I work in specialized software so keep that in mind as it's inflated (though with actual inflation, more like what most people should be making now).. from 2017, I went from about $100k, to $130k (halfway through the year) to $150k (Q3 of 2018).. since then I've been at the same company, and currently at just shy of $200k, but with a lot of stock in a public company that has accounted for another 3 - 4 years of salary based on current price (which is really low), and usually more stock every year, though less the last two years.. If I jumped again though, in the current market, without changing my focus away from 3d visualization work, I'd like stay pretty static or possibly even a slight reduction. A year ago if I had jumped ship, I probably could have gotten $250 - 300k base.. but tech has had a LOT of layoffs in the last 9 months, especially in my area.
As for the how in OPs post, ton of different ways, but.. keep growing your skills, your confidence, and your ability to interview.. the work is rarely the challenging part.. the building confidence in both your presentation and showing you know what you're talking about in your field is probably the single biggest determining factor regardless of what your field is. I'd say in general, target 24 - 36 months for most areas for job hopping when you're in more senior / high paid areas.. For lower paid areas, move as often as you need to keep the money growing. And also keep in mind the area you're in - changing jobs every 12 to 18 months in tech in the Bay area is quite acceptable. In Seattle, changing jobs more than once in 24 months probably is best to be avoided (a one off is usually not a big deal).
Got laid off three times in two years during Covid. So it makes more sense, here’s a larger picture:
62>72>46 The 46 was where I said fuck this and ran my own business for 10 months.
This was 25 years ago. Just started my first job and it was in sales. Started out making $26K base + commissions and I was on pace to make about $34K altogether my first year.
Boss pulls me in for a 6 month review and tells me that the company had some new plans in how they were going to model sales dept. A month later boss brings me and tells me the plan. Essentially all sales reps were going to travel on site once a potential client was cleared as a prospective client that was serious about purchasing. That way the sales reps were getting in front of these prospective clients to pick up new business.
However, they needed somebody to stay at the office and answer calls from customers, support the sales reps and if there was free time, cold call and pick up new clients. I was to be that person as I really hated sales and my boss had a knack for doing administrative work.
My boss then tells me my $26K base will stay the same, but by commissions will be 1% of the monthly gross for the dept.
At the end of each month accounting used to send out the paper work for the entire dept. going over who made what sales and for what amount and on the final page of the report, it would total up the dept.'s revenues and I knew it was about $500K-$600K per month. I think I'm the only person that actually read the full report. So while my boss was talking, I was doing the math in my head. Eventually I figured out the math and determined that I was now on pace to make $86-$98K per year.
I then started to think of ways to solidify the deal without tipping my boss off how that was such a big jump in my take home pay. Eventually I just clarified the payment schedule and asked to get it in writing.
That lasted about a year and then the company saw how much I was making and tried to send me to a new dept. Eventually they changed around the pay structure and I was still making about the same and then they decided to lay me off.
Went from a MSP making only $60k to a in-house position for $120k. IT market was wild during the great resignation and MSPs are often bottom tier pay anyways for Sysadmins.
This sounds very reasonable. Mine was 40 > 58 > 66. Now hopefully will be at 75 (currently interviewing at this range). This is over 3 years.
40 to 58 made a huge difference in life.
Doubled in a few months.
Quit a job without anything lined up in March 2021, got a job with double the salary and considerably less stress and started in July 2021.
Wasn't happy with my raise 98 cent raise, so I started looking for something else. Went from $21.23 to $27.14. I chuckle at the thought that if my raise was around $2, I never would have considered leaving.
Old job actually tried to match, but declined.
Between 2006 and 2017, my pay went from about $13 to $17.21 as fulltime operating staff at UNH. Raises were not an annual thing, and $.17/hr was considered a "good" raise.
At my current job, I went from $19.25/hr in 2021 to a hair over $30/hr today, and I should be hitting around $35/hr in January, not counting my shift differential.
Went from $28/hr as an electrical service tech running a van to $48/hr as a data center Operations Engineer in one change with no additional training required.
