Do paralegals make more money than legal secretaries

Which is exactly the point. Please put your job title as your user name, which will make it appear in bold, which will be easier for people to scan. Basically I work in asset management for a third party that sits at a pharma and takes care of their instruments.

NJ Years of Experience: Been here 18 months, was hired in Nov. Keep track of all your medical expenses and next to what you pay for each item, track what your insurance paid and the actual cost before any insurance discounts.

Then think of paying for all of that upfront. Just post your question by itself. System Librarian — responsible for electronic resources and staffing and accreditation Geographic area: Mountain Plains Years of Experience: Development associate fundraising Northeast Ohio.

Senior Research Analyst Description: Data Analyst for Consulting firm. Primarily use statistical software to analyze data.

Some client interaction responsibilities. Can I ask what type of data you are working with and what field your undergrad was in? My strengths lean more towards study design, but data is data. According to the BLS statistician jobs are growing much faster than epidemiologist jobs revised from last year, when they were growing about the same— this change is due to strapped state and local government budgets and pay more.

State and local governments are still interested in them but may not be able to hire them. Statistician jobs are projected to grow much faster than all jobs. This is actually my job — doing the statistics for MD researchers at a large hospital. I have an MPH. Very intelligent people, very good at medicine, absolutely awful at study design and completely lacking in basic knowledge of statistics. Try explaining proper survey design and methodology to an MD with no research background….

I just wanted to say that I love this thread because this is what I want to do — I have a BA in psychology and will have a PhD in public health in a semester, and I discovered biostats in grad school. I am also from a non-math background. Could learning about biostatistics also help my career line? I am still a beginner at my current job, so thinking of diversifying my future options. As I work full-time, I dont have time to attend a course in college. I have undergrad degrees in Economics and Statistics.

I work with SAS mostly. My husband has a PhD in applied mathematics, but his focus was biostatistics. He also works in market research as a data analyst. He also makes quite a bit more than this almost twice as muchbut with more education and experience. He used to work in consumer packaged goods and now works for the pharmaceutical industry, putting his biostats interest to use. I was applying for similar jobs with my BSc Math. Getting used to all the record keeping, the paperwork, following SOPs and so on.

Plus I wondered if maybe my cousin reads AAM too. Nope, not there, just in Quality. My background is ISO Are you connected with ASQ American Society for Quality? They have some of the most well-respected certifications in our area of expertise.

I work with ISOas well. Doubt this affects my salary. I think there are absolutely places where it does. Curiosity demands that I ask, which schools have what you consider a top tier M. I would like to plan ahead and attend one of them. I know for sure that University of Chicago and Northwestern are two of the best in the country. Ivy Leagues, sometimes, also. Penn might be one. This list does a pretty good job of nailing the top contenders.

I agree with that list. However, just Google MBA Rankings. Knowing what I know now, look very closely at the companies which recruit at a specific school and what concentrations they recruit. In general, go to the best school you can get financial aid to go to. Administrative Assistant I Area: Also a Corporate Librarian, but at a non-prof in a midsize US city. I am designing a management system for their electronic files active and not. They also want me to establish a corporate archive and a records management program.

Creative Director in-house Though I would say that this position includes all communications in addition to graphic design duties.

Included 1 week paid vacation and paid holidays. My previous job as well. Courtroom clerk in Central California, very little experience. I worked as a paralegal for another government agency in a different county during my internship and then some all for freeand I have an AA degree in Paralegal Studies.

I make a little over 35k without benefits, I get all court holidays off and paid, and I get to work with an awesome judge. The downside is that I work outside my home county, so my commute is about an hour each way. Principal Software Engineer — mostly web application design and construction, working in very senior-level non-management role — no direct reports, but a lot of mentoring and leadership responsibilities.

Outside Boston, MA Years of Experience: But it has to do with identifying potential donors to a non profit and learning as much as you can before you ask them for a gift to increase the chance they will give at a high level.

It blends data mining and detective work. Mostly larger fundraising orgs with big individual donor programs will have these kinds of permanent positions. There are a lot of consultants who provide these kinds of services as well. Outreach to community organizations, media, elected officials, represent my place of employment on boards, marketing. Administrative Assistant in a University 25 years experience 8 years at this position Arizona 35K.

Similar job description, additionally, I supervise two programs with 7 direct reports. If Project Specialist is also another title for Project Coordinator… then yes I agree with your description of that, and tons of stress from the Project Manager bossing you around dumping all their PM duties on you!

Process manager in finance. I have great benefits like lots of vacation time, flexible hours, great retirement contribution, and I get to take some of my overtime back as extra time off. Are you an American working in Europe? Can I ask what kind of degree you have, and without too many specifics, what kind of organization you work for?

I work for a bank and I know we do employ some Americans in Europe though, but more so in the UK than in Belgium where I work. If you want to go into accounting, getting qualifications with relevant bodies is a huge point in your favor. The problem is… a lot of them are country-specific, because a lot of accounting practice is country-specific. There are also some accounting courses you can take which will exempt your from the first few exams for a variety of accounting bodies.

So, you might look at starting those, then specializing once you manage to get where you want to be. Consider the US government in your job search.

For example, the military has bases in multiple European countries and they have jobs where you need an accounting background job series and My job is actually between research assistant and research coordinator the standard job in my field that most people with my responsibilities do at a hospital carrying out medical research. My job is probably comparable to a clinical research coordinator at other places. I work for a non-profit pediatric hospital in a department that is just growing its research program, i.

Therefore I mostly manage investigator-initiated projects that are being carried out using department resources, and am paid out of the same fund that pays long-term support staff. I have 4 years of experience in my current role, with one promotion from clinical research assistant to clinical research associate about a year in. In my Clinical Research Coordinator days I had so many monitors that I loved! You are awesome for what you do — not an easy job at all and so much travel!

