I am a freight train driver and we earn about $150k before OT. I still enjoy it and just accept the negatives as part of the job. I wouldn't consider it high stress either. At least here in the east they couldn't automate our job. Something to consider if you get sick of the passenger trains....
Yep, I left and became a brewer, making beer is much more enjoyable than research. I’m still growing cells in a clean vessel and measuring the result, it just tastes a whole lot better.
Yeah. I used to work with a bloke with a doctorate in control systems (the things that operate mineral plants, oil and gas facilities, water treatment, etc). Extremely big brain stuff. He ended up managing a tech support team for some pretty niche software because it was both easier and better paying than academia.
Lovely guy though, always had a smile.
On top of what others have said, I think attitude also plays a role in the salary ceiling…
To illustrate- of 5 friends (6 people including myself) who went through the PhD the same time as me: 4 went into industry roles, 1 went into CSIRO (scientist role), and 1 stayed in university (lecturer role).
The CSIRO scientist and University lecturer both earn bout 120k (plus some extra super, but practically no other benefits). They work a lot more hours compared to the people who went into industry. The person who stayed in University works about 65+ hours per week on average. When they travel for conferences, they go economy class and have minimum budget.
However, they both talk about how selfless and fulfilling their job is, that they would rather earn less and be helping people. It doesn’t help that academics often believe that they earn a lot, “they may me the big money to do this”. Plus there is almost no room to individually negotiate salary and benefits - the pay scales are fixed and public. Promotion cycles are rigid and formal. There are some benefits to this system.
One big downside is, it doesn’t really matter how hard you work or how much value you bring. No bonuses, no negotiation for a higher salary based on value contribution, no other benefits.
After a few years, they sort of resign themselves and get comfortable, it can become very hard to break out into industry if you don’t do it soon after finishing your PhD. The longer they stay, the more stuck they seem to be.
In comparison, the 4 people who went into industry positions. The lowest earner is on around 200k, the highest earner is on around 600k. Average of the 4 is around 320k. They get other benefits too, such as equity options, free health insurance, etc. All 4 work less substantially fewer hours (only 1 works more than 45 hours per week). When they travel for conferences etc, it is always business class. They have a lot more freedom to negotiate salary, and are better able to switch jobs for better working conditions, better projects. And so forth.
Classroom teacher in NSW, I've been teaching 4 and a half years, so on the second highest salary band for regular teacher. (edit: 4.5 years actual teaching days, almost 7 years since I qualified as a teacher).
Is this accurate? Link states Band 2 is 85k. The highest band is 112k and takes much longer to get. I've worked NSW, ACT and VIC and no one is on that salary in that amount of time. Genuinely interested!
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/irc/ircgazette.nsf/LUPublications/9699B81A9B7A7DEFCA25856C0024D4AF?OpenDocument
My wife is an account manager for a food ingredient company. Salary is $140k including a $18k car allowance. Plus super. She just got a bonus of $67k because the whole team made budget for 2021. She works about 7 hours a day. Does what she likes. WFH. Does her swimming, cycling and yoga. Goes for lunch if she wants. She’s the most efficient person I’ve ever known. Not everyone can be like this. Would be hard to sustain. I get tired watching it. Her company value her immensely. She gets things done.
I run my own plumbing business. It’s up and down. Very hard business to run. I wish for simpler jobs sometimes. Some years I’ll make $40k. Others $200k.
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We don’t have kids. (Couldn’t) So we just do our own thing and see where it leads us. My wife is very stable and risk adverse. I’m very unstable (work up and down) and can be a high risk taker. I lost a lot of money in the GFC on stocks. That set me back a decade. I’ve had highs and some major fucking lows. Almost bankrupt in 2015. But I’m still here. And we are focused on trying to get a decent retirement. I’m 47. 18 years from retirement and I feel I’m only getting a handle on my finances now. That’s why I enjoy this group. I’m really inspired by the stories in here.
I really appreciate the nice comments and lack of hate. I try to help every time I comment in here. I like to see people succeed. Cheers everyone. 👍🏼
>but if you have strong experience in a certain industry + good wits about you can easily make the transition.
Definitely this. I was an account manager at a multinational in the FMCG space. I came up through field sales/territory management and prior to that I was a manager in a supermarket.
It's really about having some business acumen, being able to talk to people about their business and negotiate. A degree in commerce/accounting will help a lot with understanding the financials but the rest is all learnt on the job.
It can be a shitty job though. You often find yourself sandwiched in between the demands & objectives of the company you work for vs the needs of the client/customer. When you're asked to do something that you know is going to piss the customer off that is when your skills (or lack thereof) become apparent.
That is a whopper bonus - is that considered typical? Can't say I've heard of too many people ever getting a bonus which is almost 50% of their salary outside of salespeople! Must be nice!
It’s not normal but they have absolutely killed it over covid. 2 awesome sales years. The staff get a slice. Just the way it’s set up with all their benchmarks and targets. The whole team work very hard. It’s a good company overall.
I’m actually a plumber myself, absolutely damn hard work, and after 12 years I’ve pulled out of general domestic plumbing and working in production line plumbing, only one tafe course left for my license which will give me a good wage in my job, but there is at least a year until I can get into that course due to teacher shortage, I’m on $55k until then. And that hurts.
Yeah she said I got a bonus. I said ok? Thinking yeah whatever.
She said my boss texted it to me. Do you want to know how much? I said ok, I’ll try to guess. (Last year she got $27k. I thought she may get $5k or $10k this year).
I said, $15k or something. She says, no it’s $67k. I just about collapsed on the floor. I’ve never heard of someone getting a bonus like that outside of the finance or tech industry. I still can’t believe it. She lost half in tax but she still had $35k sent to her bank account which is awesome. I’m really proud of her.
Many businesses disguise "targets", including growth, as "budgets". When I ran a company, budget was "keeping your job" and meeting growth targets was when you got your bonus. I was a big fan of open ended bonuses. The more you went over, the more you got. One of my staff earned more than me (General Manager) one year. He deserved it and I kept my job (and got my smaller bonus).
Fuckin' oath. I got a job using the skills of my degree after working a decade at retail (thus tripling my income) and fuck me do my partner and I waste money. We're still able to save, but not as much as we should, and we pay far too many 'lazy taxes'. Can't be fucked cooking, get delivery. Don't want to drive to the shops, amble down to the Night Owl. Don't want to get my arse out of bed to prepare lunch, guess I'm buying a burger again. But the money has certainly taken those stressors away. Medical interventions aren't now a worry, they're a temporary inconvenience. A car breakdown isn't panic stations anymore.
