Are you content with your salary at work?

I'm sure a strong majority of us worker's will say we need more pay if I had to take a guess.I only make a gross of $26,000 a year,which in my opinion is not that much,but still surviving.What about the rest of you gamers.Are you satisfied with your salaries?

No where near, although i make good money, i'm doing the job of two, and definitely for SF California pay, i'm way under budget.

I don't feel like posting my salary, but no I'm not content. I'm working on my bachelors to move on to system administration, and I'll likely take a look into security after that.

So long as I have food on the table and my bills are paid? Yes.

yea i'm happy with it, nothing crazy its enough for me to live comfortably and put some aside for savings every month

I live in Serbia and I'm not a criminal, so naturally no, I'm not content with my salary. But I did earn a good reputation over the years, it doesn't pay the bills but it's something.

Not really, I make more than the average in my country but it's hard not to compare with people doing the same job in the UK or Germany who make a lot more, usually working under better conditions. Since I'm in EU I could just go to these countries (well UK for now, for the future we'll see) but I haven't felt confident yet to leave my home country for good. I may do so when I decide to quit my current job.

No. i'm a very poor guy :(

Dude, how do you go from System Administration to security ? My system administrator, and even his/her assistant make top $$. Security, no where near. Stick with classes to system administration, you won't regret it. Just my 2 cents.

I can't really complain. More money is always nice but I'm in a position where my base salary is enough to take care of all of the needs of my family and leaves enough left over for us to save for college for my two boys and get whatever reasonable luxuries we want, we have full health and dental insurance, and there are additional bonuses and perks to the position.

26k a year would be a hard to live on in the US. I'm glad to hear that you are doing OK on that amount, though.

-Byshop

Yes and no. Before my son was born I had my own business where I was making pretty much 60 dollars an hour. Dropped it to stay home with him but now that he's starting to be in the house less I decided to get back to my business but I need money to build it back up so I took another job...as you can imagine making a dollar a minute is not all that easy to come by and this temp work I got now pays a lot less than that so it's hard to be satisfied with less than half of what I'm used to but need to remind myself this is temporary until I can grow my client base again and do my own business full time again.

No..... but I make decent money....

I'm "ok" with my salary, I could always use more but my jobs benefits and union compensate for where my salary might fall short. I seriously got a shot at retiring at 58 or the latest 62. The key is keeping your debt low, if you do that, your salary becomes less of an issue. I know a lot of young people think that your retirement is a ways off, but trust me, it will come a lot quicker then you think. Everything you do today financially will either be a benefit or curse in your future.

You guys speak of debt so easily...I've never been in debt in my life and just the thought of it scares me.

Bought your own living place?

@horgen: Can't until I get my citizenship.

Ah. Well that gives you some time to save up money I guess.

@horgen: One can only hope :)

30K, which is good for a single male in his early 20s who just graduated. I'll be more money focused once I start grad school

lol....I'm glad it scares you, I just wish more Americans where scared or at least understood how to eliminate or minimize their debt.

I'd think it starts by not buying what they can't afford. Then again, you guys start early in debt by racking up huge college debt that you can do very little about... but it's not always the case. My sister for example; she kept asking banks for loans to repay her previous loan but kept asking a little extra each time. At a point the banks just told her no and eventually she lost the house...so stupid...

The way our country is structured it's very easy to put yourself into a lot of debt. A credit rating is something that you really need to do a lot of things like a car, a house, or for a while there even something as simple as a cell phone. Even if you want to pay cash for everything you pretty much -have- to start building credit (usually by using and paying off a credit card) to be able to do a lot of things.

-Byshop

Some of my salesman make more in a year than my base salary, but my total compensation (commission, profit sharing, under budget bonus, branch bonuses, etc...) put me close to a 1% for my hone state

Recently had a career change to being a Corrections Officer and am making 34k a year. It pays the bills and I have some money left over that I save and invest. But the benefits I receive are really awesome. We also just got approved for overtime pay so hopefully I'll be able to take advantage of that.

Sorry to hear about your sister, it's sad that most people only learn how to manage their money after it's too late.

Yeah, you are right, we need credit, it's just the fact that people abuse it and that's what gets most of them in trouble.

@MarcRecon: Yeah, she managed to semi get herself back on her feet but she has leaned nothing so I suspect it's just a matter of a few years before it happens again :(

I make good money for my field/occupation.

What upsets me is the cost of living in California. It's not that nice, but then again I've never lived anywhere else.

