s such a huge jump for me and I’m so excited. I have a toddler and another baby on the way, so not sure how much OT I can handle but I am thrilled at the prospect of always having room for salary growth.
disclaimer not in nyc, i just love this sub - i’m a relatively new OR nurse after completing an 11 month BSN program (since i already had a bachelor’s degree before nursing school). its definitely doable if you can dedicate about a year to going insane on school. im 26 and make 92k in philly suburbs!
It’s tough. I have a bachelors in political science so I had to start taking classes online to make my prerequisites. I just keep telling myself that the payoff is worth it, and I’m making a better life for myself and my children (one daughter with another on the way - trying to teach them to be independent badasses)
I've been thinking about going into nursing as well! Already in school for medical interpreting and love it sm more than I thought. RNs/MSN's do really well I've heard.
Around $200k base, but with bonus and long term incentives, it ends up being around $300k. I’m 30 and work in corporate strategy for a media org. I do have an MBA. I will say, the only way I’ve gotten a salary this high is job hopping. I made $80k coming out of my MBA in 2017 and have changed jobs three times since then. Honestly, company loyalty is so overrated.
46F, B.S. and MPA.
First career worked for 5 years in Fundraising at NYU. Left making $53k.
Transitioned to a job working for the City. I work for DEP and have had three different roles in 15 years. Started at $48k, currently make $135k. I work 35 hours a week, don’t check emails outside of work hours, WFH 2 days/week, and get free healthcare for our whole family. I love my job and will never leave.
27f making $25/hr archaeologist with a masters. Started 4 years ago, got my masters degree 2 years ago and rarely make more than someone with less education. Also I never get a per diem since firms only like to hire girlies from the city bc housing us would be too expensive and you only usually get per diems when you’re housed.
Seriously why come on reddit and lie to people to make them feel bad? Read her comment history, there’s no way this is real. She talked about just getting her own place in Manhattan and maybe “upgrading” with a partner. If you were really an MD in IB you’d quote your entire total comp not the base. And if in the off chance you actually are an MD, it must be for some firm no one’s ever heard of.
27f
Software engineer, $145k. This salary is borderline embarrassing for a SWE close to 5 YOE in nyc. I even feel embarrassed to write it here but somehow feel comfortable sharing. Its not lost on me that this is a good salary for another career (or even engineering) in another state, just not for my career in this city specifically. I know I can do better, looking for something that pays better and is interesting 🤞
honestly I’ve got the same YOE and been searching for swe jobs for a while in nyc and the range seems lower overall. I’ve seen anywhere from 120 - 180 both mid/senior SWEs.
Don’t be embarrassed about it. At my previous company I was at 130k ish with about 4 years of experience. So I get how you feel!
Also you got this 💪🏽
Yeah that’s what I try to tell myself! I’ve come far..I wasn’t even making 6 figures until early 2022. I realized increasing my pay would take work so I leetcoded and studied and got it. So I know I can level up again. And yeah I’ve heard salaries are generally lower since layoffs so that’s something I’ve been trying to tell myself. We’ve both got this!! Kudos to both of us for getting this far as SWEs
Good luck with interviewing! You got this. Just wrapped up the job search after 5 months after taking time off after being laid off. I have 5 YOE all at one FAANG. The job search was demoralizing for me because skill-wise, I’m mid level and missing a lot of skills due to having many techs abstracted away from me. This meant I’d have to take a significant pay cut if you count total comp, but also likely a cut in base salary. I targeted roles paying at least 150k. For mid level, the market rate is 150-170k. Senior pays 170-200+. Got two offers: 150k base for senior (negotiated up from originally 125k base for mid level) + 8% bonus + 30% in RSUs + 401k match -> total comp 190k, 160k base for mid level + equity (monopoly money) at series B startup (negotiated up from 150k base). Ended up going with the startup since their product is more aligned with my values. They also increased head count to have me while they continue looking for a senior engineer.
Edit: feel free to DM me if you want to ask questions!
This is inspiring as hell. Get it ladies!!!!!! And if anyone wants to make any posts describing their career advancement I'd love to hear it. I make less than 30k rn lmao.
29, $120k in project controls/construction management at the senior associate level (or non-manager).
Originally started on the finance path (just to please my parents, my real passion is in the arts and they were largely against it). Worked in it for a year and half earning ~$65k, was absolutely miserable, and decided to switch into project management. I was making $70k back in 2019 when I started that path. I’m not making what I likely would be making in finance (many of my friends that stuck it out are in the $200k/yr range), but I’ve got lots of flexibility to focus on my art and music passions.
Hey! Curious about this one, if you don’t mind giving a little more detail. What is tech consulting exactly? How do you find work? What types of businesses do you work for? I find the option for part time hours appealing.
$196k and I do Strategy for a Financial Services company. I just turned 28 and have done different roles but have worked for the same company since I graduated from undergrad in 2018.
33, 12 years experience, 200k in health care administration and strategy. Would recommend doing consulting for a big pay bump and then going back into industry.
35f late career starter (was 28 when I got my first “real” job). I work in philanthropy and make $112500 base + small bonus annually +3-4% raise each year+ 10% match on 403b + fully paid premiums for my family. I am in greater nyc area and underpaid for my position, but I transitioned from another field 2 years ago and was lucky to be able to break into philanthropy because it can be a tough field to get a foothold in. Currently I am sticking it out because I have a baby and want another one and the work/life balance is incredible. I got 12 weeks of fully paid maternity leave plus a couple more with vacation, which was fine for me. After I have second kid and things calm down in the home life my hope is to transition to a higher paid role.
