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What was your starting salary?
Posted on 8/14/13 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 8/14/13 at 2:57 pm
What was your starting salary or compensation for your first full-time job or first job in new career?
Include :
Career field:
Compensation:
Compensation in 2013$ (inflation adjusted starting):
Current Compensation: Optional
Inflation Calculator
Include :
Career field:
Compensation:
Compensation in 2013$ (inflation adjusted starting):
Current Compensation: Optional
Inflation Calculator
This post was edited on 8/15/13 at 3:54 pm
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Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:01 pm to GenesChin
Internal Audit
Then (2001): 46k
Today: 60k
Then (2001): 46k
Today: 60k
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:03 pm to Htown Tiger
R&D Engineer
2006: 52k
2013$: 60k
2006: 52k
2013$: 60k
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:06 pm to GenesChin
There will be some real honesty in this thread
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:12 pm to GenesChin
Public Accounting
then: 28,500
now: 35,229
then: 28,500
now: 35,229
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:14 pm to GenesChin
My first real job was commison based.
I made 23k my first year.
That was a shitty year.
27000 now
I made 23k my first year.
That was a shitty year.
27000 now
This post was edited on 8/14/13 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:14 pm to GenesChin
Chemical Engineer at paper mill
1965 Compensation - $7,920
2013$ = $58,700
1965 Compensation - $7,920
2013$ = $58,700
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:16 pm to GenesChin
PETE eng
42,000
46,000
42,000
46,000
This post was edited on 8/15/13 at 6:51 am
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:17 pm to GenesChin
Energy
2011: $65K
Today: $67.5K
2011: $65K
Today: $67.5K
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:17 pm to GenesChin
I've been on a MGMT training program since I came here.
Started in our Purchasing Group--> Personnel-->Logistics-->Gov't Affairs & Corp. Compliance-->Directing Logistics currently.
Compensation in 2008: $42,000
Compensation in 2013: $45,540
Started in our Purchasing Group--> Personnel-->Logistics-->Gov't Affairs & Corp. Compliance-->Directing Logistics currently.
Compensation in 2008: $42,000
Compensation in 2013: $45,540
This post was edited on 8/14/13 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:18 pm to GenesChin
quote:After medschool, I averaged $2.25/hr (about $25K/yr in today's dollars), working about 110 hrs/wk as an intern. Happy as a lark.
What was your starting salary or compensation for your first full-time job or first job in new career?
Those were the days.
This post was edited on 8/14/13 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:18 pm to GenesChin
Reading and Comprehension 
This post was edited on 8/14/13 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:19 pm to GenesChin
Mgmt Trainee
Then (2008): $36k
Now: $39K
Then (2008): $36k
Now: $39K
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:20 pm to TheWiz
I think some people in here don't understand the OP..
This post was edited on 8/14/13 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:22 pm to GenesChin
GIS
2005: $26,900
2013: $32,162
ETA: Oops!
2005: $26,900
2013: $32,162
ETA: Oops!
This post was edited on 8/14/13 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:23 pm to lilsnappa
quote:
I think some people in here don't understand the OP
Missed that little inflation calculator. Whoops.
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:28 pm to TheWiz
SippyCup starting salary 420k /thread
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:31 pm to GenesChin
Career field: Law
Compensation when I started in 2005: $140,000
Starting salary in 2013 dollars: $167,386
Actual compensation now: $198,000
Also had $150,000 in school debt to pay off, so that part sucked.
Compensation when I started in 2005: $140,000
Starting salary in 2013 dollars: $167,386
Actual compensation now: $198,000
Also had $150,000 in school debt to pay off, so that part sucked.
This post was edited on 8/14/13 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:33 pm to TheWiz
Firefighter
1991-$18,000
2013-$31,000
1991-$18,000
2013-$31,000
Posted on 8/14/13 at 3:42 pm to GenesChin
Career Field: Medical
Compensation 2007: 31,200
Compensation 2013: 35,126
Compensation 2007: 31,200
Compensation 2013: 35,126
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