I love them too! But unfortunately I am essentially a hospital-based coordinator with a confusing job title. The weirdest part is, our job titles were standardized across my hospital a couple of years before I came— with input from other clinical research folks! That is a lot lower than I expected.

Not trying to make you feel bad. I just expected that salaries in Chicago would be comparable to Minneapolis, where I am. Definitely not offended; I know it is low. This is for two reasons: All raises have been based on that. The coordinator I work with did negotiate, including one better than average raise, and makes about 10K more than me. Our hospital recently had to adjust all our salary levels because so many people were leaving to advance.

Corporate salary is much, much higher than PR agency salaries even when levels are comparable. I pushed my ex to be an actuary when he had no idea what to do with his math degree. Includes writing, social media, development, event management, media, etc. Just about exactly the same roles as above — the bulk of my work is event planning and coordination, but also includes writing email newsletters, social media, etc.

I am also not currently taking advantage of the retirement plan. Everything from college students to a COO. This is basically the job I used to have — same field, location, responsibilities, and experience level, although my title was chief of staff which is one of a few different titles for similar roles. More of a project manager than a people manager. Do media relations, public relations and social media Company: Roughly 10 years non-profit PR experience Salary: Health, good retirement, also get free tuition for immediate family and myself.

That tuition thing is huge if you have a use for it. Tuition Remission is a huge benefit if you can get a job within a university. I know that universities can vary in terms of how much they will cover. It just depends on the university. After taking out massive loans to complete undergrad which I just paid off 3 years early — WooHoo!!! The college I work for will cover the equivalent cost of one of their courses — just under 6K a year. The college I work for pays for just over a year — so about 5-ish courses around here.

Be careful with the tuition remission for graduate degrees. Under some circumstances the value is considered taxable income. It really is a huge benefit.

I am STILL paying off my undergrad and have about 7 more years go. I am also a Supply Chain Manager for a large, global company. Previously a SC analyst with the same company 1 year. The money is much better, but those ski perks sounds pretty tempting. Your job is the type a lot of us dream about day-to-day. Not the OP, but I earn around what they make too. But I take your point. I just feel very strongly about this issue.

I think most people would rather be daydreaming of a fun job than brainstorming ways to come up with the extra money for the utility bill. It used to be that minimum wage was supposed to cover your basics. Now it is not even close.

But your right at that rate of pay it is tough to sleep at night and tough to get up in the morning. My last job was with a non-profit. Everyone there was there because they loved the work. However, management took full advantage of that. There was very much the mentality that they could pay us total crap because we should be there solely for the love of the job. However, at some point, I realized that I loved my job, but also liked paying my bills, and did not want to have to be a homeless retired person.

My first job out of college was going to the beach to take samples of the water. Bartender at a mid-priced national chain in the Chicago area. A dentist suggested surgery for me 10 years back; and somehow in the month between going in, I discovered that lightly relaxing my jaw and running minutes made my jaw problems go away!

Content Marketing Manager at Fortune company Area: Mid-size city in Midwest Experience: Out of curiosity, does your MFA relate to your job? Was it maybe in creative writing, and that translates to marketing materials?

Yes, it was in writing the degree says writing, but I specialized in Fiction. I posted further down I work in product strategy and user experience design and yes, my MFA is related to that work.

That is a healthy librarian salary! Library Manager Mountain West States 7 years library experience, 5 years supervisory 55k. Teacher Librarian Public High school Northern Calif. Corporate Digital Librarian MLIS, 3 years experience in digital libraries, 4 years experience as a database manager and web developerPublic Library Branch Manager Mid-sized city in California 6 yrs librarian, 1 as manager 75, The librarian just laughed. She headed a county library system and earned less than I did although she had better health insurance and more PTO.

Senior Newscast Director Duties: Winner of three Regional Emmys. I hear you on those nights and weekends work schedule and the ulcer-inducing environment. As I got older, my tolerance for drama thinned out considerably. Went to grad school, in politics now.

Yes, there is life after TV. And yes, I still miss it sometimes. Depends on the shop. They eliminated the job title and the person occupying the job and the directors now report to the News Director. Same here, tired of media, the low salaries, crappy hours and slave driver bosses.

I produced a successful weekly national radio show and my salary was about the same. I am a mid-level manager of a team of 16 analysts in the federal government. Washington DC Years of experience: Security clearance took another 8 months. A lot of it is timing. Chicago Years of experience: In this role, 2.

Incidentally, this was my third role with my organization a nonprofit after working my way up through two administrative jobs. Also, I am a woman as my silly nom de plume suggestswhich is largely why I included all that stuff about negotiation in the hiring process: Associate Account Manager but acting as Account Manager for my clients for a fairly new start-up healthcare company focused on care management and transitions interventions for high-risk patients post-hospitalization discharge Geographic Area: Boston Years of Experience: Been here since Octbut have 5 years experience in the healthcare industry from clinical trials to what I do now.

Hmmm…sounds like that might be Biltmore. Not known for spectacular pay but the benefits used to be good. Experience 15 years at Fortune companies in corporate finance, marketing, and operations two years working abroad as a Peace Corps volunteer in the business program.

Evidence that international experience there is valuable in the business world! Proposal Writer, mostly editing and coordinating copy from different departments, lots of manipulation of MS Word Area: Love my manager and the company where I work. And yes, Louise, if you have a background as a journalist or writer, you should definitely check it out!

