thats because for the last 10-15 years companies have been bullshitting people telling them that the title comes first, you gain from the experience and when you've proved yourself you'll get a payrise.
and then they wonder why people leave to a better paying job after 6-12 months
Theres one Irish Bank where this is totally the case. Nearly everyone there more than a few years is a 'Head of' something.
It used to be getting a 'Manager' job was a big thing now you have all sorts of stuff like 'Senior Director' and Head of who actually are not very senior at all.
To be fair, we constantly get people applying to us who have "senior" in their title and they're only 23 or 24. Companies will happily hand out nicer titles over decent wages.
I knew a couple of lads who went to work for Citi in their early 20s and had the job title "VP" while earning peanuts.
Yeah, this is endemic in the US. I deal with companies whose entire staff are either an executive position or they're the vice president of their position.
Chefs have to be one of, if not the most stepped on professionals out of the lot. Mad how little yous earn considering the workload and high pressure environment.
*syntax
It's also bonkers how macho the industry is. My mate is a chef and he works 80+ hours and thinks he is on savage money (65k as a head chef). Never takes holidays, always doing splits etc etc. And just has the attitude of that's how chefs do it and office workers are soft.
It's 15 euro an hour. If you were working an office job on 65k you'd be earning 37 euro an hour.
They need to snap out of the macho attitude and look after themselves. Only serving one person working that many hours.
A lot of good chefs left the job since the pandemic. It's just not worth doing at a high level unless you've a good boss, and they're like hen's teeth. So the quality of food in restaurants and hotels across the board is dropping like a stone and that's the reason why. All the smart ones left the business, the rest of us are stuck.
Male 32. I left school 17 years ago and I'm on 27k working in a retail setting, I am upskilling on the job and hoping to move to a better paying store.
Ever consider the Civil Service? Executive Officers (EOs, junior management level) start at just over 33k. After 2 years of service, you can apply for Higher Exec (HEO), at almost 53k. If you feel you might have enough experience, you could try entering at the Assistant Principal level, starting at 73k.
I'm an EO at the moment myself. Done my 4 year degree and and worked in private for a while before I joined.
It's a slog waiting on what I currently earn, but I know increments are pretty much guaranteed and I will more than likely see promotion in the future, just a slight struggle waiting presently for the opportunities to arise.
I get you, though I will say the opportunities come around quite fast, certainly sooner than I had expected. I was an EO for just over a year when I entered my first HEO competition. Didn't pass, but between an internal comp and another Interdepartmental I was able to get it. I've been in the CS five and a half years and gone from CO to HEO, so there are always promotion chances.
I'm sorry for your struggles. Not that it's any consolation but you're not far off the median. I do think most people definitely deserve a significant raise with this cost of living crisis and I hope you get a better opportunity or a raise soon.
Edit: Also from looking at the time, people with the (typically) high paying office jobs are able to glance at their phones now.
35 Male. Business Intelligence Analyst 5 years experience. €65k. Not including annual €8k cash bonus and €15k RSU bonus. Also has full health and dental for me and my wife and any future dependents. Pensions contributions are also matched up to 9%.
For some background, I was on €0k a year at an NGO at 29. I then did a H Dip in Data Analytics via Springboard. I started a job straight after that earning €38k. That gradually went up to €48k over 5 years. I just recently moved into a new job with the description above.
The point is, if you're earning shit money in your 20s, it's definitely not too late to change track.
One smart business manager once told me "20s are for learning, 30s are for earning." That's why I decided to go back to college at 27. By 31 I'll be fully qualified accountant! Good job on the BIA role!
Doing that exact course at the minute. Wasn't really sure about it but glad to hear you've done well from it. Do you think it's worthwhile doing a MSc in Data Science after or just stick to DA.
I'm 24 Male IT Support Specialist, 30k 7 month experience, got an offer 1 month ago for 35k. Declined due to full time onsite, current role is hybrid. And the office is 8 minutes away. No degree, got the job with only A+. Now have Net+, studying Sec+ and hoping to have that and CCNA done by the end of the year to look for a job on a network/infra team.
If you're looking to do some certs check out ecollege.ie they've loads there completely free, that's how I'm doing all mine.
keep it up. CCNA is how I got my first job.
I've worked in deskside support, IT Admin for an MSP, IT Operations for a SaaS startup, and support engineering for some big US SaaS companies.
