What salary are you on?

2rkehij30qtza5

Just wondering what your salary is?

Feel free to comment on what it is you do too! I've added a poll to make it a little more anonymous for those of you who don't wish to publicly disclose!

Luke92

No poll for me

Gongoozler

A pretty low one - €21345. Clerical officer grade. I've seen graduate positions for €25000. Trying desperately to get something better paid, but with being picky as to what I do, it's very tough.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

A paltry 16k a year. PhD stipend. They like to keep you broke so you don't have any money to have fun so you work all the time instead. I'm so poor .

2rkehij30qtza5

Luke92 wrote: »

No poll for me

Poll up now. Took me ages to fil in all the choices! Sorry!

Permabear

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2rkehij30qtza5

typo. Corrected post below.

2rkehij30qtza5

I suppose the vast majority of salaries are well below the €70,000 mark....myself included! I was curious to see how high people's salaries actually go! I suppose we are aware from the media and from personal experience of those in the lower salary bracket..so for that reason I left it at under €35,000 for that...but we never hear much about how much the other end of the scale actually is!

Canyon86

on 25,000 took a 1 grand pay cut to go from contract to perm,

looking for a solid raise soon tho

fire_man

Was on €35k took pay cut to move from Dublin to country,now late 20's.

coolemon

If my pay extended over 12 months instead of 9 (Job-slave internship), I would have a 'salary' of €12,376. In reality over 12 months I will have earned €11,726.

Permabear wrote: »

OP, you've provided 1 option in the poll for people earning €35,000 or less, but 12 options for people earning €70,001 or more.

Who is this poll aimed at?

Obviously the likes of you Permabear, my elite comrade.

Stheno

Erika Scruffy Vigilante wrote: »

I suppose the vast majority of salaries are well below the €70,000 mark....myself included! I was curious to see how high people's salaries actually go! I suppose we are aware from the media and from personal experience of those in the lower salary bracket..so for that reason I left it at under €35,000 for that...but we never hear much about how much the other end of the scale actually is!

What are you actually trying to achieve with this though:? Hoping someone will come on and post that they earn over 100k so you can ask them what it's like?

Stheno

Erika Scruffy Vigilante wrote: »

I suppose the vast majority of salaries are well below the €70,000 mark....myself included! I was curious to see how high people's salaries actually go! I suppose we are aware from the media and from personal experience of those in the lower salary bracket..so for that reason I left it at under €35,000 for that...but we never hear much about how much the other end of the scale actually is!

Actually I thought about this, are you trying to get a breakdown of how many people earn various amounts of money? That's published by the Revenue/CSO annually at least, it was last published when the budget was on

PLL

6 people on greater than €150,000 Do you fancy giving me a €1,000 for my insurance for the year? Sure it's pocket change for ye, yet it keeps me on the road. It's a mad world.

shedweller

PLL wrote: »

6 people on greater than €150,000 Do you fancy giving me a €1,000 for my insurance for the year? Sure it's pocket change for ye, yet it keeps me on the road. It's a mad world.

Ah sure thats before tax!

actuar90

I'm 24 working in insurance on 45k, not too bad I think...

fits

In Finland, they annually publish peoples earnings and tax payments. I reckon it keeps folk honest...

2Mad2BeMad

26k here, first perm job though which is basically a career

also to keep people motivated, it started off as an internship 26k is alot of money when living with family

markpb

shedweller wrote: »

Ah sure thats before tax!

It's before a *lot* of tax.

efb

€150K yeah!

Zascar

Poll is way to eide, starting at 35k with 5-10k increments? Should be less than half the options

titan18

Base is 25k, but a good bit is done extra as performance related pay, so can earn an extra 20-25% on top of that. More is possible but just hard to get.

Don't mind too much atm, only 25 and still live with family

Unique User Name

Base 57k but I also get monthly comission which varies. I'm 30 and trying to save for a mortgage. My wife is from Brazil and is struggling to find work so supporting us both for rent etc. and trying to save is not that easy.

TheSelf

40k with annual 5% increments. Perks include suit allowance and professional fees and training courses paid for..

