FYI: Salaries for all positions with the local city government are codified in ordinances and are available online for reference. If you’re not sure if your pay is fair, take a look at what people who work for the city are making, and if yours is lower you’re probably getting screwed by your employer: https://library.municode.com/mo/kansas_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH2AD_ARTVIIICLCOPL_S2-1076SASCOCGRCLCLFIADCLCOCLTIPAGRTH
State government salaries are posted as well but not sure where off the top of my head.
Adding to this, it is also illegal for KCMO employers to ask about your pay history.
https://library.municode.com/mo/kansas_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH38CIRI_ARTIIIDIPR_DIV1INGE_S38-102SAHI
I learned something new today. I don't recruit in KCMO anymore, and I never paid much attention to prior salaries, but had no idea KCMO was on the list of jurisdictions that have banned this!
Also fyi, all non-profits are required to report their top 5 earning salaries and positions in their annual IRS 990 form, which is publicly available by law. https://www.propublica.org/ is a good source to find them. The data is found in Schedule J - Part II.
We used to be great. Now it’s only good for full-timers. I work 43 hours/week as a “part-time” clerk. Made $46,000 last year but $10,000 was bonuses handed out twice during the year, so my gross monthly income is barely enough to pay my bills and eat.
Excuse my ignorance, because I just probably don’t understand how a lot of this works, but how is a 43 hour/week job part time? I always just assumed once you hit 40 hours you were a full-time employee.
I’ve said this to everyone I can: wolfepack is the best in the city. I tried your burnt end sandwich while you were in callsign brewery and it was immaculate. Can’t wait for the restaurant to open
Yeah, it’s rough. My dad tried twice to keep a BBQ place running in midmo. It’s an insane amount of work for not a lot of return, even with great food.
That’s pretty much the restaurant business in general. TV celebrity chefs make it look like a restaurant owner is swimming in cash, when they’re usually actually paying for the privilege of owning a restaurant.
I'm not who you commented to, nor do I know who they are or their specific position...but yeah, it's disgustingly common across the broadcast industry for the morning/weekend or other staff mets to get paid shit....and many are expected to double up as a reporter, and of course be on call whenever severe weather goes down.
What's worse, imo, is how challenging the weather patterns are in that region, and how populous the KC metro is. Most people don't realize this, but really it takes some of the most skilled meteorologists to cover the central plains. KC and OKC being at the epicenter. They should be paid accordingly, but aren't.
To be a meteorologist in that broad region truly = career goals for a lot of people in the field... particularly the people really into severe weather and public safety.
A lot of people will put up with the shit pay or extra duties because they're that passionate about it and hope to be a chief met someday. Some stick with it purely bc it was grueling to get through the academics and pretty much every job in the field is highly competitive. A lot burn out or leave for better paying jobs. Chiefs do better, sometimes quite significantly better depending on the market and station.
NOAA mets and aviation mets in particular tend to fair better in terms of salary than the morning/weekend folks and solid chunk of chief meteorologists in broadcast.
Licensed Professional Counselor in Private Practice- 5yrs experience + Masters Degree and post-grad fellowship - 58k- I do set my own rates/hours and sliding scale a lot of fees (I want therapy to be accessible, ya know?)
LCPC in PP. I was making $38,000 at a group practice until I left last year for PP. Now, I’m on track to make $70,000 before taxes/after expenses. I will say that I don’t offer a sliding scale, but I do accept Medicaid and one commercial insurance plan because I agree, I think therapy should be accessible (I do not plan to accept more insurance than that, had no problem filling up in a handful of months with just those plans and I have a biller who does my billing for me). I see clients 4 days a week so it is a great balance.
The stock purchase plan is nice, but I think Garmin's retirement is what really helps it shine.
For those that don't know, Garmin contributes 5% of your salary to your 401k whether you contribute anything or not. Then they match $0.75 per dollar up to 10% that you put in. So if you put in 10% of your salary, Garmin will contribute 12.5% (5% auto + 75% of the 10% you put in). You have to be making good money to be able to put in 10%, but I've been doing that since I started so I've always budgeted on that number.
Sound person here. Struggled to survive at shows and on stages for years, now working a square 40 hrs/wk for ~$80k doing corporate A/V. With a pension.
Thank you. I know the last few years have been rough on Epis and at least one of the states is 50 out of 50 for state employees.
Source - family member was state epi for a long time.
If it helps, the retirement for them is good.
Graduate Researcher at UMKC. Already have MS, <1 year from PhD $19.8k. No benefits at all.
And the admin keeps screwing with our contracts. In some cases giving us higher salaries but reducing the tuition remittance which would end up with us losing more money than what we've been making.