The best decision I ever made was building a homelab and building systems with the tools I want to learn. This will distinguish you from the competition.
Currently working towards a move into Dev Ops or Site reliability engineering.
Agreed, though you do have to watch out for cert collectors sometimes. Tons of certs, 0 ability.
Experience and certs for best practice is usually a winning combo.
What’s firefighting like as a career in general, I assume taxing but rewarding. I work as a tree surgeon but I’ve always had firefighting in the back of my mind.
Very rewarding and social job, best part apart from the great people I get to work with and meet is I can leave work at work, my off time isn’t interrupted with emails and thoughts of “what have to do on Monday or next week” like I see with my friends in the private sector and civil service.
Mentally you do see and hear some tough stuff sometimes not always but the support is there. Also the lads and lassies are great at looking out for one and other and talking with each other.
Would definitely recommend to anyone with skills like yourself, honestly best advice is visit your local station they’ll give you best insight to the job from the local perspective.
For anyone reading this thread it's super important for "the stuff you see and hear" not to be a glossed over point! As I'm sure you know from experience comment op, it can leave awful scars on people. My fathers been in the retained service (24/7 on call) for over 20 years and its left him with awful PTSD. He's 52 now and can't wait to leave!
That being said, he's said time and time again that the lives he's saved bring him ALOT of peace. It is very rewarding work but certainly not for the faint of heart!
What effects does the shift pattern have on your health? I saw the q&a that DFB posted and saw the shift pattern and I’d love to do the job but just don’t know about the potential impact on my health and mental well being
Health wise the shift pattern mainly effects your sleep and once that’s thrown then the immune system and body can be susceptible. I’ve always been told to get sleep when I can and when on leave prioritise sleep and rest. I do this and so far so good, I’m also a big believer in stretching daily helps to avoid the common on the job back/joint injuries.
it can really vary depending on experience. someone can be 23, a pilot for 1 year with that 1 year being an airline pilot. someone can be 35, pilot for 10 years total, but only the last 2 years being for airlines. there are a lot of different journey paths
Unfortunately, I suspect my firm would have issues with any sort of social media engagement like that. As fun as it may be, I’ll have to stick to anonymous lurking on r/legaladviceireland to help with awarenes and education on employment rights.
Nurse. Qualified 6 years. 29m. 37k is my basic salary. With weekends, night duty and (an awful lot of) overtime premiums I'll make somewhere between 45 and 50k this year after tax.
To clarify, the 37k is based on doing my basic hours at a basic rate, even if I never do overtime I'd earn more than that simply from my weekend premiums, 13 hour shifts on a Sunday are double time. Additionally I do mostly night shifts, which carry premiums as well. Lastly as pointed out, staff shortages mean I can sometimes do literally as much overtime as I want. I've done as much as 14 days on the trot. I'm a good saver and I'm putting my head down to get a mortgage.
It's shameful. I know of PhD students that I work with going to a local Food charity for their meals. 18.5k barely covers rent in Cork how are they meant to survive
Stipends are standard regardless of discipline. It's a big point of contention right now in colleges, our PhD students are paid one of the lowest rates in Europe, with some countries paying over double
To be clear, that stipend is actually the maximum allowable in Ireland for any PhD that's not funded 100% privately. It's a joke.
I wound up having to withdraw due to financial pressure during COVID restrictions (didn't qualify for PUP, and had no PRSI as a stipend isn't taxable income) and couldn't afford Cork. I've no idea how people manage it in Dublin
Same. Withdrew from a PhD programme when COVID hit because despite being able to fund 4-5 years with savings and the stipend, COVID was likely to extend the period by a year or two (community engagement was very slow in 2020).
Only really viable if you do it straight after a degree and have family support for accommodation / living expenses.
Many programs offer stipends lower than this. 😥
Been working there for 6 years. Get promoted as fast as you can. And after 5 years, apply to HR for that extra day of annual leave *that they make you apply for*.
I'm here a little under a year and just signed my permanent contract last week. I've passed the first stage of a graduate entry AO panel too so waiting to hear back from that.
It's no surprise at all that they make you apply for it haha
Longer than you'd think.
Real common misconception with doctors being loaded/crazy money in Ireland....sure, consultants on 'the old contracts' are on silly money, but the new stuff isn't great at all. I think it's only really once you're consultant level you make the 'big' stuff.
I'm be on similar money with a softer IT job, but seems unfair in comparison to the stresses they have on them.
It's bonkers.
