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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:43:59 AM EDT
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MN State House Representative. $30k/yr? Or was it $13k/yr? |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:45:06 AM EDT
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Politicians should be making $0. It would eliminate career politicians |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:47:03 AM EDT
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Only term limits would do that. 
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:48:10 AM EDT
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She is working for the wrong hospital. The RN's we hire make more than that working Home Health. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Friend of my wife: New graduate BSN/RN from a good school, full time at large hospital, no dependents, after tax withholdings and insurance premiums is bringing home $2000 a month. Having seen what nursing school entails I was shocked it was that low. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:48:21 AM EDT
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Only term limits would do that. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:50:12 AM EDT
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You'd have to add not being allowed to make insider trading, no lobbying after leaving office, etc. Make it so there is no way to make money and you wouldn't get shitheads like Pelosi. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:50:14 AM EDT
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Vets yeah, but dentists make bank. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Dentist and Veterinarians. A well-oiled dental practice can make stupid money, way more than us doctors, and they don't have the federal and state governments up their ass like we do. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:51:11 AM EDT
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The only way to rid the world of the Pelosi types would be to find a way to delete that gene pool. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You'd have to add not being allowed to make insider trading, no lobbying after leaving office, etc. Make it so there is no way to make money and you wouldn't get shitheads like Pelosi. The only way to rid the world of the Pelosi types would be to find a way to delete that gene pool. 
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:52:08 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:52:37 AM EDT
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I think the hottest markets for those kind of jobs are in places like San Francisco, where your $120,000 annual salary buys you the equivalent of a $50,000 standard of living in "fly over country." But I'm not sure about that. On the whole, I'll stick with fly over country.  I live in a small southern area. I was shocked to see how much our developers were making. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:53:39 AM EDT
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MN State House Representative. $30k/yr? Or was it $13k/yr? |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:54:06 AM EDT
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That's a pleasant thought. I would but I'm not trained for that kind of gene elimination. ETA but I would not mind having my guys whip up some JDAM goodness. 
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:54:31 AM EDT
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 The average starting salary for a large animal veterinarian was $44,000 as of May 2014, according to the job site Simply Hired.Given she's made some extremely poor financial decisions in her life. But for the amount of money vs schooling she has. She makes shit. Even working 3 jobs, 7 days a week she'll only make 80k give or take. 500k in student loans over all. Plus another 250k+ in other loans due to her life being fucked up. But those are completely her doing. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 7:58:55 AM EDT
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Tons of people with PhDs in hard sciences like physics end up working as postdoc researchers for $40-50k a year. Literally some of the smartest people in the country, who went to school as long as a medical doctor.
I'd put lawyers on the list as well. The top lawyers make so much it skews the averages, but a new lawyer who doesn't get a job at a big firm is making peanuts, if he can even find work as a lawyer. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:01:19 AM EDT
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Politicians should be making $0. It would eliminate career politicians |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:05:56 AM EDT
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Do you want to create an oligarchy? Because that's how you create an oligarchy. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Politicians should be making $0. It would eliminate career politicians |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:10:13 AM EDT
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Buddy of mine is a shift manager at Starbucks. He's been there for about 10 years. I know jobs like that pay shit, but I was still urprised when he told me he makes about $16 an hour. And this is on Long Island.
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:10:22 AM EDT
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I always knew they didn't make much but still surprised how low some police departments pay. Seem to have good benefits to make up for some of it at least.
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:14:11 AM EDT
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POTUS salary @wikipedia Since 2001, the president has earned a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainment.[83][84] The most recent raise in salary was approved by Congress and President Bill Clinton in 1999 and went into effect in 2001. No Car payment, No mortgage, no electric bill, no food bills, etc. We pay for it all. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:20:29 AM EDT
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Several years ago i got on the state website that tells what everyone makes that is employed by the state. A lot of phd college professors (that I know) make less than grade school teachers with a masters or specialist degree
there's a list online of what state governors make-- I think the highest paid one in the country is about $175K most are much less than that. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:21:30 AM EDT
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I was on a new cell site at turn up. I was connecting the T-1 (high speed data) from my landline telco. I chatted with the guys who were erecting the tower & placing the antenna at the top. This was '04-'05 & they were only making $12-$14/hr. Ground guys were at about $9.
