[Athens]

This is related to the post about how many hours worked. Its a poll so you dont actually have to say how much you make.
Its a multichoice poll btw, so you can select how much and if you get paid vacation, OT and lunchs as well. Should be interesting to see the pay demographics of the board.

[effgee]

Originally posted by Athens:
This is related to the post about how many hours worked. Its a poll so you dont actually have to say how much you make.
Its a multichoice poll btw, so you can select how much and if you get paid vacation, OT and lunchs as well. Should be interesting to see the pay demographics of the board.

LOL! Athens took on a freelance online marketing project. One way to keep yourself busy while stuck in bed/at home.



Looking at the $$$/hour options - with the current difference between each option, you're missing about 15-20 extra checkboxes after the $20+ one to get to the hourly rate of some folks around here.

[Athens]

Originally posted by effgee:
LOL! Athens took on a freelance online marketing project. One way to keep yourself busy while stuck in bed/at home.



Looking at the $$$/hour options - with the current difference between each option, you're missing about 15-20 extra checkboxes after the $20+ one to get to the hourly rate of some folks around here.

Oh I wish i was in bed, im actually at work right now. I dont see much difference between 20 per hour and 30 per hour, either way they making GOOD money.

Your always up late, a night owl you be?

[effgee]

Originally posted by Athens:
Oh I wish i was in bed, im actually at work right now. I dont see much difference between 20 per hour and 30 per hour, either way they making GOOD money. Your always up late, a night owl you be?

Night owl - yessss. Even though currently, it's lunch time. GMT +1 here.

While there's not much difference between $20 and $30, I'm quite certain that a few of our fellow nerds here are being paid five or more times as much per hour. I sure as hell wouldn't get out of bed in the morning if my clients paid me $30/hour - regardless of whether you look at it before or after taxes.



And ... hey! Weren't you sick just last night?? Go home, crawl under the blanket and get better! Tell your boss (if you have one, that is) I said so.

[Athens]

Originally posted by effgee:
Night owl - yessss. Even though currently, it's lunch time. GMT +1 here.

While there's not much difference between $20 and $30, I'm quite certain that a few of our fellow nerds here are being paid five or more times as much per hour. I sure as hell wouldn't get out of bed in the morning if my clients paid me $30/hour - regardless of whether you look at it before or after taxes.



And ... hey! Weren't you sick just last night?? Go home, crawl under the blanket and get better! Tell your boss (if you have one, that is) I said so.

There are only 2 night Auditors for the hotel I work at, and since the other is even more sick then me I have no choice.

[Athens]

Forgot to ask, GMT +1 eh, Netherlands?

[effgee]

Originally posted by Athens:
Forgot to ask, GMT +1 eh, Netherlands?

nope ...

• 

"Kraut", not "Cheese-head"

[Athens]

Originally posted by effgee:
nope ...

• 

"Kraut", not "Cheese-head"

you cant be german, i've never meet a pleasent german well thats not true I did once LOL

[effgee]

Originally posted by Athens:
you cant be german, i've never meet a pleasent german well thats not true I did once LOL

Well, I doubt I'd have passed any "blond hair, blue-eyes" tests in the 1930's but I have spent most of my life here, hence the designation "Kraut". Sort of like: ... wherever he laid his head was his home ...

[Athens]

Originally posted by effgee:
Well, I doubt I'd have passed any "blond hair, blue-eyes" tests in the 1930's but I have spent most of my life here, hence the designation "Kraut". Sort of like: ... wherever he laid his head was his home ...

Well then lets start this over

A/S/L

[sugar_coated]

This is a very interesting poll! This may show that many mac users are making a decent living.

[Athens]

and a lot of people don't get paid over time. In BC its the law im guessing its not in most places.

[bubblewrap]

I don't get overtime. But I do get comp days sometimes.

I make big $$ at my day job.

But I fly for free on weekend nights.

[Sherwin]

Wow, those per-hour poll options are low.

Maybe someone was forgetting that not everyone here is in North America? I mean, that first option is below minimum wage here.

[Athens]

Originally posted by Sherwin:
Wow, those per-hour poll options are low.

Maybe someone was forgetting that not everyone here is in North America? I mean, that first option is below minimum wage here.

Ya I stuck that first option in there for Americans, some states still have 5.00 a hour as min wage. Where I live 8.00 a hour is min.

[Kilbey]

Originally posted by Athens:
I dont see much difference between 20 per hour and 30 per hour, either way they making GOOD money.