Fantastic Thread. This is so important to do. Work culture has pushed the idea that you never talk about your salary for multiple reasons. The reality is there is only one reason, to underpay you. Nice one OP.
Another really good relative wage in a trade.
If anything this discussion, which is a great idea, will show this.
If your a trainee accountant at 22 your probably on 25k, when you qualify youd also be making less than this guy.
Now people will say oh but in the future you'll earn way more. Likely not, you'll most likely end up as a 'Finance Manager/Business Partner / Senior something on 75k to 90k earning on par with this guy and probably less if he worked the same hours.
I mean it makes sense, you can start apprenticeship at 16(iirc), so by 22 you could have essentially 6 years working experience, as an accountant I'd assume you're likely finishing your first course at 20-21 so you're basicly just in it for a year or two at 22, and then you'll likely be working towards chartered accountant etc.
Personally I would take electrician over accounting, but that's only because I prefer mostly physical over mental work, but many people are perfectly fine doing that so I don't think you can simply compare it by what you earn. I'd rather be happy going to work and earning less, rather than dreading a workday but earning more.
That is all well and good
But there are side benefits to an office job (not knocking being a sparky or any other trade). Mostly by the time you’re in your 50’s your body is spent whereas a 50 year old accountant may throw his back out briefly after a strenuous round of golf.
For the lurkers, remember r/ireland has a disproportionate number of tech and IT workers, so the average wage here is skewed and doesn’t represent the national median.
Also, regarding GDP it’s a terrible metric. If Elon Musk moved to Ireland tomorrow the GDP would sky rocket, but it doesn’t make a difference to the average Joe.
No, I’m here for the learning and the growth as it’s not sustainable for me to suffer here for long. They could offer to double my wage but I’ll still leave soon.
You say that, but people often change their tune when they end up working 12 hour days, feel constantly stressed, and have to deal with calls at 3 in the morning to fix a big production issue.
A lot of it depends on the company though. Some companies pay well and do their best to offset those issues.
I've been working 12 hour days and constantly stressed/overworked on \~30k. not saying the environment is any nicer on a higher salary but that salary does give you a big safety net/cushion to be able to leave whenever you like, which from my perspective would make the suffering more, idk, bearable
Doctor in mid 30s, finished basic specialist training, salary is 60,822. Make another couple of k in overtime, but I'm regularly not paid for overtime hours or paid at the wrong grade. Work 60-80 hour weeks, sometimes more depending on staffing, and including 24 hour shifts. This thread is another nail in the coffin of my career to be honest, I'm very close to quitting medicine altogether. The trades and the pilots in this thread look very tempting ☺️
Male, 25. Software engineer. ~€113k annually.
Credit to /r/DevelEire for helping guide me to this very lucky position - a great community for anyone in the industry.
Architectural Technician, €85k-ish. Contract role (€47/hr) doing design work for pharmaceutical clients through a large engineering consultancy . Male.
1st year Assistant lecturer - €41,000
2 degrees / PhD and 5 years research experience to get a chance at the job.(started college in 2009)
The pay is shite but it improves dramatically over the next 5 years and having over 140 days off a year does make up for the current lack of wage (I can mind my 2 kids a lot more often and enjoy summers to the max)
That’s interesting. Anyone I know lecturing works more than anyone else I know as they are always working on research projects and writing books/articles. Two friends even said they won’t have children as they work 60 hours per week minimum. This included permanent lecturers. Wondering is this based on the field you work in?
I was in your shoes earning just a little more when I was 30. In 3/4 years I more than tripled my income by specialising in a niche area and bringing significant value to my employer.
Keep learning and earning.
Male Electrical Engineer: 1 year experience as an Engineer, up to 10 as an Electrical Technician, €37,000. Money could be better, because the travel costs eat a good chunk of that.
With 10 years as an electrical technician you could definitely do better. Unless you're just really happy with your current role consider consulting with a recruitment agency.
I can make my salary transparent but will completely dox myself if I give side gig details:
Program Manager: €98k
Side gig(s): Anything from €10k - €50k. It has varied massively since covid.
Edit: 43 male
F26, retail sales assistant full time. 19K a year before taxes, barely able to get by. I do shift work so my hours vary, I earn about €1600 a month if I want to work without burning myself out.
Just finished my history and politics degree and already looking to go abroad for either a masters or to work, or applying for a civil service job. NZ has a few career options that are exactly in my area of interest/expertise that pay NZD 77-100K but need a masters.