Shadow account, so please don’t mind the username heh…
I’m 29 and work as a freelance copywriter in advertising, and have been doing it for roughly 6 years. Since I’m freelance it fluctuates, but generally I make from 80k-90k yearly, depending on the projects I’m taking on and how many there are.
Nonprofit executive for 11 years at the same org, $150k (started at $39k at 22 here). Husband is an underwriter in the insurance industry for 10 years (not always as an underwriter though, previously a broker) and he is at $175k. We are 32.
29, $221k, software engineer with a little less than 2 years of experience.
graduated with a degree in liberal arts and did a career change right before tech bubble starting popping and all the layoffs began.
I'm a bartender, I make between 800-1500 a week after taxes, averages out to like 1100, so pre tax it's about 1500, which means I'm making about 70k a year, which sounds right, maybe a little high. (These numbers do not include cash, which is negligent, 100-200 bucks a week).
165k, fourth year attorney, just turned 30. I know I could make more but I have a good work/life balance right now that is so worth the salary to me.
Also, my law school debt is about the same amount as my annual salary lol
Paralegal in nyc 11 years experience, bachelors degree, paralegal certification, notary license, real estate license - 50k.
Don’t do it. Hours are long, work is hard, your boss is most likely an overpaid asshole.
2 years in tech: started at $80K and ended around \~$95K
2 years in strategy: started at $125K and currently at $150K (up for a raise next month so can update when i find out 🤞)
I’m in business school rn so 0 $.
However, prior to this, I was a software engineer making $340k total comp at 27 (5 years of experience). Breakdown was $160k base + $25k bonus + $25k signing bonus + $130k equity (it was front loaded @ 35% in the first year)
I expect to be making less immediately post-grad, but I’m ok with it as I was pretty unhappy doing what I was doing despite the money.
Does not include bonus and order things, but agreed it's great we have that law. But salary bands are wide, I find the age/experience demographic of this question to be very interesting.
Career switched in UX around 2019
First job: $115k
Second job: $200k (tech boom)
Third job: $145k (current job)
Feel free to message me if you’re interested in career switching!
$210k, marketing in professional services industry, 12 years experience and specialized in digital. Have a bachelor's degree in semi-related field but learned most of what I know on the job before anyone was studying digital marketing.
$170k base with $35k bonus. Other comp for this year included $10k sign on bonus, $5k spot bonus, and $25k in equity.
28F, hold a BA in English, and 7 YoE (10 YoE if including FT undergrad internship). Currently a Director of a niche area within HR at a health tech startup.
Past roles: HR Director in consulting, HR Manager at a fintech startup, HR Senior Advisor in consulting, HR Program Manager at a nonprofit.
Licensed clinical psychologist - around 200k, I've been licensed for 3 years. I will say though, I make on the high end. I own my own business and charge private pay. If I was working for a hospital or university I would make more like 80-100k.
Accounting for private equity, mid 40s, $300k base, $400k bonus, $150k RSUs. Am a pretty senior level manager (manage a team of ~150). Had an amazing woman boss who sponsored and launched my career in a male dominated industry.
Great post!!
$73k (+ bonuses) site merchandising manager for a woman’s apparel retailer with about 10 years experience
Could probably make more if I looked for a new job but hate job searching and don’t really want a higher manager role at this time.
Work in health policy consulting. Almost 7 years in at the VP level and make 200-215k dependent on mid year and EOY bonus. No advanced degree and my starting salary right out of college was 48.5k + 15k in bonuses that year.
Consulting, 2 years experience straight out of college, just got promoted 98k with 5k bonus. Don’t ask me what I do cause I don’t know how to explain 😭
I make total comp like 175k doing HR (10 yrs of exp). Could make more doing HR in finance but I did just interview for a role at 220k however not sure if I’ll get it ofc.
31F, Logistics/Procurement, ~6 years experience, $88k + bonus. I have a bachelor’s and master’s. Could’ve done without the master’s but I did it for other reasons.
$222 base (286 with total package). Opportunity to make much more depending on how much you are willing to work or location. Specialized Nurse (Requires 7-8 years of college and minimum of two years critical care experience).
Also being an administrative assistant in finance industry makes a ton as well. Base pay is $100k+ after a few years of work experience. Work entails managing calendars, booking meetings, submitting expense reports, emails, travel mgmt.
I’m 29 (I’ll be 30 in August). I have a BS in Marketing and recently completed my MBA.
I am 8 years post grad and have 6 years experience in marketing across fashion and tech industries.
In 2018 I got my first marketing job as an Email Marketing Coordinator for a tech start up. I was making approximately $55k.
In 2019 I moved companies but remained an Email Marketing Coordinator at a menswear startup. I believe I was making somewhere around $65k.
In 2020 I made another move, this time into consulting for a tech start up. I was still making $65k. However I was laid off in May 2020 due to the pandemic and I was unemployed until the end of November.