It's only a difference between $42,000 and $62,000 per year. Yeah, that's not much. Only $20,000 /SARCASM]

If you don't include the students here, I'd bet the average wage for people on the lounge is around $28/hr.

BTW: I marked $20+, Paid lunches/breaks, paid vacation, overtime.

[mitchell_pgh]

I'm a salaried employee. I don't make a $/hr figure. Some weeks I work 35 hours... some 50+ (so it fluctuates between 50¢/hr and $40/hr.

I get paid to do a job.

[dcmacdaddy]

Approximately $65,000/year doing IT work for the government. With almost 10 years experience I am near the top of my pay grade, though. Which means I could work another 20 years and make roughly the same amount of money, excepting for annual cost-of-living pay increases, as I am making now.

I work 40-45 hours per week on salary. I frequently eat lunch at my desk but I always find time to dink around on the intarweb. When there are problems or big projects I work more. Sometimes I get comp time for it, sometimes I don't. When I don't get comp time given to me I "take" comp time in the form of longer lunches or coming in late.

Like someone else said, salaried jobs usually give you a set list of tasks/duties that need to be accomplished. If you can get them done quickly then the extra time is yours. If there are problems then you are expected to work until they are resolved. The problem is finding a work environment where your supervisor(s) adequately match your duties assigned to the time available to do them.

In my last job I literally had the responsibilites of two FTE's (full-time-employees) after a co-worker left and money wasn't available to hire a replacement. Now, I am fairly stable in my assignments although I am one of the most senior staffers in my department (in terms of experience, not age), so I tend to work a little more than everyone else in my department. But, I also make more than them, so it all balances out in the end.

And yes, I am at work right now as I type this. Your tax dollars at work, folks.

[scaught]

i make between 16 and 19, which i consider to be pretty good since i didnt finish college and have no real "training". i also get 3 weeks a year vacation, and overtime, although i forgot to click those in the poll.

[paully dub]

Being freelance, and counting the hours I don't work, I don't wanna think about it.

Best I ever made was ~$30 teaching English in Japan a few years ago. I made a lot of money that year.

[ManOfSteal]

Eleventy billion.®

[d.fine]

I make crap, I hate my current job. 4 years of college, Masters degree, and I consider myself seriously underpayed ...

Gotta move on ...

[Sealobo]

Originally posted by d.fine:
I make crap, I hate my current job. 4 years of college, Masters degree, and I consider myself seriously underpayed ...

Gotta move on ...

underpaid with a master degree?

[roberto blanco]

i make 40,- € an hour (before taxes), - but business is still very slow and some of the people i work with piss me off so badly (the combination of lack of sensitivity, "elbow" ambition, competitiveness and "sycophantism" is just something that makes me want to projectile vomit on a daily basis) i would rather take a chain-saw to their face than actually try to do business with them.

/no paid vacations, no paid lunch etc.

[jcadam]

I'm salaried. I get no overtime. I work late hours, a lot. 30 days paid vacation per year, though.

[Mafia]

still in college so 9 dollars an hour.

[sugar_coated]

It is not how much you make, but how much you live life!

[Cody Dawg]

I've learned that income is a funny thing: Your lifestyle expands to fit the income and any amount you make is never really "enough."

When I was in college I worked two or three jobs and I always felt like I had enough money because although we lived in a hovel, it was a clean hovel and there was food in the refrigerator, the bills were paid, and college tuition was paid. That was enough. No, there were no fancy vacations or restaurant meals (unless one of us worked at the restaurant and we got leftovers or freebies) or cars, but we were happy.

Now I look back at the amount that we made back then and it would never be enough to support the bills (and children) that we have.

Our mortgage is almost $2000 a month alone. Car payment is another $600 a month. One car is paid off outright or we'd have another car payment. Health insurance is $500 a month out of pocket (after being matched by the employer.) Electric bill runs $300 a month. And so it goes.

The weird thing is that I consider us "middle class."



We are average people in an average home and we have average expenses...at least where we live.

Still, we're relatively happy even though we don't have luxurious vacations and lifestyle.

[Kilbey]

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
Eleventy billion.®

Is that US$?

And is it per hour or yearly?

[RGB]

How about the "I work for a college newspaper, making me essentially a slave" option?

[ManOfSteal]

Originally posted by Kilbey:
Is that US$?

And is it per hour or yearly?

All of the above.