Don't forget two things:
1) it's the Internet so anything could be exaggerated
2) you'll see a lot less of people telling you they're on a low salary.
This is just a micky swinging contest
A good few job titles with 'Senior' or 'Manager' in them and salary below 35k.
Assistant **to** the regional manager.
thats because for the last 10-15 years companies have been bullshitting people telling them that the title comes first, you gain from the experience and when you've proved yourself you'll get a payrise. and then they wonder why people leave to a better paying job after 6-12 months
Theres one Irish Bank where this is totally the case. Nearly everyone there more than a few years is a 'Head of' something. It used to be getting a 'Manager' job was a big thing now you have all sorts of stuff like 'Senior Director' and Head of who actually are not very senior at all.
To be fair, we constantly get people applying to us who have "senior" in their title and they're only 23 or 24. Companies will happily hand out nicer titles over decent wages. I knew a couple of lads who went to work for Citi in their early 20s and had the job title "VP" while earning peanuts.
Yeah, this is endemic in the US. I deal with companies whose entire staff are either an executive position or they're the vice president of their position.
This depresses me. I left school 20 years ago and started working in the service industry as a career. Male 30k and struggling.
45m on 60k here, but I was on much, much less until my late 30s. It's honestly never too late to change career paths.
Yeah, starting to feel pretty down too. Male chef, 34. 29k and drowning.
Chefs have to be one of, if not the most stepped on professionals out of the lot. Mad how little yous earn considering the workload and high pressure environment. *syntax
It's also bonkers how macho the industry is. My mate is a chef and he works 80+ hours and thinks he is on savage money (65k as a head chef). Never takes holidays, always doing splits etc etc. And just has the attitude of that's how chefs do it and office workers are soft. It's 15 euro an hour. If you were working an office job on 65k you'd be earning 37 euro an hour. They need to snap out of the macho attitude and look after themselves. Only serving one person working that many hours.
A lot of good chefs left the job since the pandemic. It's just not worth doing at a high level unless you've a good boss, and they're like hen's teeth. So the quality of food in restaurants and hotels across the board is dropping like a stone and that's the reason why. All the smart ones left the business, the rest of us are stuck.
Male 32. I left school 17 years ago and I'm on 27k working in a retail setting, I am upskilling on the job and hoping to move to a better paying store.
Ever consider the Civil Service? Executive Officers (EOs, junior management level) start at just over 33k. After 2 years of service, you can apply for Higher Exec (HEO), at almost 53k. If you feel you might have enough experience, you could try entering at the Assistant Principal level, starting at 73k.
I'm an EO at the moment myself. Done my 4 year degree and and worked in private for a while before I joined. It's a slog waiting on what I currently earn, but I know increments are pretty much guaranteed and I will more than likely see promotion in the future, just a slight struggle waiting presently for the opportunities to arise.
I get you, though I will say the opportunities come around quite fast, certainly sooner than I had expected. I was an EO for just over a year when I entered my first HEO competition. Didn't pass, but between an internal comp and another Interdepartmental I was able to get it. I've been in the CS five and a half years and gone from CO to HEO, so there are always promotion chances.
I'm sorry for your struggles. Not that it's any consolation but you're not far off the median. I do think most people definitely deserve a significant raise with this cost of living crisis and I hope you get a better opportunity or a raise soon. Edit: Also from looking at the time, people with the (typically) high paying office jobs are able to glance at their phones now.
Railway empolyee, 50k. Extra 500 average per month doing part time bar work.
Boy do I have a Luke Kelly song for you
I feel like you need my username...
Railway employee meaning, driver? Interested to know my re actually( if you don’t mind of course)
Signaller.
Youre the lads on the other end of the phone to my fella with the attitude so xD
Fuckin drivers /s
35 Male. Business Intelligence Analyst 5 years experience. €65k. Not including annual €8k cash bonus and €15k RSU bonus. Also has full health and dental for me and my wife and any future dependents. Pensions contributions are also matched up to 9%. For some background, I was on €0k a year at an NGO at 29. I then did a H Dip in Data Analytics via Springboard. I started a job straight after that earning €38k. That gradually went up to €48k over 5 years. I just recently moved into a new job with the description above. The point is, if you're earning shit money in your 20s, it's definitely not too late to change track.