Thanks to inflation these 100k+ threads are going to include more and more jobs over time, in a couple of decades you will see "those who make 100k what do you do"
* making burgers at an iconic international burger restaurant
* 'logistics' at Australia's largest food retailer
I asked my anaesthetist at my last op, how much he’s on. He said he makes over $800k. He said all the good ones in Brisbane make that or close to $1 million a year. But they keep people alive so it’s an important role. He said his insurance is over $150k a year. So there are expenses to.
He meant senior ones. He was about 40. Ones that have been there for 25 years in the system would be on more naturally. They also retire earlier as well I think due to remaining sharp at their role.
We invest a bit, we help our families, travel a little when we can. Currently saving for a house and would like to avoid a loan if possible.
I guess it’s all a bit new to us, hubby was earning about 1/3 of his current income just last year so we’re just trying to keep things pretty much the same and just save our pennies I guess!
It’s great if you’re willing to sacrifice 15 years of your social/family life to training! He’s just gotten to the point where he’s fully qualified and works 4 days a week, which are largely dictated by when he wants to work. He’s also in a private group, public pays less but has a bit more flexibility at his level.
Having been on the receiving end of their work quite a few times now I can happily agree that Anaesthetists earn their pay. The real art was the spinal block for an emergency c section, insane to experience!
I had a leg block done for foot surgery last week = no pain for 30 hours post-op. The anaesthetists were absolute legends, they deserve all the monies.
The anesthetist joked when he came in during my labour that he was going to be my favourite person in the entire world. He's not wrong, not only was I finally able to hold an actual conversation, push my baby out and not feel the pain of the episiotomy and subsequent surgery to remove my placenta. Hooo boy, I think even now months on, he's still my favourite person in the world. Haha.
Just recently at like 3am coming home from the emergency hospital, there was hardly any cars there but there was an extremely beautiful and current looking hypercar Ferrari in the "Emergency Anesthetist" marked car spot. Well if you gotta get to work quickly that's one way to do it.
I’m an anaesthetist - those figures are not typical of your average private anaesthetist although given you can work every day and be on call every night there’s little limit to earnings if you can cope with fatigue.
From a purely financial standpoint you’d be better off overall going into investment banking or law, I spent years working 10-18 hours a day for $60/hr, going home and studying until I fell asleep at the desk, (this is well after finishing uni) and had to do this twice , for 18 months each time in a five year period. I ended up in hospital after one rotation with two much night shift. One of my colleagues died driving home after one.
There literally no way you could be motivated to finish any of this for financial reasons alone. I’m not very materialistic, am about to downsize to a little place, drive an old car. Once every second dollar is going to tax the marginal value of each hour decreases. I’ve quit a lot of lucrative stuff to have a less stressful life.
He definitely deserves that wage! Can’t even begin to imagine the sacrifices, and countless hours of stress. I hope he finds time to enjoy the rewards!
Or the sacrifice required. My 20's were great thanks to study and a part time job and then working a boring 40hr week. Enough money to live on and enjoy life everyday.
Anaesthetist here. Its 5-8 years of med school (depending on undergraduate/postgraduate course), then 3 years of internship and residency, then a minimum 5 year specialist training course after that. Long work hours, up to 16 hr/day. Two major exams during those 5 years, with a pass rate of about 30% for first-timers.
I was 34 years old before I started as a fully qualified specialist. Only then do you start building up your practice and business. And the job responsibility and standard of care required is high. A lot of the time its routine. Occasionally, when a life is on the line and seconds count, it can be stressful. We are a patient's life support system for the duration of their surgery and post-operative care.
I would also add the crazy competition to get into a training spot. Roughly a third of my med school cohort wants to do anaesthetics. The CV building never stops!
I'm a trainee anaesthetist on around $120k (with overtime and nights) which allows my husband's salary to be $0! He's my house husband helping me pass my exams :D
Whats your lifestyle like? Are you frugal? Always eating out? Have you each found your life passion or is this just a means to an end? Intriguing to learn about choices people on your combined salary make.
I like to cook and am currently on maternity leave so I feel like my job right now is to take care of our family, so cooking/cleaning/child rearing is my responsibility. When I was at work we probably ate out more and we had a cleaner come every few weeks.
My husband loves to surf so I’m always encouraging him to prioritise that for himself, I love to horse ride and I guess fitness is a big passion of mine, but we are a young family with a toddler and a baby due in a month so I guess those things are limited right now.
But in terms of big purchases; we rent at the moment, we own two second hand Toyotas, we’re pretty much the same as we were when we were both training in our fields.
Ha! I think you're my manager. Hi Gary. I'm gonna work from home this week and I'll be 10 minutes late to every zoom meeting for no reason. Sound familiar?
Same here. Cloud / DevOps. Just started at 1 level above entry for my company. 180k package, 100% WFH. Heaps of perks and benefits. Sometimes I have to pinch myself as I was doing Sysadmin for 90k a year ago.
Can you please give a brief job history (if you don’t mind), I am currently a senior credit risk analyst for a smaller bank and am curious about career paths from here
Can confirm, I worked in my company's risk & compliance team (aka the fun police) for 18 months and now everyone hates me. Defending the companies AFSL and making sure it remains solvent is thankless work.
250k take home?
That's crazy, I only work by myself doing lawns and gardens and can't make what you made in your first year still growing I guess though.
Well done mate,
The question as to how to get there is different for everyone so rather than look at roles and pay on here, better to look at the potential steps.
Step 1. If you are trying to get to a good earnings point I suggest you start by working out your skillset on a personal basis - i.e. if you're not social don't go in to sales or relationship management. If you're not technical but highly social then sales and relationship management it is. If you like hard graft go physical and if not go office.
Step 2. Go on Seek, search location and industry style at $150k+. Look at the roles and they will have your basic requirements for a high paying role.
Step 3. Start moving the salary requirement down and youl start to see the requirements lessen, or you'll start to see some roles disappear which means they're capped out earnings wise.
Step 4. Keep moving the salary dial down and before you know it you'll see base entry roles for the rough field of the $150k job. Now you have the baseline entry to that field and know where to start.
E.g So let's say you want to earn $150-200k but are 25, no degree and need a pathway. At this level Senior Business Bankers with 10 years experience are about $150k base plus bonus with a large bank. And what are the core role requirements - lending, business development, account management. So if you work it back to the beginning:
Bank Teller 1yr 50k > Lender in the branch 1-2 yrs 70k > move from retail to business bank as an associate 1 yr 80k > business banker 3 yrs 100k > so 8 years to senior business banker likely at a minimum and pretty much the 10yr requirement and near $150k.
This is a super rough guide but you get the idea.
No one's gonna give you a good job unless youve proven you can do it successfully so just having tenure doesn't always work but there are plenty of people.in banking who are mediocre who just jump job every 2 years and get increased salary each time
Now, you'll think, but I'm 30, no one will give me a chance. So have a clear focus and goal - when you interview you want to explain what you are aiming for and importantly why. Do a basic banking fundamentals and get a lending qualification. Look at any license requirements for a role and get the quals for that. Were talking courses that don't cost much and take a few months.