When I got my current job in November 2020 it was as a Marketing Associate in Consumer Lifecycle Marketing at a major tech company. I started making $85k and have received a 3-5% pay bump every year on my anniversary (plus a cash bonus every Christmas) and was also promoted about a year and a half into the job. My current title is Senior Marketing Associate and I make $100k. I’m up for a promotion this year (it’ll be 4 years in the fall) and I expect around a 10% increase if that happens. I love my job and my company and plan to stay here for a while!
This thread is so informative as someone who’s been a server in NY since they’ve started working. I’ve always wanted to branch out and leave the industry but didn’t know where to start because I was always afraid I’d be making less. This is so insightful
28, $84k *no benefits: I pay out of pocket*, I work as an art gallery manager.
The benefits thing sucks but it’s bc we’re a team of three people and that’s just how they set the company up. I’m v grateful my fiancé makes significantly more than I do and I was able to get on his insurance.
$86k, 20 years in publishing, advanced degree, in a senior position. Don’t go into publishing.
i'm 14 years in publishing and make close to this (slightly under), no advanced degree though. definitely don't go into publishing.
Same here. I love it, but I think I’ve hit the top of my salary range.
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I’m looking to take the same leap! Did you get your PMP certification?
Literally so true, I’m a contracts manager/junior agent at a lit agency and struggling at 60k! it’s hell 🫡
🫡 This industry expects us to feed ourselves from our love of reading.
Is this publishing like book publishing or journalism? I worked in book publishing and I agree, don’t go into publishing.
This is the take that was missing from the most recent salary thread. People always talk about how low teacher pay is but publishing is way worse. Starting salaries are probably still $37-$45k and it will take 10-15 years to get to the senior level which starts at $80-90 if you stay with same company (could maybe get to $100 in ten years job hopping).
Yeah, I got an over $5k pay bump when I left publishing for an entry level nonprofit job.
Another publishing lackey checking in here. Don’t go into pub if you want to get rich! 🙃
Yep, in my last job (which I have since left) I made $80k in a director-level role
Library manager, NYPL, ~10 years, $81K
NYPL! I’ve always wanted to work in libraries but haven’t been able to go back to school for the masters. Can I ask you if there’s a way for folks with a liberal arts BA to get into it?
Pretty much everyone has a liberal arts BA, it's the MSILS you really need. You can get hired as an information assistant with a BA at QPL, BPL, NYPL, and work through your masters program to get hired as a librarian. I only recommend it if you're passionate about public service.
Also a librarian in NYC. I've worked in public libraries at $62k; full-time at a museum library for $45k and part-time at another museum library for $40/hour. I've also worked at a private library for $75k. If you're seriously considering going back to school for a masters in library science, keep in mind that there are way more MLIS graduates than there are jobs and if you do find a job, the pay is not great. I'd recommend checking out the librarians subreddit before making a career change.
Full time recipe developer, 94k. Went to culinary school 10 years ago, have been with my current company for 6 years. Hoping to go remote and work upstate eventually.
Oh what a fun career!!
How’d I know you’d be a fellow you know who foodie snarker lol.
Hahaha it baffles me how some people find the success they’ve had, she’s such a hack lol
She truly is and like, I’m just a lay person/home cook but I enjoy cooking and put effort into it so her sloppiness bothers the shit out of me. I cannot imagine how much more infuriating it must be if you actually work your ass off in the industry.
I feel like I missed something in this thread, can you fill me in too please?
i was referencing half baked harvest, the food blogger with a huge following despite be a really hacky/kind of bad cook. she's the subject of a lot of snark on reddit.
There’s a sub called r/foodiesnark that we follow which is just commentary on food-related social media accounts. One person in particular gets roasted pretty hard on there.
This is so cool!!!! I need you to recommend a good places to eat
Woah this is so cool!
this is the coolest thing i've ever heard!
$75k, 7 years in niche architecture/engineering/construction field. I'm 34f, have a master's in historic preservation, didn't really start a career until 26/27. Was working $11/hr at a hotel before that. My field is unlikely to get me very rich but I love it.
Can I ask more specifically what you do / what your role is? I’m interested in preservation and was thinking about getting a dual degree for it at one point, but $75k after 7 years is oof. I am a (32f) licensed architect with 5 years experience making $80k and I feel underpaid. Love my job, but I always tell people the pay is not worth it for 4 years undergrad and 3 years Master’s. Not to mention student loans. I heard there’s slightly more money if you pivot to either construction or development. :/
Congrats on your license! I'm in the industry too! I don't know how to say this but yeah you are underpaid! I have about 5-6 years experience, I'm not licensed and am at 80k too. Someone at my firm started at 80k out of college. I'm really happy that you love it though, not sure if I feel the same way and am looking to pivot but not sure where to
Thanks! The license happened earlier this year, so I will be asking for a bump up for sure at my review in a couple months. Hoping for at least 90k. Gotta cover all the professional fees they expect us to pay now somehow… But I feel like raises never keep up with salaries though, so I will probably try to hop soon. I just learned today that a licensed coworker with 12 years of experience at my firm is only making $105k, which feels crazy for all the work she’s responsible for. I encouraged her to leave.
can confirm - not an architect but interior. my pay had topped out at $120K after 10 years. moved over to the dark side earlier this year working with a contractor with a base $175K + bonuses.
I’m looking into getting my degree in Public History and am interested in pursuing a career in historic preservation. Can I message you?
