Paystubs too messy and potentially identifiable to share, so sharing info from our interval pay summary/modeling tool. Total taxes are $177k.

I’m reaching the ceiling for my level ($600k) and will need to get a promo to make much more than this. The next level would open up my ceiling to $800k but it is one of the hardest level jumps to make.

I have 7 years of experience in this role. Prior to this role I was making $75k in my mid/late 20s.

Can only go up from here

I’ve been at this job for 2.5 years and I absolutely love it. I want to eventually become a sys admin by hopefully some time next year.

I am currently 25 and have been working in sales for the past 6 years. I’ve bounced around like a true sales guy and have had 3 jobs in the last 6 years. Each time jumping in pay. Job 1-$50k Job 2-$75k Job 3-$150k at my current job-should be around $200k next year.

I have no degree and feel like I have no true skills. I am between continuing my job and staying course in sales or continuing my job and going back to school.

The reason being- I don’t want the golden handcuffs. Yes 150-200k is great money. But I would really like to make more and do something more fulfilling. I say all of this because for context. Now onto the question.

Is there anything I can do in finance that does not require me to go back to less than 150-200k starting out that would allow a lucrative upside?

TLDR:I make good money but want more as I’m not fulfilled in sales. Can I make a lot with a degree or cert in finance that’s close to 500k or more?

For those that make that much what was your path?

Thanks in Advance

End to year date would gross 196,000$. Add 16% Direct contribution(non match) to 401k. 31,260k to 401k 227,000$ aprox earnings for 2024. Feel really lucky considering my age and where I’m at. Spirit airline is currently in bankruptcy so we will see where that leads. End of year, still feel broke considering I’m paying my 100k debt 💸 and some bad decisions that’s I made as a younging. Other than that my life here is prob the best it’s ever been. I could control my schedule and move stuff around as long as the staffing is right. I have around 11 -17 days off a month. When I work it’s usually 3-5 hours direct to a destination and layover.

Additionally, it may seem good from the outside but moral at my company is at an all time low and chapter 7 is a possibility. Aviation is the most unstable profession out there. Cheers!!

Worked 1500hrs this year 3 12s with opportunities to go home early or start the shift late Benefitted/403b 3k mortgage (got the home in 2017)

Got my last paycheck and almost at 220k!

If I didn’t love my job, I definitely could be making a lot more money.

What do you do? How long have you been doing it? What is your salary?

Due to flying my first full year under the latest contract, I was able to crack the $500k ceiling for the first time. An arbitrary number, but one I targeted towards the end of the year. There’s another equipment step up from here, but I’d imagine (barring any major contractual changes) I’ll probably sit between here and maybe $600k until mandatory retirement at 65. Definitely ways too exceed that but I like my family too much for that.

Sure feels like that sometimes, doesn't it?

Hey all. "Subtle energy sociology" guy here. Heads up, this is not the typical r/salary post. Maybe 5% of you will have perceived what I'm discussing here, and it is you that I hope to reach. The rest of you, feel free to mock relentlessly. Have at it.

I've written a few Reddit posts, check out my profile if curious. Quick recap — my team and I use a novel technological methodology to identify unique energetic characteristics of humans in our society. It's led to a profound rethinking of what our world actually is. It's nothing like what our televisions or social medias tell us.

I'm here to share a little more. Seems the right time for it, holidays and all. That time of year we find ourselves peering into our wallets the deepest.

Do you ever wonder why it feels like you're struggling to persist in this world?

In every direction we find ourselves gated and tied down. Can't get the job we know we deserve. Can't find a place to live that's affordable. Can't go through a grocery store without deliberating what we need to survive, rather than thrive.

Say you do get the job, the house, that sense of freedom. Does it ever feel like you're walking on eggshells? Is there talk of layoffs in your company? Are people and teams being axed left and right? I'll tell you what — it's not done at random. If you're an innocent human you will be first on the chopping block.

It's by design.

This all ramped up exponentially when COVID went viral. We begrudgingly let our small businesses be crushed while large established dynasties like Walmart and . . . okay, let's be honest, everyone here knows the rest. Biggest wealth transfer in a good long while, perhaps ever. All under the guise of safety. We know it. We lived it.

But it didn't stop there. The brushfire continues to choke us out.

Our "big break" is eternally snubbed in favor of a very particular type of person, despite our competence — and it's intentional.

I can prove it. You can prove it too. If you're up to it.

What comes next gets a little weird.

The cause of what I'm sharing with you won't include any of our go-to political scapegoats, the likes of which most certainly surround this post a thousand digital miles in every direction. We won't assume "this is capitalism, duh" or employ any of the usual suspects you've been consistently blasted with from any given screen.

