Career and salary?

chevyguy45 · June 26, 2015

Does anyone mind sharing their occupation and salary? Im a master sheriffs deputy and take home 65k a year after taxes down in central Florida.

kevin-ct · June 27, 2015

Auto Repair Shop Owner and make 15k a year. I suck as an owner

j-ten-ner · June 27, 2015

... I suck as an owner

Not when you own 15 shops...

so long

j-ten-ner

The Zip · June 27, 2015

Occupation and salary will be relative, for example, the same master sheriff deputy in Los Angeles may make 20K more?

MikeNH · June 27, 2015

Occupation and salary will be relative, for example, the same master sheriff deputy in Los Angeles may make 20K more?

That's why it's pointless to compare without not only knowing location but knowing cost of living compared to other places. $50,000 here in Michigan for example goes much further than it would back in NH or especially LA as you mention.

SnakeEyeSS · June 27, 2015

That's why it's pointless to compare without not only knowing location but knowing cost of living compared to other places. $50,000 here in Michigan for example goes much further than it would back in NH or especially LA as you mention.

I worked with a guy once that had transferred in from Hawaii. He said the view was great but he preferred being able to eat (the massively lower cost of living here in OK)

Daly · June 27, 2015

Not to mention country differences… In Canada there are quite a bit more taxes then most states. I take home around 69% of my gross… I take home less the more I make too… I've had cheques where my take home was closer to 64%…

The Zip · June 28, 2015

… I take home less the more I make too… I've had cheques where my take home was closer to 64%…

What are you talking 'bout Willis

Daly · June 28, 2015

There are different tax brackets in Canada, depending on what you make… Or rather in Ontarible anyway…

Some one that makes $50k a year is taxed differently then someone that makes $100k, and $120k is different from that… When I work 40 hrs I get a certain percentage taken off my cheque, if I get OT the next week and work say 70 hrs (40 straight/30 double), I larger percentage is taken from my cheque… I use to work lots of hours in the past until I realized that at one point with all my deductions (the taxes being the only one that changes drastically) I was taking home a little over half my gross. I stopped working the big hours…

At one point I had figured out that when working 6 tens, so six days a week 10hr days, if I left 2 hrs before everyone else one day a week I would take home $50 more then everyone else that worked the full week (and that 2 hrs was double time so I was essentially 4 hrs behind everyone else)… It's F'd up, up here…

The Zip · June 28, 2015

That is screwed-up, what motivation do you have to make more than a certain amount, seem like everyone would get the no overtime message. Is anyone required to work overtime, like first responders?

Spurshot · June 28, 2015

Tiered tax tables cause this.

Spurshot · June 28, 2015

If you want a general understanding of salaries for various trades and professions, check out some internet sites. I found this one very close for my line of work in aerospace. http://www.careerprofiles.info/architecture-engineering-salaries.html

Not a lot of people are comfortable sharing their salaries/wages. Often, the more people earn, the less likely they are willing to share how much they earn.

Federal employee salaries are available online due to FOIA.

Daly · June 28, 2015

That is screwed-up, what motivation do you have to make more than a certain amount, seem like everyone would get the no overtime message. Is anyone required to work overtime, like first responders?

I still make more money when working OT, the government just makes more too… I do see a benefit at tax time, I get a good chunk back…

I average $100k a year, now that seams like a lot, but I'm Middle Class in Canada. If I make over $120k, which I have in the past, then that jumps me into another tax bracket and theres a good chance I'll own come tax time. That's why I usually slow down near the end of the year depending on where I'm at earnings wise…

It may seem like I make a lot, but like I stated earlier I'm middle class. In Canada if you make $50k a year, you're poor. It sounds ridiculous, but that's the fact you're living poor, just getting by… The cost of living is stupid high here, gas is a perfect example. I live on a border town, Port Huron Michigan is just the other side of the bridge, where gas works out to .96c a litre CDN (2.89 a gallon US), but here in Sarnia, on the Canadian side, gas is $1.20 a litre. That's taxes that do that. And the kicker, the gas I'm buying over the border is produced right here in my home town.

The Zip · June 28, 2015

Not a lot of people are comfortable sharing their salaries/wages. Often, the more people earn, the less likely they are willing to share how much they earn.

True, probably a reason why this thread didn't populate. But the opposite is also true, the less folks make the less likely they are willing to share

I average $100k a year, now that seams like a lot, but I'm Middle Class in Canada. If I make over $120k, which I have in the past, then that jumps me into another tax bracket and theres a good chance I'll own come tax time. That's why I usually slow down near the end of the year depending on where I'm at earnings wise…

It may seem like I make a lot, but like I stated earlier I'm middle class. In Canada if you make $50k a year, you're poor. It sounds ridiculous, but that's the fact you're living poor, just getting by… The cost of living is stupid high here, gas is a perfect example. I live on a border town, Port Huron Michigan is just the other side of the bridge, where gas works out to .96c a litre CDN (2.89 a gallon US), but here in Sarnia, on the Canadian side, gas is $1.20 a litre. That's taxes that do that. And the kicker, the gas I'm buying over the border is produced right here in my home town.

100K on the southeast coast of America (S Carolina, Georgia, Florida) will place you in the upper class. On the other hand, on the west coast of America (California) looking at the median wage between desert and ocean living you would need around 150K to probably be considered in the middle class. The gas issue in California, they have special refineries that don't ship in oil. California gas prices fluctuates based on the amount of refineries that are operational, usually between summer and winter when refineries close to change oil blends is when gas prices are highest. Right now I think low grade is about 3.50 per gallon.