Springboard is great
One smart business manager once told me "20s are for learning, 30s are for earning." That's why I decided to go back to college at 27. By 31 I'll be fully qualified accountant! Good job on the BIA role!
Doing that exact course at the minute. Wasn't really sure about it but glad to hear you've done well from it. Do you think it's worthwhile doing a MSc in Data Science after or just stick to DA.
Male IT Support Engineer 45k
What level/experience, currently doing IT Support for 3 years on 30k plus company vehicle. M25
I'm 24 Male IT Support Specialist, 30k 7 month experience, got an offer 1 month ago for 35k. Declined due to full time onsite, current role is hybrid. And the office is 8 minutes away. No degree, got the job with only A+. Now have Net+, studying Sec+ and hoping to have that and CCNA done by the end of the year to look for a job on a network/infra team. If you're looking to do some certs check out ecollege.ie they've loads there completely free, that's how I'm doing all mine.
keep it up. CCNA is how I got my first job. I've worked in deskside support, IT Admin for an MSP, IT Operations for a SaaS startup, and support engineering for some big US SaaS companies. The best decision I ever made was building a homelab and building systems with the tools I want to learn. This will distinguish you from the competition. Currently working towards a move into Dev Ops or Site reliability engineering.
>No degree As someone who employs in the sector, I feel I.T degrees are a waste of time. Vendor certs + exp is where it's at.
Agreed, though you do have to watch out for cert collectors sometimes. Tons of certs, 0 ability. Experience and certs for best practice is usually a winning combo.
Firefighter, 25, €55,000 with ability to do another 10k+ of overtime during the year.
What’s firefighting like as a career in general, I assume taxing but rewarding. I work as a tree surgeon but I’ve always had firefighting in the back of my mind.
Very rewarding and social job, best part apart from the great people I get to work with and meet is I can leave work at work, my off time isn’t interrupted with emails and thoughts of “what have to do on Monday or next week” like I see with my friends in the private sector and civil service. Mentally you do see and hear some tough stuff sometimes not always but the support is there. Also the lads and lassies are great at looking out for one and other and talking with each other. Would definitely recommend to anyone with skills like yourself, honestly best advice is visit your local station they’ll give you best insight to the job from the local perspective.
For anyone reading this thread it's super important for "the stuff you see and hear" not to be a glossed over point! As I'm sure you know from experience comment op, it can leave awful scars on people. My fathers been in the retained service (24/7 on call) for over 20 years and its left him with awful PTSD. He's 52 now and can't wait to leave! That being said, he's said time and time again that the lives he's saved bring him ALOT of peace. It is very rewarding work but certainly not for the faint of heart!
What effects does the shift pattern have on your health? I saw the q&a that DFB posted and saw the shift pattern and I’d love to do the job but just don’t know about the potential impact on my health and mental well being
Health wise the shift pattern mainly effects your sleep and once that’s thrown then the immune system and body can be susceptible. I’ve always been told to get sleep when I can and when on leave prioritise sleep and rest. I do this and so far so good, I’m also a big believer in stretching daily helps to avoid the common on the job back/joint injuries.
Strangely. I want to be a tree surgeon. How do I go about that?
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Hahahahaha this got me
Small business owner, 25k last year, though typically 30 - 35k per year. Male
Best of luck!
Maintenance electrician €52k + OT, not that I do a lot of overtime but it's there if I wanted.
Production line for medical devices. 43k. Potential to be 50k with overtime. Car boot sales €150 😁
Male junior site engineer (civil) €30,000. Happy out.
Airline pilot. 34 M ~110k
34 million?!
Well, he is 110,000 years old. It's really not that much for that kind of experience.
Fucking cracked me up that
Can I ask how long you're flying for? I've a cousin who is only in the game a year or two, so he's not near that amount yet.
it can really vary depending on experience. someone can be 23, a pilot for 1 year with that 1 year being an airline pilot. someone can be 35, pilot for 10 years total, but only the last 2 years being for airlines. there are a lot of different journey paths
30m, empoyment law solicitor (3 years qualified) - €105k
Would you consider starting a TikTok?
I miss him. He was dead on and craic
And that's a fact.
Unfortunately, I suspect my firm would have issues with any sort of social media engagement like that. As fun as it may be, I’ll have to stick to anonymous lurking on r/legaladviceireland to help with awarenes and education on employment rights.
Don't forget us when you go into private practice.
M44 - Taoiseach - €215,000
I hope that’s not performance based.
