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kwsmith2
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^

Its okay, my current salary is less than half of my starting.

12/5/2005 11:02:12 AM

Docido
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Thanks for the words of comfort. Seriously though, I'd be happy to take a slight paycut. I'm currently working in a corporate environment at a publishing company and I want to go and work in a design studio so there would definately be a paycut. It'd be worth it to me.

12/5/2005 11:31:36 AM

ACE83
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Landscape Horticulture (2005)
Area Supervisor - $35,000 = company truck, 40hrs a week
Charleston, SC

12/5/2005 2:40:42 PM

BlackSheep
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ECE/EE

Nortel Networks Integration
62k plus Overtime

12/8/2005 4:22:49 AM

Brian5NCSU
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Major: Business Mgt. - Marketing Concentration
Minor:Sports Mgt.
Starting Salary: $$26,500 + Commission (Marketing Consultant for firm in Houston) 100% travel.

Current: Assistant Retail Advertising Manager - The Register-Guard in Eugene, OR

12/9/2005 1:30:30 PM

MarcusDMB
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meteorology. 34K life/dental/med. 2500$ signing bonus

12/9/2005 5:55:52 PM

wekeli
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FYI Blacksheep:
ECE Major w/ 2. someting GPA = BS post on TWW about unrealistic starting salary.

12/9/2005 10:17:46 PM

NCSUWolfy
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Major: Business & Communication
Starting Salary: $50k+

100% dental & vision

6% 401k matching

company car, laptop & cell phone

relocation costs

pay increase with every move (will have to move 3-4 times in the next 4-6 years then after that it's up to me)

international opportunities

etc.

12/11/2005 4:41:20 PM

scud
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Major: EE/CpE
Starting Salary: $12,487


I should point out that I put in way more than 40 hr/wk
and i get 401(k) and craploads of other fringe benefits

12/11/2005 4:59:21 PM

Lowjack
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^you must have made a typo. 12k is not even college grad level, I don't care about what benefits you have

12/11/2005 5:16:29 PM

NCSUWolfy
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^ i was thinking (and hoping) the same thing

12/11/2005 5:21:24 PM

scud
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does that make me less attractive?

12/11/2005 5:45:49 PM

NCSUWolfy
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if that really is your salary i'd like to know what kind of fringe benefits you're getting bc they better be worth it

12/11/2005 5:51:45 PM

Maugan
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Major: History

Money: Enough to answer that while in a clinical database development cycle I might work 60 hours a week but during lulls, I'll be there 40 but putting more effort into finding things to do than actually doing them. For example, the past two weeks have been pretty slack, but now I have to develop a new study for a new client on a new database software platform so I'm going to be pulling some all nighters and some work from home.

I enjoy perks such as working from home, multiple company laptops, travel and conferences. Pharmaceuticals is a fast paced and challenging area to be in.

The Contract Research part that I'm involved in is very incestuous. The same people make the rounds to about a half dozen companies around the triangle. We refer to the big Pharma's like GSK, Pfizer and Schwarz as "the promised land".

I'd just like to point out that just because you have a liberal arts degree doesn't mean you can't go out and get a well-paying job or have to be stuck in a government-paying teaching position.

[Edited on December 11, 2005 at 6:53 PM. Reason : we history majors take a lot of shit from you engineers and it aint right.]

12/11/2005 6:50:52 PM

sober46an3
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Quote :
"Enough to answer that while in a clinical database development cycle I might work 60 hours a week but during lulls, I'll be there 40 but putting more effort into finding things to do than actually doing them. "


what is that supposed to mean? you make enough money to answer the question?

12/11/2005 9:16:24 PM

Lowjack
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^I dont know if that description was supposed to be bad or good

12/11/2005 9:42:54 PM

Raige
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Major: Textile Technology
Minor: Comp Sci (never completed)
Starting Salary: $36k + year bonus based on company profits + paid lunches + full benefits. No deductables

Current: IT/Webmaster for Audioadvice.com I do everything for the small company from writing small applications, rewriting their current website, IT issues at user and server levels, Phone systems, Barcode systems etc etc. I am the 1 man IT guy and have a 99% uptime with over 100 employees.