Administrative Assistant to the marketing department. I work at the corporate office of a retailer. Entry Level,—very little professional experience, 2 years in part-time retail cashiering mostly graduated college in Mayextensive experience with college newspaper.

And does the job require a large number of years of experience? NYC seems more on par with DC, SF, LA, Chicago. Basically, I do business requirements analysis for a product maintenance department at a web-based software development company. Geographic location for all of these: Midwest state in a small town with very low cost of living.

In charge of inventory and ordering, marketing, sales outside of store, keeping the books. Is this typical for the area you are living in? Or did you take the job for the potential salary growth that could occur? Spend my days analyzing data and writing small amounts of code to solve problems related to national security issues.

Embedded Software Engineer — senior individual contributor, leader within team, mentoring younger employees, directing technical content of many projects along with working on my own projects. Midwest mid sized city Experience: DC and NYC salaries, for example, are going to be higher in many cases. Enough to be fine, but not a lot of wiggle room. The salary looks totally appropriate to me. I feel like a complete fraud but it really feels like no one knows or wants to learn how to code some days.

Where I am 40k a year is doing well. And that is a combined household income. Maybe k more, but cost of living is so much higher. The readership here at least those posting is skewed. I wonder if the readership is skewed to higher salaries, or whether folks with lower salaries are less willing to share them even anonymously.

Well, I was never actually mighty in the sense that I earned a Newspaper Guild salary, but I have decades of newspaper experience and was laid off from rural newspaper when I was over Now I am doing some freelance work. These rates also reflects my aversion to aggressive marketing. I have been trying to figure out if I can get inexpensive training in project management software. Trying to compare individual salaries to that number is meaningless.

Low income people also receive extra money in the US in the form of Earned Income Credit. That may offset all their sales tax for the year too, so they may end up actually not paying any taxes at all. The tax amount depends on your geography.

But my healthcare is a significant additional chunk of income. I was really surprised when I learned about the US sales tax, and the fact that you need to do the math to figure out what something on a shelf really costs. Adding to what Gjest said below: I live in a notoriously expensive northern European country now and effectively pay less than what I paid in the US, because I am not also paying for health insurance. I lived in Germany for five years.

People also forget their state income tax, ridiculous higher education expenses, crazy daycare expenses, incredibly high health insurance expenses, etc. So yeah, Europeans pay a lot of taxes but still keep about the same if not more of their incomes.

Plus, wine and beer are way cheaper! My state charges sales tax on groceries, so that really adds to my cost of living—not to mention the stuff I buy tends to be a bit more expensive here anyway. Texas does make most of its money from oil and land, as far as I know.

To be fair, they never had a position like that before and created it for me. However, most tech writing jobs here are contract work, and you can make a lot more money accepting them. I just better liked the idea of a steady and stable job with health insurance.

This is interesting to learn. Jen, out of curiosity I dug up some power-of-purchase data around the globe. Since the power of purchase ratio is roughly 1: I train corporate people sales, customer service, management in sales, customer care, negotiations, communication, various types of management and so on. This is really cool! Because everything else seemed to cost the same.

I have colleagues who are Technical Writers in Brussels, both as contractors and as permanent employees. I think only high-level managers, or people in sensitive military positions earn that sum. Yes, cost of living should definitely be taken into account. For that much money here, you can live in a three-bedroom, 2. So the cost of living is definitely lower. That is very true.

I bought a tiny two -bedroom condo square feet at k in Arlington right outside of DC and my monthly due is around 2k. So cost of living is high here. BA and MA though the MA was in preparation for an entirely different career, so not really relevant female. This is interesting to know for my general career trajectory. To be fair, I should add that I have several times been rewarded with money in lieu of a dangled-but-not-materialized promotion, so I know my salary is high for my job title.

Yeah, same for WA State employees. All the information is available if you simply search by name. Yeah, also in countries that have had far left governments and where people are still left leaning. My sister was not very happy that I could so easily find out what she makes. It seems a little strange, but at the same time I pay their salaries as a tax payer so I should at least know some basic info i guess.

I would think maybe title and salary though, maybe not the name tie in. Gotta love the JET Program! I had similar experiences at my school. Tough to argue with though as I got that nice JET salary with cheap housing costs. Combine that with a strong yen, and I was able to send a lot of money back to the US and kill my student loans once and for all. The possibility of that sentence even being uttered in a conversation about money made me smile.

Fiscal Analyst Accounting Duties: Work with financial reporting, accounts receivable and payable other duties as assigned: I work in higher education. I get state benefits. Great culture at work. I do have a graduate degree. I hope so too! And I bet she would love to hear from you. Sometimes we get paid in compliments and hugs.

I thought the best I could do for library-esque work was 4 weeks at a university… Nice. Atlanta Metropolitan Area Experience: Billing assistant for a specific department in a large hospital Area: Paralegal at a very very small law firm Area: Near the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina Experience: Basically, I write the policies that tell people how to organize their business records, who can access them, and how long to keep them.

I would love to work with Storyline. Learning and Development Facilitator Industry: Central NJ Years Experience: Salary could be more, but my career has followed a long and winding path that included two layoffs and a few nightmare situations. Chief of Staff in a nonprofit. DC Years of Experience: In all seriousness, look at the really high-performing and experienced admin staff within your organization.

We make GREAT chiefs of staff. I know you want to maintain your anonymity, but is there anything else you care to add to your position description? I am wondering if you started out as an EA and have grown the position into its current role, and also, if you have an advanced degree. Yes, I started in an admin role and was progressively promoted. I do not have an advanced degree just a BAbut when this same position is advertised they prefer an MBA. I do a lot of strategic planning, tracking progress, and internal communications, and also help with hiring, training, evaluating and supporting the rest of of the staff.