Mrs OBumble

Ahh, I'm just going to offer a standard moderaterly reminder that the internet, including boards.ie, is a very public place. Sometimes you may be able to be identified if someone decides to look at all your posts together, and this can have consequences.

I'm not going to stop the poll - it's within the charter. But just reminding posters to be careful with what you post.




That said, I'm sceptical about how valid some of the answers are, and whether people will be willing to respond in that much detail. (I'm not - my salary is somewhere in the 40-80k bracket, and that's the most I'll say.)

highgiant1985

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

(I'm not - my salary is somewhere in the 40-80k bracket, and that's the most I'll say.)

Get out of that, sure its well known Boards MODs pull in at least 150K a year... I mean why else would any one want to do the job :P

Re Poll: I'm in the top 40% of earners who've responded. As much as I'll say.

I am in a lower bracket than if you had asked this question this time last year.

Skatedude

Currently on 30K, but it's taken me 20 years to get there and i'm a good technician working for a good multinational.
30k is pretty much the standard industrial wage. spent most of my career on about 25k

not sure i believe that many people are on more then 150k as per poll?

neil_hosey

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

A paltry 16k a year. PhD stipend. They like to keep you broke so you don't have any money to have fun so you work all the time instead. I'm so poor .

you pay next to nothing tax on that though, and any additional income (doing labs or tutoring) made has very low tax as that 16k doesnt count towards taxable income.

maxwell smart

Would be interesting to see what people nett after tax from the above.

Can be a very wide variation.

One of the people working for me earns approx 45k
Another one earns approx €36k

The person on €36k takes slightly more money home each month!

Not going into details but various allowances, BIK etc. come into play.

And yet another staff member on €28k who left in December was better off on the dole!!!

littlevillage

Senseless poll.... first year college project by any chance ?

You need to have a representative sample .. by just putting a poll on this website you are not able to guarantee the representativeness of the participants. The only cohort you can be sure of representing is spotty faced geeks, and 'one handed typists'.

Also ... nobody ever answers questions like how much do you earn? .. honestly.

Its a bit like asking your lover, how many previous lovers they have had ?

redappple

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

A paltry 16k a year. PhD stipend. They like to keep you broke so you don't have any money to have fun so you work all the time instead. I'm so poor .

Stick with it. I've finished 4 year PhD and was on same money as you. If you are really struggling for money do tutorials - they are tax free.

I'm now in my first proper perm job after years and years of education and don't want to give specific salary but it's above €60k - not too bad for 26 - so the PhD pays off!

zl1whqvjs75cdy

neil_hosey wrote: »

you pay next to nothing tax on that though, and any additional income (doing labs or tutoring) made has very low tax as that 16k doesnt count towards taxable income.

True. But I do work at least 55 hours a week so it kinda balances out. And redapple do you mind me asking what field you did yours in? I'm science related.

Mrs OBumble

redappple wrote: »

Stick with it. I've finished 4 year PhD and was on same money as you. If you are really struggling for money do tutorials - they are tax free.

Ahh, no, they are not.

PHD students, like everyone else, need to declare all income including that received from cash jobs.

Every so often, we hear about Revenue particularly targetting people advertising on noticeboards in colleges and the like. They don't do this just for fun.

redappple

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Ahh, no, they are not.

PHD students, like everyone else, need to declare all income including that received from cash jobs.

Every so often, we hear about Revenue particularly targetting people advertising on noticeboards in colleges and the like. They don't do this just for fun.

Tutorials aren't cash jobs like grinds would be though. If you do tutorials, you get paid through the university payroll and you technically pay tax but as a full time PhD student you sign a tax waiver and are eligible to claim all that tax back. That's how it works in UCD anyway I don't know about any other Universities.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

redappple wrote: »

Tutorials aren't cash jobs like grinds would be though. If you do tutorials, you get paid through the university payroll and you technically pay tax but as a full time PhD student you sign a tax waiver and are eligible to claim all that tax back. That's how it works in UCD anyway I don't know about any other Universities.

The 16k stipend is tax exempt, so your earnings from tutorials are taken alone. So say I earn 2000 a year from tutorials, essentially that 2000 is deemed my only income and so is tax free as my tax credit covers my entire income. At least I think that's it.