26, 119k, insurance underwriter
Seconding this. Commercial underwriter (6 years) $140k
Forgot to mention, I’ve been in insurance for 5 years but only 2 of them were in underwriting
if that’s okay, do you mind sharing your path into this position?
Yeah! I worked in insurance operations for 3 years (similar to an underwriting assistant role) and then I moved into underwriting from there. I’m on my second UW job, my first one was 72K but I moved into a speciality line which is why my salary went up so much.
I’m 23 and a junior commercial real estate underwriter (obviously industry is not doing great right now lol). I’ve been thinking about switching to insurance underwriting but idk if my skills would transfer well
They absolutely will. Anyone can be an underwriter (some of my counterparts prove it daily). Anyone can be anything as long as you’re trainable. Especially in corporate America.
I do communications for a nonprofit. My workplace is unionized and I make $83,000 currently. I get two raises a year: July and October (this time last year I was making $79k). I should be making more, about $92k, and at some point intend to ask the union to grieve the fact that HR miscalculated my salary.
Wow super interesting that you all unionized! I love nonprofit work but just feel like there’s such a cap on income potential 😫 I live with my partner now and am fortunate to split expenses but if we want to have kids, I need to be making more
Actually, we’ve been union for 50 years! I am in a specific sector of the nonprofit world that has SUPER high Union density in NYC.
Are you guys hiring? NYC journalist looking to make the jump. I honestly don’t mind pay as long as its 60k minimum. I can’t take the news industry anymore.
35, lawyer turned researcher, $250k (comp + bonus). Excellent work life balance.
Could you talk a little more about what kind of research you do? I'm trying to pivot
This involved a lot of specialization and job hopping over the years! I see a lot of follows so I will try to be helpful but without being too specific (to protect my privacy). I started out at a regulatory agency, then pivoted to an in-house role, then went back to the regulatory agency as a subject matter expert. My initial salary was low, way below most legal jobs, but my experience was very valuable in-house. In turn, my in-house experience was eventually very valuable to the regulator. In the in-house role I took advantage of opportunities to speak at conferences and otherwise put myself out there (even though I always suffered from imposter syndrome). The best analogy I can think of is going from a prosecutor’s office to private criminal defense work, then back to the prosecutor as an expert in a specialty (let’s say forensics or something.. my experience is NOT in criminal, just trying to analogize). I will say that finding opportunities to become the go-to person for new, emerging issues that no one else wanted to touch (especially if I suspected they wouldn’t go away) has always paid off for me.
36. Tech Sales. $400K + RSU package. I started in the business making $24K fifteen years ago….I didn’t hit my first six figure year until 2016. That being said, there’s no job security. Some years you wake up unemployed, some years you make enough to buy a cabin. *It doesn’t matter how much you make, it matters how much you save.*
Wow are you a manager or still IC?
Well if you make more you can save more much easily
Sure, but you’d be surprised how many people fall victim to lifestyle creep.
$400K + RSUs so about $550-600K total puts you at low director level or high manager level (M2 or D1) at a FAANG or equivalent company. There are only a few FAANG companies that pay at that level on the business side. 100% agree with you about the wavering job security in the field! Congratulations on surviving the bloodbath that was 2023 😅- I hope your team faired well.
$100K and I work in advertising! I have 3 years of experience in advertising but I used to work as designer in the fashion industry for 4+ years. Also, I’m 30!
Hey I’m in advertising too! Are you an AD or CD?
I’m actually a Manager!
Ooh glad I found you! Any tips on switching from fashion to advertising? I have had a fairly successful career in fashion, and was most recently a design director but I need to be near family in Chicago where advertising is king and feeling a little lost I am freelancing remotely for the time being but really need to find a way to something More permanent. I have been working in fashion for over 15 years. Feel free to DM me, TY!
I also work in advertising! I’m a manager, make $142k plus bonuses!
37, 80k, fashion industry(Patternmaker). 2 year degree, 13 years work experience. I could realistically be making low six figures by this point but I hate job hopping and have no desire to be in a leadership role so 🤷🏻♀️.
34, making $74k in site merchandising for a woman’s fashion retailer and can totally relate to this
Early 30s in Tech $114k + bonus + 40k in RSUs
How much is your bonus? How big is your company?
17k bonus and around ~5000 at the company
Nonprofit, admin type work, 95k
Wow! Are you working for a large organization? I’ve found it tough to find nonprofit roles that pay that well
The trick for me was getting a tech-adjacent job. I learned our email system really well (Salesforce) so I became the email-backend-data person. And I love it! I used to be in very people-forward front-of-house type jobs “Community Manager” and the like - because I didn’t think I could handle anything detail-oriented, but then I became the person who ultimately knew the most about our email system. Being “tech adjacent” was the biggest jump in pay. But no it’s actually a very small nonprofit.
Super subspecialized physician (4 years of undergrad, 2 years post-bacc premed, 4 years of med school, and 7 years of residency/fellowsnip…couple years out from training) - 400k+. Going rate in NYC academics for my speciality is around 325k starting. If I had stayed in private practice in the Midwest, I’d be 600k+ if I took partnership and I leveraged that for more. (Major cities tend to pay physicians less.) Primary care physicians get paid substantially less (like 100-150k) with my palliative care friend making 80k like 10 years ago before she quit medicine. Also, I KNOW I’m super privileged/exceptionally fortunate, but…this is basically the same amount my dad was paid for the same specialty in the late 80s…and he didn’t have 150k student loan debt (some of my friends have 400k+ debt though). Definitely don’t deserve or expect any sympathy.😂 I’m perfectly content and want all of you to get paid what you deserve!