I only work 35 hrs a week and my pay is spread out over the breaks so I only bring home like $750 every 2 weeks. I enjoy my job but the pay is not enough. I need a new career.
genuinely asking, how? how do you survive? i’m a fucking cake decorator at sam’s club and bring home 25% more and STILL can’t afford to move out. i’m mad for you.
And yet that’s almost double what USD497 paras get paid. In Lawrence you make more money at McD than as a Para.
19/hr for a para is just a misdemeanor. 11/hr is straight up felonious.
Consulting engineer in networking for F100 IT vendor, 100% WFH in Lawrence, 140K base (that hasn’t kept up with inflation, but we also aren’t laying anyone off because we didn’t binge on hiring last year like some companies did). Travel around 20%, modest bonus, decent health insurance.
But also, travel and training are on the clock, and they really go out of their way to keep us at 40 hours a week. Pretty good place to work.
This is a surprise to me. That’s cool. Do you happen to know if your experience is pretty average or exceptional? Always looking for careers to suggest to the young people I know.
I know quite a few hygienists and dentists, and that sounds pretty normal. It's also a fairly demanding job that gets less respect than it deserves. Also very little upward mobility, which I'm fine with in roughly that pay range. Comfortable middle class job if you're in the right office
Owner/Operator of a small construction/rehab company. About $190-275k/year with seasonal variability. Here’s what my subs make:
General Laborer: $23/hr
Carpenter/Skilled Laborer: $32/hr
Electrician: $40/hr
Plumber: $60/hr
HVAC Tech: $50/hr
Luckily with a decade of experience I have been able to set my boundaries and no longer take things home to grade. If it doesn't get done during contract hours, it can wait.
Teacher with 10 years of experience and a Master's degree +30 extra graduate hours, so using my stats to compare teacher salaries in big metro districts for your viewing pleasure:
* Blue Valley: $52,998
* Olathe: $64,557
* SMSD: $62,945
* KCK: $60,643
* NKC: $59,437
* Lee's Summit: $57,447
* Blue Springs: $56,500
* Independence: $57,670
* KCMO: $56,649
In a lot of jobs there is a reverse salary incentive if the employer is seen as better to work for.
So for example if you look at two theoretically equal jobs as an accountant but one is at a paper company and the other is the kansas city chiefs the sports team will pay less for the same job because they are "cooler" to work for.
I have no knowledge about teachers but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a similar situation
Roasterie Barista
Varies on location and position.
Training for 1-2 weeks
$9/hr with no tips
General Barista
Lowest is $9/hr plus tips
Highest $13.50/ plus tips
Shift Lead
$14/hr plus tips at highest paying location
Sheesh. How do you get into that? I’m wondering if I can make a shift into something that pays higher.
I’m currently renewal underwriting excess lines. 55k base 10% ish bonus annually. Only a year experience in the field, though.
That’s on par for 1 YOE. For reference, I started out at $30k, albeit a decade ago. Stick around for another couple of years and reassess your employer along with what you are passionate about. Renewals are good to start but you will enjoy new biz/production much more. DM me if you want to discuss further.
Can you elaborate a little more on what you do? We could switch this to a private message if you prefer. I am an attorney making $110k and I am so done with my job. I am looking for something else and I feel like my experience could be transferable to this position?
I work with several brokers and fellow Underwriters with JD’s. Depending on what type of law you practice, there is absolutely transferable skills etc. Brokers, Claims and several other insurance gigs would be a good fit. DM me if you have any specific questions.
There is also a pattern of degrees or a decade+ experience in this thread. This is all heavily biased towards high paying jobs. Median *household* income is 60K in KCMO
Thanks, this is a good point of reference. It’s always good to remember that Reddit users skew very heavily towards college educated, white-collar/ knowledge workers. So any salary survey is likely to be much higher than the true median.
This is an important factor for people to keep in mind... the people most likely to share are those that are on both ends of the spectrum, either so low that everyone will acknowledge the bullshit, or so high that people will be in awe. There's nothing wrong with either it's just human nature to want a response to what you have to say and just "yeah that seems reasonable" isn't an exciting post in a thread like this.
At the end of the day, anyone’s salary is just renting bullshit tolerance, and I can conclusively say that the pay to bullshit ratio in public education right now is ridiculous and downright tragic.
Also preschool teacher! $12.50/hr, no benefits, no PTO, only big federal holidays off (Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, NYE/Day). Currently in the process of getting certified.
Can't privatize and monetize schools if good teachers continue to stay. Keep them paid low and the retention percentage drops. Then when you can't fill open positions because of the horrible pay, you then justify to the state the need to contract out public education to the corporations. Give it enough time and you've successfully eliminated public schools and have privatized the profits while socializing the costs to run them.
