What was your starting salary after college?

[vi edit]

I interned for a company in college and got a full time offer from them upon graduation. I was making $13/hr as an intern and they gave me $34k/yr working 3 x 12's. This was in 2000 as an "application analyst" doing tech support for hospital accounting systems.

 

[Gibson486]

since you did 36 hours, did you still qualify as full time?

 

[Engineer]

$38,000 + OT (at 1.5X per hour).

 

[vi edit]

since you did 36 hours, did you still qualify as full time?

Yep. Full benefits. It was in Dubuque, IA which is a pretty cheap place to live. I had a cheap apartment walking distance from work.

 

[RockinZ28]

52k out of high school. Signal/electrical apprentice. Los Angeles CA.

Shit load of overtime on the project allowed me to save a ton of cash and turned me off from it, so I quit.

Should have stuck with it, fucked around for 5 years before coming back to the same field. Only making 70k now, probably would be making 80-90k.

 

[Imp]

$44k. Still there. I get a 0.5-1% raise every 6 months...

Being an engineer (yay?), once I get licensed at my company and land a job, I should be over $70k. Should be good on the license thing by end of next year.

 

[Vic Vega]

First real job working for a Fortune 100 company at 21 making $41,900/year. I thought I was rich. Seems like a long time ago.

 

[herm0016]

ME, not really doing an engineering job. Oil feild service company.

50.4 + 7k bonus first year, 78k second year, should hit between 85 and 90 this year. and we just got a 10% raise this month!

 

[Slew Foot]

Physician, first real non training job paid 300K

 

[jupiter57]

~$76k yr., CT in Kentucky.
Of course I was 43 years old when I finally got my degree!

 

[CADsortaGUY]

~$76k yr., CT in Kentucky.
Of course I was 43 years old when I finally got my degree!

yeah, if I ever finish mine - it'll skew the numbers since I have 10+ years experience already. But we start engineers at 40-50K out of school.

 

[ciba]

Bachelors: 50k base - 1st year bonus was 12k (Seattle)
MBA: 130k base - bonus target (could be 50-150%) of 42k (San Francisco)

commercial banker

 

[HybridSquirrel]

$15 an hour ~ $31,200 a year.


Still making that almost a year later.

edit: I get awesome benefits though. Free dental, vision, and medical. Life insurance of $100,000 + 2x annual salary. and employer sponsored public transit assistance up to $150 a month.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I don't recall how much it was exactly, but think it was around 21/hour or so. Now I'm at 30/hour, which comes up to 60k per year.

 

[alkemyst]

$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.

pyramid scheme?

Hard to sell to everyone one meets unless your life just revolves around clients.

 

[mgttr]

$18,101 in 1980. Mechanical engineering --> aerospace engineer.

 

[pwnagesarus]

~62000 base, IT

 

[Possessed Freak]

teacher... $10/hr and this was in 2002!

 

[saratoga172]

$42k IT. Plus overtime at 1.5x. Still in school though. Should have a chance to move up by the time I finish...that position would put me around $100k...at 23/24. 21 now. But we will see.

 

[Sonikku]

$50,000 five minutes out the womb. IT

Twenty times that by age 5.

Am I doing this right?

 

[JS80]

$32k LA 2004 Accounting. Wow, I paid more than that in taxes YTD.

 

[child of wonder]

$50,000 five minutes out the womb. IT

Twenty times that by age 5.

Am I doing this right?

lol

My salary was $70 billion 2 seconds after I became a zygote and that was in 10,000 BC. That's like $49 novemdecillion today.

You suck.

 

[xSauronx]

$15 an hour ~ $31,200 a year.


Still making that almost a year later.

edit: I get awesome benefits though. Free dental, vision, and medical. Life insurance of $100,000 + 2x annual salary. and employer sponsored public transit assistance up to $150 a month.

life insurance is a nice bonus

still in school and interning for a regional medical system. internship is up in december so im about to start a gig with an area it consulting firm.

32/yr, plus medical/ company car. not much, but its cheap to get by around here (rural area) and it should be a good entry-level gig. its also better than some people i know who did get out of school, so i cant complain. too much.

 

[Juked07]

Slightly off topic but.. I bet this thread has huge selection bias even beyond this just being ATOT. Although there are obviously exceptions, people who feel they were inadequately successful are unlikely to post, people who feel they made too much to not be bragging are unlikely to post. Who knows.. I guess maybe people who made absurdly little take some sort of perverse pride and would have more propensity to share. Etc.

 

[timosyy]

60k w/full benefits & pension as "IT Analyst" in the Northern VA/DC area, 2010. Feels like I'm stuck in a rut though (no linear advancement), thinking about switching jobs/fields soon.