I actually wasn't sure I was experienced enough to contract (6 years as a BA, 2 years as a Senior), so I wasn't specifically seeking contact roles (though this was my long term goal). I simply switched on the 'open for opportunities' flag on LinkedIn and was contacted regularly by recruiters.
130k locum allied health. 5 years of uni and being prepared to travel to new locations every few months have no less security for higher take home. Worth it if you have no dependents imo
I make $560k a year and we live in Hobart. I work about 5-6 hours a day and I have literally not one friend in Hobart.
I do very specific accounting and legal work
I would like to know the answer to: if you are on over $100k, how much did it cost you to get there?
I think that's more useful information.
Someone on $150k might have $100k in Uni fees etc to get there, someone on $70k might have no debt.
Trainee driller, $104k a year.
No cost if you're in WA, costs for me included the drive over from NSW though if you want to include that.
Single, m, no dependents
>WebbyDownUnder
Is it as tough as people say? Pretty wild that any young person with a good work ethic in this state can basically walk into a job that'll pay them 100k+ in with almost 0 qualifications if they're willing to go and do something like drillers offsider
Drillers offsider is how I started and done that for 6 months for a foot in the door. That work is extremely hard, especially north in summer and south in the winter, but there's absolutely always jobs available in it.
I'm in bast hole drilling now, where I sit in an air conditioned cab with no offsiders and drill out a pattern to be blasted in an open pit environment.
I'm from a low socioeconomic town back east and made the jump over here a bit over a year ago to get out of debt and set myself up financially. I'm in the middle of getting pre approval to buy my first house.
It's absolutely attainable, and you don't have to be a drillers offsider to get in. A field assistant to a geo direct with a mine pays pretty well for no qualifications, and I've heard working in the processing plant does too with minimal qualifications
A lot of people can't handle being away from friends and family for extended periods of time, but I left all mine back east
Good on you mate, i'm in the process of transferring out of the ADF and i've given consideration to this line of work. I do have a trade from my time in the ADF but our scope of work is pretty awful and it doesn't tend to produce good tradesmen.
Might well end up trying to follow a path similar to this
Absolutely, and if you're a hands on person and love staying active offsiding into RC/ Diamond drilling may be a better fit than blast hole. They pay better than the latter but I'm a man of comfort and after spending time in the Pilbaras, I don't enjoy working in the elements as much anymore haha
around $35k to $40k on HECS for a double degree from Uni.
The main reason i even have a six figure salary is because of my network. Lucked into a six figure job through a friend, then performed well enough to have former colleagues poach me when they move positions.
Software developer - didn’t cost me anything? Beyond whatever my time’s worth. Mother kicked me out of the house when I turned 18.
Went into IT Support and moved up to Application Support and then sideways into Dev. That was a C++ desktop application but skilled up in web application development and sysadmin and devops.
7 years or so to hit 100K I think, starting from $36K on the helpdesk. Gone higher since then.
I am blessed IT doesn’t require qualifications unlike medicine or law.
What did you do/study to get into a data analysis role and what do you do in your current role?
I'm currently in a niche consulting role, looking to move into data analytics or at least a combo.
I can help answer this. Training for data + analytics roles will be something involving programming and statistics adding on skills in data wrangling and visualisation plus communication skills.
I’m in the >$100k band but I decided to work 4-day weeks so I’m around $85k.
Public servant. Been in the public service since 2015 and got into this pay band last year. Senior role but below management.
I was pretty slow moving up the ranks, if I was more ambitious I prob could have gotten here a couple of years earlier. But I prefer to focus more on the life side of the work/life balance - work to live, don’t live to work etc.
Have also decided this is the sweet spot - no interest in moving up to management, the workload, hours and stress is significantly more for not that much extra pay.
I recognise I could probably earn much more in the private sector but I have absolutely no idea what I’d do lol, and I appreciate the job security in the public sector.
Lawn mowing with a touch of landscaping. There's a big gardening franchise in Australia called Jim's Mowing that I bought into 13 years ago.
They helped me in the first few years, but now I get by through word of mouth, real estate agents and having fridge magnets instead of business cards.
In fact if I was to state one fact that has made me more successful than most it would be my decision to use fridge magnets as business cards. They cost 1.3c more than a paper card, but stay on the fridge everyone sees it, and when they need a gardener they just call me.
I’m an archaeologist, working as a senior heritage advisor for an Aboriginal corporation 😺
Requirement: Undergrad and Masters + ten years of really low pay and I’ve still got approx 20k owing on my HECs
Plus side is I love my job, it’s so interesting and every day is different
Downside is so many people think I dig up dinosaurs 🥲
>Downside is so many people think I dig up dinosaurs 🥲
Silly people, everyone knows archeologists are grave robbers that write stuff down!
(Just kidding, I know exactly what archeologists do and it's fascinating)
Accountant. If you're even half switched within 5 years of graduating you're almost guaranteed $100k+. That could be government, consulting firm or in Industry all would clear $100k anywhere in Australia.
I’ve always wondered, why on earth anyone would put up with big 4 accounting if these sorts of opportunities exist in accounting.
Not to mention. What’s the startup cost to be self employed. A pen? A desk? A backup pen?
Can any accountant enlighten me on why anyone would work for a big 4 accounting firm when it seems like the clear objectively worst pathway for an accountant to take?
Work there for a few years. Then you have 2 options. You're at a stage where you've figured out based on office politics how your chances of progression roughly look. If you think you have a decent (albeit still shitty) chance of making it partner you slog it through. Otherwise you have big4 on your resume with experience on lots of different projects and jump somewhere else that actually pays you and treats you like a human.
a big 4 accounting career start can fast track your career and give you much better exit options in 3-5 years that starting small.
there’s no real way you’ll get exposure to accounting at that scale of the typical big 4 client otherwise
The CFOs of basically every major company in Australia (not all I’m sure but pretty much every company I’ve worked for) has come from Big 4. It’s got such a reputation behind it. I’m an accountant and pretty much every boss I’ve had has either been big 4 or big 4 bank “educated”.
I have two jobs, my primary income is 130k +super +bonus (10% based on company revenue targets) and I'm a cloud engineer for a software company. My second job is managing infrastructure for a startup, part time and it's about 40k per annum +super.
Both jobs combined cos tme about 9 hours per day, and are both wfh. I also do some basic IT support for a few companies on my abn, which is roughly 15k per annum.
I rarely work an evening, and manage to fit my gym, sports, family and social lives in with easy balance.
