My brother was also working his first software engineering job and earned $100,000 straight out of college. Based on what was available online, I felt I should be getting more. Had I continued as a speech pathologist, I would be lucky to make $80,000 a year after 20 years.ĭid you negotiate your salary? I negotiated my pay from $72,000 to $80,000. Now at around $95,000 with my bonus, I'm really proud to be making what I make. I also earned a $2,500 performance bonus.Īt $80,000 I was pleased but still ambitious to get more. How do you feel about how much money you make? A year ago I was hired at $80,000 but recently got a $13,000 raise, so now I make $93,000 a year. At the end of the day, I didn't enjoy the work and needed a different path. As a speech pathologist, I had to take two jobs, one that paid $26 an hour and another that paid $34 an hour, in order to make a full-time wage. Why did you change careers? I earned a bachelor's and master's in speech pathology and worked as a speech pathologist for two years. You went to college and worked as a speech pathologist before teaching yourself to code. Training: self-guided online courses, computer software engineering boot camp, six-month paid software engineering internship I'd feel successful if I managed to do that. My goal is to some point make more than $100,000 a year. I can save enough money to achieve my goals and do everything I want to do in the next five years. What are your long-term salary goals? Living on $80,000 here in Kentucky, including my side job, I feel comfortable. I was making $40,000 a year, so this is a huge jump. by salary and standard of living is huge. The difference from being in Bulgaria to the U.K. I used to live in the United Kingdom for three years, and before that I was in my home country of Bulgaria. It's exactly what I should get based on my experience in this area. How do you feel about your salary? My salary isn't very high, but it isn't very low. Usually, if a job posting doesn't include salary ranges, I'll look up average pay for that job in the state and negotiate for the maximum.
Then they offered me the maximum salary already written, which I accepted. I asked for the maximum salary offered, plus $5,000. I saw the listing for this job on Indeed, and it included the salary range. Training: bachelor's and master's degrees in aerospace engineering, second master's in computer scienceĭid you negotiate your salary? I always negotiate.
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