Yes, although my position was different than the one described here. New York City Experience: I intended to write PMO support, including reporting, business processes, and resource management. I do a little freelance writing on the side, but nothing I could support myself with. I am not a lawyer though. My boss is potentially going to be under investigation from the Ministry of Labour, so there are plenty more issues besides lack of PTO. Responsible for all marketing activities for the firm and am the only marketing person on staff although rely on outside agency help Company: Mid size professional services firm Area: Suburb of large city in the Northeast not NY Experience: Decent health and k match, 4 weeks vacation.

Includes managing a subscription, preparing mail files, all marketing functions. Position now includes administrative tasks since company downsized 10 employees. Health insurance, Simple IRA, no bonus.

When I started this job a year ago, I was basically an administrative assistant.

I function more as the executive assistant to one member of the office, plus some tasks involving confidential paperwork for another. Boston, MA — small wealthy town west of the city Years of experience: Ugh, should have formatted this or put an enter line between them. Sorry for the text wall, folks! Is it formerly single-sex education and is there an historic tower on campus? Imports specialist, which basically means that I make sure that things get through Customs compliantly.

Alison, what are the odds of getting this data into an easily used form? Like an interactive map or something? I would be down to create a google drive spreadsheet of some kind if someone else knows how to GIS-it into something awesome! I got some limited GIS skills and am always looking out for new projects.

Would love to try my hand at this! Once you have the data, Tableau can make some really neat interactive maps and graphs with stuff like this. I was able to teach it to myself in a few hours using online tutorials. If other people want to make a dataset I would be willing to play around and see what I can create. I just might be able to do this. Also very easy to do with ArcGIS Online. Or if I am really ambitious, crank out some d3 with crossfilter.

I need a volunteer! Particularly for the data-entry part, which will be tedious. If anyone is interested, email me. Behind the scenes Customer Service I do process compliance, analysis, and quality process development for call centers Geographic Area: Ontario Years of Experience: How did you get into this?

Do you enjoy it? I take the other 6 months off work by choice usually. Obviously yearly pay increases if I decide to work beyond the 6 months. Benefits are flexible living location, health insurance, pension plan, vacation pay they just give me the moneysocial events through the office. The project length varies. For example, in I worked solidly between the start of February and the start of May literally 7 days a week for that entire time and after that I changed project to a rotation where I worked for 30 days and then took 2 weeks off; I stayed there until early October.

After that I was on holiday or just relaxing at home until February and pretty much repeated the entire thing. But yes, my work is quite seasonal. I tend to take most of my time off apple stock trading forum winter as a result. I have been here for 2 years. My state does not have an income tax, although it does have a steep sales tax.

Cost of living is not outrageous in my city, but it is climbing much faster than the national average. I also have a bachelors degree from a big 10 college, an MBA, and a Masters in Information Systems. Production manager for feature film visual effects.

No benefits, but I can afford health insurance. But the work itself is fun and super challenging. My company has a wonderfully smart and dedicated bunch of people and a good culture. They offered me something much lower on the guise they looked up my previous salary which was public recordwhich was before I earned my Ph. Matching Gifts Specialist Industry: Higher Education Development Location: I sub-specialize in cell line and process development, as well as sterilization and non-routine, highly regulated field operations.

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Totally depends on project. It just depends on what projects we get and where we are needed. Some people stay in one place for 5 years, others like my boss are all over the place. Administrative assistant — in energy engineering — In addition toadmin fuctions, I also do some basic design work and assist on larger projects as needed. My roles and responsibilities range from engineering designs and reports, contract administration, field investigations, and other duties as assigned.

How does that work? Many of us have taken the FE, because you can take it any time after your last year of school starts. My university said if you have even a thought of doing work that requires a PE, take the test now. The second test, you have to apply to take, and you need recommendations about your work quality, etc. A former co-worker is now in a job that requires a PE eventually. It is a full time position. Assistant Engineer — Traffic Industry: Large city in Southern California Salary: Lucky to have this job, rarely work over 40 hours a week, low employee turnover, great bosses, and you really make a difference in shaping your City.

Hoping to pass the PE this year. Advice to anyone who wants to work for local government stock market investing tips beginners to apply as an intern or student worker ASAP. Midwest city with low COL Experience: I float between Vancouver BC and Los Angeles.

Production Supervisor in a technology field. I am also an associate in the company. Medium sized city in the Southern United States Years of Experience: Legal Office Assistant Industry: Toronto, ON Years Experience: Less than 1 8 months Salary: Thanks so much for doing this!

I work in consulting as an environmental scientist and biologist. I perform field surveys, reporting, I do regulatory compliance, coordination with local, state, and federal agencies.

I have a M. I am a geologist doing something very similar in the midwest. I work for a large, international firm. I just started—literally last month—without a lick of experience in my related field. I receive 10 days vacation, 6 sick, 7 holidays plus one floater. Since I just started, I have no idea what kind of bonuses, etc are out there. At the risk of repeating everyone, this is a fabulous idea. As someone who just went through countless of interviews, I really could have used this post.

The current company I work for asked me to list a salary expectation in the application and my interviewers all but laughed me out of the room. When I explained how I got the number I knew ONE person in the field in the area, and so I used the number she told me.

Apparently it was quite high. It turns out the five candidates they were seriously considering had salary expectations much higher and much lower than mine. It goes to show that they help no one especially entry-level peeps by excluding salary information in the job description.

So thanks Alison and everyone out there! I hope this information helps more people in the future! Hey environmental biz buddy! I examine records deeds, mortgages, easements, etc to determine who holds title to real estate, as well as determine insurability simulate stock market javascript widget title Area: Northern Michigan very rural Experience: Senior level, at an agency with 9 accounts.