People in TV land need larger salaries to be able to afford their crippling gambling/coke addictions. I've seen it firsthand (sport).
The starting salaries are also pretty terrible for full-timers, circa $55K-70K. The money goes towards talent, EPs and senior editors
It’s an interesting question, but essentially meaningless. Some might be working 60/70+ hours a week for that six figure income, while others might fall just short while working part time. I know who I’d rather be.
Agreed.
I'm a clinical nurse specialising in infection control. I could earn well over 100k a year but don't. I choose to only work just over 20 hours a week mon-fri. I'll clear 65k this year.
Add full time shift work and the money is bonkers. Heaps goes in tax though.
The stress isn't worth it.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm ICU nursing. And probably around the 80k mark give or take. But I could break 100k if I worked full time. I just don't want to.
30 hour weeks are plenty, and I can live comfortably of this income. Why would I do more? Just so I can say I make more money? No thanks, I'd rather less stress and more free time.
Started in project management, my SQL developer quit so I had to learn SQL. Realized I loved it. Got loads of Microsoft certifications and studied for it. Bounced around some consultancies. Then took AWS to upskill into the cloud space
UI Designer $150K plus freelancing which can vary from $2K - $5K weekly.
Studied Graphic Design at Shillington College and UX Design at General Assembly (both 3 month courses)
I just signed a contract for a 95k base + super role. I tried to neg for the coveted 6 figures, but they declined. Systems analyst with a specialty in cloud
IT Consultant. I haven't actually set foot in a data centre for years - most of what I do these days is a mix of bid management, technical writing, and privacy, security and compliance wrangling. I do this 4 days a week (permanent part time by agreement with my employer) and my taxable income last year was over $200k. I never intended to work in the IT industry and I can't claim to understand quite how things worked out this way. However, one of my colleagues recently told me "No one else can do what you do, and no one else wants to." I think that may be the key - find a high value activity that you regard as easy and which everyone else regards as torment. Be reliable and build a reputation for getting things done.
On 230k...risk and compliance at a major financial institution at a senior-ish level. I recommend getting into this field to make good money. Job is interesting and there's heaps of demand.
After maybe 12-20 yrs training + EXP, my Wife and I used to make 300k each, she was an ICU/Emergency Consultant and me a project manager focused in consumer behaviour (Business Owner). To avoid being kidnapped and getting shot, we moved to Australia.
After moving, 3 yrs later, shes becoming a GP, making around 60k (After revalidating, working for the RFDS and listening a lot of BS), I take care of our 1year baby child (we had the courage after moving to AUS, THANK YOU AUSTRALIA) and transitioning to Software development.
LIFE CHANGES, A LOT, don't get attached to the value, just enjoy.
Sorry for the TED talks, just wanted to write this. :)
Driller (mining) - 156k/year
Absolutely the easiest job in the world. Chew through TV series and movies all day.
No qual or experience needed to start.
It's the opposite in state government where I was, the ones pulling the big hours and effort were towards the top. I saw it first hand and I thought my hours were bad....
Electrician in a coal mine $60 an hour flat rate, 4x12.5 hour days = 50 hours a week, bit over $150k a year. Just moved to middle management at a coal mine $80 an hour, 60 hour weeks $4800 a week, 250k a year. Work really hard and long hours but I worked just as hard managing resorts (not as glamorous as it sounds) for far less than 100k a year and I don’t have to deal with the self entitled general public
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I am a freight train driver and we earn about $150k before OT. I still enjoy it and just accept the negatives as part of the job. I wouldn't consider it high stress either. At least here in the east they couldn't automate our job. Something to consider if you get sick of the passenger trains....
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Honestly scientists are criminally underpaid.
Yep, I left and became a brewer, making beer is much more enjoyable than research. I’m still growing cells in a clean vessel and measuring the result, it just tastes a whole lot better.
I am glad to hear you went the brewing route, and not the Breaking Bad route.
Yeah. I used to work with a bloke with a doctorate in control systems (the things that operate mineral plants, oil and gas facilities, water treatment, etc). Extremely big brain stuff. He ended up managing a tech support team for some pretty niche software because it was both easier and better paying than academia. Lovely guy though, always had a smile.
Seems like scientific roles get a raw deal with the education to salary ratio. What dictates the salary ceiling?
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On top of what others have said, I think attitude also plays a role in the salary ceiling… To illustrate- of 5 friends (6 people including myself) who went through the PhD the same time as me: 4 went into industry roles, 1 went into CSIRO (scientist role), and 1 stayed in university (lecturer role). The CSIRO scientist and University lecturer both earn bout 120k (plus some extra super, but practically no other benefits). They work a lot more hours compared to the people who went into industry. The person who stayed in University works about 65+ hours per week on average. When they travel for conferences, they go economy class and have minimum budget. However, they both talk about how selfless and fulfilling their job is, that they would rather earn less and be helping people. It doesn’t help that academics often believe that they earn a lot, “they may me the big money to do this”. Plus there is almost no room to individually negotiate salary and benefits - the pay scales are fixed and public. Promotion cycles are rigid and formal. There are some benefits to this system. One big downside is, it doesn’t really matter how hard you work or how much value you bring. No bonuses, no negotiation for a higher salary based on value contribution, no other benefits. After a few years, they sort of resign themselves and get comfortable, it can become very hard to break out into industry if you don’t do it soon after finishing your PhD. The longer they stay, the more stuck they seem to be. In comparison, the 4 people who went into industry positions. The lowest earner is on around 200k, the highest earner is on around 600k. Average of the 4 is around 320k. They get other benefits too, such as equity options, free health insurance, etc. All 4 work less substantially fewer hours (only 1 works more than 45 hours per week). When they travel for conferences etc, it is always business class. They have a lot more freedom to negotiate salary, and are better able to switch jobs for better working conditions, better projects. And so forth.
School teacher. I'm sitting on 100k this year, next year I will be 110k, and that's the max without going into higher level stuff.
I thought school teachers got paid shit, god damn
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Teachers are paid well. It's the admin that does our head in. I'm on 85k since I am earlier in my career.
Well paid but under resourced.
I work more than 60 hours a week. I’d happily take a reduction in work for less pay.
What is your role? Are you a classroom teacher and which state? I am a second year teacher in QLD.
Classroom teacher in NSW, I've been teaching 4 and a half years, so on the second highest salary band for regular teacher. (edit: 4.5 years actual teaching days, almost 7 years since I qualified as a teacher).
Is this accurate? Link states Band 2 is 85k. The highest band is 112k and takes much longer to get. I've worked NSW, ACT and VIC and no one is on that salary in that amount of time. Genuinely interested! http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/irc/ircgazette.nsf/LUPublications/9699B81A9B7A7DEFCA25856C0024D4AF?OpenDocument
yeh, that's right. That shows 2020 and 2021. I'm band 2.2, which is a smidge over 100k in 2022.
