I’m a Thai actor. I can’t speak for all actors, but I get paid ~250k baht per episode for a lakorn (TV drama). A typical lakorn has ~15 episodes. I usually do 1 per year. Add to that the salary I get from the TV network to stay with them.
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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.
I work on cars.
My dad did too, starting in 74. They paid for his ASE certifications and he raised a family on his income. With commission I make around 17 an hour and working on cars now is a fucking nightmare. Dont.
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.
Disabled, unable to work. I get paid around 8k (USD equivalent) a year to survive. I’m barely alive and in poverty.
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.
Network engineer working the night shift. I’m at around $165k. Would do the job for 95k if I could do it from home.
Boiler Technician 40 hours a week. Union backed 80k a year.
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
How much you wanna bet that consultant was paid more than the postdocs. :(
Oh screw me they are definitely paid way more than the postdocs. I’m fairly certain that for biomedical scientists with PhDs, postdocs are the lowest paid profession with this level of qualification…
Like seriously. I think the number that was thrown around for post-PhD scientists in pharma was like $100-150k/yr to begin with. Granted those jobs have their own shortcomings, but still…
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’m sorry for your forthcoming shit wages.
Ugh. I hope not. But nothing to be done except save what we can.
I’d definitely have to make a burner account before answering this honestly.
I am a Routing Analyst for a communication platform. We do SMS, MMS and voice traffic. I make $80k working from home.
What does a routing analyst do? 😶🌫️
I make sure messages and calls get to end user devices by using the most cost effective and dependable routes. It’s a niche job, I work for an international brand and I am the first “Routing” position that I am aware of stateside. I didn’t graduate highschool or go to college, it really just requires some industry specific knowledge and willingness and ability to learn.
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.
One drama or one episode?
One drama.
Electronics Engineer, UK (in the North), £39,000 after 5 and a half years of experience.
My field pays about the middling amount for the engineering profession. If I were to move overseas I could expect a 50% to 100% increase in pay.
Though my current company is great because they treat me very well. Hybrid work on offer with a minimum of 2 days in the office but since my job requires being in the office I don’t use that except for Fridays or when I’m not feeling great but still able to work, flexible working hours as long as I’m available during core hours of 10am to 4pm and Fridays are usually a half-day unless I’m very busy. There’s a pay-adjusted profit share bonus (the lower your salary is, the more you get from the bonus) and they try to match inflation with automatic pay rises.
Much better than my previous place which gave me suicidal depression, anxiety, and workplace-stress-induced PTSD where raised voices and slamming doors trigger an anxiety attack.
As an American, I’m pretty shocked at your salary. Is that comfortable for you?
The average salary in most US states is only a little more than this, and this is for Northern England where you can expect to earn 50-100% less than London depending on field
That’s the average salary overall. An average electronics engineer makes $109k a year in the US. and even more in places like California.
This is true, but you asked if it’s comfortable for them, which is more a factor of average salary than the wage gap of a specific field. They are pretty much spot on average for northern areas.
Yeah but making average wages doesn’t necessarily mean they’re comfortable.
https://plannit.ai/ppp-calculator/united-kingdom
It translates to around 53k US. Could be comfortable, depending on where they live.
This is so, so variable. Cost of living in US can swing dramatically with food and housing.
The north is very cheap to live. And they put gravy and cheese on their chips (as a non-Northerner sounds revolting until you try it).
Lol. Like poutine?
Eh it’s the best I’ve had and honestly, it’s about average for a mid-level Electronics Engineer without becoming Senior Designer / Team Lead or Manager.
Thing is that there’s not much of an industry here in the UK compared with the States. Also it’s not a direct one-to-one as if I were to move to the states they’d probably pay me about $80k because they’d want some value (saving on wage) for going through the extra effort of a H1B visa. On top of that there’s also whatever I’d be expected to pay for health insurance.
Do you think the HS2 will change things by opening up more tech positions and making it more competitive?
If they ever finish the fucking thing properly.
They made two classic British engineering mistakes:
Mistake A: Bundling the whole thing as one humongous engineering project and creating a single entity to deliver it.
Mistake B: Starting construction in London.
WARNING: ENGINEERING RANT AHEAD!
On Mistake A:
A single entity created for this huge megaproject makes for good political hay when raising interest and funds but that’s where the usefulness stops. What it devolves into, particularly with the UK’s rainforest-worth of planning laws and frameworks, is massively over budget and horrendously delayed.
What it should have been was a broad vision with dozens of smaller projects funded and implemented separately with constraints in place so all the individual sections line up once the whole thing is finished.
This fixes two things:
Fix 1: Breaks the scope of the project down into more manageable chunks with separate design authorities, construction contractors, and project management. So when they inevitably run into planning issues, they can be resolved much quicker through the courts and the committees because they’re dealing with 1/10 of the fucking reading material! It also keeps cost ballooning down as large projects work-hours scale logarithmically not linearly.
Fix 2: Allows them to bundle in small related upgrades that will have a more immediate effect once the smaller projects are completed.
For example, a new station section needs to be constructed for the high-speed lines. Well since you have to partially demolish the station to create new walkways, utility connections, toilets etc. why not also upgrade the passenger common areas like the departure boards, the outside areas, the retail space, the existing low-speed tracks and points that haven’t had any fucking upgrades done since steam was rolling on them!
Dozens of these smaller changes gets more local stakeholders (i.e. residents and commuters) on-side and more willing to put up with disruptions because, see Fix 1, the project won’t be as heavily delayed.
On Mistake B:
Starting in London might look to make sense at first glance since it is the largest city by both population and GDP per capita. But it means that the later stages of the project, when it inevitably gets delayed and spirals in cost, are the ones that are much more easily axed. This goes against the whole point of the project which was to shorten the commute to London from Northern Cities like Manchester, Leeds, and eventually Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Cardiff.
What we will have now is a very slightly faster journey time between Birmingham and London. If you’ve ever had the misfortune to regularly travel between Leeds/Manchester and London you’ll be aware that all of the delays and cancellations happen immediately north of Birmingham.
Birmingham to London is already well serviced whereas an upgraded route between Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham would have a measurably better impact on passenger numbers and reliability. This is because Westminster has NEVER cared about infrastructure beyond Cheltenham and only goes to Birmingham out of convenience as the next largest population centre.
In and around London, by far, is also the MOST expensive place to build anything, blowing most of the initial budget within the boundary of the M25.
By applying Fix 1 and Fix 2 you can start implementation by using Fix 3: Start at multiple locations.
Starting the station and track construction from the other population centres of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham with these smaller projects means that you can then source funding from combined local authorities, implement the projects faster because of the lower density and cost to build than London, AND insulates the overall vision from being scrapped when the political climate changes.
I’m a Scrum Master working in Financial Technology. I made $145k last year although that was because I worked a ton of overtime. My base is closer to $130k. Although I do have to provide all my own benefits