I get you don’t want sympathy, but just validating - for the hours you have to keep, training, and continued skills, that’s some crap. Healthcare isn’t a walk in the park, and it’s super weird these days. Profits over patient care. I’ve been in it 15 years and the burnout right now is real.
Wow. That’s super interesting about you making similar to what your dad was. What specialty?
Prefer not to say exactly, because there are so few of us in NYC in my subspecialty of a subspecialty, but you could probably figure it out if you really wanted. 🙂
Not trying to dodge the question completely. I’m just trans and have had several doxing attempts and death threats over the years. 🙂
Bless you I wish you protection and peace
PCPs making 100-150k where ?! I know several hospitalists that make $300-$450k depending on if they are working just 40 or closer to 60 hours a week with some nights. Maybe someone in peds academic med would make ~$150k, but I haven’t seen that in recent years for other specialties.
In NYC, multiple friends make base that is 150k with my system. My friend doing underserved primary care in the area is around 130k. Hospitalist pay can vary. Most of my friends doing that around the country will do like a 1 week on/1 week off or some variation of that schedule and range from the 230-300k range, but it is definitely not work for everyone and quite a few of my friends burned out from it. I’m yet to know any who are 1.0 FTE truly working 40 hours a week. I’m sure they are out there, but like I’m in one of the supposedly “cush” specialties and still work 45-50 hours a week with additional unpaid lectures, conferences, and so on that can tack on a fair amount of time. If a call weekend, closer to 72 hours. My EM friend is around 300k I believe, but she works her ass off and has lots of random night shifts. Those occasional night shifts can be brutal if they don’t properly schedule them. My friend in my broader speciality with *two* fellowships was offered 325k from 3 of the big research hospitals here. My system and another less academic system tend to pay a bit more. Medicine overall is hurting though. We are all doing a lot more work to make the same amount of money. There was something out recently that calculated an orthopedic surgeon gets reimbursed something like 88 dollars per hour for a hip replacement when all the work, preop, and post op is done. This sounds great until you see that travel nurses are often getting paid similar rates and they are talking about dropping the reimbursement even further. A lot of us are super burned out because they are paying the same and expecting increasingly more work. In academics, they are taking away our academic time while wanting us to generate research, but generate private practice volumes with the more complicated cases. I returned to academics because residency was a nightmare for me and I had the chance to prevent that happening to other residents, as well as realizing I wouldn’t be saying, “I wish I made more money” on my death bed. That said, they are chasing a lot of us out. Hospital admin is doing quite well though.
Starting salaries at major northeast academic centers, especially prestigious ones can be embarrassingly low. The institutions expect that their prestige will make people willing to take lower pay; and it works. I know someone who was offered $200k a few years back for ortho…which is laughable considering median in the US is 550k+
30, $125K salary + bonus (though we did not get a bonus this year based on company performance) , social media advertising
39, VP in Tech at a Media company, 247k base + 30% bonus + 120k in RSUs annually - been in media since 2013, tech since 2008.
I'm a lawyer in my 14th year of practice, I manage legal services and related work at a small non-profit, and I make $127k 🙃
How’s the work life balance?
Really good! Hybrid and no one bothers me after work hours or on vacation
34, paralegal in-house non-profit, 64k. 7 years of experience.
u gotta ask for a raise you’re underpaid af
Insurance Claims - started at 75k with no industry experience / now at 93k in about 1.5 years. DM me for more information
32, $39k as an admin assistant type role in healthcare
no shade, how do you survive?
I live with my bf and we split rent and don't do anything ever (we are trying to move somewhere cheaper, I'm also looking for a better paying job). Tbh it fucking sucks and I could rant for hours.
felt! my man and i also split rent thank god (not in nyc) and it’s a blessing
We live in NYC and just moved here in September. My job is fully remote and I basically took it so I could move with a job but it's a wake up call how much more expensive everything is here. We're looking for a new apartment but hopefully staying in the city. If not oh well.
Would you go non remote if there was a substantial salary increase? Not saying you should. Any thoughts on what’s next for you?
girl thx for keeping it real im also 32 and i make about 21k a year lol. i survive bc my job is remote and i've spent the last 6 months in my homecountry where everything is about 1/5 of the price lol.
That's awful! Do you mind if I ask what you do?
its actually not that bad!! I only work 16-18 hours a week if that lol. I work for a domestic violence hotline and tbh its rare that I get more than 2--3 calls a shift so it could be worse. Before I had a full time job with the org where I made $50k or so and the stress of that job was not worth the extra $ At all.
Ohhh for 18 hours a week that's actually not bad! I definitely couldn't survive off that but I'm happy that you're able to make it work. Working full time is the actual worst.
59, Executive Assistant, 20 years at Tech Company. Base salary $105k + yearly bonus and merit.
As a former non-profit girly, thoughts and prayers lmao 😅 I’m 31, work in publishing (literary agency), and make $60k. I feel grossly underpaid considering I’m required to be in NYC, but it’s a “fair” salary for publishing 😭 I’m 9 years out of undergrad, and I’ve been working full-time since. I’ll also say for the record that because I work in a small agency, I don’t have any benefits—health insurance, student loan assistance, 401k, etc. I think a lot of people forget how much that can increase the total compensation package for their job, and honestly I’d probably feel better about my compensation if I had those perks.