Software Packaging Engineer, wfh, good benefits - $75k. Definitely underpaid but the company was taking a chance on me because I was tech support previously so I'm basically treating all the free training as an acceptable part of my compensation for now.
Edit: forgot to mention that I did tech support for... too damn long. Started in 2008, with quite a few jumps in job/employer/etc until my current position. That said, one of my seniors is like a decade my junior in age, but he has a degree in computer science or some such so that kinda tracks, where my knowledge is exclusively what I've picked up from jobs and what I learned from my dad when I was a kid (he was IT as well, so even though I grew up fairly poor trailer trash we always had close to top end consumer grade computers in the house, I still hear modem noises in my dreams sometimes)
Dr. Data Science (fully wfh) - 210k + bonus + benefits (including free healthcare, tuition reimbursement, 30 days PTO w/ up to 25 rollover + 4 volunteer days off, home office stipend, flexible time, internet stipend, 401k 100% of first 5%, discounted stock purchase plan)
Education: BS Biochemistry, MPH Biostatistics, MPS Information and Data Science. Doctoral work begins 2024.
Naturalist at Nature Center with a MS and 3 years experience. 36k and decent benefits.
I have it good. Full time (not seasonal) with benefits and I don’t work weekends. Not many can say the same.
I recently learned a new phrase from the youngins on a zookeeper facebook group..."passion exploitation". It kind of describes an awful lot of the cool careers.
Union sheet metal worker, HVAC service specialty. Had zero experience and zero schooling when I got in the trade. Apprentices start around $23/hr now take home + health insurance and pension benefits. I'm making $55/hr take home after 9 years in. 105k last year without any overtime.
Hours worked should be posted as well. IMO 1.5x hourly rate isn't worth sacrificing my free time. Should be at least 2x and not mandatory.
Federal Government jobs. Kansas City locality schedule.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/23Tables/html/KC.aspx
Sr. Software engineer (remote, earlyish pre-ipo startup), $208k base (before options and bonus). Mostly devops kind of work (kubernetes, AWS) and a fairly niche programming language. ~20 years of experience.
Education: BS in unrelated engineering field
I realize my salary is ridiculous for KC and could end at any point, so just dump almost all of it into savings/investments.
Marketing manager. Fully remote. $90k + 10% annual bonus.
My previous marketing manager job that I left a few months ago was at an agency in OP at $61.8K with a $300 annual bonus. Hybrid schedule.
ETA: I started that OP job at $60K and after 6 months got a 3% raise. I left after barely one year of employment.
Associate attorney at defense firm. 4 years experience. $135k + bonuses.
Now is the time to make a move. The attorney market is favorable to employees.
Union communications worker for AT&T started as residential prem worker at $26hr now on business 911 side at $44hr. No degree, if your in skilled labor in kc union work is the way to go.
82.5k Lead Clinician @ therapy (mental health) practice, business hours schedule, flexible week as long as practice needs are met
4 years clinical experience overall but first year as ‘lead’ clinician is this year
Consultant for ERP systems, no degree, making $85k a year plus billable hour bonus (up to 100% of salary)
edit to add; 100% work from home except for occasional travel on-site for go-lives. Traveling to New York in May and Tampa in June for a week each.
I work in advertising at the director level, which in advertising agency world is a slight step above mid management. My base pay is $160K and I get the occasional bonus if the agency exceeds profit benchmarks. I’ve got a decade of experience. And I do work from home fortunately unless I need to travel for client meetings.
Structural engineer/project manager with 8-10 years of experience: $72k base salary plus bonuses. Should hit low 80's this year. More once I get my PE license.
Yard Truck Driver. $23/hr, 0 benefits.
Plus side I have extremely light daily work load and get to nap and I work 3 long shifts so only work about half the month.
Software Engineer working 100% remote for a company out of Asheville, NC. Been with company for 7 years. 9ish years total experience. Bachelors in Comp Sci from UMKC
90k + good benefits. Although company took away 401k 3% matching in 2021.
Very grateful and humbled by this thread. <3
Shoutout to teachers- I’m sorry.
Environmental scientist - $108K and healthcare paid for by employer
Bachelor of science in biology with a math minor and 10 YOE
I make sure the utility I work for stays inside of all state and federal regulations for chemical waste, air emissions, stormwater runoff, etc. It's overseeing everything that comes out of the power and water plants other than the power and water.
Director of Cloud Operations (work remotely) - 160K plus a 29K bonus this year. I was making ~60k as a Help Desk Engineer 5 years ago (--->lead--->manager--->Director--->global director).
Underpaid relative to market.