No direct option binaire ig market avis, but in charge of some big accounts. I house manage concerts, but also work on development events and work in the education department this is what I want to do full time.

I manage the ushers, talk to the halls we play in about ushers, etc. All in all, pretty low on the totem pole. This is my 3rd year in the orchestra field Salary: So some people also in this situation are able to work at orchestra festivals around the country. In my previous job was there 2 yearsI worked as the 2 in an orchestra ed.

I work remotely for a Silicon Valley company. Context for my role: I work for a nonprofit startup and implement our work in several states. I develop our strategic plans in relationship to the overall plan set by our leadership team and carry out the activities described in those plans. Context for my organization: Expectations are high, hours are long, and travel is extensive. In accordance, my organization pays generously in my experience. I had vnn forex years of experience when that was my salary.

Program Director at a non-profit focused on education in a small city in the Midwest. VP of Operations Banking industry. Head of deposit and loan operations, compliance officer, information security officer, BSA officer, bank security officer, IT person -Geographic area: Fairfield county, CT -Approximate years of experience: Director in Academic Affairs Division, private university Area: Biostatistician, Masters degree Region: Our program has approx 90 MSN students currently active in the program.

I have fewer than 2 years of experience in this position was hired with no experience weizmann forex limited mangalore karnataka this particular role, though several years of closely-related work outside higher education. Responsible for writing grants for corporate, foundation, private, and government entities. Also responsible for grants management: California Los Angeles 10 years of experience 80, I am on the high end of the scale most grant writers make between 35kk depending on the agency budget.

Agencies with higher budgets sometimes pay more. Grant writers who have a good track record have some leverage to get a higher salary. The difficult part is once you get to the high end it is hard to move around because other agencies offer low salaries. I primarily manage the logistics, budgets, and compliance. Content Release Manager Manage a small support team and post website content online.

Communications and Policy Associate at a nonprofit Geographic Area: Customer Relations Manager aka Crazy People Whisperer Industry: Parks and Recreation local govt Location: DC suburbs MD Years Exp: But the benefits are excellent, we have k and pension, earn lots of leave, family-friendly, pet-friendly, able to work from home when I need to and I get to work with awesome people for a great cause.

Reference librarian in public library Geographic Area: Midwest, near large metro area Salary: Manage a group of 40 to 50 people developing web applications. Receptionist NYC No experience before this, will be 1 year in a few weeks. Senior VP of Brand Management Think Creative Director and Website Director with input on Product Development, General Strategy and Marketing.

I hire designers and oversee gci forex news design department of a start-up. Round exchange rate nepali rupees to usd clock on call, about 9 hours a day generally. Sometimes work a few hours on the weekend.

I started freelancing full-time out of college as a Web and Graphic Designer. I grew that business until I had staff of five. I learned hiring, project management, staff management and delegation from that on top of the design bits. I acquired the knowledge to know how to market online through the client work I did email marketing, social media, SEO. I had already taught myself web codingweb design, print and packaging design.

I have a BFA but most of what I do is self-taught. While running the design company, I created side companies selling items that I enjoyed where I was able to create the brand from scratch and jenkins subversion check out strategy it across product development, sourcing, packaging, labeling, social media, finding clients, fulfilling orders, marketing etc… Doing this allowed me to learn the ends and outs of creating a brand and implementing it eveyrwhere.

My Design and Advertising knowledge gave me the stepping stone for being able to do this as a one person company. From there I worked as a web designer at a medium sized agency. This was just a sidetrack for me but it was really interesting to see how an agency worked from the inside. Then I took on an in-house web designer position at a start-up.

They had the logo and some packaging designs but not much else. They were really bad at delegating work to me so I just started making up my own projects. For example I setup the brand Facebook page created an email marketing template and told them what I thought we were missing and what we needed to focus on.

The owners were really impressed and promoted me and told me to pick my own job title. I am involved in sourcing product, giving input on product we bring on board, I have a lot of input on what our website and collateral should look like. I guess I need to be more proactive. Office Manager — small company, so HR, Payroll, Accounting, billing, employee relations, unofficial Assistant Facility Security Officer Area: Approximate 10 years in a similar role, 7 months here.

I write op-eds, letters, speeches, blog posts, etc. I make my own schedule and rarely work on Fridays or Monday mornings and pretty much never on evenings or weekends.

Do you mind me asking how you met or connected with these clients? Was it through previous jobs or freelance boards? I currently work as a writer and do some freelancing for a client on odesk, but need to really expand my clientele before I am to ever think about making the jump from my full-time job. They were specifically looking for writers who had advanced education in rhetoric and professional writing, if that helps.

What a great gig! Did you find the transition into freelancing tough? Do you mind the admin tasks paying taxes, billing, etc? Purchasing Manager at this point managing the process as there are no longer any other purchasing associates. Responsible for purchasing inventory for specialty wholesale supply company. Consultant For-profit education company Greater Boston area Experience: Work in a large international nonprofit at the director level primarily for government grants; negotiate grants with Donors; equity trader jobs in canada and train staff on compliance requirements Geo area: DC Years of exp.: The Coastal South Experience: Supervise staff and am responsible for overall visitor experience at my museum.

Manager of Special Events, Washington DC — managed all public, private, and internal events for a nationally-known museum. All programs, internal and external, for large for its area museum, supervise visitor experience in main gallery space, manage most social media, other duties as assigned vacuuming up glitter, brewing coffee, calming down volunteers….