I took the job for experience and walked into a freaking nightmare where they had every single application for the store, form web services, to internal applications, to exchange email server, to the backend databases running on a p3 1ghz processor 1gb memory on a raid setup of 4 16gb drives, with a 4gb main partition and 2 other drives which split up the rest. It had 104 mb free space and crashed multiple times daily. They also had not had a successful backup in the past 6 months. The company (First Service) they hired to come in and do the minor IT they had did the bare minimum and never checked the servers as agreed.

Edit: Fixed it all, got rid of the dead weight (First Service), bought new servers, migrated everything to new servers, mvoed the DNS, created a seconday DNS, replaced their backup, fixed problems with the phone system, etc etc etc. Everything is running at mostly 99% downtime. There are still issues with current software that is vendor related that I cannot fix as we aren't allowed to touch it.

I really can't wait for this years bonus .

[Edited on December 11, 2005 at 10:11 PM. Reason : needed to say i fixed shit!]

12/11/2005 10:07:10 PM

OmarBadu
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if you never finished a minor then you never got it - you just took some extra classes

scud was pointing out how ridiculously tacky it is to post your salary - note that mostly the ppl that make decent to good money didn't post it in here....well....mostly because they are the professionals

12/11/2005 10:23:29 PM

Lowjack
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^please, toolbag.

1. There is some anonymity here.
2. Depending on where they live, most people here seem to be doing alright.
3. This is actually a pretty useful thread

12/11/2005 10:29:58 PM

Maugan
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Quote :
"what is that supposed to mean? you make enough money to answer the question?
"


Someone earlier in the thread asked something along the lines of "if you make such and such amount, how many hours a week do you usually put in?"

so I answered the question because I make "such and such" amount.

12/12/2005 4:42:05 PM

umIdontCare
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M.S./Ed.S. in Counseling and Educational Development

Just got hired as a substance abuse clinician with Daymark Recovery Services...I'll be doing group work plus individual counseling with substance-abusing adults and adolescents...should be about a 40/hr work week but I have the opportunity to do some emergency on-call stuff, which pays GREAT...supposedly if I only do one weekend a month there's another $3,000-4,000/yr.

Pay=good enough for me to be glad I decided to go to graduate school.

12/14/2005 5:05:12 PM

sober46an3
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^^ gotcha...i wasnt sure where that was coming from. i see now.

12/15/2005 9:39:40 AM

RyaNCSU1
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Major: BS Industrial Engineering
Starting Salary: 50+ , good benefits, couple raises and 1 promotion in the last year and a half.
Job Title Industrial Engineer / Project Manager

Generally work about 45 hours a week. Never less than 40 and the longest week ive had is maybe 65 hrs.

[Edited on December 18, 2005 at 8:37 AM. Reason : ...]

12/18/2005 8:36:42 AM

Peapod
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Major: BA sociology (criminal justice concentration)
Salary: 28K/yr + 100% paid for benifits

that was two years ago. i just started a new position making 40K+ and again, the benefits are all paid for - they'll also pay for my MSW program once i decide to get started on it. i work in youth social services.

1/7/2006 1:28:54 AM

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Quote :
"Everything is running at mostly 99% downtime."


damn man, you really HAVE made an impact!



Quote :
"This is actually a pretty useful thread"


agreed

1/11/2006 10:58:28 PM

ewstephe
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Agronomy, low 30s, full benefits, 401k and all that

1/13/2006 11:39:44 PM

Lowjack
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^if you're going to make up a job, at least make up a better salary

1/14/2006 12:29:37 AM

ewstephe
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the thread title is major, not job.

1/14/2006 2:47:36 PM

Pi Master
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This isn't the 'brag about your salary thread' so much as it is the 'hey, in case you're about to graduate with the same degree I got, here's what you might just make' thread.

As such, it is very interesting, and I don't really see a problem with posting salaries.