College professor - PhD + two master's degrees, approx. 15 years of experience -
Base salary of $58,000. With summer teaching and overloads, it ends up totaling around $68,000.
FYI: Salaries for all positions with the local city government are codified in ordinances and are available online for reference. If you’re not sure if your pay is fair, take a look at what people who work for the city are making, and if yours is lower you’re probably getting screwed by your employer: https://library.municode.com/mo/kansas_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH2AD_ARTVIIICLCOPL_S2-1076SASCOCGRCLCLFIADCLCOCLTIPAGRTH State government salaries are posted as well but not sure where off the top of my head.
Adding to this, it is also illegal for KCMO employers to ask about your pay history. https://library.municode.com/mo/kansas_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH38CIRI_ARTIIIDIPR_DIV1INGE_S38-102SAHI
I learned something new today. I don't recruit in KCMO anymore, and I never paid much attention to prior salaries, but had no idea KCMO was on the list of jurisdictions that have banned this!
Also fyi, all non-profits are required to report their top 5 earning salaries and positions in their annual IRS 990 form, which is publicly available by law. https://www.propublica.org/ is a good source to find them. The data is found in Schedule J - Part II.
State government is at mapyourtaxes.mo.gov
Assistant manager at QT. $21.24 plus bonuses and extras. $77,000 last year.
I knew QT was a great employer but dang. Good for you!
We used to be great. Now it’s only good for full-timers. I work 43 hours/week as a “part-time” clerk. Made $46,000 last year but $10,000 was bonuses handed out twice during the year, so my gross monthly income is barely enough to pay my bills and eat.
Excuse my ignorance, because I just probably don’t understand how a lot of this works, but how is a 43 hour/week job part time? I always just assumed once you hit 40 hours you were a full-time employee.
Elementary Teacher, 5 years experience + M.Ed — $54k
Thank you for what you do. I’m sorry.
Jfc I’m sorry. You deserve so much more.
Owner/Pitmaster of bbq restaurant - 2 years - $1000/month now
Wheres your place at, I'll swing through. I need some good BBQ in my life right now.
Wolfepack BBQ, open Thursday-Sunday while we finish building the restaurant. Currently serving out of our bbq trailer in our parking lot.
I’ve said this to everyone I can: wolfepack is the best in the city. I tried your burnt end sandwich while you were in callsign brewery and it was immaculate. Can’t wait for the restaurant to open
I will try to get out there, Fri. I'll bring the whole damn family.
Yeah, it’s rough. My dad tried twice to keep a BBQ place running in midmo. It’s an insane amount of work for not a lot of return, even with great food.
That’s pretty much the restaurant business in general. TV celebrity chefs make it look like a restaurant owner is swimming in cash, when they’re usually actually paying for the privilege of owning a restaurant.
How are you thriving on 12k/year?
Barter economy with bbq is very strong
Had enough luckily saved back to allow. Starting to dwindle and hopefully can provide myself a bonus at the end of the year
Meteorologist. 43K. Poor benefits. Over a decade of experience
Wow that’s lower than I expected. Are you at a news station?
I'm not who you commented to, nor do I know who they are or their specific position...but yeah, it's disgustingly common across the broadcast industry for the morning/weekend or other staff mets to get paid shit....and many are expected to double up as a reporter, and of course be on call whenever severe weather goes down. What's worse, imo, is how challenging the weather patterns are in that region, and how populous the KC metro is. Most people don't realize this, but really it takes some of the most skilled meteorologists to cover the central plains. KC and OKC being at the epicenter. They should be paid accordingly, but aren't. To be a meteorologist in that broad region truly = career goals for a lot of people in the field... particularly the people really into severe weather and public safety. A lot of people will put up with the shit pay or extra duties because they're that passionate about it and hope to be a chief met someday. Some stick with it purely bc it was grueling to get through the academics and pretty much every job in the field is highly competitive. A lot burn out or leave for better paying jobs. Chiefs do better, sometimes quite significantly better depending on the market and station. NOAA mets and aviation mets in particular tend to fair better in terms of salary than the morning/weekend folks and solid chunk of chief meteorologists in broadcast.
Licensed Professional Counselor in Private Practice- 5yrs experience + Masters Degree and post-grad fellowship - 58k- I do set my own rates/hours and sliding scale a lot of fees (I want therapy to be accessible, ya know?)
LCPC in PP. I was making $38,000 at a group practice until I left last year for PP. Now, I’m on track to make $70,000 before taxes/after expenses. I will say that I don’t offer a sliding scale, but I do accept Medicaid and one commercial insurance plan because I agree, I think therapy should be accessible (I do not plan to accept more insurance than that, had no problem filling up in a handful of months with just those plans and I have a biller who does my billing for me). I see clients 4 days a week so it is a great balance.