Guys who paint water towers get about the same $$. Wind turbine tech - $16-$20 these days. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:22:52 AM EDT
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My sister is a nremtp certified paramedic and makes $12.44 an hour.
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:23:43 AM EDT
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Politicians should be making $0. It would eliminate career politicians |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:25:10 AM EDT
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I didn't think they were paid? They all have "real" jobs. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:25:50 AM EDT
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Hard to find a Dentist that works Fridays. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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GTFO. My dentist has GOT to be a millionaire for how much he has gotten out of me. Do He is always broke, lots of overhead in that biz...his wife is a a patient of my wife's and she has , no shit, 30 Credit cards and all are maxed. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:27:02 AM EDT
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My sister is a nremtp certified paramedic and makes $12.44 an hour. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:28:48 AM EDT
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Friend of my wife: New graduate BSN/RN from a good school, full time at large hospital, no dependents, after tax withholdings and insurance premiums is bringing home $2000 a month. Having seen what nursing school entails I was shocked it was that low. I've heard the same thing is true of pharmacists. My wife's best friend graduated Pharmacy school in 1999. CVS or Walgreens paid for her school in exchange for working for them for 4 years, starting at $115k right out of school. Now she says EVERYBODY wants to be a pharmacist because "there is a shortage! they make great money!" but unfortunately that ship has sailed. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:30:25 AM EDT
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Welder- $10/hr eek
And public works heavy equipment operator. $12/hr Those days sucked and are behind me. :) |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:31:33 AM EDT
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Family practice doctors. Pediatricians. 
Let's not mentions the tens to hundreds of thousands they get in kick backs and compensation from specific industries.. I hope your post was a joke |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:33:45 AM EDT
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Welder- $10/hr eek And public works heavy equipment operator. $12/hr Those days sucked and are behind me. :) |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:34:39 AM EDT
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Dentist and Veterinarians. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:35:03 AM EDT
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Welder- $10/hr eek And public works heavy equipment operator. $12/hr Those days sucked and are behind me. :) |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:35:22 AM EDT
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Local news people surprised me. I read that they usually only make 40-50k a year.
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Our Governor, Paul LePage of Maine. 70 large.
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:36:55 AM EDT
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Jobs that pay insane that I didn't know about: Web Developers. I was reading last night on Reddit that if you are a web developer with any good skill, their starting salary is $120k up to $180k/yr. I live in Alabama and work for a large IT consulting firm. I'm a lead developer for a .NET app and automation test engine using computer vision. I've been with the company for 10 years now, first job out of college, and make a little over 100k a year. Another developer on my team has been with the company for roughly 20 years and makes close to 130k a year. Honestly I could probably make more if I pushed for it. It's a profession that definitely requires a analytical and creative mind. Especially if you have to hire guys that work in every tier. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:37:17 AM EDT
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Banker.
Note: I'm a banker. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:39:42 AM EDT
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.... I'd put lawyers on the list as well. The top lawyers make so much it skews the averages, but a new lawyer who doesn't get a job at a big firm is making peanuts, if he can even find work as a lawyer. Nationwide, law school applications have been falling for several years because prospective law students have finally discovered that magical concept of Return On Investment. Plus, the graduating classes of 2009, 2010, and 2011 had SHOCKINGLY low employment rates, like under 35% employed in a full-time job requiring a law degree within 2 years of graduation.  Yeah, some schools did better than others, and the top 14 schools will always be in demand, but that is abysmal.