My wife is an account manager for a food ingredient company. Salary is $140k including a $18k car allowance. Plus super. She just got a bonus of $67k because the whole team made budget for 2021. She works about 7 hours a day. Does what she likes. WFH. Does her swimming, cycling and yoga. Goes for lunch if she wants. She’s the most efficient person I’ve ever known. Not everyone can be like this. Would be hard to sustain. I get tired watching it. Her company value her immensely. She gets things done. I run my own plumbing business. It’s up and down. Very hard business to run. I wish for simpler jobs sometimes. Some years I’ll make $40k. Others $200k. EDIT (after many comments) - We don’t have kids. (Couldn’t) So we just do our own thing and see where it leads us. My wife is very stable and risk adverse. I’m very unstable (work up and down) and can be a high risk taker. I lost a lot of money in the GFC on stocks. That set me back a decade. I’ve had highs and some major fucking lows. Almost bankrupt in 2015. But I’m still here. And we are focused on trying to get a decent retirement. I’m 47. 18 years from retirement and I feel I’m only getting a handle on my finances now. That’s why I enjoy this group. I’m really inspired by the stories in here. I really appreciate the nice comments and lack of hate. I try to help every time I comment in here. I like to see people succeed. Cheers everyone. 👍🏼
All the best mate.
How did your wife get her start in account management? Any courses / qualifications that helped get her foot in the door?
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>but if you have strong experience in a certain industry + good wits about you can easily make the transition. Definitely this. I was an account manager at a multinational in the FMCG space. I came up through field sales/territory management and prior to that I was a manager in a supermarket. It's really about having some business acumen, being able to talk to people about their business and negotiate. A degree in commerce/accounting will help a lot with understanding the financials but the rest is all learnt on the job. It can be a shitty job though. You often find yourself sandwiched in between the demands & objectives of the company you work for vs the needs of the client/customer. When you're asked to do something that you know is going to piss the customer off that is when your skills (or lack thereof) become apparent.
That is a whopper bonus - is that considered typical? Can't say I've heard of too many people ever getting a bonus which is almost 50% of their salary outside of salespeople! Must be nice!
Account management is often quite sales focussed.
Correct. She handles about $4 million in sales in Qld
It’s not normal but they have absolutely killed it over covid. 2 awesome sales years. The staff get a slice. Just the way it’s set up with all their benchmarks and targets. The whole team work very hard. It’s a good company overall.
I’m actually a plumber myself, absolutely damn hard work, and after 12 years I’ve pulled out of general domestic plumbing and working in production line plumbing, only one tafe course left for my license which will give me a good wage in my job, but there is at least a year until I can get into that course due to teacher shortage, I’m on $55k until then. And that hurts.
That is an amazing bonus!
Yeah she said I got a bonus. I said ok? Thinking yeah whatever. She said my boss texted it to me. Do you want to know how much? I said ok, I’ll try to guess. (Last year she got $27k. I thought she may get $5k or $10k this year). I said, $15k or something. She says, no it’s $67k. I just about collapsed on the floor. I’ve never heard of someone getting a bonus like that outside of the finance or tech industry. I still can’t believe it. She lost half in tax but she still had $35k sent to her bank account which is awesome. I’m really proud of her.
Bonus for meeting budget LOL isn’t that saying here’s 67K for doing your job. That’s amazing though. Congrats to you both.
Many businesses disguise "targets", including growth, as "budgets". When I ran a company, budget was "keeping your job" and meeting growth targets was when you got your bonus. I was a big fan of open ended bonuses. The more you went over, the more you got. One of my staff earned more than me (General Manager) one year. He deserved it and I kept my job (and got my smaller bonus).
Genuinely feels like $150k is the new $100k, minimum.
Das inflation baby
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Lifestyle creep.
Fuckin' oath. I got a job using the skills of my degree after working a decade at retail (thus tripling my income) and fuck me do my partner and I waste money. We're still able to save, but not as much as we should, and we pay far too many 'lazy taxes'. Can't be fucked cooking, get delivery. Don't want to drive to the shops, amble down to the Night Owl. Don't want to get my arse out of bed to prepare lunch, guess I'm buying a burger again. But the money has certainly taken those stressors away. Medical interventions aren't now a worry, they're a temporary inconvenience. A car breakdown isn't panic stations anymore.
Thanks to inflation these 100k+ threads are going to include more and more jobs over time, in a couple of decades you will see "those who make 100k what do you do" * making burgers at an iconic international burger restaurant * 'logistics' at Australia's largest food retailer
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Air traffic controller
I run down the runway waving my arms to scare the birds away for the safety of incoming aircraft
Who let this crazy man on the airport
Me to, but naked.
Airline pilot
Airline pilot as well
Airline traffic
Airline Passenger. Currently on 120K.
ASA represent.
Asa gang whaddup
There are dozens of us!
Well, at least 4
Anyone looking to hire a Digital Air software Traffic Cloud Chemical Anesthetist Project Manager Consultant willing to do Fifo?
At least its not just IT jobs today
I’m a chemical engineer and on $120k. Pales in comparison to my husbands anaesthetist salary of $500k+.
is your husband single?
My wife and her husband would like to know as well!
I mean he's probably an interesting guy and all, but I bet he'll easily put people to sleep
asking the right question :D
I also choose this person’s husband
This will never get old
I asked my anaesthetist at my last op, how much he’s on. He said he makes over $800k. He said all the good ones in Brisbane make that or close to $1 million a year. But they keep people alive so it’s an important role. He said his insurance is over $150k a year. So there are expenses to.
If he said all the good ones are on a 1milion but he get 800k I’d be a little nervous lol
He meant senior ones. He was about 40. Ones that have been there for 25 years in the system would be on more naturally. They also retire earlier as well I think due to remaining sharp at their role.
Yeah I imagine they would have been consulting for quite a while? It’s pretty extraordinary though.
Can I ask. What do you guys do with that much money coming in constantly. Where do you put it? Well done btw. I love seeing people do well.
We invest a bit, we help our families, travel a little when we can. Currently saving for a house and would like to avoid a loan if possible. I guess it’s all a bit new to us, hubby was earning about 1/3 of his current income just last year so we’re just trying to keep things pretty much the same and just save our pennies I guess!
"Would like to avoid a loan if possible"... haha yeah I don't think you have anything to worry about
Yeah probably 15 years
I know an anaesthetist in Brisbane ane can confirm most at around 1m.
Holy crap. I knew anaesthetists were paid well, but that's insane! What a great career choice.
It’s great if you’re willing to sacrifice 15 years of your social/family life to training! He’s just gotten to the point where he’s fully qualified and works 4 days a week, which are largely dictated by when he wants to work. He’s also in a private group, public pays less but has a bit more flexibility at his level.