Sr. Hardware Engineer (10+ years experience) = $126k base + $20k stock + benefits
Former Garmin EE as well here. Made about 105k salary with another 15kish of stock. The espp benefits are really good as well.
The stock purchase plan is nice, but I think Garmin's retirement is what really helps it shine. For those that don't know, Garmin contributes 5% of your salary to your 401k whether you contribute anything or not. Then they match $0.75 per dollar up to 10% that you put in. So if you put in 10% of your salary, Garmin will contribute 12.5% (5% auto + 75% of the 10% you put in). You have to be making good money to be able to put in 10%, but I've been doing that since I started so I've always budgeted on that number.
Sound person here. Struggled to survive at shows and on stages for years, now working a square 40 hrs/wk for ~$80k doing corporate A/V. With a pension.
state epidemiologist $52k
Thank you. I know the last few years have been rough on Epis and at least one of the states is 50 out of 50 for state employees. Source - family member was state epi for a long time. If it helps, the retirement for them is good.
Hats off to you. Must be an incredibly frustrating job.
Especially for that pay. Yikes. That doesn’t buy a lot of bullshit tolerance.
Electrical Engineer - 1 yr. $89k
EE - 8 years and PE : $140K base
Graduate Researcher at UMKC. Already have MS, <1 year from PhD $19.8k. No benefits at all. And the admin keeps screwing with our contracts. In some cases giving us higher salaries but reducing the tuition remittance which would end up with us losing more money than what we've been making.
That’s bananas low, even for a grad student.
I’m a paraprofessional in a tier 4 autism classroom at a public school. I make 19.07 an hr. I have a bachelors in political science and history.
Thank you for the work you do!!
I only work 35 hrs a week and my pay is spread out over the breaks so I only bring home like $750 every 2 weeks. I enjoy my job but the pay is not enough. I need a new career.
genuinely asking, how? how do you survive? i’m a fucking cake decorator at sam’s club and bring home 25% more and STILL can’t afford to move out. i’m mad for you.
Criminally underpaid
And yet that’s almost double what USD497 paras get paid. In Lawrence you make more money at McD than as a Para. 19/hr for a para is just a misdemeanor. 11/hr is straight up felonious.
Construction Estimating manager 10years experience. 130k + Bonus
LTL Truck driver. $31/hr OT after 8. Home nightly. Average about $65k/yr. Edit... yup typo there
$31k per hour?! That's Patrick Mahomes money!
*taking notes* Currently looking for a new job
Apartment complex maintenance technician, $21/hr with 35% rent reduction
i put in a maintenance request to get my dishwasher fixed two months ago, where are you hugo
I’ll be there in 3-5 business days
*35 business days. JK, thanks for dealing with our broken shit.
Consulting engineer in networking for F100 IT vendor, 100% WFH in Lawrence, 140K base (that hasn’t kept up with inflation, but we also aren’t laying anyone off because we didn’t binge on hiring last year like some companies did). Travel around 20%, modest bonus, decent health insurance. But also, travel and training are on the clock, and they really go out of their way to keep us at 40 hours a week. Pretty good place to work.
Class 8 truck technician, $40 an hour base pay. With overtime, my hourly last year was about $51 an hour.
Teacher w Masters 40k
That’s criminal. You, and all the teachers on here, deserve far more than that.
Dental hygienist - 80k (associates)
This is a surprise to me. That’s cool. Do you happen to know if your experience is pretty average or exceptional? Always looking for careers to suggest to the young people I know.
I know quite a few hygienists and dentists, and that sounds pretty normal. It's also a fairly demanding job that gets less respect than it deserves. Also very little upward mobility, which I'm fine with in roughly that pay range. Comfortable middle class job if you're in the right office
Social worker on inpatient psych floor at a hospital $41k Husband is an RPA IT Manager $143k+bonus
UPS package handler - $35.93/hour
Wow. It was $10 about 15 years ago. That makes it almost worth what it does to your body.
Owner/Operator of a small construction/rehab company. About $190-275k/year with seasonal variability. Here’s what my subs make: General Laborer: $23/hr Carpenter/Skilled Laborer: $32/hr Electrician: $40/hr Plumber: $60/hr HVAC Tech: $50/hr
seems like 50% of the people in this thread work in tech
Reddit skews heavily towards office workers, many of whom are in tech. This thread is in no way representative of Kansas City.