I too live in rural new england. Manage and install 3 rotations of exhibitions annually each rotation comprises separate shows, but the same amount of display space. I am the entire exhibitions department, and report to a curator. Definitely trying to get my foot in the door at a museum. The entry level openings are just so fee and far between and with really low pay, at least out here in thr mountain west.

Coordination of exhibitions, work with temporary, traveling, and permanent exhibitions. Marketing Project Manager for a large corporation in Southeastern US. No supervisory responsibilities, but I assign work for about 10 freelancers. We also get tuition reimbursement and lots of training opportunities. Executive Director of a small human services nonprofit St.

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Salary is addition to a decent-but-not-fantastic benefits package good health plans, dental, vision, health savings program.

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How did you get started? Do you have any advice? Most of my colleagues came into technical writing from other fields, some technical like biochem or computer sciencesome not English, art history.

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A lot of companies seem to be using contract writers, or contract-to-hire, so that might be a way to build a portfolio. Graduate Fellowship Advisor My salary info is public anyway since I work for a state university. You can probably figure out who I am if you care. Helping grad students and some undergrads procure extramural fellowships and grants. I assist with content, organization, wording, etc. I also host workshops, organize panels, advertise funding opportunities through social media, etc.

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As a note, I am expected to relocate every months. Expected to work between 45 and 55 hours a week, which is much less than industry standard. I found out after being hired that their ceiling during my negotiations was 65k, just for reference.

Instead I negotiated for an extra week vacation my first five years. My husband has yet to successfully negotiate extra vacation in engineering consulting firms. Would love to hear how you did it: The range for this job is pretty wide. It can go as low as 40K and as high as 80K, depending on what company you work for and whether you are in something non-profit like healthcare or education, or more corporate.

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There would have been a K had I stayed longer. Is it possible to go to the dentist for funsies? Handle warrants or stock options marketing for a small technology firm under 30 people plus do some sales of products we resell.

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Manage the day-to-day finances, payroll, and accounting, up to and including month end statements, for three companies within a larger corporate group. They have a combined total of about 65 employees to give you an idea of size. The first 7 were as an office administrator and payroll coordinator. We do have our year-end statements prepared by an independent accounting firm. For the level of complexity in our businesses, having a CPA on staff would be overkill.

I changed careers because I maxed out as a communications director and was very bored with what I was doing.

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Library Specialist Lead at a university library Geographic area: MLIS job only requires a bachelor degree Experience: Harvesting digital documents for a specialized online repository collection, preservation work and binding coordination for deteriorating print volumes, reference desk, phone, email, chatmonthly displays, social media management, occasional instruction, no supervision responsibilities Salary: Did you get a degree in web dev, or did you learn on-the-job?

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Lest you despair, you are generally taught that language for 6 — 24 months as your full-time job. I am actually the one on the open thread who said she is looking to get out of her well-paying great job. I do love what I do, but it can be really tough on families. It can take time. Read the Post, the Times, the Economist. Brush up on geography and generally know culture and history American music, art, prorealtime backtest forex. The idea of the written test is: Or at least fake it?

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Much better than industry usual. So while it seemed like I was raking it in … yeah, not so much: Mid-sized city in the lower Midwest very low COL Experience: No PTO, no insurance. Definitely had one of the higher salaries, possibly contributing to my eventual lay-off.

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Good to see that Content Strategy positions are paying well. This is the next step for me as my duties are essentially project management for documents and ensuring that the content produced by engineering and related department aligns with user and company goals.

Programme Support Officer Writing and editing lots of reports, especially for donors; producing communications materials, such as case studies; keeping track of donor deadlines; some research including desk and field research, some strategic planning and support. Lagging behind on the flexible work arrangements that so many others seem to have though. Part of a dedicated tech pubs team; my role is to edit technical documentation written by other authors; manage the style guide; write internal process and quality documentation.

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I was just going to ask if this was Teach For America — otherwise it seems under minimum wage, no? As a fellow teacher, I hope you are looking for something else.

They are taking advantage of you. Assisting with or running clubs and being the sponsor for a certain class like she would sponsor the freshman class and be their faculty representative for the 4 years, helping them with spirit week activities, putting together prom and home coming their senior years, etc earned her extra stipends. I have heard that is a pretty normal salary for a staff accountant in the SE with less than 10 years of experience. Office Manager at a small machine shop.

I am responsible for most of the accounting and human resource aspects of the business — the company has an outside accountant to take care of the tax filings and a benefit coordinator to take care of the claims submissions and processing for medical and dental.

I am also responsible for some of the less glamorous aspects such as phones, reception and making sure the coffee is fully stocked, but it is understandable since I am the one and only office staff other than the company president. I feel my current employer is generous given the area and level of responsibility. I earned substantially less with the corporation, but had more responsibility and was a supervisor to other staff.

Create Maps and Analyze spatial data. Was it easy for you to get a job in GIS given that your masters was not in say, urban spatial analytics? I work for Nike. I write FAQs and internal knowledge base content about our digital products apps, wearables, watches and serve as a general subject matter expert on the technology.

Manage print and online communications for a faith based non profit. New Orleans Years of Experience: I work a 40 hour week, and receive comp time if I work extra. I work for medical school school pathway, basically creating the exams adding questions the director chooses, building, formatting, etc. Put their peer evaluation data into a spreadsheet they can all take with them and counts for a grade.

I put together the medical cases they study about 70 a year for me. I have been in this position over a year, at my company nearly 3 years. Are you near a city in PA? Philly, Pgh, Scranton, or Hbg? Most areas of PA have a very low cost of living, except for the cities. I am near a city. And, perhaps oddly, the prices go up or at least stay the same away from the city because of the local universities spread out around here.