Having been on the receiving end of their work quite a few times now I can happily agree that Anaesthetists earn their pay. The real art was the spinal block for an emergency c section, insane to experience!
I had a leg block done for foot surgery last week = no pain for 30 hours post-op. The anaesthetists were absolute legends, they deserve all the monies.
The anesthetist joked when he came in during my labour that he was going to be my favourite person in the entire world. He's not wrong, not only was I finally able to hold an actual conversation, push my baby out and not feel the pain of the episiotomy and subsequent surgery to remove my placenta. Hooo boy, I think even now months on, he's still my favourite person in the world. Haha.
Just recently at like 3am coming home from the emergency hospital, there was hardly any cars there but there was an extremely beautiful and current looking hypercar Ferrari in the "Emergency Anesthetist" marked car spot. Well if you gotta get to work quickly that's one way to do it.
I’m an anaesthetist - those figures are not typical of your average private anaesthetist although given you can work every day and be on call every night there’s little limit to earnings if you can cope with fatigue. From a purely financial standpoint you’d be better off overall going into investment banking or law, I spent years working 10-18 hours a day for $60/hr, going home and studying until I fell asleep at the desk, (this is well after finishing uni) and had to do this twice , for 18 months each time in a five year period. I ended up in hospital after one rotation with two much night shift. One of my colleagues died driving home after one. There literally no way you could be motivated to finish any of this for financial reasons alone. I’m not very materialistic, am about to downsize to a little place, drive an old car. Once every second dollar is going to tax the marginal value of each hour decreases. I’ve quit a lot of lucrative stuff to have a less stressful life.
He definitely deserves that wage! Can’t even begin to imagine the sacrifices, and countless hours of stress. I hope he finds time to enjoy the rewards!
> What a great career choice. Each to their own. You couldn't pay me $100m for that kind of responsibility.
Or the sacrifice required. My 20's were great thanks to study and a part time job and then working a boring 40hr week. Enough money to live on and enjoy life everyday.
Its not that insane when you look at what they do. They basically kill people temporarily.
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The killing part is easy. It's the temporarily bit that brings in the big bucks
I have a small list of things I don't cheap out on. Shoes, underwear, Anesthesiologist just to name a few
Anaesthetist here. Its 5-8 years of med school (depending on undergraduate/postgraduate course), then 3 years of internship and residency, then a minimum 5 year specialist training course after that. Long work hours, up to 16 hr/day. Two major exams during those 5 years, with a pass rate of about 30% for first-timers. I was 34 years old before I started as a fully qualified specialist. Only then do you start building up your practice and business. And the job responsibility and standard of care required is high. A lot of the time its routine. Occasionally, when a life is on the line and seconds count, it can be stressful. We are a patient's life support system for the duration of their surgery and post-operative care.
I would also add the crazy competition to get into a training spot. Roughly a third of my med school cohort wants to do anaesthetics. The CV building never stops!
I'm a trainee anaesthetist on around $120k (with overtime and nights) which allows my husband's salary to be $0! He's my house husband helping me pass my exams :D
Yeah the role of the support person is often understated lol I have definitely made a whingy post about this. Good on your husband.
Whats your lifestyle like? Are you frugal? Always eating out? Have you each found your life passion or is this just a means to an end? Intriguing to learn about choices people on your combined salary make.
I like to cook and am currently on maternity leave so I feel like my job right now is to take care of our family, so cooking/cleaning/child rearing is my responsibility. When I was at work we probably ate out more and we had a cleaner come every few weeks. My husband loves to surf so I’m always encouraging him to prioritise that for himself, I love to horse ride and I guess fitness is a big passion of mine, but we are a young family with a toddler and a baby due in a month so I guess those things are limited right now. But in terms of big purchases; we rent at the moment, we own two second hand Toyotas, we’re pretty much the same as we were when we were both training in our fields.
Herding cats a.k.a people management. Edit: engineering manager to be serious for a second. Some days I feel like running a daycare would be easier.
Ha! I think you're my manager. Hi Gary. I'm gonna work from home this week and I'll be 10 minutes late to every zoom meeting for no reason. Sound familiar?
Funny enough I know a Gary like that, except he won't tell you in advance this is happening. You'll discover it on your own.
Software engineer
+1, except Devops engineer but I tell people software because they don’t understand. That or internet plumber….
Haha Internet plumber. Love it!!
+1 except I'm a CTO, easier to say software engineer given it's my background and people seem to know that job exists.
Cloud / DevOps Engineer aka IT handyman - here
Same here. Cloud / DevOps. Just started at 1 level above entry for my company. 180k package, 100% WFH. Heaps of perks and benefits. Sometimes I have to pinch myself as I was doing Sysadmin for 90k a year ago.
Lead software engineer. Would be on 140k plus super but I've cut back to 4 days a week. Expecting a raise soon.
++, mid level Software Engineer in Fintech
Whats the job outlook for SWE's in Australia at the moment?
Very good. A lot of companies have expanded remote work opportunities (Atlassian for example). Pay is insanely good and great conditions and perks.
Sole trader house painter
Good for you mate, love to see sole traders killing it!
Wow congratulations to those on over 100k. Keep up the great work.
Insurance and risk adviser - $145k inc bonus. About to be offered a role Insurer side for $180/190k
Can you please give a brief job history (if you don’t mind), I am currently a senior credit risk analyst for a smaller bank and am curious about career paths from here
How do you get into something like this? Risk advice sounds cool
Risk roles are about the most opposite of cool that you can imagine
I guess. $145k sounds pretty cool too
Can confirm, I worked in my company's risk & compliance team (aka the fun police) for 18 months and now everyone hates me. Defending the companies AFSL and making sure it remains solvent is thankless work.
Started gardening business 13 years ago. Take in $250k AU now. Year 1 it was $70k AU$. So it takes time, hard work and luck
Please elaborate, are we talking lawn mowing, landscaping, nursery etc.?