Glinda

It would be interesting to see what stage people are at in their working life and the effect this has on salary.

For example, working on a low or modest wage for a few years when you are 'starting out' (say, within six or seven years of leaving school or college or a career change) can be an investment in your future. It's not the same as being on a low wage in the middle, more established phase of your career, which is a negative in my view and could be very depressing depending on the work.

I have found that Irish people can sometimes be ashamed of the amount they earn instead of being proud of themselves for taking a long view and being prepared to 'work their way up' to what they want.

We are always a bit fond of instant gratification here, wages are no different.

Deagol

Glinda wrote: »

It would be interesting to see what stage people are at in their working life and the effect this has on salary.

For example, working on a low or modest wage for a few years when you are 'starting out' (say, within six or seven years of leaving school or college or a career change) can be an investment in your future. It's not the same as being on a low wage in the middle, more established phase of your career, which is a negative in my view and could be very depressing depending on the work.

I have found that Irish people can sometimes be ashamed of the amount they earn instead of being proud of themselves for taking a long view and being prepared to 'work their way up' to what they want.

We are always a bit fond of instant gratification here, wages are no different.

I agree.

I started in my current company 23 years ago. Starting wage was £67 p/w (gross). Dole payment for single person then was ~£44 a week for comparison.

I now earn a base of €50k and another €30k in overtime (I work in 'special locations').

I don't have a 3rd level qualification, all hard work, experience and a bit of luck.

When I was in a position where I was hiring people, it never ceased to amaze me that we'd get freshly 'qualified' kids in from University / college and they'd be bitterly disappointed not to be offered the same wage as much more experienced people purely based on what 'friends' had told them they 'should' be paid. It didn't seem to occur to them that qualifications of any type need to be backed up with experience.

For those young'uns who are feeling a bit down on how much they earn, be patient, work hard, the rewards will come!

redappple

TBH I think salary/profession is - in part - indicative of luck as opposed to 'hard work'.

I truly believe a lot of people do work really hard, and they just didn't get the break that others did. I don't think it's fair when people say "I'm entitled to my salary because I work hard". Loads of people work hard.

Permabear

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Deagol

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Oh lord, you must be 'management'....

Permabear

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Deagol

Permabear wrote: »

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Can you make it clear whether you mean sleeping with the boss is included in the working smarter? Seems to be the way some people decide to make their way in life

Gits_bone

Location also comes into play. Someone in Dublin will earn more for exact same job as someone in the country.

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Gongoozler

Not in the public sector you don't.

And on the life stage, I'm 31 and have been working since 16. I was on more money on work experience in college than I am now.

doc11

maxwell smart wrote: »

Would be interesting to see what people nett after tax from the above.

Can be a very wide variation.

One of the people working for me earns approx 45k
Another one earns approx €36k

The person on €36k takes slightly more money home each month!

Not going into details but various allowances, BIK etc. come into play.

And yet another staff member on €28k who left in December was better off on the dole!!!

Impossible, a person on 45k can't take home less then someone on 36k. Are you counting discretionary pensions contributions? OR is a person on 36k receiving 10k in allowances?

28k can't equal the dole, most of that is untaxed and the dole is only 9.5k, you'd need to have massive travel expenses

Jack Nana

Gongoozler wrote: »

Not in the public sector you don't.

And on the life stage, I'm 31 and have been working since 16. I was on more money on work experience in college than I am now.

Then leave - the choice is yours ultimately.

krissovo

The key to high salary is a specialized and in demand skill set, the fewer the people who can do the job the more that job pays.

Also worth noting is that the further I am progressing in my career, I am earning a lot more money and working much less "harder" than I did 5 years ago. Other benefits kick in like flexible working conditions and large car allowances.

fg1406

I'm on €33k after 10 years in public sector. I'm a graduate doing work where I'm qualified, it's just the pay sucks down at the low end and there has been zero promotions or scope to advance my career since 2007.

Gongoozler

Jack Nana wrote: »

Then leave - the choice is yours ultimately.

Can I? :eek: I didn't realise!