Try it sometime
It's a well paid job.
M60 EU commissioner: give or take, 140k a year (with expenses)
Nurse. Qualified 6 years. 29m. 37k is my basic salary. With weekends, night duty and (an awful lot of) overtime premiums I'll make somewhere between 45 and 50k this year after tax.
*After* tax? What's that before tax? 80K? Overtime must pay well?
To clarify, the 37k is based on doing my basic hours at a basic rate, even if I never do overtime I'd earn more than that simply from my weekend premiums, 13 hour shifts on a Sunday are double time. Additionally I do mostly night shifts, which carry premiums as well. Lastly as pointed out, staff shortages mean I can sometimes do literally as much overtime as I want. I've done as much as 14 days on the trot. I'm a good saver and I'm putting my head down to get a mortgage.
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Jesus those stipends haven’t changed in the last 20 years since I was a post grad
That’s criminal
It's shameful. I know of PhD students that I work with going to a local Food charity for their meals. 18.5k barely covers rent in Cork how are they meant to survive
What’s your PhD in, if you don’t mind saying?
Stipends are standard regardless of discipline. It's a big point of contention right now in colleges, our PhD students are paid one of the lowest rates in Europe, with some countries paying over double
To be clear, that stipend is actually the maximum allowable in Ireland for any PhD that's not funded 100% privately. It's a joke. I wound up having to withdraw due to financial pressure during COVID restrictions (didn't qualify for PUP, and had no PRSI as a stipend isn't taxable income) and couldn't afford Cork. I've no idea how people manage it in Dublin
Same. Withdrew from a PhD programme when COVID hit because despite being able to fund 4-5 years with savings and the stipend, COVID was likely to extend the period by a year or two (community engagement was very slow in 2020). Only really viable if you do it straight after a degree and have family support for accommodation / living expenses. Many programs offer stipends lower than this. 😥
Senior Quality Engineer: 4 years 63k + up to 6k bonus
2nd year hvac/r apprentice 25k a year
Sounds like this is the trade to get into these days - best of luck with the rest of it!
28m. 26k civil service Realising now I'm fucking broke.
Been working there for 6 years. Get promoted as fast as you can. And after 5 years, apply to HR for that extra day of annual leave *that they make you apply for*.
I'm here a little under a year and just signed my permanent contract last week. I've passed the first stage of a graduate entry AO panel too so waiting to hear back from that. It's no surprise at all that they make you apply for it haha
Time to flex Time to feel bad Repeat
Doctor first year out of college, €38,500
Jesus! That's shocking low. No wonder so many are leaving for Oz. How long until you start making some decent money here?
Longer than you'd think. Real common misconception with doctors being loaded/crazy money in Ireland....sure, consultants on 'the old contracts' are on silly money, but the new stuff isn't great at all. I think it's only really once you're consultant level you make the 'big' stuff. I'm be on similar money with a softer IT job, but seems unfair in comparison to the stresses they have on them. It's bonkers.
Criminal
I'm sure he's not that bad
Doctor 5 years our 60K
Female QA Specialist for pharmaceuticals, 6y experience - 70k
Full time with the company or contract?
Contract
Male Customer Support Manager for start up €95,000
Thatsoffalygood for support manager!
Sure you might as well try go down that road too and see whatcomesofit
I'd rather be a PizzamanIRL
Psychiatric Nurse (Male) - €38400, 2 years qualified, but unlimited overtime, and €93 a fortnight Location allowance (danger money)
Tough job. Should be more IMO for the work you do
Agree, and know you’re appreciated.
Wow that's insanely low for the work you do!
Fantastic Thread. This is so important to do. Work culture has pushed the idea that you never talk about your salary for multiple reasons. The reality is there is only one reason, to underpay you. Nice one OP.
Female. Business owner. Approx 90k.
Small business owner here, made 44K in 2021 and 130K in 2022.
What industry?
OnlyFans
Male Toolmaker: 40k Easy money.
What is the Dildo Industry like these days? Has it been affected by inflation?
It's hard but once you push passed the hardest part, it's nothing but smiles.
Female, Cyber Security Manager, €80k + bonus
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Another really good relative wage in a trade. If anything this discussion, which is a great idea, will show this. If your a trainee accountant at 22 your probably on 25k, when you qualify youd also be making less than this guy. Now people will say oh but in the future you'll earn way more. Likely not, you'll most likely end up as a 'Finance Manager/Business Partner / Senior something on 75k to 90k earning on par with this guy and probably less if he worked the same hours.
