I’m a Thai actor. I can’t speak for all actors, but I get paid ~250k baht per episode for a lakorn (TV drama). A typical lakorn has ~15 episodes. I usually do 1 per year. Add to that the salary I get from the TV network to stay with them.
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I push buttons in my basement in my underwear.
Pay is pretty good because I know what buttons to push in what order.
Could be a DJ, gamer, streamer or only fans…
Computer programmer
Close. I talk to the customers so the engineers don’t have to.
Excellent people skills
That’s, what, $107k/y? That’s a good, solid middle-class income in the US, unless you live in an expensive area. E.g., it’s a great salary if you live in Manhattan, Kansas; it’s not a lot if you live in Manhattan, New York. What’s the cost of living where you live?
I’d go by the price of eggs, but they’re outrageously expensive under our current regime.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Bangkok Here’s a general overview.
43% less expensive than where I live yet milk costs the same as here 🤔
Milk prices vary widely. The Midwest has a lot of cows. Milk is pretty cheap in most places, although Big Dairy flattens that out a lot. I’d expect milk to be very expensive in Japan, which isn’t conducive to dairy farming.
I only just now realized that, when doing cost of living comparisons, you really have to consider lifestyle. For example, my wife has a dairy allergy, so I’m the only person in the house who consumes any dairy. If you don’t eat gluten, bread prices are irrelevant, and you really should factor those out in the cost of living index.
Maybe it all averages out, in the end. “Housing”, “food”, “gas” - whatever indexes they use, they’re just aggregates.
Could be subsidies in your country. Could be geography of Thailand. When I was there it didn’t strike as the kind of land with expansive dairy ranches. As an example, New Zealand produces almost 20x as much dairy as Thailand.
regime
It’s still a government, give it a couple of years.
Good point.
I am a stay at home Dad. The pay is terrible and my boss is extremely immature. Best job I’ve ever had.
Depending on your boss, you get all the plastic food you could need though!
Electronics Engineer, UK (in the North), £39,000 after 5 and a half years of experience.
My field pays about the middling amount for the engineering profession. If I were to move overseas I could expect a 50% to 100% increase in pay.
Though my current company is great because they treat me very well. Hybrid work on offer with a minimum of 2 days in the office but since my job requires being in the office I don’t use that except for Fridays or when I’m not feeling great but still able to work, flexible working hours as long as I’m available during core hours of 10am to 4pm and Fridays are usually a half-day unless I’m very busy. There’s a pay-adjusted profit share bonus (the lower your salary is, the more you get from the bonus) and they try to match inflation with automatic pay rises.
Much better than my previous place which gave me suicidal depression, anxiety, and workplace-stress-induced PTSD where raised voices and slamming doors trigger an anxiety attack.
As an American, I’m pretty shocked at your salary. Is that comfortable for you?
https://plannit.ai/ppp-calculator/united-kingdom
It translates to around 53k US. Could be comfortable, depending on where they live.
Eh it’s the best I’ve had and honestly, it’s about average for a mid-level Electronics Engineer without becoming Senior Designer / Team Lead or Manager.
Thing is that there’s not much of an industry here in the UK compared with the States. Also it’s not a direct one-to-one as if I were to move to the states they’d probably pay me about $80k because they’d want some value (saving on wage) for going through the extra effort of a H1B visa. On top of that there’s also whatever I’d be expected to pay for health insurance.
The average salary in most US states is only a little more than this, and this is for Northern England where you can expect to earn 50-100% less than London depending on field
That’s the average salary overall. An average electronics engineer makes $109k a year in the US. and even more in places like California.
This is true, but you asked if it’s comfortable for them, which is more a factor of average salary than the wage gap of a specific field. They are pretty much spot on average for northern areas.
Yeah but making average wages doesn’t necessarily mean they’re comfortable.
I guess you meant “as an American [in the same field]”, whereas I took you to mean just as any American which is why I made the comparison.
i.e. going by averages outside of the field, you’re about as comfortable here as an American would be, looking only at salary.
I’m a waitress, I make about 60K USD give or take 5K. It varies significantly throughout the year, though. In Chicago, that’s enough to support a family of five.
I am amazed that you can support a family of 5 with 60k!
That said, i am also amazed that you can make 60k being a waitress! Is that after paying taxes?
before taxes
the secret is simple: no car. It’s a huge expense and in a city like Chicago, completely unnecessary. I never would’ve been able to buy a home with that millstone around my financial neck
You have a house and 5 people on 60k in Chicago… That’s crazy
lowest CoL major city in America
OP won the thread before the first response arrived.
Pharmaceuticals in the US. Fairly early in my career, get paid just short of $100k/year. All it took was getting a doctorate and selling a little bit of my soul.
Sometimes I miss academic research. But at the end of the day I’m getting paid about 4x as much while working 1/2 the hours, by my estimate I’m 8x as happy now. Plus, there’s something to be said for working on projects that actually affect people’s lives instead of overstating the impacts of my research to compete for a dwindling pool of federal grants. Seeing the policy changes in the US this year, I’m very glad I left academia but I’m not convinced I’m 100% safe from changes made at the FDA.