I work for an Enterprise Learning Management System developer so I troubleshoot with clients, contact the development team about bugs, write help documentation, interface with clients, user integrations, client tutorials and work to solve any problems that affects the clients use of our web-based software.

Forgot how many sick days. Grantwriter at large non-profit arts organization Area: I am considering exactly this kind of move. All I really enjoy doing is grantwriting and I would happily take a pay cut to do that full time! Undergraduate Program Coordinator for a small-mid-range Social Sciences Department at astudent university in the Northeastern United States Scheduling Classes, Student Advising are main duties 32, take-home, after health insurance, monthly train pass, union dues, retirement are paid.

Sorry, forgot to mention experience: Boston company age, size: So I had a bit of workplace experience, but was still considered entry-level when I was searching for a new gig. Large-ish city in southeastern US Employer: Private college Years of Experience: Chief of Staff Industry: SF Bay Area Gender: I think of all the people struggling to pay their health care premiums each month, and am mortified by how much people make in my industry.

Note that I am at the low end of my salary bandwidth and one of my direct reports makes more than I do. But people should know how effed up the health care industry is.

I work for a broker but in a non-commissioned position. I make good money for my experience and region, but it is INSANE how much some of sales staff makes. I should add in here, if I went freelance this would likely be more in the 70K range, but I hate freelancing as a rule and am trying not to go that route if I can help it.

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This tends to be very long hours. I do not receive any benefits. We rarely get any notice that a project is ending, we are just told not to return the next day. Each project pays people at my position the same amount. The only people who receive a higher rate are team leads or are doing a different type of review. In my experience, these people are split pretty equally between men a women.

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Graduated with a B. Have been in this job since November. Can I ask how you got into this field? The field is very competitive—any kind of editing experience will give you an edge. I volunteer copy edited for a few local nonprofit magazines.

Public Health Analyst federal contractor working on-site at a government agency Gender: Atlanta, GA Years of Experience: BA in Psychology, MPH candidate Salary: Do you mind expanding on what exactly you do as a public health analyst? Public Health Analyst or Public Health Advisor is a very broad title that includes a lot of different roles. In my case, I am contracted under a specific, short term, funding allocation to coordinate a project with state and local awardees.

However, since I am not a government employee, I have to defer any significant actions to the official project officer. This is my second contract like this and although I have had basically the same responsibilities for both, I have a lot more autonomy on my current project partially because I have a lot of experience with this particular project area and partially because the office I am contracted to is extremely understaffed.

After reading all the comments, just wanted to add a couple of things. I started out as a secretary in a state health department and worked my way up.

Forgot to add that I have medical, dental, and K, though no matching, and three weeks of vacation. IS Support Specialist Area: Prospect Researcher with a large university. Less than one year Salary: I am a woman. I have a decent benefits package health plans to choose from, dental, vision, and education benefits.

Thanks for doing this, Alison! Various currently WC Insurance Salary: Clients in Atlanta, Las Vegas. What mainly qualified me for the position was that I have a graduate degree in accounting, although those other things probably helped sway the decision to hire me. Upper level finance positions are pretty scarce in my agency. Wages on average are lower where I live, so I probably make more than private sector people at my current experience level. Benefits are good, not great, and I think it says more about how poor the benefits can be in the private sector.

Many state and municipal employees tend to have far better benefits, as do postal workers [as far as healthcare premiums. BA was in English so I had to start all over when I went back to school. I was fortunate that I only had to take an extra year of pre-reqs, so it took 3 years total. Ended up making more sense for me anyway, since my first job after school paid me a bit more for having a graduate degree, and I was able to substitute the degree for experience to qualify for my current job.

The additional courses also allowed me to qualify to take the CPA exam. I will say though the job market is tougher than people think for accounting, and I had a very long gap in employment between my public accounting job and my current job. To those planning a career change to accounting be warned, take a look at your age.

They discriminate very much. If you past a certain age you might not get hired in public accounting. Where I worked at Big 4 I did a lot of college recruiting.

I found that, just as you say, the managers, directors and partners did not typically bring older candidates back in for interviews. A director told me once: After two years, I left all my accounting duties behind, received the Professional Human Resources certification, and have two additional years as HR-Payroll only.

Proposal Manager at a small but growing government contractor Salary: I do a bunch of things that all generally add up to being the local accounting person for the field office, reporting to our corporate accounting department where all the actual accountants are.

We get solid benefits. Health, dental, vision, FSA, 3 weeks vacation increasing with years of service8 days sick, 10 paid holidays a year, life insurance, short term disability, K with a match.

The health insurance is particularly awesome and pays for freaking everything. Dang, forgot to specify that I only have 2 years experience in my current role. Prior to that I was the receptionist. Marketing Specialist at University for profit Years experience: I manage and maintain all our social sites, writing copy, responding to fans.

I work a normal day and then do extended monitoring on nights until 8pm and weekends until 8pm as well. I also do a few other projects like internal communications and student communications on occasion, and work with agencies on strategy and my team on strategy. My manager hired me and did so at the top of the salary range because she knew raises might not be forthcoming.

I was supposed to have a 10k bonus but that was eliminated shortly after I was hired never count on a bonus! I negotiated for an extra week of vacation at hiring time. Benefits are average, but health coverage does NOT include mental health which I feel is BS. I was promoted to PM after 6 months as a CSR.

Also known as a Field Service Engineer, but I mostly do software application support managing the application and the servers it runs on. VMWare, Windows servers, SAN storage.

Some medical equipment service in hospitals and clinics. Travel within the state, but overnight days per month. Training out of state weeks a year. I wanna play too! Big 4 consulting firm Salary: My responsibilities vary somewhat from a project to a project but basically this is all Project Controls: About 13 years of experience, an undergrad from Europe born and raised there but I am the US citizen totally not related to what I do which was hurting me a lot at first.

