What was your starting salary after college?

[Leros]

I've been seeing a lot of threads in OT about salaries. From what I've seen, my ideas about salaries seem to be a bit off. To make things a bit more level, lets only talking about starting salary after graduating from college.

So my question to ATOT is:

What was your major/field-of-work and your starting salary?

Edit:
If you started working a while back: use this calculator to convert to present dollars http://futureboy.us/fsp/dollar.fsp

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I went to college for six weeks.

By the time I was 28 I was making $75k. At 31 I was at $100k.

Learn how to sell. You'll never starve.

 

[Jadow]

22k

IT

10 years later I make several multiples of that, still at same company

 

[Printer Bandit]

$64,000 @ 21

 

[FleshLight]

Environmental Engineering, ~$50k, Orange County, CA

 

[TonyB]

corporate accounting, 53,500, sf bay area, CA


making around double that now

 

[rcpratt]

$70k, engineering, 22, Detroit.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

35,000 in IT at 23 was my starting salary

 

[Jeeebus]

125

Law talking guy

 

[alkemyst]

$70k, engineering, 22, Detroit.

You should buy all of Detriot.

 

[RalphTheCow]

$18,800 at age 22 in 1978. Chemical engineering. I was very happy with that.

 

[Gibson486]

Electrical and I&C engineer, 55K, MA, was 24

 

[randomrogue]

$12/hr for training. Sold to everyone I met and was making $50K a couple weeks later, $80K 3 months later, and $100K at the end of the year.

Alternatively I was offered $24K to be a teacher. $40K-60K to be an engineer. I went sales and made the right call.

Today's economy is not what it was a couple years ago though. If you're graduating now take what you can get.

 

[Bignate603]

$58k, Mechanical engineering, 2008

 

[jhu]

Dish washer, $4.25/hour

 

[SpunkyJones]

$20K working with autistic children.

 

[tfinch2]

$75k base, software developer, Austin, TX, 2008

 

[brainhulk]

age 25. hospital pharmacist. 160k

 

[child of wonder]

AAS Degree in Network Administration

2006, Linux System Admin - $40,500

 

[TecHNooB]

age 25. hospital pharmacist. 160k

donate half, thx

 

[jhu]

2nd job, investment banking, $190k

 

[HardcoreRobot]

54.5 sw engineer, dc area 2004

 

[Cattlegod]

$50,400 in 2003. Computer Engineering in Detroit

 

[FelixDeCat]

I didnt finish. :'(

 

[Schadenfroh]

Upper 70s, software engineer (CS major) in a suburb of Boston.