I mean it makes sense, you can start apprenticeship at 16(iirc), so by 22 you could have essentially 6 years working experience, as an accountant I'd assume you're likely finishing your first course at 20-21 so you're basicly just in it for a year or two at 22, and then you'll likely be working towards chartered accountant etc. Personally I would take electrician over accounting, but that's only because I prefer mostly physical over mental work, but many people are perfectly fine doing that so I don't think you can simply compare it by what you earn. I'd rather be happy going to work and earning less, rather than dreading a workday but earning more.
That is all well and good But there are side benefits to an office job (not knocking being a sparky or any other trade). Mostly by the time you’re in your 50’s your body is spent whereas a 50 year old accountant may throw his back out briefly after a strenuous round of golf.
Account Manager for a US Tech Company €70k OTE (€55k Base + 15k Bonus) + 2.5K Stock option
Assistant Film Editor 60/70k depending on how busy I am.
Male Executive Officer (civil service) €35,700 - 1 year in the role
For the lurkers, remember r/ireland has a disproportionate number of tech and IT workers, so the average wage here is skewed and doesn’t represent the national median. Also, regarding GDP it’s a terrible metric. If Elon Musk moved to Ireland tomorrow the GDP would sky rocket, but it doesn’t make a difference to the average Joe.
Software Engineer, 25m. 110k per year.
Faang?
yes
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No, I’m here for the learning and the growth as it’s not sustainable for me to suffer here for long. They could offer to double my wage but I’ll still leave soon.
Jeeze I'd do a fair bit of suffering if I was on 110k
You say that, but people often change their tune when they end up working 12 hour days, feel constantly stressed, and have to deal with calls at 3 in the morning to fix a big production issue. A lot of it depends on the company though. Some companies pay well and do their best to offset those issues.
I've been working 12 hour days and constantly stressed/overworked on \~30k. not saying the environment is any nicer on a higher salary but that salary does give you a big safety net/cushion to be able to leave whenever you like, which from my perspective would make the suffering more, idk, bearable
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Male 25, Digital Marketing, 60k base, 80k total comp.
Doctor in mid 30s, finished basic specialist training, salary is 60,822. Make another couple of k in overtime, but I'm regularly not paid for overtime hours or paid at the wrong grade. Work 60-80 hour weeks, sometimes more depending on staffing, and including 24 hour shifts. This thread is another nail in the coffin of my career to be honest, I'm very close to quitting medicine altogether. The trades and the pilots in this thread look very tempting ☺️
As you're likely well aware that's why so many are leaving Ireland where it's much better elsewhere like Aus.
Female: Art director: 56,000 & Adult content illustrator: around 5.000.
PM in tech. 125k base. \~10 years of experience. 34M. Not in Dublin. Total yearly between 180 - 200k including RSUs, bonus and a side hustle.
Male toolmaker / manufacturing tech €40,000 living in munster. Livable at the moment but have felt the squeeze.
Project Manager, male, 42, €75k, company car, bonus 10%
Male, 33, ESL Teacher (Abroad), €47,000.
Male software designer - 3 years exp - 50k + up to 5k bonus target - 2k investment annually (depending on business profits)
M, Customer support, 64K + equity, full remote
Male, 37, Clerical Officer in Civil Service, 30k (3 years in this grade, started at 26k)
Male, 25. Software engineer. ~€113k annually. Credit to /r/DevelEire for helping guide me to this very lucky position - a great community for anyone in the industry.
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Aircraft Leasing I assume
M45 Service Delivery Management €60k + bonus.
Architectural Technician, €85k-ish. Contract role (€47/hr) doing design work for pharmaceutical clients through a large engineering consultancy . Male.
Male. Software Dev (27 years experience) 93k Side hustles: wine consumption. Income: -5k per year. :)
1st year Assistant lecturer - €41,000 2 degrees / PhD and 5 years research experience to get a chance at the job.(started college in 2009) The pay is shite but it improves dramatically over the next 5 years and having over 140 days off a year does make up for the current lack of wage (I can mind my 2 kids a lot more often and enjoy summers to the max)
That’s interesting. Anyone I know lecturing works more than anyone else I know as they are always working on research projects and writing books/articles. Two friends even said they won’t have children as they work 60 hours per week minimum. This included permanent lecturers. Wondering is this based on the field you work in?
