Official brag about your salary thread
 

I can golf 18 with a cart at a great golf course for less than an hour's wage. I can also drive from office to home to pick up clubs and to course all in less than 15 minutes during "peak" traffic. Can you do that?

Keep in mind that FMCoug's hourly wage is pretty dang high.

Who doesn't have their clubs in their trunk??

Not only that but I can also golf when you're enduring a blizzard. :)

My comment would be that it is a dang good thing we all dont' like the same things. Otherwise only those of us who are able to think outside the box would be able to get those things.

What do you do FM? I know you do day trading and you're building a big house.

I'm a computer geek. I work for match.com.

And the house has been done for quite some time.

tell me how this new feature of being able to set up your friends works. I may need to get involved. My setup skills are legendary.

What percent more do you think you make in Texas compared to what you would make in a similar job in Utah? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't make any more in Texas at my job than I make in Utah or it would be close. Most large employers in Utah have locations outside of Utah and wages have to be somewhat standard. I'm not sure where you're coming from with this wage thing.

At least double. Probably even more than that. I am a non-management technical employee (very senior and damn good at what I do ... but still) and I make well into six figures.

Am I the only one willing to admit that I do not really golf? I really enjoy it when I go (even though I stink), but I just dont have the desire to ever go that much.

I have no problem getting up at 5:45AM and meeting a few friends to go surf. In fact, I look forward to that in the same way some of you golf aficionados love the links. But the golf bug never bit me. All told, I just would rather both my balls be in the water than only one of them.

You bastards sent me a misleading email offering to sign me up for free etc. etc. So I spent 20 minutes filling out the page after page of information, and then at the end, if I wanted to see any matches, it would be $69.95. So in other words it's only free to waste your time filling all that crap out....hey thanks. Ctrl-W.

But let's see what the Utahns in my industry have to say:

http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...tml?id=3365456

Guys at Novell don't make that, that are comparable to your skill level? Or Omniture or Altirus? The high tech companies change so much I'm not sure what the other comparable firms are.

You can see as many matches as you want for free. You just can't communicate with them without paying.

I've golfed twice in my life, and probably consigned myself to the terrestrial kingdom, based on my language and behavior on the course.

Golf sucks.

The issue is not how many figures make up your income.

It is where the decimals and commas fall.

I see some of the responses. I really don't know. It's not my field. I know our IT guys make the same as they do at our Texas operations. The IT market might be soft here, but I don't see that as a "LDS culture thing". Twenty years ago it was one of the hottest IT markets around and programmers were making as much as doctors.

What are you gonna do when they figure out a guy in Bangalore can do your job for $8 an hour?

A guy in my ward was looking for someone with the skills you listed recently. He told me he was willing to pay $125-150K per year. He was having a real tough time filling the position.

I suck at it, but I actually have a lot of fun when I go. I try not to go with serious golfers because then it becomes annoying if you aren't moving fast enough. I love going with good golfers who don't mind giving you a tip or two, but then can shut up when you are teeing off.

I also like that metal key thing that is used to replace divots. Sometimes I will just poke holes in the grass while I am waiting for everyone else to tee off.

Sign that I am a golf rookie....my ball marker is just a coin. I don't have any cool official ball marker.

We used to live about 5 minutes from Pelican Hill in Newport. I have golfed North and South both a few times. It just recently re-opened and is a beautiful course. I've done Kapalua in Hawaii. Also beautiful.

I also went a ton in law school to Tri Cities in American Fork. I think it cost about $12 to golf. I loved that place. Hobble Creek was awesome. East Bay exec course....NOT awesome. Seven Peaks.....NOT awesome.

Interesting. I imagine he was having a tough time due to the perceptions of guys like me. But even at that, for me it's not just about being able to find A job. It's many jobs.

Meaning I could replace my income at another company without having to move.

Two points:

1. I'm not an IT guy. I build the back-end systems for a website that is used by millions. A far cry from running servers for a branch office, etc.

2. The guy in Bangalor CAN'T do my job. It's been tried. I have made a TON of money doing haz-mat duty cleaning up the messes made by off shoring.

1. IT = programming, no? Our best Oracle guy was making $150K. I don't know if that's your level or not. He moved to California but not for $, it was just because he wasn't LDS and didn't like Utah.

2. They're getting really good in Bangalore.

Amen to that. Off-shoring has reached a state of equilibrium, IMO. Demand for CS/IT experts in the US is very strong.

Depends on the company. And granted I don't know what your company does. But the difference IMO is product vs. in-house. The software I work on IS our product. Not something that supports operations, etc. Writing code that is going to a server farm that is responsible for collecting the $400M / year in revenue is very different that writing code for the in-house accounting system.

Spoken like a true finance guy. Keep doing it. The consulting fees to fix the mess are out of this world.

My dad doesn't make much scratch as an oracle DBA in an academic environment.

I just wanted you to feel better jay.

LOL, touche. I like your feistiness.

Well, I'm sorry you couldn't find your dream job in Utah, FM. Maybe it's more competitive for the high paying jobs here, and it's easier in Texas.

LOL.

:)

I think there might be a principle behind FM's rant. Some people sacrifice money for lifestyle in their careers. I would be making a lot more if I went into investment banking or consulting, but it wasn't the life I wanted. But I think people make those same lifestyle decisions in other states, not just Utah. And a more standard job like business or IT--I'm not sure it's gonna be that different Utah to another place apples to apples job.

That is great. I still think making well into six figures is a dang good income. Dang good.

However, you can also do well in Utah. I live here and my income tax will be well into 6 figures. :)

The bottom line with all of this is that discussing it in terms of individual careers is pointless. Nothing like a sample size of 1 or 2 right Jay? :)

In reality, if I wantd to, I probably COULD move to Utah now and make what I'm making. Individual salary history has a huge impact on negotiations. But I don't think I could have developed that history if I had stayed in Utah.

Which incidentally is why I think if a kid wants to live in Utah, a good life/career plan is to leave for 5-10 years, then move back.

To live comfortably you have to meet a certain income level. After that choices open up to you where you can trade off additional income for other things.

I make 9 times as much now as I used to make early in my life.

I made about $3.85 per hour for my first job.

It depresses me to think about how little I worked for. I guess that's why they say education is a good thing.

I make considerable more than my first job of $3.35 an hour. Although I don't get free food at this job.

My highest paying job on a per hour basis was washing cars and mowing lawns in Saudi Arabia as a teenager during the summer. It took me until I was 26 to make as much per hour as I did then.

It's amazing how much people will pay not to have to do those things in 115 degree heat.

I made 80 cents an hour at Lagoon the summer between my Jr. and Sr. year in high school. That lasted two months and I decided to quit and go to France for the rest of the summer.

Based on the CPI, that equates to $30.72 an hour in 2008 dollars. We you working in the Tunnel of Love or something?

My first hourly job was $4.15/hr. My first job was delivering papers...I don't want to think about what I was paid to do that.

You've underestimated 71's age there.