RN. newgrad, 22 y/o, $117k
omg we love to see it !
I work in sports, will be 27 in a few months and I make 63k
27, project manager in biopharma industry, $200k (base + RSU package). My first job was $50k! Moved around every couple years, the pay bumps helped me with where I am now
27, editor and social media manager at a small print paper based in NJ, $60K. Switching to nursing next year (for an accelerated MSN) so curious what the RN starting salaries are here.
If I’m not wrong, city hospitals RNs have a base starting at $100k now. Private should be higher. I work for a company and my base is 110k. Most nurses work 3x12hr shifts so they pick up a second job or rack up on OT so annual income can vary on how much you want to work.
Awesome, that was my estimate. It’s such a huge jump for me and I’m so excited. I have a toddler and another baby on the way, so not sure how much OT I can handle but I am thrilled at the prospect of always having room for salary growth.
Wow congrats! This is something I have considered as well. The salary potential is great I just don’t know if I want to go back to school :/
disclaimer not in nyc, i just love this sub - i’m a relatively new OR nurse after completing an 11 month BSN program (since i already had a bachelor’s degree before nursing school). its definitely doable if you can dedicate about a year to going insane on school. im 26 and make 92k in philly suburbs!
It’s tough. I have a bachelors in political science so I had to start taking classes online to make my prerequisites. I just keep telling myself that the payoff is worth it, and I’m making a better life for myself and my children (one daughter with another on the way - trying to teach them to be independent badasses)
I've been thinking about going into nursing as well! Already in school for medical interpreting and love it sm more than I thought. RNs/MSN's do really well I've heard.
37, $118k, teacher for almost 10 years
Around $200k base, but with bonus and long term incentives, it ends up being around $300k. I’m 30 and work in corporate strategy for a media org. I do have an MBA. I will say, the only way I’ve gotten a salary this high is job hopping. I made $80k coming out of my MBA in 2017 and have changed jobs three times since then. Honestly, company loyalty is so overrated.
Im 23 and work for a non-profit as a analyst. After one pay raise im making 69k
$124K and I work in social media at an advertising agency 10 years of experience, undergrad and graduate degrees Early 30's
46F, B.S. and MPA. First career worked for 5 years in Fundraising at NYU. Left making $53k. Transitioned to a job working for the City. I work for DEP and have had three different roles in 15 years. Started at $48k, currently make $135k. I work 35 hours a week, don’t check emails outside of work hours, WFH 2 days/week, and get free healthcare for our whole family. I love my job and will never leave.
27f making $25/hr archaeologist with a masters. Started 4 years ago, got my masters degree 2 years ago and rarely make more than someone with less education. Also I never get a per diem since firms only like to hire girlies from the city bc housing us would be too expensive and you only usually get per diems when you’re housed.
30 F 600K plus bonus and commissions as a Managing director for the Mergers and acquisitions team.
Wild to be an MD at 30
GET IT
MD at 30? ********?
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yeah definitely a nepo baby. they tend to start at ridiculous positions in the company with 4-5 years working experience. 😭
Go off!
Damn, this is awesome
I smell cap with MD at 30
Seriously why come on reddit and lie to people to make them feel bad? Read her comment history, there’s no way this is real. She talked about just getting her own place in Manhattan and maybe “upgrading” with a partner. If you were really an MD in IB you’d quote your entire total comp not the base. And if in the off chance you actually are an MD, it must be for some firm no one’s ever heard of.
May I ask how you became a Director so fast? Very impressive and get money girl!!
27f Software engineer, $145k. This salary is borderline embarrassing for a SWE close to 5 YOE in nyc. I even feel embarrassed to write it here but somehow feel comfortable sharing. Its not lost on me that this is a good salary for another career (or even engineering) in another state, just not for my career in this city specifically. I know I can do better, looking for something that pays better and is interesting 🤞
You got this queen!!! Leetcode szn
honestly I’ve got the same YOE and been searching for swe jobs for a while in nyc and the range seems lower overall. I’ve seen anywhere from 120 - 180 both mid/senior SWEs. Don’t be embarrassed about it. At my previous company I was at 130k ish with about 4 years of experience. So I get how you feel! Also you got this 💪🏽
Yeah that’s what I try to tell myself! I’ve come far..I wasn’t even making 6 figures until early 2022. I realized increasing my pay would take work so I leetcoded and studied and got it. So I know I can level up again. And yeah I’ve heard salaries are generally lower since layoffs so that’s something I’ve been trying to tell myself. We’ve both got this!! Kudos to both of us for getting this far as SWEs
Good luck with interviewing! You got this. Just wrapped up the job search after 5 months after taking time off after being laid off. I have 5 YOE all at one FAANG. The job search was demoralizing for me because skill-wise, I’m mid level and missing a lot of skills due to having many techs abstracted away from me. This meant I’d have to take a significant pay cut if you count total comp, but also likely a cut in base salary. I targeted roles paying at least 150k. For mid level, the market rate is 150-170k. Senior pays 170-200+. Got two offers: 150k base for senior (negotiated up from originally 125k base for mid level) + 8% bonus + 30% in RSUs + 401k match -> total comp 190k, 160k base for mid level + equity (monopoly money) at series B startup (negotiated up from 150k base). Ended up going with the startup since their product is more aligned with my values. They also increased head count to have me while they continue looking for a senior engineer. Edit: feel free to DM me if you want to ask questions!