Digital forensics in a European country. My monthly salary is enough to buy 15000 eggs, or live comfortably within the urban area of a large city and buy a reasonable amount of eggs.
How many eggs is a reasonable amount? Asking for a friend.
About 350
IT help desk (combined L1/L2 ish) in education. Pull in a smidge under $70k plus bennies/pension/etc. Live comfortably enough and have some leftover to treat myself reasonably.
Bit concerned what happens with the US DoE though…
a smidge under $70k
nice
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I’ve always wanted to do that but isn’t the pay usually like half of what you put? Do you usually help students or staff or both? Is it in the public school system or private?
I’m in a multi-school district org handling public schooling, but I only handle 2 schools myself. I mostly help teachers and staff, but ever so often the kids have curiosities and questions too.
That’s neat, thanks for answering.
IT Networking in Healthcare. Used to be administration side but recently moved to networking a year ago. Had the same job now for 19 years and it was my first job out of tech school where I worked help desk for the first 5 years. Used to do a lot on the telecom side but now it’s mostly setup firewalls, program switches, and know cloud services to setup virtual networks. I know I am underpaid at 87k, I am being promised a raise soon with hopes of getting to 95-100k but even that is below what I should be around. I may have a new opportunity later this year which looks to be around 110-120k if I can pull it off. I want to move on not only because the pay but also because going 19 years at a place that’s 24/7 with bare minimum holidays takes its toll on you since your basically on call all the time. Outside that the job it’s self is fine and challenging at times.
I’m a Scrum Master working in Financial Technology. I made $145k last year although that was because I worked a ton of overtime. My base is closer to $130k. Although I do have to provide all my own benefits
I do physical therapy with school kids with disabilities. Almost $60k but only paid for 190 work days. People think we get paid for all those holidays and breaks, but we don’t - only paid for the days that we work plus five sick and vacation days. My husband makes a few times what I make as an engineer and my kids are grown (but not entirely off the payroll), so I feel pretty lucky to have the life that we do.
Currently an intern in IT getting paid 17/hr. Pretty much everybody is telling me I’m getting paid shit. However, I’m very inexperienced, even though I’m taking comp sci classes, I don’t feel nearly knowledgeable enough or productive enough to justify getting paid more.
Eventually I hope to be some server admin or some kind of security analyst. Maybe I’ll jump ship after a year or two but so far, any experience is good experience for me.
If you guys have any career advice lmk.
Career advice:
Don’t wait a year or two to apply to other places if you know that you could get payed better in the future. Also, impostor syndrome is a real thing and employers know about it and use it agains you.
Money is not everything, but until you are done worrying about rent, car payment (required in most North American cities), student loan or whatever, don’t settle. No one on your company needs to know that you applied elsewhere. The people that matter will still keep in contact after you leave as they know it is for your benefit.
I’ve been in engineering leadership in early and mid stage start ups in San Francisco for a number of years. Comp varies a bit (the earlier stage the company the more ISO equity I get - for anybody not familiar these are options that are basically worth nothing but in the event of an exit opportunity might be worth tremendously more - vs working for a public company you’d often get RSUs that you could immediately sell or divest) but base in the low 300s. This is in the bay area, so actual purchasing power when compared to cost of living is more like mid 100s elsewhere in the US.
Software dev for a shipping logistics company. I make $80k with 100% paid decent enough health insurance for me and my family.
I could get paid a lot more, but this week I took a 4 hour lunch to go to the park and play soccer with my kid. I let my boss and coworker know and they both just said to have fun and say hi to the family for them. I do something like that at least 2 times and week and it’s not a problem.
Last week I went to the aquarium on a whim and my coworker decided that sounded fun and brought his kid too. You would have to pay me a lot more money than I’m worth to give up this kind of freedom.
Yup, this is so good to find. The company I work for is so flexible with time. First job I’ve ever had where I’m not micro managed to death on projects and time.
To contrast my last company, they gave me a laptop that was absolute shit and would give me the blue screen on death a few times a day. I asked for a better one and they said no so I asked if I could just use my person laptop and they said sure. Then I started getting messages and calls constantly from someone I didn’t know asking why I wasn’t working (according to the tracking software on my company toaster).
They then wanted to install their software on my personal laptop, it told them they could try. Watching this lady try to open an exe file on my Debian system for an hour was classic. I tried explaining it to her from the beginning but to her I was a lazy ungrateful kid who was taking advantage of the company. She called IT in to help her who I was good friends with and he told here was already tracking software on there and opened up the syslog file and pointed out the timestamps. So I had to send her a file with timestamps at the end of each day, which I just wrote a script to generate instead of sending her my actual syslog.
In the end they made me go back to the shitty windows laptop and I kept getting calls about not working during the periods the laptop was crashing and taking 30 minutes to reboot. I also started getting calls from my boss about why projects weren’t being finished.
Sorry for the long reply, I can never be quick when I talk about that place. I still get skeeved out.