I've all but accepted I will A.) never own a home, and B.) if I remain single, I will probably always need roommates. I don't mind the former, but the latter is kind of annoying.

Look at it like this, she's not alone, most people don't learn but I really do hope she does.

Well at least you guys don't have a freakin rain tax as we do here in Maryland! Of all the things to get taxed for.....rain....really!?

@MarcRecon: what, in god's name, is a "rain tax"?

*ah I looked it up. A bit of a misnomer, it's about water pollution. Leave it to a politician to call something important something ambiguous.

You should see my college loans, its pretty impressive. I'm hoping to break 100k soon. =P

A college loan is different, it's an investment in your future.....unless of course you don't get the job you went to school for.

its a fair wage for what i do in fairness and i can get by on it. i just keep my wants a few as possible. i used to earn more but the cost of earning it was not worth it.

You go girl! XD

I try.

@mrbojangles25: invest in a tiny small house. Even if it's a little shit box any money you put in it to fix it up or update is almost guaranteed to get your money back plus at least 50%. Take that money and buy a little bit better shitbox and repeat. eventually you'll have a nice home with plenty of equity and capital.

Once I started investing in real estate and property my net worth skyrocketed.

You have to spend money to make money.

down payments on shitboxes in California are like $150,000. 2 bed, 1 bath...you're looking at 500-700k.

But youre right, and that's something I would love to do. I worked as a carpenter's assistent for a few years, I enjoyed working with my hands, on homes. I'd like to do that on my own. Have a yard to grow herbs and veggies in. Not deal with landlords.

Not to mention extremely competitive, especially in my area. Factor in the fact that outside forces (Chinese, specifically) are buying up places left and right by paying straight cash for places, it's pretty disheartening. You'll have honest folks work hard, put a big in on a house, then someone comes and outbids them by 30k with cash and just takes that house up.

I'm saving my money for it, don't get me wrong. But I'm also 33, and mortgages usually last for decades. I Don't want to be paying my house off when I'm 80. I might just ask my parents for the money, I'm definitely not taking a loan out for something I don't technically need.

live in UK my pay is £9.43 per hour, 40 hours per week any time over that is at pay and half (about £14.14 per hour) so If I work around 45 hours I can get £400 per week.

I'm a HGV Driver at an Airport, compared to other HGV driving jobs my pay is a little on the low side, considering I'm always working at height and driving within inches Airplanes.

A bump in the street could cost a few hundred pound, if you hit a gate or something, a bump airside could ground a plane for a day costing the airline a fortune.

Of course not, and even if i made 100 million a year would i be happy with that.

Always strive for more , otherwise why bother.

Well, I would argue that striving for more is awesome but that it doesn't necessarily only mean "acquire more money". I think you can attain a point where the money starts to not matter so much and you can focus on things like person growth and experiences.

-Byshop

You can strive for more than one thing.

But yes i do agree that it does not just mean more money, for some personal growth/ experiences may be/become the goal.

I make $53.000 a year, my boyfriend makes $62.000 a year and we don't have children. Basically this means that we can do whatever we want, money is never a problem. But we don't really care about most luxurious things like high class restaurants or expensive clothing brands. The things we spend money on are cars (my boyfriend is a car enthousiast, me not so much), electronics because we're geeks and holidays. Those 2 weeks per year we go on holiday we make sure it's really comfortable. Oh and our cat, I'd rather buy her expensive food than I'd buy expensive food for myself haha.

So to answer your question, yeah I'm content with my salary. It's way more than enough.
9 years ago I switched jobs, my old salary was enormous but the job sucked. My new salary was slightly above minimum wage back then. But still, I was happy and I realised that I used to buy all kinds of unnecessary stuff. It wasn't that difficult to scale back.

I'm fine with what I make but then I have to pay close to half of it in taxes.

not enough salary :( poor me :(

My hubby makes great money so I'm content, but even if something happened and he didn't make great money I'd still be happy as long as we have a roof over our head and food in our bellies we're good.

That's what I'm doing now, I bout my first house back in 2010,it's not a shit box, the house is in good condition.The only thing I've been doing is updating, I should be able to flip it in about 3-5years.

Yes. My wife and I each make around $80k a year. But I always want more.

I make bit shy of 60k € a year atm(new msc salary is around 3k a month), but the taxation is pretty hard here, compared to doing the same in US I'd make around 100k with less taxation but I do just fine as it is

Yes, CDL, plus facility/plant management experience= pretty good pay. No college degree just worked hard and took opportunities to learn new things.

I work for a government agency in a cash strapped country, so no.

I do supplement my income on the side though.