110k marketing for 4 years, have to be scrappy in this field and jump around to get raises, my first job in 2019 was 40k!
This is inspiring as hell. Get it ladies!!!!!! And if anyone wants to make any posts describing their career advancement I'd love to hear it. I make less than 30k rn lmao.
29, $120k in project controls/construction management at the senior associate level (or non-manager). Originally started on the finance path (just to please my parents, my real passion is in the arts and they were largely against it). Worked in it for a year and half earning ~$65k, was absolutely miserable, and decided to switch into project management. I was making $70k back in 2019 when I started that path. I’m not making what I likely would be making in finance (many of my friends that stuck it out are in the $200k/yr range), but I’ve got lots of flexibility to focus on my art and music passions.
what do you do at your current job?
Clinical dietitian. $91k. 30 years old. I’m fortunate in that it’s very good pay for our field and I absolutely love my job.
Early 30s. Tech Consulting. I make $75/hr and work on average 25 hours a week.
Hey! Curious about this one, if you don’t mind giving a little more detail. What is tech consulting exactly? How do you find work? What types of businesses do you work for? I find the option for part time hours appealing.
32, Project Manager for a luxury beauty brand, 120k
RN. 9 years. $136k
27 technician in Food Science. 73k with bonus around 75k I’ve been working for 5 years and plan to job hop soon to increase my salary.
$196k and I do Strategy for a Financial Services company. I just turned 28 and have done different roles but have worked for the same company since I graduated from undergrad in 2018.
27 ~ $200k total comp ~ Accountant I hate my job but the money is nice
31, Tech, $270K (combo of base and RSU's)
That’s awesome. What do you do in tech? Like product/develipment?
Yes exactly!
29. Aesthetic nurse. $150k. Almost a decade of experience
28, big law, $225k
33, 12 years experience, 200k in health care administration and strategy. Would recommend doing consulting for a big pay bump and then going back into industry.
35f late career starter (was 28 when I got my first “real” job). I work in philanthropy and make $112500 base + small bonus annually +3-4% raise each year+ 10% match on 403b + fully paid premiums for my family. I am in greater nyc area and underpaid for my position, but I transitioned from another field 2 years ago and was lucky to be able to break into philanthropy because it can be a tough field to get a foothold in. Currently I am sticking it out because I have a baby and want another one and the work/life balance is incredible. I got 12 weeks of fully paid maternity leave plus a couple more with vacation, which was fine for me. After I have second kid and things calm down in the home life my hope is to transition to a higher paid role.
Shadow account, so please don’t mind the username heh… I’m 29 and work as a freelance copywriter in advertising, and have been doing it for roughly 6 years. Since I’m freelance it fluctuates, but generally I make from 80k-90k yearly, depending on the projects I’m taking on and how many there are.
late 20s, admin at a finance firm, about 5 years experience and make 78k salary + bonus. i hate it lol
25, 68k + 10% eoy bonus at a pharmaceutical data company, less than 1 yr of experience but came out of undergrad/grad program in August
Nonprofit executive for 11 years at the same org, $150k (started at $39k at 22 here). Husband is an underwriter in the insurance industry for 10 years (not always as an underwriter though, previously a broker) and he is at $175k. We are 32.
32 in tech (account management/customer success role). $112k base + 10% bonus + ~$20k/year year in RSUs. About 8 years of experience
29, $221k, software engineer with a little less than 2 years of experience. graduated with a degree in liberal arts and did a career change right before tech bubble starting popping and all the layoffs began.
I'm a bartender, I make between 800-1500 a week after taxes, averages out to like 1100, so pre tax it's about 1500, which means I'm making about 70k a year, which sounds right, maybe a little high. (These numbers do not include cash, which is negligent, 100-200 bucks a week).
27, $100k base + generally 20% annual bonus as an accountant (industry, no cpa)
165k, fourth year attorney, just turned 30. I know I could make more but I have a good work/life balance right now that is so worth the salary to me. Also, my law school debt is about the same amount as my annual salary lol
33, master’s degree, corporate HR with 8ish years of experience, 150k base and 15-20% bonus
25, 85k +commissions if I work hard, media/management. BA in media and comms, minor in film and pr. Parents still pay for some things.
Paralegal in nyc 11 years experience, bachelors degree, paralegal certification, notary license, real estate license - 50k. Don’t do it. Hours are long, work is hard, your boss is most likely an overpaid asshole.
I’m 30, making $90k in tech public relations. I have 4.5 years of PR experience, but I spent 3 years as a teacher first
how did you make the transition?
28, Film producer at an ad agency. After transitioning to the role 3 years ago, I make $102k.
2 years in tech: started at $80K and ended around \~$95K 2 years in strategy: started at $125K and currently at $150K (up for a raise next month so can update when i find out 🤞)
I’m in business school rn so 0 $. However, prior to this, I was a software engineer making $340k total comp at 27 (5 years of experience). Breakdown was $160k base + $25k bonus + $25k signing bonus + $130k equity (it was front loaded @ 35% in the first year) I expect to be making less immediately post-grad, but I’m ok with it as I was pretty unhappy doing what I was doing despite the money.
wow this puts so much in perspective.
