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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I am a stay at home Dad. The pay is terrible and my boss is extremely immature. Best job I’ve ever had.
Depending on your boss, you get all the plastic food you could need though!
Disabled, unable to work. I get paid around 8k (USD equivalent) a year to survive. I’m barely alive and in poverty.
I’d definitely have to make a burner account before answering this honestly.
Network engineer working the night shift. I’m at around $165k. Would do the job for 95k if I could do it from home.
Software dev for a shipping logistics company. I make $80k with 100% paid decent enough health insurance for me and my family.
I could get paid a lot more, but this week I took a 4 hour lunch to go to the park and play soccer with my kid. I let my boss and coworker know and they both just said to have fun and say hi to the family for them. I do something like that at least 2 times and week and it’s not a problem.
Last week I went to the aquarium on a whim and my coworker decided that sounded fun and brought his kid too. You would have to pay me a lot more money than I’m worth to give up this kind of freedom.
Yup, this is so good to find. The company I work for is so flexible with time. First job I’ve ever had where I’m not micro managed to death on projects and time.
To contrast my last company, they gave me a laptop that was absolute shit and would give me the blue screen on death a few times a day. I asked for a better one and they said no so I asked if I could just use my person laptop and they said sure. Then I started getting messages and calls constantly from someone I didn’t know asking why I wasn’t working (according to the tracking software on my company toaster).
They then wanted to install their software on my personal laptop, it told them they could try. Watching this lady try to open an exe file on my Debian system for an hour was classic. I tried explaining it to her from the beginning but to her I was a lazy ungrateful kid who was taking advantage of the company. She called IT in to help her who I was good friends with and he told here was already tracking software on there and opened up the syslog file and pointed out the timestamps. So I had to send her a file with timestamps at the end of each day, which I just wrote a script to generate instead of sending her my actual syslog.
In the end they made me go back to the shitty windows laptop and I kept getting calls about not working during the periods the laptop was crashing and taking 30 minutes to reboot. I also started getting calls from my boss about why projects weren’t being finished.
Sorry for the long reply, I can never be quick when I talk about that place. I still get skeeved out.
messages and calls constantly from someone I didn’t know asking why I wasn’t working.
Do you think they were literally outsourcing worker spying and harassment? That’d be a pretty ridiculous low and yet wouldn’t surprise me anymore…
That honestly wouldn’t suprise me at all, although I was almost never in the office so I didn’t know most of the people there outside of my small circle and a few higher ups. I do remember asking a friend who was in the office more if this person was legit and she said she’d never seen her but has gotten a lot of emails from her about “not working”.
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.
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 do tech work for law firms, hospitals, and schools. I make about $150k/yr, but I’m bored out of my skull. I’d like more of a challenge but I’d have to give up my cush to get it.
What are your tasks that bore you?
Pretty much all of them.
Most tech issues can be easily reduced to rote actions as long as you have a little bit of knowledge about the environment in which they are being executed.
Sure, it’s fun rolling out youth systems and dealing with integration issues and things like that, but after the high watermark fun things, there are large gaps of where you’re just doing maintenance, and maintenance is no fun.
Ah, I see!
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.
- Grad student
- Bad
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.
Program coordinator with the local government (civil servant). $65k a year, which I still can’t believe I got. It’s 15k more than what the previous person in my position was getting. I simply asked if it was possible to go higher, and that’s the offer they came back with.
Everyone tells me this means I could’ve asked for much more, but I feel that’s about fair for what I bring to the table. I overperform in entry-level jobs, but I don’t have the time management skills and emotional resilience to do well at higher levels. I’m already hitting my limit barely one year in - but this time, I’ve got a good team, a great manager, and will hopefully have my meds adjusted so I can keep going.
You know, I’m kind of in a similar spot. I get a steady, constant, stable stream of work. I’m not a great groundbreaking actor but always show up on time, am pleasant with the team, try my best for the best outcome, etc. which has led to me having the reputation of being a dependable, disciplined, easy-to-work-with, consistent actor/public figure (which is why I always get gigs). I get told I “settle” a bit too much, for example I had offers from China with lots of money but for personal reasons choose to pass up on them. I’m just comfortable and satisfied with my work as it is and don’t feel the need to reach “higher”.
Yes! All of it, yes! It took me a long time to stop internalizing the “you’re not reaching your potential” message. Being happy where I am is not a bad thing! I’m glad you’re happy too, especially in such a demanding industry. Follow your happiness! 🫡✨
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…
Software engineer. £75k a year, plus bonuses - last year got £13k (pre-tax) which was nice. Based in the north of England.