I am seriously underpaid: No way to verify it except my own personal experience. Of course, that only applies to the boom part of the energy industry cycle.

I think salary history has a lot to do with it. You should be making more, I think. It seems like people in our office there get a lot more headhunters calling than we do in my region. It was an engineering-side position in the office, too, not field. At most major Texas Universities those would require much more math and science.

Executive Assistant Manhattan Salary: Can also sell back 3 weeks of vacation every year. I work for a high-powered individual at a very competitive organization. I also had a boss who gave me two huge raises before she quit, which means I make more than the other admins. This is the ultimate golden handcuffs job! Worked in journalism before I became an assistant. Can you tell me about making that transition? Hi Lucy, I worked as a photo editor when I was in journalism.

When I decided to leave the media world after a disastrous stint at Sports Illustrated, I went to a headhunter who got me an admin job — I was able to get a good-paying one because I had some experience through earlier jobs and to be honest, I have a degree from a top school which always helps open doors.

I do think a communications background would make for an excellent assistant. The job is ideal for someone who is type-A, organized, with good follow-through skills.

The ability to communicate well verbally and via email is essential. I am not naturally organized or type-A, but I have a very strong work ethic and force myself to stop procrastinating when I get lazy. Having a good boss makes all the difference. BS Chemistry, MS Ag Science should have gone with applied math but it seemed too easy at the time.

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I have about 3. Can I ask how old you are? At my last full time job I made 75K, full benefits, 2 weeks PTO. Can ask you questions behind the scenes? Customer Service Representative Industry: BA in education, 2 years in rental car industry, little background in insurance been here for about a month thanks to AAM Area: Pacific NW Years of experience: I do miss the higher pay, though, and if anything happened to my partner, I would need to move back to the technology world to maintain our standard of living on our current combined incomes.

Pittsburgh is cheap and I live within my means. My original title was social media specialist. Philadelphia, PA Years Experience: This would probably be mine. Minneapolis, Minnesota Years of experience: Benefits vary widely; usually FT jobs come with very good PTO benefits weeks in the first few years but things like health insurance usually provided, but varying qualitytraining, b etc.

Right now, acting manager of department as well. I handle all of our social media, email, and print materials.

NYC Metro Jersey side of the Hudson Years of Experience: Graduated in May and got this first!! No previous experience or schooling in Marketing. Three years of experience in this particular career track, but years of white-collar office-work career experience in general. Plus extensive PTO and flexible hours. I would be a happier person if I was less aware.

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This also has been a thorn in side as no matter how hard some work and how little some work, everyone gets the same. Large Midwest metro area Company: A top 3 mortgage lender Years Experience: Sick rolls over, personal does not.

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I also document the design, provide information to the documentation team, implement, and bug-fix. Some of my designs are passed to other, generally more junior, engineers for implementation.

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I also work with the actually titled architect on architectural level problems at times, as a sounding board or offering suggestions, and am one of his code reviewers when needed. I communicate directly with clients for some bugs and features, and I am occasionally sent to a client site or required to support a client in the middle of the night.

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Member of a 4 person team. Washington, DC MD Suburb Years of Experience: Which is not a traditional perk but boy is it nice. Actual Official Payroll Title: Information Systems Tech Consultant Industry: State government Years Experience: Standard State benefits — good time off, health insurance, pension, kshort working hours I work as part of an internal consultancy-type group that provides project management and business analysis to other State agencies for their large, complex IT projects.

My title is Business Analyst, but I do stray over into the project management realm as needed. And, as someone noted above, public sector jobs generally have salary information available online if you search. I work for a university library in their interlibrary loan office. My institution also has decent benefits with medical, dental, retirement, separate sick and annual leave, and paid holidays. I work circulation and computer support at one of the largest public library systems in the country, located in the Pacific NW.

This means I spend most of my time showing people how to attach documents to their email. They pay my excellent healthcare, with dental, a pension, mass transit discount and tuition assistance. I get roughly 2 weeks off per year. Research coordinator formerly assistant in a small health research unit at a large Canadian research university Where: One-and-a-half out of school, about two years of part-time RA experience as a student. I have a Masters degree in my field.

Plus I like my coworkers and boss and the general environment. Also I am mids and female. My director and manager are also female and I feel like they emphasize work-life balance, which is really nice, since I like my work but also like having a life outside of it. So glad to find other public accountants. You are exactly on par with me and I am in TX. I wonder how this compares to the Big Four? Used to work for Big 4 tax, I know the higher COL markets usually started in the 50s-very low 60s.

I made 58k as an entry level hire working in the Bay Area with a graduate degree. Tax apparently is considered specialized enough to be paid a bit more, of course the downside is there are fewer exit opportunities depending on the market…but there were quite a few more places to go at my former workplace since they had so many large companies that had very specialized tax issues.

Was that including scads of study leave and lecture fees though or were they on top? My brother works at one of the Big Four and lives in a major city also. He makes about Northern Virginia Years of Experience: Library manager for a government library Salary: British Columbia, Canada Benefits: Defined benefit pension plan; good extended health and dental benefits.

I run 4 discussion sections per week, grade quizzes and exams, hold office hours, answer emails, and have various quasi-professional responsibilities like attending colloquia with visiting scholars. Almost 2 years cumulative experience doing a couple different kinds of contract work online. This is bog-standard pay across the industry. And we have a good department that actually fights to get funding for its grad students. Heck, the TAs here actually have a union, which will almost certainly not be the case wherever I end up next.

All of this to say that this is as good as it gets. Raise pool this year is only 1.