The interesting thing is that many second-tier schools (think ranked 51-100) and some third-tier schools have better employment rates than some top-tier schools because those lower-ranked schools focus on their state/region rather than on trying to be a JV version of Duke, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, etc. Those lower-ranked schools "get it" because they understand their mission is to produce hire-able graduates. Sadly, some top-tier schools' faculty view themselves not as teaching institutions but as research institutions which fund themselves by letting those pesky students in the door. They don't understand that if their graduates don't get jobs upon graduation, students will not apply, and their jobs get cut until the school becomes irrelevant. Those kinds of bozos need to leave law school faculty and go to a think-tank instead. Rant off. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:39:45 AM EDT
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Tons of people with PhDs in hard sciences like physics end up working as postdoc researchers for $40-50k a year. Literally some of the smartest people in the country, who went to school as long as a medical doctor. I'd put lawyers on the list as well. The top lawyers make so much it skews the averages, but a new lawyer who doesn't get a job at a big firm is making peanuts, if he can even find work as a lawyer. Let no ambulance travel unaccompanied. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:41:28 AM EDT
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Commercial Airline Pilot Surprised at the responses regarding vets. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:44:42 AM EDT
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I have a guy who pulls weeds and trims my palm trees. I pay him $20 per hour. He's semi retired. Anybody making less than $20 an hour in a job could make more a zillion different ways. There are many menial jobs paying way more than minimum wage.
A Catholic school teacher makes very low pay. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:50:02 AM EDT
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I've got 4 Family Doc's in my family. Please explain the 5 or 6 figure kickbacks because I think they missed that class in Med school.
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Family practice doctors. Pediatricians.
Let's not mentions the tens to hundreds of thousands they get in kick backs and compensation from specific industries.. I hope your post was a joke |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:50:42 AM EDT
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My sister is a nremtp certified paramedic and makes $12.44 an hour. I'm leaving to go get paid more and have more opportunities at a bigger department. They are hiring too. The cost of living is pretty reasonable here too. IM me for more info. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:55:05 AM EDT
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Engineering. You start off pretty decently, but there's very little headroom. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:56:38 AM EDT
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Let's not mentions the tens to hundreds of thousands they get in kick backs and compensation from specific industries.. I hope your post was a joke Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Family practice doctors. Pediatricians.
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:59:49 AM EDT
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Family practice doctors. Pediatricians. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 8:59:50 AM EDT
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As already posted, Pilots. That trend bottomed out a couple of years ago and the pay is headed the other way...bigtime. Dramatic pay increases have been happenin(at least in the charter/corporate world where wages have been stagnant for the better part of a decade) as people can't find pilots to do the job anymore. The low wages pretty much killed the vast majority of flight training so now there aren't enough licensed and experienced pilots who will work for crap wages. It is actually quite comical to watch the low budget commuter airlines(who caused this wage death spiral) wail and gnash their teeth about how unfair it is that they can't get a pilot to fly a plane load of passengers for just above minimum wage. 75k+ in training just wasn't a good investment anymore.
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Posted: 3/30/2017 9:04:39 AM EDT
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The average starting salary for a large animal veterinarian was $44,000 as of May 2014, according to the job site Simply Hired.Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Dentist and Veterinarians. The average starting salary for a large animal veterinarian was $44,000 as of May 2014, according to the job site Simply Hired. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 9:09:02 AM EDT
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Friend of my wife: New graduate BSN/RN from a good school, full time at large hospital, no dependents, after tax withholdings and insurance premiums is bringing home $2000 a month. Having seen what nursing school entails I was shocked it was that low. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 9:11:22 AM EDT
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Not to stereotype but he is black also. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Doesn't always mean a lot. Sam Walton (WALMART founder) drove a pickup truck with body rust, when he was already a billionaire. Some people are just very frugal. 
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Posted: 3/30/2017 9:12:11 AM EDT
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Friend of my wife: New graduate BSN/RN from a good school, full time at large hospital, no dependents, after tax withholdings and insurance premiums is bringing home $2000 a month. Having seen what nursing school entails I was shocked it was that low. |
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Posted: 3/30/2017 9:16:43 AM EDT
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You're going to want to check your source there. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WoiVXrtuL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg |
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