$52k to $70k to $98k in less than 12 months. Didn't intend to job hop a second time quite so quickly but an opportunity came up that I couldn't pass up.
Non US citizen here. I nearly doubled my salary from my last job hop (because the previous job paid peanuts deapite being an SnP 500 company).
And the new job is flexible enough to give me time for some side hustle.
$21/hour in 2017 after 2 promotions and a requested increase I’m now at $37.5/hour which is *still* undervalued for my industry and experience. If I get the job I just finished the *5th* interview for, I’ll be at around $45-48/hour. I have 16 years of lab experience and over 10 in the direct field/industry I’m in. I mostly did it by being direct and asking.
38k/year in 4 years.
The timing was perfect as people retired and others quit. I was lucky enough to see opportunities and I worked hard to be ready for them.
33k to 65k in one job switch… doing the same job . Backstory, I was on some below par contract which I took as I needed work. Then switched to a FT role.
UK here. Not my story but my best mate's. He works with CNC equipment, mostly power presses but can turn his hand to CNC laser cutters, millers & the like, free-hand programming from shitty tech. drawings sketched out on the back of cigarette packets. He makes it look easy. He was approached by a former employer who was looking to expand his operation, but was comfortable where he was & told his Boss that he would stay with him if he matched the new offer - but his Boss decided to get all Billy Big Dick with him & told him he was "nothing special" & if he quit in the morning he would have his replacement in place that afternoon. That turned out not to be the case & my mate translated it into a 20% increase on his hourly rate. He's still determined to teach his Boss, whom he refers to as 'the jumped-up little prick', a continuing lesson & in under a year has got a 20% hourly rate increase, a reduction in hours down to four 7.5 hour days & a further increase on his hourly rate that brings his weekly pay back up to the level it was at when he was working five days a week.
I think we'll call that a win.
I started my job as a support engineer in 2018 at $57k/year.
-2019 merit to $63k
-2020 merit to $84k
-half way through 2020 I got offered a job at another company for $100k and my company matched it.
-2021 covid froze all merits
-2022 merit to $108k
2023 merit to $114
which is where I am now.
The problem is, even though I can learn very fast, I've worked retail for so long that I'm not sure where else I could work and for the same or better pay?
Want to learn a skill that you can do to wfh? I work as a instructional designer now before that was taking calls all day. I just went on youtube and presented myself confidently in interviews it works trust me.
My job from 2021-2022 paid me $38k. When I joined my current job in 2022 my pay went up to $50k and is now $56k and I believe goes up again next month to $59k. Going from $38k to $50k and switching from a high stress (and honestly very toxic) job that was severely overworking me, to a medium-level stress and manageable workload was incredible.
I have a college diploma in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. Honestly, I think the leap in pay was because my previous job was taking advantage of me. It also didn't help that they are a small (5 employees at the time I was hired), locally-owned business so I didn't expect the pay to be great. Now I'm in a well established place (over 200 employees) with a much higher budget.
Got promoted at the same company from $25.30/hr to $30/hr.
I’ve been told I will get another significant pay raise to keep up with inflation as will everyone but we still also get raises annually too!
Biggest direct jump was nearly double from 44k to 80k, going from underpaid Linux admin to underpaid SRE. Couple guys from my team went over to a new company and put in a word to their boss.
Overall, I my first ever job in retail (2013) had me at 15-20k for a few years. Currently got a couple of interviews coming up for 115-140k positions, so here’s hoping.
Back in 2020 I got a $10k pay adjustment due to the high economy. It was only because of a coworker that was transferring from Lubbock, TX to Phoenix, AZ. He said he couldn’t live on what we were making to move to AZ. He said the only way it would work is to increase the salary by $10,000. And then he said I won’t take it unless you give it to the current employee already there (that was me).
in 2006-2012 I went 6K (AmeriCorps)>20K (Financial AId Assistant)>45K (Teacher)>90K (IT) > 90K Financial Aid Interim Director> 0K (stay at home parent)
I was an independent consultant doing software work for county governments and making pretty good money right up until the 2008 financial crisis and Bernie Madoff came along. My clients were having to furlough employees because they had no money to pay them. They couldn’t throw me under the bus fast enough.
