What salary are you on?

2rkehij30qtza5 · 20-01-2015 06:50PM #1

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 · 20-01-2015 06:52PM

No poll for me

Gongoozler · 20-01-2015 06:56PM

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 · 20-01-2015 06:58PM

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

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2rkehij30qtza5 · 20-01-2015 07:00PM

Luke92 wrote: »

No poll for me

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

Permabear · 20-01-2015 07:20PM

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2rkehij30qtza5 · 20-01-2015 07:34PM

typo. Corrected post below.

2rkehij30qtza5 · 20-01-2015 07:36PM

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 · 20-01-2015 07:39PM

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

looking for a solid raise soon tho

fire_man · 20-01-2015 07:52PM

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

coolemon · 20-01-2015 07:58PM

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 · 20-01-2015 08:13PM

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 · 20-01-2015 08:29PM

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 · 20-01-2015 08:40PM

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 · 20-01-2015 08:44PM

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 · 20-01-2015 09:05PM

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

fits · 20-01-2015 09:08PM

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

2Mad2BeMad · 20-01-2015 09:58PM

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 · 20-01-2015 10:18PM

shedweller wrote: »

Ah sure thats before tax!

It's before a *lot* of tax.

efb · 20-01-2015 10:20PM

€150K yeah!

Zascar · 20-01-2015 10:36PM

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

titan18 · 20-01-2015 11:45PM

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 · 20-01-2015 11:48PM

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 · 21-01-2015 12:09AM

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

Mrs OBumble · 21-01-2015 01:49AM

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 · 21-01-2015 02:10AM

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.

21-01-2015 09:22AM

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

Skatedude · 21-01-2015 09:42AM

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 · 21-01-2015 09:53AM

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 · 21-01-2015 10:11AM

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 · 21-01-2015 12:39PM

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 ?

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