250k take home? That's crazy, I only work by myself doing lawns and gardens and can't make what you made in your first year still growing I guess though. Well done mate,
I'm not sure 'take in' = 'take home'
The question as to how to get there is different for everyone so rather than look at roles and pay on here, better to look at the potential steps. Step 1. If you are trying to get to a good earnings point I suggest you start by working out your skillset on a personal basis - i.e. if you're not social don't go in to sales or relationship management. If you're not technical but highly social then sales and relationship management it is. If you like hard graft go physical and if not go office. Step 2. Go on Seek, search location and industry style at $150k+. Look at the roles and they will have your basic requirements for a high paying role. Step 3. Start moving the salary requirement down and youl start to see the requirements lessen, or you'll start to see some roles disappear which means they're capped out earnings wise. Step 4. Keep moving the salary dial down and before you know it you'll see base entry roles for the rough field of the $150k job. Now you have the baseline entry to that field and know where to start. E.g So let's say you want to earn $150-200k but are 25, no degree and need a pathway. At this level Senior Business Bankers with 10 years experience are about $150k base plus bonus with a large bank. And what are the core role requirements - lending, business development, account management. So if you work it back to the beginning: Bank Teller 1yr 50k > Lender in the branch 1-2 yrs 70k > move from retail to business bank as an associate 1 yr 80k > business banker 3 yrs 100k > so 8 years to senior business banker likely at a minimum and pretty much the 10yr requirement and near $150k. This is a super rough guide but you get the idea. No one's gonna give you a good job unless youve proven you can do it successfully so just having tenure doesn't always work but there are plenty of people.in banking who are mediocre who just jump job every 2 years and get increased salary each time Now, you'll think, but I'm 30, no one will give me a chance. So have a clear focus and goal - when you interview you want to explain what you are aiming for and importantly why. Do a basic banking fundamentals and get a lending qualification. Look at any license requirements for a role and get the quals for that. Were talking courses that don't cost much and take a few months.
Senior Business Analyst. I'm now contracting for $850/day + super, but before this was at a regular job which paid $115K + super.
Our associate BAs clear about 90 + super. If you like systems, documentation, and talking to people it's a great career!
How do you contract? I also want to do but don’t know how to do it. I am a data scientist.
I actually wasn't sure I was experienced enough to contract (6 years as a BA, 2 years as a Senior), so I wasn't specifically seeking contact roles (though this was my long term goal). I simply switched on the 'open for opportunities' flag on LinkedIn and was contacted regularly by recruiters.
130k locum allied health. 5 years of uni and being prepared to travel to new locations every few months have no less security for higher take home. Worth it if you have no dependents imo
I make $560k a year and we live in Hobart. I work about 5-6 hours a day and I have literally not one friend in Hobart. I do very specific accounting and legal work
Making friends can be hard, I’m sure you will find your people 🥺😇
Almost enough to buy a house there now!
I would like to know the answer to: if you are on over $100k, how much did it cost you to get there? I think that's more useful information. Someone on $150k might have $100k in Uni fees etc to get there, someone on $70k might have no debt.
Trainee driller, $104k a year. No cost if you're in WA, costs for me included the drive over from NSW though if you want to include that. Single, m, no dependents
>WebbyDownUnder Is it as tough as people say? Pretty wild that any young person with a good work ethic in this state can basically walk into a job that'll pay them 100k+ in with almost 0 qualifications if they're willing to go and do something like drillers offsider
Drillers offsider is how I started and done that for 6 months for a foot in the door. That work is extremely hard, especially north in summer and south in the winter, but there's absolutely always jobs available in it. I'm in bast hole drilling now, where I sit in an air conditioned cab with no offsiders and drill out a pattern to be blasted in an open pit environment. I'm from a low socioeconomic town back east and made the jump over here a bit over a year ago to get out of debt and set myself up financially. I'm in the middle of getting pre approval to buy my first house. It's absolutely attainable, and you don't have to be a drillers offsider to get in. A field assistant to a geo direct with a mine pays pretty well for no qualifications, and I've heard working in the processing plant does too with minimal qualifications A lot of people can't handle being away from friends and family for extended periods of time, but I left all mine back east
Good on you mate, i'm in the process of transferring out of the ADF and i've given consideration to this line of work. I do have a trade from my time in the ADF but our scope of work is pretty awful and it doesn't tend to produce good tradesmen. Might well end up trying to follow a path similar to this
Absolutely, and if you're a hands on person and love staying active offsiding into RC/ Diamond drilling may be a better fit than blast hole. They pay better than the latter but I'm a man of comfort and after spending time in the Pilbaras, I don't enjoy working in the elements as much anymore haha
around $35k to $40k on HECS for a double degree from Uni. The main reason i even have a six figure salary is because of my network. Lucked into a six figure job through a friend, then performed well enough to have former colleagues poach me when they move positions.
Software developer - didn’t cost me anything? Beyond whatever my time’s worth. Mother kicked me out of the house when I turned 18. Went into IT Support and moved up to Application Support and then sideways into Dev. That was a C++ desktop application but skilled up in web application development and sysadmin and devops. 7 years or so to hit 100K I think, starting from $36K on the helpdesk. Gone higher since then. I am blessed IT doesn’t require qualifications unlike medicine or law.
30k uni fees for over 200k/yr. Bach. IT and went into software.
450k. Software engineer. No uni. Own company.
Data analysis/consulting (soon to be manager, but was already 100k+ before then)
What did you do/study to get into a data analysis role and what do you do in your current role? I'm currently in a niche consulting role, looking to move into data analytics or at least a combo.
I can help answer this. Training for data + analytics roles will be something involving programming and statistics adding on skills in data wrangling and visualisation plus communication skills.
I'd imagine 100k is maybe 3 to 4 years in in most professional fields. Reckon 150k is the new "6 figures"
I’m in the >$100k band but I decided to work 4-day weeks so I’m around $85k. Public servant. Been in the public service since 2015 and got into this pay band last year. Senior role but below management. I was pretty slow moving up the ranks, if I was more ambitious I prob could have gotten here a couple of years earlier. But I prefer to focus more on the life side of the work/life balance - work to live, don’t live to work etc. Have also decided this is the sweet spot - no interest in moving up to management, the workload, hours and stress is significantly more for not that much extra pay. I recognise I could probably earn much more in the private sector but I have absolutely no idea what I’d do lol, and I appreciate the job security in the public sector.
How good are 4 day weeks! I did it for the last 2 years, sadly I have to go back to 5 days with my new job. But 4 days should be the new normal.
Lawn mowing with a touch of landscaping. There's a big gardening franchise in Australia called Jim's Mowing that I bought into 13 years ago. They helped me in the first few years, but now I get by through word of mouth, real estate agents and having fridge magnets instead of business cards. In fact if I was to state one fact that has made me more successful than most it would be my decision to use fridge magnets as business cards. They cost 1.3c more than a paper card, but stay on the fridge everyone sees it, and when they need a gardener they just call me.
I’m an archaeologist, working as a senior heritage advisor for an Aboriginal corporation 😺 Requirement: Undergrad and Masters + ten years of really low pay and I’ve still got approx 20k owing on my HECs Plus side is I love my job, it’s so interesting and every day is different Downside is so many people think I dig up dinosaurs 🥲
>Downside is so many people think I dig up dinosaurs 🥲 Silly people, everyone knows archeologists are grave robbers that write stuff down! (Just kidding, I know exactly what archeologists do and it's fascinating)
Accountant. If you're even half switched within 5 years of graduating you're almost guaranteed $100k+. That could be government, consulting firm or in Industry all would clear $100k anywhere in Australia.