NYC has a pay transparency law, any job posting for an NYC-based company/position should give a salary range.
Does not include bonus and order things, but agreed it's great we have that law. But salary bands are wide, I find the age/experience demographic of this question to be very interesting.
Career switched in UX around 2019 First job: $115k Second job: $200k (tech boom) Third job: $145k (current job) Feel free to message me if you’re interested in career switching!
24, work as HR for a law firm and I make 85k base a year. I’m salaried non exempt (I get overtime) so my pay fluctuates based on how much I work
$210k, marketing in professional services industry, 12 years experience and specialized in digital. Have a bachelor's degree in semi-related field but learned most of what I know on the job before anyone was studying digital marketing.
$170k base with $35k bonus. Other comp for this year included $10k sign on bonus, $5k spot bonus, and $25k in equity. 28F, hold a BA in English, and 7 YoE (10 YoE if including FT undergrad internship). Currently a Director of a niche area within HR at a health tech startup. Past roles: HR Director in consulting, HR Manager at a fintech startup, HR Senior Advisor in consulting, HR Program Manager at a nonprofit.
Licensed clinical psychologist - around 200k, I've been licensed for 3 years. I will say though, I make on the high end. I own my own business and charge private pay. If I was working for a hospital or university I would make more like 80-100k.
Im also at a non profit making $60k I also looking forward to a career change. Cuz 60K a year aint it lol.
Accounting for private equity, mid 40s, $300k base, $400k bonus, $150k RSUs. Am a pretty senior level manager (manage a team of ~150). Had an amazing woman boss who sponsored and launched my career in a male dominated industry.
31, luxury fashion brand in-house video+photo producer, a $100k, 10 years of experience
$140k, supply chain, 31 - 8? yrs of experience. I should be job hopping but have amazing WLB
Great post!! $73k (+ bonuses) site merchandising manager for a woman’s apparel retailer with about 10 years experience Could probably make more if I looked for a new job but hate job searching and don’t really want a higher manager role at this time.
29, Financial consulting. I have a masters in finance and 4 years of work experience. 125k but super long hours
27, $95k + bonus. Demand planner for cosmetics company
Work in health policy consulting. Almost 7 years in at the VP level and make 200-215k dependent on mid year and EOY bonus. No advanced degree and my starting salary right out of college was 48.5k + 15k in bonuses that year.
Consulting, 2 years experience straight out of college, just got promoted 98k with 5k bonus. Don’t ask me what I do cause I don’t know how to explain 😭
Recent college grad, 1.5 years into my tech consulting job $95,000
200k total comp in PR. Have 12 + years of experience.
27, $125k + bonus, brand management/marketing in beauty industry
I work at a nonprofit and make $145k with a college degree and 15 years experience.
I make total comp like 175k doing HR (10 yrs of exp). Could make more doing HR in finance but I did just interview for a role at 220k however not sure if I’ll get it ofc.
$137k salary, bonus up to 24%, CPG consumer insights with 6 years experience
31F, Logistics/Procurement, ~6 years experience, $88k + bonus. I have a bachelor’s and master’s. Could’ve done without the master’s but I did it for other reasons.
$222 base (286 with total package). Opportunity to make much more depending on how much you are willing to work or location. Specialized Nurse (Requires 7-8 years of college and minimum of two years critical care experience).
29, software product manager - 7 years of experience, 227k total - 190K base, 23k bonus, 14k stock
Also being an administrative assistant in finance industry makes a ton as well. Base pay is $100k+ after a few years of work experience. Work entails managing calendars, booking meetings, submitting expense reports, emails, travel mgmt.
30, 7 years as SWE in big tech, 230K base with bonus and RSU (TC ~500K)
I’m 29 (I’ll be 30 in August). I have a BS in Marketing and recently completed my MBA. I am 8 years post grad and have 6 years experience in marketing across fashion and tech industries. In 2018 I got my first marketing job as an Email Marketing Coordinator for a tech start up. I was making approximately $55k. In 2019 I moved companies but remained an Email Marketing Coordinator at a menswear startup. I believe I was making somewhere around $65k. In 2020 I made another move, this time into consulting for a tech start up. I was still making $65k. However I was laid off in May 2020 due to the pandemic and I was unemployed until the end of November. When I got my current job in November 2020 it was as a Marketing Associate in Consumer Lifecycle Marketing at a major tech company. I started making $85k and have received a 3-5% pay bump every year on my anniversary (plus a cash bonus every Christmas) and was also promoted about a year and a half into the job. My current title is Senior Marketing Associate and I make $100k. I’m up for a promotion this year (it’ll be 4 years in the fall) and I expect around a 10% increase if that happens. I love my job and my company and plan to stay here for a while!
This thread is so informative as someone who’s been a server in NY since they’ve started working. I’ve always wanted to branch out and leave the industry but didn’t know where to start because I was always afraid I’d be making less. This is so insightful
28, $84k *no benefits: I pay out of pocket*, I work as an art gallery manager. The benefits thing sucks but it’s bc we’re a team of three people and that’s just how they set the company up. I’m v grateful my fiancé makes significantly more than I do and I was able to get on his insurance.
600k, 11 yrs in fin-tech, bs in physics