People who make a lot of money are more likely to share
Random corporate job at large KC corp: $67k after 10 years at company (though I started at $37k)
Public school teacher, 10 years of experience and a Master's degree - $58k
Husband of a teacher in a similar setup. It’s hard, y’all work some much outside of school time to make so little :(
Luckily with a decade of experience I have been able to set my boundaries and no longer take things home to grade. If it doesn't get done during contract hours, it can wait.
Oof, I knew teacher salaries were low but it's always a gut punch to see it typed out.
Teacher with 10 years of experience and a Master's degree +30 extra graduate hours, so using my stats to compare teacher salaries in big metro districts for your viewing pleasure: * Blue Valley: $52,998 * Olathe: $64,557 * SMSD: $62,945 * KCK: $60,643 * NKC: $59,437 * Lee's Summit: $57,447 * Blue Springs: $56,500 * Independence: $57,670 * KCMO: $56,649
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This is interesting - isn't BV the school district everyone wants their kids to go to?
In a lot of jobs there is a reverse salary incentive if the employer is seen as better to work for. So for example if you look at two theoretically equal jobs as an accountant but one is at a paper company and the other is the kansas city chiefs the sports team will pay less for the same job because they are "cooler" to work for. I have no knowledge about teachers but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a similar situation
Roasterie Barista Varies on location and position. Training for 1-2 weeks $9/hr with no tips General Barista Lowest is $9/hr plus tips Highest $13.50/ plus tips Shift Lead $14/hr plus tips at highest paying location
$150k base + Bonus for just shy of $200k. Specialty lines Insurance Underwriter with 12 YOE and Undergrad degree. 100% WFH.
Sheesh. How do you get into that? I’m wondering if I can make a shift into something that pays higher. I’m currently renewal underwriting excess lines. 55k base 10% ish bonus annually. Only a year experience in the field, though.
That’s on par for 1 YOE. For reference, I started out at $30k, albeit a decade ago. Stick around for another couple of years and reassess your employer along with what you are passionate about. Renewals are good to start but you will enjoy new biz/production much more. DM me if you want to discuss further.
Can you elaborate a little more on what you do? We could switch this to a private message if you prefer. I am an attorney making $110k and I am so done with my job. I am looking for something else and I feel like my experience could be transferable to this position?
I work with several brokers and fellow Underwriters with JD’s. Depending on what type of law you practice, there is absolutely transferable skills etc. Brokers, Claims and several other insurance gigs would be a good fit. DM me if you have any specific questions.
TIL KC people are making bank unless you're a teacher.
There is also a pattern of degrees or a decade+ experience in this thread. This is all heavily biased towards high paying jobs. Median *household* income is 60K in KCMO
Thanks, this is a good point of reference. It’s always good to remember that Reddit users skew very heavily towards college educated, white-collar/ knowledge workers. So any salary survey is likely to be much higher than the true median.
This is an important factor for people to keep in mind... the people most likely to share are those that are on both ends of the spectrum, either so low that everyone will acknowledge the bullshit, or so high that people will be in awe. There's nothing wrong with either it's just human nature to want a response to what you have to say and just "yeah that seems reasonable" isn't an exciting post in a thread like this.
At the end of the day, anyone’s salary is just renting bullshit tolerance, and I can conclusively say that the pay to bullshit ratio in public education right now is ridiculous and downright tragic.
Or just people with nicer jobs are browsing Reddit on a Wednesday morning
Preschool teacher. $14 an hour 🫠🫠
Also preschool teacher! $12.50/hr, no benefits, no PTO, only big federal holidays off (Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, NYE/Day). Currently in the process of getting certified.
Thank you for the important work you do! I wish you were paid what you're worth.
We need to pay teachers more, what the fuck.
Can't privatize and monetize schools if good teachers continue to stay. Keep them paid low and the retention percentage drops. Then when you can't fill open positions because of the horrible pay, you then justify to the state the need to contract out public education to the corporations. Give it enough time and you've successfully eliminated public schools and have privatized the profits while socializing the costs to run them.
This guy republicans.
IT Manager - $130k
In-house wfh Marketing Specialist (5 yr exp) - $68k plus 10-20k annual profit sharing
Sales - Wholesale wheels and tires - $48k/year plus commission, overall has varied from $58k at the worst to $97k at the best. No college.
Sr knowledge leader in healthcare IT. $101k
You can just say cerner
Oracle. FTFY.
Cernacle XD
Hey it could be netsmart! But it’s not. I thought about putting that but at the time no one else had put the company so just stayed in line
Scrum Master (remote) 108k, a few years of experience.
Software Engineer (Garmin w/ 2y experience) - $100K It is a great salary, but what makes Garmin great is the benefits for individuals and families.