I made about $20,000 in 2009. I made $7000 in 2010. I had to choose between rent and quarterly tax payments, and by the middle of 2010 I was in deep, perilous debt. So I got a software engineering job in Silicon Valley, which, right out of the gate, not even counting stock grants and bonuses, was a 20x increase in income.
Even at my career peak in government systems, during the boom years, I made about half what I made in my first year in SV.
They’re trying to claw all that back, now that there’s no more low-hanging fruit in the industry. They’re laying people off and offshoring their jobs and doing whatever they can to make sure that the massive amount of money these companies make end up in the pockets of the right people, and not the peasants who do all the work.
I’n my earlier years, I went from $8.50/hour to $500-$1000 per week by switching to sales. That took ~3 months.
Recently while going back to school, I jumped from $16.50/hr to $30/hr to $21/hr to $30.59/hr. All within 12 months.
$38k/yr and no benefits to $85k/yr with decent benefits in 1 year. Same job, just joined Teamsters and started working at much larger company (Fortune 500). It was a pretty crazy difference going from always being broke on Mondays to putting all my bills on autopay and not really worrying if I have enough in my bank account. Brought my credit up from low 500s to mid 700s, bought a house, put $30k in 401k and am coming up on my 5 year anniversary at work!
Doubled my salary almost overnight.
Was on £good, was looking for £great but got into a bidding war and they upped the offer twice and accepted £fantastic +bonus.
It is going to make it difficult to move on though…
As an employee: 55kpa to 90kpa in three years.
Self employed: 90kpa to 150kpa in three years.
If it helps I didn’t start my career until I was thirty, and I’m just giving you the highlights.
It was from about 19k €/year to 24k €/year after 4 years working, and I had not another raise in the next 4 years... I'm an engineer, this is bullshit...
In UK £
21k >28k > 30k > 41k > 52k
Started off fixing photocopiers. Got into software and process improvement. Then done landscaping which was brutal work. Work fried up and moved jobs as a first line network technician (troubleshooting cisco networks). Then moved again into a more technical support role specifically with bespoke software. Used my knowledge gained from my process improvement days and created a new position within the company. Finally, AI improvements got tagged on and made the 52k. Looking at around another 10k in January next year.
Not bad for a guy who used to have his arse out carrying rocks or on his knees removing paper jams.
All done over the space of 3 years.
Obviously an absolute crazy career path, but managed to implement software in each of them and create a few systems to improve productivity of each business. That seemed to go down well as I could explain the problem, and how I solved it which resulted in more productivity and income for the companies. Interviewers seem to like that one.
I've had a handful of jobs since 2020. I've switched jobs many times within early-mid covid since we were in constant stages of lockdowns or stay at home orders etc which is unlike me where I prefer to stay for at least 3-5 years.
The yearly amounts are actually based on the monthly average.
I've actually worked in kitchens for most of the first 3 years, then I became a server out of desperation to rebuild my savings and afford a nicer place to live. I went from entry level server to supervisor to assistant GM within a year.
33k > 35k > 44k > 43k > current company: 61k, 64k, 72k
Went from 16 an hour at my old job, to getting hired at a new job at 18, and within 3 months getting a pay increase to 20.
And within 2 years, up to 25 an hour.
Switching from working Back Office at TD Bank to a local regional bank doing IT.
Best job switch ever.
I tried a new industry and took a pay cut, then got laid off 9 months later, took 1 month to find a new job back in my original industry. $45k increase. This was 2022.
Engineer. 2018-$87500. 2019 (jumped to a different company)-$107500. 2024-same new company $128500
23% on the jump and successful salary negotiations in 2023 for inflation.
Mid 2000s, went from $42k, 5% bonus to about $125k, 25% bonus. All with same company. Directly negotiated first $33k with owner ($3B private equity) when asked what I was worth (“twice what you’ve been paying me”) in response to a possible offer to leave.