[Oisín]

Or the, "I'm a college student without a job, so I only get the measly ~$1,075 (~6,250 DKr) the government gives me per month for studying" option?

[Athens]

seeing how many make 20+ is depressing LOL

[RAILhead]

I make just over $90k take home a year. My wife brings in around $70k. We're salaried. Paid everything. As long as I show up for at least 2 hours each day, I'm good to go. She has to work all 40 or her boss gets pissy.

Life is good, and only getting better (looking forward to the upcoming $1000 increase to Roth IRA contributions, etc.).

Maury

[DeathToWindows]

8.75/hr when i'm at the Media Lab (45hr/wk)
20.00/hr as an Apple "Rent a Geek"

[Eug Wanker]

Hmmm....

52 weeks a year, with on average 37.5 hrs per week. That's 1950 hours per year.

At $20 an hour, that's less than $40000 per year.

I have heard that some Microsoft programmers start at twice that, fresh out of school, and that's in US bux.

I guess it's all relative, but CAD$20/hr is not a huge amount of money. And as others have said, others will make several times that.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Hmmm....

52 weeks a year, with on average 37.5 hrs per week. That's 1950 hours per year.
...

To convert salaried wages into hourly wages, most, if not all, HR people in the US use 2080 working hours per year (40 working hours per week).

[SeSawaya]

I'm self employeed as an instructor and a musician.

I charge $22 an hour for lessons and can make $500 an hour for performing. When I take time off, I dont get paid.

I need to give myself a raise.

[Cody Dawg]

My last college job was at Microsoft and I actually stayed there for a while after college and I made more than $40K a year just walking in the door green and no experience.

The best job I've ever had was working for Microsoft, actually.

Microsoft paid very well. The on-campus lunches were awesome. I had a paid membership to a really nice health club (The Pro Club) and the freebies and work schedule were awesome. That's aside from the options and everything else we got. Plus, there were the seminars and meetings that we had at really nice places and it was like a paid vacation. Plus, the people were really cool - from all over the world - and Microsoft had great employee bonuses, like soccer weekends and party weekends for employees once a month.

Microsoft has always treated employees very well.

[MilkmanDan]

Well I make $6.15 working at the college library.... take about $25k a year for college + expenses... comes out to negative $24 K a year. Give or take.

Plus all the IOUs I have outstanding. Parents, government, Minnesota.

[Cody Dawg]

But, are you happy?

That's all that matters.



Do what you love and the rest will fall into place.

[dillerX]

I own my own thing now. I don't make **** yet.

[Athens]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Hmmm....

52 weeks a year, with on average 37.5 hrs per week. That's 1950 hours per year.

At $20 an hour, that's less than $40000 per year.

I have heard that some Microsoft programmers start at twice that, fresh out of school, and that's in US bux.

I guess it's all relative, but CAD$20/hr is not a huge amount of money. And as others have said, others will make several times that.

$20.00 CDN a hour isnt great but the cost of living in Canada is cheaper for the most part, specially in Quebec and British Columbia.

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
Eleventy billion.®

Thats not even a proper number.

[Randman]

Anyone else find it ironic that athens created this how much do you make thread right after he created his prostitution should be legal thread?

Next, his why does it hurt when I pee? thread.

[Athens]

Originally posted by Randman:
Anyone else find it ironic that athens created this how much do you make thread right after he created his prostitution should be legal thread?

Next, his why does it hurt when I pee? thread.

I made this one after I posted on the how many hours do you work thread. What does this have to do with the prostitution thread?

[Sherwin]

Originally posted by Athens:
I made this one after I posted on the how many hours do you work thread. What does this have to do with the prostitution thread?

So...

1) Legalise prostitution?
2) How many hours do you work?
3) How much money do you make?

Thinking of a career change?

[Athens]

Originally posted by Sherwin:
So...

1) Legalise prostitution?
2) How many hours do you work?
3) How much money do you make?

Thinking of a career change?

No, and I didnt start the Hours one.

[roberto blanco]

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
Do what you love and the rest will fall into place.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by Athens:
$20.00 CDN a hour isnt great but the cost of living in Canada is cheaper for the most part, specially in Quebec and British Columbia.

Not really. Vancouver has some of the priciest real estate in Canada. It's hard to buy a $400000 home for your 5-person family (and feed them) on $20/hour.

Originally posted by Cody Dawg:
But, are you happy?

That's all that matters.



Do what you love and the rest will fall into place.

Love will conquer all.