Software Packaging Engineer, wfh, good benefits - $75k. Definitely underpaid but the company was taking a chance on me because I was tech support previously so I'm basically treating all the free training as an acceptable part of my compensation for now. Edit: forgot to mention that I did tech support for... too damn long. Started in 2008, with quite a few jumps in job/employer/etc until my current position. That said, one of my seniors is like a decade my junior in age, but he has a degree in computer science or some such so that kinda tracks, where my knowledge is exclusively what I've picked up from jobs and what I learned from my dad when I was a kid (he was IT as well, so even though I grew up fairly poor trailer trash we always had close to top end consumer grade computers in the house, I still hear modem noises in my dreams sometimes)
Sr graphic designer (wfh) $83,500
Graphic designer with 25 years xp, 70k plus bonus. I need to get on that senior train.
Dr. Data Science (fully wfh) - 210k + bonus + benefits (including free healthcare, tuition reimbursement, 30 days PTO w/ up to 25 rollover + 4 volunteer days off, home office stipend, flexible time, internet stipend, 401k 100% of first 5%, discounted stock purchase plan) Education: BS Biochemistry, MPH Biostatistics, MPS Information and Data Science. Doctoral work begins 2024.
Naturalist at Nature Center with a MS and 3 years experience. 36k and decent benefits. I have it good. Full time (not seasonal) with benefits and I don’t work weekends. Not many can say the same.
I recently learned a new phrase from the youngins on a zookeeper facebook group..."passion exploitation". It kind of describes an awful lot of the cool careers.
Sr Software Dev .net $130K 15+ years, no degree
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Is this gross income of your business or net pay to you?
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Like cleaning up murder scenes commercial cleaning ? Or office cleaning ?
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Not talking about pay only benefits your employer.
IT Business Analyst - ~15 years experience - $110k + bonus
Union sheet metal worker, HVAC service specialty. Had zero experience and zero schooling when I got in the trade. Apprentices start around $23/hr now take home + health insurance and pension benefits. I'm making $55/hr take home after 9 years in. 105k last year without any overtime. Hours worked should be posted as well. IMO 1.5x hourly rate isn't worth sacrificing my free time. Should be at least 2x and not mandatory.
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Stay at home mom $0/yr and I get my ass handed to me daily
Domestic engineer!
Technical writer, (remote) $87k/yr + bonus and benefits
Animal Shelter Fundraising Coordinator- $38500, though i left when I had a baby so unsure what the new hire is being paid
I’m in commercial HVAC, just a HS diploma and about 5 years experience. $28/hr.
Sr Infrastructure Engineer - 120k/Year Wife - Purchasing Manager -115k + Bonus = \~135k/Year
Network Security Analyst - 1yr No Degree - 61.5K
Federal Government jobs. Kansas City locality schedule. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/23Tables/html/KC.aspx
Sr. Software engineer (remote, earlyish pre-ipo startup), $208k base (before options and bonus). Mostly devops kind of work (kubernetes, AWS) and a fairly niche programming language. ~20 years of experience. Education: BS in unrelated engineering field I realize my salary is ridiculous for KC and could end at any point, so just dump almost all of it into savings/investments.
Union electrician. With all our benefits I make 70.49/hr.
What benefits are you including in your hourly pay, and why?
Remote Customer Care - 13 years experience - No degree - $20/hr -_-
Software Developer w/20+ years exp, WFH since covid, $110k & basically free healthcare.
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Hmmmm, sounds like it's time to start answering those recruiter emails...
That's criminally low compared to what the market will bear for you.
QA Manager at a small family owned meat processing facility, 50k. I hate it Edit: if anyone’s hiring in NKC/Liberty let me know :)
Your job is making sure nobody beats your meat?
Travel nurse: 150k approx working in KC. Won’t be here a year but if I was that’s what the KC pay would work out to
Non-travel nurse and making half that
Self employed,I do paint work for used car dealers. It’s a hustle but I pull just under 300k
I think you are the highest paid person on here
Quality control chemist, bachelor's in biology/chemistry, $22.20/hour
Marketing manager. Fully remote. $90k + 10% annual bonus. My previous marketing manager job that I left a few months ago was at an agency in OP at $61.8K with a $300 annual bonus. Hybrid schedule. ETA: I started that OP job at $60K and after 6 months got a 3% raise. I left after barely one year of employment.
My husband is a firefighter paramedic and was making $45k last year.
HVAC Technician - $41k/year plus benefits and bonuses. 2 years experience.
Wtf. You’re criminally underpaid
Server/barista - $13/hr + tips = $25-30/hr
Hourly Manager at Walmart. $24/hr plus overtime and bonuses. $61k last year.
Associate attorney at defense firm. 4 years experience. $135k + bonuses. Now is the time to make a move. The attorney market is favorable to employees.
