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Union electrician in a strong Union city in the north east part of the USA. Make 100k a year just working 40hrs a week, but work has been slow the past few years so I've made under that the last 2 years. The money is good for sure, but the retirement and health coverage for my whole family is the real reason for the career

I'm in technical presales. I go with salespeople and explain the IT infra, services and cybersecurity we sell. Should be $190k+ this year.

I'm a part-time janitor. The pay sucks.

Do you do one episode a year or one season of 15 episodes?

I assume you're pretty well off considering you are in Thailand where living costs are relatively lower?

Software engineer. £75k a year, plus bonuses - last year got £13k (pre-tax) which was nice. Based in the north of England.

I tend to watch some Thai series (mostly on Netflix), so I find these numbers interesting.

I think that this salary is considered to be quite high for Thai standards, but knowing the prices, does not allow for lavish luxuries like expensive sports cars.

How long do those 15 episodes take to film generally?

I do GIS, which is basically computer mapping, for an energy company. Because we work in the energy sector, we're unionized with the electricians and with that we have a fantastic pay scale and benefits. USD I make ~$70k/yr

Microsoft 365 Administrator, $130k USD. I only have an Associate's degree but I have over a decade of experience in the field. Most of my day is spent coordinating with cybersecurity, compliance, and lawyers to ensure our data practices are sound. It's a constantly-moving target.

Marketing Director for a company that hosts in person conferences. $105 base with around 15k in bonus per year. I work remote from home. I enjoy the flexibility it gives me. Health insurance for me and my wife is like 14k a year though, so don't like that.

I'm a production artist working for a small production studio. I work from home and my hours are super flexible. So long as I get my work done they don't care how long and when I start work. The pay kinda sucks since it's about $30k a year but I'm a recent graduate so I understand.

Nice try IRS, but you already know what I do: Unemployed, I only deliver newspapers to keep a day rhythm.

Per month 450€ for paper delivery, 600€ from the state (mostly rent assistance).

Lived half a year from my savings without any assistance and learned to cut back at everything unnecessary. Now I get more money and don't need to pay into healthcare. Feels weird to be able to splurge again. Nothing contributes to my pension fund at the moment, but nobody believes in pensions here anyway.

Aviation. Pretty darn good right now, but it took 20 years of near or below poverty wages to get here. One severe economic downturn and we could be right back at shit wages.

I am a Routing Analyst for a communication platform. We do SMS, MMS and voice traffic. I make $80k working from home.

Mental health (masters-level therapist), shit.

Softwaere engineer in Switzerland, I work 36h a week, 5 days a week. I start at 8:30 and usually work till 16:30 which gives me plenty of time for my hobbies. Company is fully owned by its workers which is not bad eithet even though 50℅ belong to the top C-suite managers (which they bough from their bosses when they left the company, so the shares do stay with the employees). I make around 110k CHF a year (which is nice as I only pay like 6k in income tax). Pretty happy.

I generally don't stick to any particular job for very long. I used to work a lot of retail when I was younger, but most of my income comes from seasonally working with the elderly. I generally work 12 or so hours a day as well as on call with facilities or I travel to clients homes. I'm not formally educated for medical practice but there is a big demand for people who can lift a 6'4' 180lbs old man from the bed to the commode to the chair multiple times per day, rotate them in bed at night to avoid sores, and clean and change depends. I'll do that for about 8 months at a time.

Aside from that, I do some artwork and I bake breads and fix appliances whenever I have time.

Biomedical postdoc in the US. Pay is exactly $61,008/yr. Postdoc means a PhD is required, and I work in Chicago, mind you

There's actually a bit of a fun fact in this... Postdocs have historically been chronically underpaid. The NIH actually worked with a consultant a year or so back, who suggested NIH to gradually increase postdoc pay to $70k/yr (80k in urban areas). NIH didn't agree to that, but chose to gradually increase salary over several years

NIH has a recommended minimum salary (https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/salary-cap-stipends) based on years of experience. In theory institutions can pay more... In practice, a lot of them just stick to the bare minimum, some places even low-ball. This is why my salary is exactly $61,008. Last year it would have been $56.5k so... At least it is an improvement

Boiler Technician 40 hours a week. Union backed 80k a year.

Nice try fbi

An odd combination of IT + offshore + electronics. 90% of the time this boils down to the same answer as @Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world

Being half naked and drunk is not a career inhibitor.

It pays enough that I neither know nor care about egg prices, and yet I always have a carton or two 8n my fridge which is frequently restocked.

First year post-grad! Pay is 1500 USD/month but it's nice getting paid to study, I suppose. Also doing TA too.

Regional Head, working on collaborating Technical operations with work systems (no software), make about 85k EUR +18% bonus a year currently in fmcg industry.

Unionized IT for the primary job. Contract for the second.

My primary spot alone is about 10% high for this region, job, and experience level. And it's union. And 100%wfh is in the contract. And my boss is awesome. Sometimes the work is dumb, but that's fine. People retire on half pay.

So, roughly 7500 dollars from each episode. That's 10x more than what I make working 20h/week as system analyst for the Brazilian govt - 4500 reais, or roughly 780 dollars per month.