It's spiritual.

Uh oh. It's getting real now. The S word has entered the chat.

We're here for results. The reign of comfortable rhetoric has passed. Time for us to own up to the truth.

We are spiritual beings born into a world very much eager to rob us of our intrinsic qualities. Or, if unable, to have us regret ever stepping foot here.

Explaining how this all came to be is a little out there.

But once you see it, you can't unsee it. You'll never again wonder why life seems so unfair. Why we seem so unlucky.

It's very much unfair. And it has nothing to do with luck.

What Comes Next

I ask that you make an effort to observe something. In your given profession, pay special attention to those in advanced positions within your company. The managers, leaders, the big fish. Even those a position or two ahead of yours.

What do you feel in their presence?

Can you feel their heart?

Or do you feel something closer to a pleasant façade? Presentable, but hollow? This is the best case scenario. Otherwise you might feel something cold, plastic, unfeeling. Something more robotic and distant, hidden behind a practiced smile. A novel anxiety you feel only while they're around.

Whatever you perceive, you can tell there's something off about them.

We've run into this perception many times in our lives. The rich, the powerful, the famous — they feel different, don't they?

Your intuition is perceiving something in their energetic field. Something foreign. Artificial. This manifests as anxiety, difficulty connecting, a sense of isolation or not fitting in.

For continuity's sake we assume that those who are rich and successful feel different because . . . that's what happens when you eat organic fruits and veggies all day every day? That's what plastic surgery and $100 lotions do to a body? Maybe?

Or we might assume that those who are rich and successful feel different because they are special people, and this is why they nabbed that high level position. They're so special they don't feel human.

Well. You're half right.

There's something very different about many of those who rise the ranks, whether or not they're qualified to. This quality is so notable that it gives off a distinctive energy, one tangible to most anyone willing to look closely enough. I will show you how to make this distinction stronger still, as to make this truth undeniable.

And, if desired, what you can do about it.

The people in charge, those running the show, it's a sham. You're suffering over a sham. The likes of which promote only their own. Only those who have lost their sovereignty to a shared party. The oft mentioned big club, and you ain't in it. As it often goes for those robbed of their souls, there is a payout.

You are made to envy the spiritually empty. It's a planet-wide joke — with the successful inversion of your priorities serving as the punchline.

My next post will take a closer look at careers in our society. Why did that person get the job you were after? Why does your workplace feel so draining? Why the continual churning of drama? Why do you apply and interview endlessly only to be turned down ten, twenty, a hundred times?

There's a little more at play here than "the job market sucks, bro. Work on your resume."

Before this post gets swarmed with corner office occupants boasting how normal and funny their CEO is, and how any perceptions of foul play in workplace politics are nothing more than society-wide delusions — I appreciate your contributions but let's be real. You're not in any hurry to uncover any of this. The hand that feeds has fed you well.

As for the other 98% of us, you're more likely to perceive what I've described here. Don't allow yourself to be gaslit. Trust your perceptions. Your intuition has been trying to tell you something.

Otherwise, I'll level with you. Some innocent humans do make it big. It's a rare occurrence but it does happen. So please don't assume every successful person has something nefarious behind their prosperity. I am only speaking of those you perceive something "off" about. Something you can't quite put your finger on.

If you'd like, leave a comment. Share a story about your workplace, your higher-ups, your exceptionally successful friends. Have you noticed something odd about how certain people seem so lucky? Does anything I'm saying here sound familiar?

If not, I'm happy for you. I sincerely hope your prosperity never ends. If yes, let's do something about it.

We're going to make sense of it all.

Thank you for reading. More to come.

Hey all. I’ll be brief. I currently work a full time job- but am looking to have more income. I’m looking at trades and potential certs to get. Any advice or recommendations yall can give or potential side hustle money - where I can obtain the information while away from work- and maybe work after my 9-5 or on weekends. Thanks in advance.

We work a 3 months on 3 months off schedule so this is roughly about 6 months worth of pay I golf & travel the other 6 months of the year

Not too bad (I think).
About 90% of my benefits is my employer sponsored pension which is why I love working for the public sector.

I have a Bachelors and Master of Science in Chemical Engineering living in a very HCOL (coastal city in the North East) with 8 years of work experience. Currently at $135k base pay and looking at a promotion into management with 9 direct reports. Is $160k a reasonable ask?

In the semiconductor technologies industry.

Started as a lube tech making 12 an hour at an Audi dealership right out of high school and now I’m a Genesis Master Technician making 35 an hour. Cant complain and I’m livin the dream at 20 years old.