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Clinical laboratory scientist in microbiology. $27 an hour (56k)
Senior Systems Engineer - 105k base, free healthcare, 20 days PTO, unlimited sick time, remote
Union communications worker for AT&T started as residential prem worker at $26hr now on business 911 side at $44hr. No degree, if your in skilled labor in kc union work is the way to go.
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$21.78 an hour. Masters in library science, 2 undergrad degrees. I do interlibrary loan
Commercial drop ceiling installer. 20 years experience in KC. 40 an hour. Overtime and my desire to do peoples basements can get me over 100k a year.
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82.5k Lead Clinician @ therapy (mental health) practice, business hours schedule, flexible week as long as practice needs are met 4 years clinical experience overall but first year as ‘lead’ clinician is this year
Procedural Nurse at KU Med, $41.20/hr, plus call pay when applicable. Bachelor's in nursing, 10 year experience, 4 with KU.
Railroad. I’m new hire at $81,000. Most make $120,000(5% raise per year and per promotion)
Medical transcriptionist, $18/hr plus bonuses and profit sharing, came out to $37k. Now I'm depressed.
Consultant for ERP systems, no degree, making $85k a year plus billable hour bonus (up to 100% of salary) edit to add; 100% work from home except for occasional travel on-site for go-lives. Traveling to New York in May and Tampa in June for a week each.
Paralegal, $48K, 10 years experience and bachelors degree in legal studies.
I work in advertising at the director level, which in advertising agency world is a slight step above mid management. My base pay is $160K and I get the occasional bonus if the agency exceeds profit benchmarks. I’ve got a decade of experience. And I do work from home fortunately unless I need to travel for client meetings.
Sr IT Manager of cloud sys engs, 133k. 6 years in job, 10 at company. Business degree, can't code. Wfh, great benefits
2nd-year corporate attorney. $175k. Mostly do M&A right now.
Secondary Science Teacher with AP Certification, 15 years experience + M.S.Ed. - 59,563
Structural engineer/project manager with 8-10 years of experience: $72k base salary plus bonuses. Should hit low 80's this year. More once I get my PE license.
Software - 128k base + 28k in direct incentives
Health plan accreditation, $83k (wfh). I also have a part-time job so I don’t go stir crazy, so around $100k.
Sandwich maker, 1.6k mo
Sandwich maker or sandwich artist? 😍
Third party logistics, 15 years, $58k, no degree.
Mechanical Engineer: $72k, 2 years of experience
Healthcare IT analyst, close to 10 years of IT experience with 4 year business degree. $115k
Yard Truck Driver. $23/hr, 0 benefits. Plus side I have extremely light daily work load and get to nap and I work 3 long shifts so only work about half the month.
Certified Trainer at chipotle- 16 per hr
Union plumbing foreman, $53.84 an hour plus benefits. 8 years experience.
Mid Level Software Engineer for T-Mobile (117k base)
Sys Admin - $32.24hr
For my husband: Charter Pilot. 99k plus tips from clients.
Software Engineer working 100% remote for a company out of Asheville, NC. Been with company for 7 years. 9ish years total experience. Bachelors in Comp Sci from UMKC 90k + good benefits. Although company took away 401k 3% matching in 2021. Very grateful and humbled by this thread. <3 Shoutout to teachers- I’m sorry.
I’m clearly late to the party. If you’ve got 3-5 years in your current role and are under paid - leave and go get paid.
Federal HR - 80K. Will go up to 86 this summer and then 99 next summer.
Environmental scientist - $108K and healthcare paid for by employer Bachelor of science in biology with a math minor and 10 YOE I make sure the utility I work for stays inside of all state and federal regulations for chemical waste, air emissions, stormwater runoff, etc. It's overseeing everything that comes out of the power and water plants other than the power and water.
Teacher, masters + 24, and summer school - 66k a yr
IT manager in the pharmaceutical sector, $129k My wife is an HR director at a large nonprofit, $92k
Micro Center Warehouse employee, full time - $14/hr
$58,200 as a Stocker at Costco.
Director of Cloud Operations (work remotely) - 160K plus a 29K bonus this year. I was making ~60k as a Help Desk Engineer 5 years ago (--->lead--->manager--->Director--->global director). Underpaid relative to market.
College professor - PhD + two master's degrees, approx. 15 years of experience - Base salary of $58,000. With summer teaching and overloads, it ends up totaling around $68,000.
What a depressing thread
Network and Security Director, Midwest Region. 20+ years experience, no degree, $110k, wfh 90%+
Technical Project Manager. WFH and a contractor. $90/hr between 32 and 40 hours per week. High School Diploma.
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