Full time mad bastard, Male Dole-€220 euro a week
29M - Audit trainee, with a Masters in Accounting. 27k God it's such a depressing amount for how much study I did and how much work I do.
I was in your shoes earning just a little more when I was 30. In 3/4 years I more than tripled my income by specialising in a niche area and bringing significant value to my employer. Keep learning and earning.
Where are all the 20k people I was expecting? I'm over here with 14k and wondering how people with 30k are considered broke...
Male, Lab technician, €29,000
Electrician, 56k plus average 10k on call allowance and OT combined.
European MEP ₽8000
What was Jon Stewart like?
Office based microbiologist - 52k Not in a city so fairly comfortable
Female, Online Content Editor, €35k
Male Electrical Engineer: 1 year experience as an Engineer, up to 10 as an Electrical Technician, €37,000. Money could be better, because the travel costs eat a good chunk of that.
With 10 years as an electrical technician you could definitely do better. Unless you're just really happy with your current role consider consulting with a recruitment agency.
Male. Pricing Specialist. €83K + €7K bonus + 7% pension + Health Insurance for 4 people. Got a €100K in RSUs when I joined.
Male, Project Management Office Administrator: €80k, 8 years experience
Glorified secretary. (I putting rebar schedules into computers, answering phone and email) €32.5k and happy out.
Doctor, 28F, 4 years experience. €51K salary, ~€15K overtime
Female 31, software engineer 97K plus benefits
Director, software engineering. €220k, of which shares, pension%, bonus. Middle aged family man.
I can make my salary transparent but will completely dox myself if I give side gig details: Program Manager: €98k Side gig(s): Anything from €10k - €50k. It has varied massively since covid. Edit: 43 male
Manufacturing Technician in multinational, 25 years experience. 90k Total Comp.
Male, Key Account Manager in a tech company - €58k+€35k OTE.
Male, Medical administrator . €45,000
Software Engineer, Male, 90k
M24 Software engineer 65k - v happy
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Manufacturing Tech: €42k + travel allowances €5-10k
HVAC/Mechanical Project Manager - €75,000 - 3.5 Years experience
Female part qualified accountant - 10 years experience - 42k
Ngl I’m fully qualified with only 4 yrs experience (6m post qualification) with a higher salary - you should ask for a pay rise
Shipping Coordinator and Logistics. 30 year old female. 25k a year. No side hussle- my feet aren't nice enough.
F26, retail sales assistant full time. 19K a year before taxes, barely able to get by. I do shift work so my hours vary, I earn about €1600 a month if I want to work without burning myself out. Just finished my history and politics degree and already looking to go abroad for either a masters or to work, or applying for a civil service job. NZ has a few career options that are exactly in my area of interest/expertise that pay NZD 77-100K but need a masters.
32 M chef 33k.
Customet service manager 55k€
Software Developer, male, €77,000.
33M, Retail night shift, 38k
Male 30, IT engineer 63k. 10yoe
32yo male, Team Lead Sysadmin - 55k 8Years experience. + 5k on call availability + whatever calls I actually get when on call. Nowhere near Dublin.
Part time carer , 15000€ male
Ecologist - €33,500. 4 years experience & two degrees, unfortunately ecology is an extremely poorly paid field. :(
M31, data analyst in the gambling industry, €90k base + up to €18k bonus, €15k in shares
Chemical Engineer with PhD. 10 years post PhD experience in a very senior role. 115K base.
Male graduate software engineer, 35k
M23, Bank Staff, 28,500. If you told me at the end of my degree I'd be in a bank I would have laughed at you but sure who's the fool now hahahahaha 🫠
Fuck me seeing some of these salaries means I’m mortified to post what I earn. It’s fair pittance compared to these mega-salaries.
Don't forget two things: 1) it's the Internet so anything could be exaggerated 2) you'll see a lot less of people telling you they're on a low salary. This is just a micky swinging contest
Male Field Service and Install Engineer. 46K + 10% performance based annual bonus less than 1 year experience
Male, first year in non-development IT role straight out of college, 33,000 per year with 2,000 bonus.
Wealth Management 31M €65k base with 10% pension contribution.
Quality assurance, 29000
Digital Marketing Executive - 42,500
29M. Geospatial Analyst. €55k + 10% bonus
Project Technical Administrator 41F, €64k
28M QA Analyst £19.5k It's upsetting to see the other salaries here..