1/19/2006 6:00:04 PM

danmangt40
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Mechanical Engineering
$55k

1/22/2006 2:10:02 AM

JDo
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The handy website below allows you to compare cost of living across different areas of the nation, so you get an accurate picture of what you are *really* making (in a standardized sense):

http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html

1/27/2006 9:09:18 AM

wolftrap
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not an accurate picture (very outdated, probably wrt housing) but an A for effort

you can see the type of place you can get in Pittsburgh (where there are no jobs)
http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/rfs/133672934.html

a house like that inside the beltline would run twice as much

2/19/2006 3:52:23 PM

HiWay58
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CPE/EE
more than i expected + 15% for nights

[Edited on February 19, 2006 at 6:54 PM. Reason : .]

2/19/2006 6:48:54 PM

wolftrap
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oh and...
BS Biology '97
Research Technician III
$27,500

2/20/2006 8:54:30 AM

pilgrimshoes
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EE/CPE

mid sixties, 401k matching, loads o' benefits

but in an area with ~6% higher cost of living than raleigh


new product design for a major company research department. Oddly enough, its primarly a chemical company.

2/20/2006 9:21:35 AM

Clevelander
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^ where are you at?

2/20/2006 11:13:36 PM

ssjamind
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Chem E's from State make so much bank

2/20/2006 11:18:20 PM

BobbyDigital
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Quote :
"This isn't the 'brag about your salary thread' so much as it is the 'hey, in case you're about to graduate with the same degree I got, here's what you might just make' thread."


y'know, I never thought of it from that angle, and that's a damn good point.

Major: Computer Science
Starting Salary: $58k + stock options + annual bonus + weekend/holiday pay.

2/21/2006 12:35:48 PM

amber1
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Major: Animal Science
Starting Salary: ~$31,000 + 401K + Health/dental + Life insurance + use of car
Hours: 40

and flex fridays!

[Edited on February 21, 2006 at 4:41 PM. Reason : add]

2/21/2006 4:39:23 PM

chargercrazy
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This may be of interest to some of you.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/13/pf/college/starting_salaries/index.htm?cnn=yes

2/21/2006 5:06:50 PM

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Major: Microbiology
Starting Salary: $28884, Free Health Insurance, LOTS of perks
Hours: 40

3/6/2006 9:32:41 PM

Lowjack
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I would have thought microbiology would be more lucrative...

3/6/2006 10:34:18 PM

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Well, actually, my job has nothing to do with my BS degree (my minor got me this job) - I wasn't going to turn down a decent paying job that literally fell into my lap. I just graduated last summer, so its ok, and besides I like the job.

3/7/2006 6:52:03 AM

BigBlueRam
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i majored in TED, so if i had a relative job i'd be making ~30-35k. i work in real estate though, have a base of 24k+ commission (1.25% of the sales price of each house). the huge plus is i work maybe 25-30 hours a week. 10-15 of that is sitting in my office playing on the computer. downside is i work alot of weekends, odd hours, and have to be on call pretty much 24/7.

3/10/2006 8:42:35 PM

sublime_ncsu
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a lot of this has to do with location and cost of living.....some of you people in big cities making in the 60's really arent that well of...

3/13/2006 9:49:04 PM

Lowjack
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^oh shit, you've just dropped a bomb on this thread!

3/13/2006 11:23:38 PM

Shadowrunner
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Major: Mathematics, BS from NCSU, masters from Cambridge
Job: Business Analyst, McKinsey
Salary: $55,000 with very generous benefits

That's probably well above the average for math majors, but goes to show that depending on what you do with it, you can still get a pretty nice job if you market your degree well.

It's also in Houston, but using that cost-of-living calculator linked earlier on the page, Houston is actually almost identical to Raleigh (said Houston was a teeny tiny bit cheaper). It seems accurate to me, based on my apartment and utilities costs compared to when I was in Raleigh.

4/6/2006 3:16:58 AM

sober46an3
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dont mess with texas

4/6/2006 7:54:10 AM

MajrShorty
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a thanks in advance for the salary postings - i'm about to graduate and find this thread useful

4/21/2006 4:29:25 PM

ssjamind
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if you're with McKinsey, the salary is an ancillary benefit

get put on some good projects, the value of those on your resume will be worth $ soon enough

4/22/2006 2:37:44 PM

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