re: Question for Project Managers

I graduated LSU CM in 02 and started out around $43k I believe in ATL with a small company. Took about 3-4 yrs to move up to PM even though I had full job responsibility sooner as a project engineer. Seven yrs later and with a different company my salary had increased 115%. Bonuses at companies I was with were all subjective but we're normally in the 10-20% range. Not sure about the market in BR, but I would guess its only slightly lower than the big cities. Main difference in the big cities is you have a lot more companies with room for advancement...and you learn a lot of different things as opposed to sticking around BR.