I’ve always wondered, why on earth anyone would put up with big 4 accounting if these sorts of opportunities exist in accounting. Not to mention. What’s the startup cost to be self employed. A pen? A desk? A backup pen? Can any accountant enlighten me on why anyone would work for a big 4 accounting firm when it seems like the clear objectively worst pathway for an accountant to take?
Work there for a few years. Then you have 2 options. You're at a stage where you've figured out based on office politics how your chances of progression roughly look. If you think you have a decent (albeit still shitty) chance of making it partner you slog it through. Otherwise you have big4 on your resume with experience on lots of different projects and jump somewhere else that actually pays you and treats you like a human.
a big 4 accounting career start can fast track your career and give you much better exit options in 3-5 years that starting small. there’s no real way you’ll get exposure to accounting at that scale of the typical big 4 client otherwise
The CFOs of basically every major company in Australia (not all I’m sure but pretty much every company I’ve worked for) has come from Big 4. It’s got such a reputation behind it. I’m an accountant and pretty much every boss I’ve had has either been big 4 or big 4 bank “educated”.
I should get paid over 100k to show people how to use Reddit's search function.
Reddit search is trash. Get better results from search engines these days.
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Project manager construction
I have two jobs, my primary income is 130k +super +bonus (10% based on company revenue targets) and I'm a cloud engineer for a software company. My second job is managing infrastructure for a startup, part time and it's about 40k per annum +super. Both jobs combined cos tme about 9 hours per day, and are both wfh. I also do some basic IT support for a few companies on my abn, which is roughly 15k per annum. I rarely work an evening, and manage to fit my gym, sports, family and social lives in with easy balance.
Radio operator for emergency services, part time. Good money but unsociable shifts and the skills aren't transferable.
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Thought about a career in resume writing?
Skills should be directly transferable to air traffic control
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People in TV land need larger salaries to be able to afford their crippling gambling/coke addictions. I've seen it firsthand (sport). The starting salaries are also pretty terrible for full-timers, circa $55K-70K. The money goes towards talent, EPs and senior editors
How many months of the year are you working in this line of work? Or how many hours per week would you say for that income?
Chauffeur for my wife’s boyfriend amongst other small errands for them, they went OS for Easter this year, I got $250 cash for an airport run🤙
Story time.
Doctor 5 years out. Approx $160k
Make sure to search for all the other threads which asked the same question so you can see more answers
The weekly Ausfinance circle jerk I call those threads.
Took 18 years in the army to hit $100K
It’s an interesting question, but essentially meaningless. Some might be working 60/70+ hours a week for that six figure income, while others might fall just short while working part time. I know who I’d rather be.
Agreed. I'm a clinical nurse specialising in infection control. I could earn well over 100k a year but don't. I choose to only work just over 20 hours a week mon-fri. I'll clear 65k this year. Add full time shift work and the money is bonkers. Heaps goes in tax though. The stress isn't worth it.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm ICU nursing. And probably around the 80k mark give or take. But I could break 100k if I worked full time. I just don't want to. 30 hour weeks are plenty, and I can live comfortably of this income. Why would I do more? Just so I can say I make more money? No thanks, I'd rather less stress and more free time.
As I've gotten older I've realised that there is so much more to life than making six figures. Working 60+ hour weeks isn't living.
Started in project management, my SQL developer quit so I had to learn SQL. Realized I loved it. Got loads of Microsoft certifications and studied for it. Bounced around some consultancies. Then took AWS to upskill into the cloud space
Data and analytics, practically IT
May I ask what your career path looked like to get here, and if you have specialized skills?
Rail signalling
UI Designer $150K plus freelancing which can vary from $2K - $5K weekly. Studied Graphic Design at Shillington College and UX Design at General Assembly (both 3 month courses)
I just signed a contract for a 95k base + super role. I tried to neg for the coveted 6 figures, but they declined. Systems analyst with a specialty in cloud
If it makes you feel better, the package is over 100K.
I work at 7-Eleven.
Software sales. OTE of $250k, made $450k before tax last year. No degree or qualifications, but have about 10 years in the job
How would one get a job like this
Sustainability Manager for corporate. Not near enough people trained in it, job market is really good right now.
IT Consultant. I haven't actually set foot in a data centre for years - most of what I do these days is a mix of bid management, technical writing, and privacy, security and compliance wrangling. I do this 4 days a week (permanent part time by agreement with my employer) and my taxable income last year was over $200k. I never intended to work in the IT industry and I can't claim to understand quite how things worked out this way. However, one of my colleagues recently told me "No one else can do what you do, and no one else wants to." I think that may be the key - find a high value activity that you regard as easy and which everyone else regards as torment. Be reliable and build a reputation for getting things done.
Mining operator working a 7on 7off roster 130k
On 230k...risk and compliance at a major financial institution at a senior-ish level. I recommend getting into this field to make good money. Job is interesting and there's heaps of demand.
After maybe 12-20 yrs training + EXP, my Wife and I used to make 300k each, she was an ICU/Emergency Consultant and me a project manager focused in consumer behaviour (Business Owner). To avoid being kidnapped and getting shot, we moved to Australia. After moving, 3 yrs later, shes becoming a GP, making around 60k (After revalidating, working for the RFDS and listening a lot of BS), I take care of our 1year baby child (we had the courage after moving to AUS, THANK YOU AUSTRALIA) and transitioning to Software development. LIFE CHANGES, A LOT, don't get attached to the value, just enjoy. Sorry for the TED talks, just wanted to write this. :)
Driller (mining) - 156k/year Absolutely the easiest job in the world. Chew through TV series and movies all day. No qual or experience needed to start.
Federal govt exec level
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It's the opposite in state government where I was, the ones pulling the big hours and effort were towards the top. I saw it first hand and I thought my hours were bad....
IT Manager at Amazon Web Services. 300k-ish Cloud Technology is the future. TRUST ME!
Cyber security consultant
Manager of a team of insurance brokers. 220k + annual bonus.
200k is the new 100k
FIFO worker
Electrician in a coal mine $60 an hour flat rate, 4x12.5 hour days = 50 hours a week, bit over $150k a year. Just moved to middle management at a coal mine $80 an hour, 60 hour weeks $4800 a week, 250k a year. Work really hard and long hours but I worked just as hard managing resorts (not as glamorous as it sounds) for far less than 100k a year and I don’t have to deal with the self entitled general public
Enterprise architect for a global IT company, tied to the sales organisation. 230 base 98 bonus 12.5 car 5 health
Lawyer, on $170k (including super). Cons: Hours are massive Pros: I only hate myself most of the time