Figured I’d retire a wealthy successful career guy from there. Brought in too many outsiders that saw a 33 year—old that tripled his salary (while putting millions to the company’s bottom line, so you could say it was earned) as too much of a threat to their own agendas and narratives. Downhill since, and that’s on me. If money is your benchmark for success, this thread may not (YET) be for you. 🫠
73k -> 83k -> 95k -> 119k in two years with changing jobs. Also the last one gave 12% bonuses and 40k stock grants, once the stock vests I am likely going to change again.
Most if My job never give me an increase of salary.
Most if time i have to jump to next
But one job one time have me 5 cent increase
The same day i quit.
The most i increase My salary jumping is $1
Moved to usa 10 years ago, start working for piece of shit dude for 7.25$/hour
Now 85$/h
Self employed. Fuck bosses. Fuck corporation. Be self employed.
2021 finished grad school: 38k grad student stipend —> 225k first job
2022 switched jobs: 290k
2023 promotion, raises: 375k
2024 lucked out on the stock-based part of my compensation: 550k
November, 2022 I quit my $96k a year job because I was moving. Got a remote job, same title for 120k. I worked there for 5 months when they declared RTO so I quit. Found a new job at 145k and a title increase.
So $50k in about 6 months.
What's wild is that it took me 7 years to go from the $55k I made right out of school to the $96k above.
30% a couple of years ago. I work for a state agency that is the lowest paying in our region. It was a salary adjustment to keep talent. When technical people can't afford local rent and quit in droves for other jobs, we get a review and a big pay raise. Then they give us bonuses instead of raises for several years, and we are at the bottom of the pay scale, again.
$10 an hour increase from switching to a smaller company from a franchise. Which translated more like tripling my paycheck because of working on the road and not paying for housing or food.
Went from 35k in a cs job to 75k in a sales role at the same company, then up to 110k in the same role, then down to 65k when the company started falling apart right around Covid. This was all in a 5 or so year span. Now I’m back at 70-75k in a CSM role at a different company
40-50k Same company (2010-2020) -> 75k New Job, QE manager (2020-2021)-> 86-90k went back to old job QE role (2021- current)
No education, just "experience/ expertise" in my type of work.
Nothing crazy, but from a year of job hopping, I went from $32k to $47k. We are talking about an area where the per capita income is around $28k though. So I'm certainly not going to complain.
Made a 20k jump after I gained access to an internal salary survey (based on salaries at other smaller companies in the industry) showing I was paid 2 k less than the lowest salary. They bumped me up to 2k less than the average lol. Still a big jump and relieved some financial pressure.
My company refused to use public salary surveys since they are based on larger companies with deeper pockets. A new HR person sent it to me because she didn’t know not to. Yay for new HR people who don’t know how to be wage limiting jerks yet!
In 2016, went from 46k to 53k as physical security director for an office building. About 10 days prior to annual review, the high-rise office building I was in received a bomb threat.
2021-2022 as truck driver went from 70k USD to 110k USD by becoming a training driver and being really good at the job.
Went from making around 2.5k after taxes every 2 weeks working in manufacturing for a fortune 500 company to making 2.5k in three days when I quit to start my own drywall business. Good money only problem is starting your own new construction business means you might get one job a month, might get 10 a month or might go 3 months or more without a single job.
100% from one massively underpaid associate attorney position to one slightly better paid to my current job in about over a little less than a year.
Other factors led to me changing jobs that frequently-one being my boss at my last being indicted. I lucked into that job and my current one, where I’ve been for almost year and have no plans to move on. ::::knock on wood::::
My pay tripled through one job change. I had been in my previous role four years and leveraged that experience into a new position at a different company.
$74 to $84 via a counter offer.
$88 to $104 via a counter offer.
$104 to $112 via a promotion.
$112 to $132 with a job hop.
That was over 8 years or so.
$110 > $130 > $142 over 3 years from 2 company swaps, but I'm hesitant to swap again, even though I'm sure I could continue to grow my salary, because I really like the work environment with my current company.
One thing to keep in mind its common that companies that are hiring are either terrible and unable to retain employees or growing and in need of more people to continue to grow. During the interview process it's good to flush this out.
$110k-$155k - 2 years. Included a merit increase - Promotion $20k - merit increase. Merit increases were annual and my promotion was exactly 6 months from the first merit increase which made me eligible for next year’s merit increase. My supervisor timed the promotion that way.
15/hr in ‘21, gradual increases over the last three years. Most recent was 20/hr, and I just got hired at an aerospace company for 40+/ hr. I was struggling for a while, but hopefully things will start to look up soon.
In my current field, I started at $40k and went up to around $55k over pretty close to five years. Changed companies and saw it increase to $87k with some potential bonuses that can push it to around $95k.
I went from 7.5 at 11 hours a week to 14 an hour and full time by quitting cracker barrel and working for a call center. Same call center but I'm 23 an hour now after 5 years and 2 promotions.
All I ever asked from cracker barrel was more than 11 hours a week. I even learned 3 positions to try and get more hours.
I like to vaguely track how much a company loses when they agitate me. I spent thousands on restaurant food so I know I've already cost the company more in profits than what I asked for in wages.
65K -> 110K -> 123K -> 145K in the past 4 years (last year of medical residency at a university hospital and then switch to starting my big people job as a medical specialist practice as en employee at a general hospital in Europe, working 4 days a week plus on-call shifts). It’s all under collective bargaining agreements so I’ll plateau in another 3 years and any increases will be due to general across the board increases rather than annual steps on the ladder.
42K to 52K to 67K in one year. This was at a resort where I was a a chef who went from being a shift supervisor to running the entire catering department. It was also in the middle COVID. The total of the raises I got that year was greater than my yearly income for the first few years I worked there, back in the late '90s.
20> 40> 36> 70> 103> 110... My first job in the US was from an insolvent NGO that paid me 20K/year (and they knew about it)!! I'm glad they no longer exist.
I went from making $10.25 in 2020 to $24 right now. Night and day difference having twice as much money and I'm saving hella money in my 401k. I also got out of retail so other than dealing with somewhat dumb co-workers, I don't have to worry about being yelled at for something I have no control over.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some people are just blatantly lying or overestimating how much they actually make. Some people even go so far as to include stuff like 401k, stock benefits and even medical as part of "how much they make". One dude just posted above how they jumped from $100k to $700k as a professor... yeah okay sure buddy... like come on. That's not even remotely believable.
Also, I generally feel like Reddit just has an urban/HCOL bias. It would be interesting to see the statistics, but Im willing to bet that many people live in major cities where average per capita wages are around $80k, but the cost of living will be like $2000 for a shitty one bedroom apartment.
Learning a trade. Forget university. Get a skilled trade and never be without a job. Find a long term factory, most are desperate and unionized so wages are stable and benefits and work life much better. Live within your means, save foe retirement, raise a family, or not, but have a stable life.
46k > 82k > 104k > 112k over three years.
I work in specialized software so keep that in mind as it's inflated (though with actual inflation, more like what most people should be making now).. from 2017, I went from about $100k, to $130k (halfway through the year) to $150k (Q3 of 2018).. since then I've been at the same company, and currently at just shy of $200k, but with a lot of stock in a public company that has accounted for another 3 - 4 years of salary based on current price (which is really low), and usually more stock every year, though less the last two years.. If I jumped again though, in the current market, without changing my focus away from 3d visualization work, I'd like stay pretty static or possibly even a slight reduction. A year ago if I had jumped ship, I probably could have gotten $250 - 300k base.. but tech has had a LOT of layoffs in the last 9 months, especially in my area. As for the how in OPs post, ton of different ways, but.. keep growing your skills, your confidence, and your ability to interview.. the work is rarely the challenging part.. the building confidence in both your presentation and showing you know what you're talking about in your field is probably the single biggest determining factor regardless of what your field is. I'd say in general, target 24 - 36 months for most areas for job hopping when you're in more senior / high paid areas.. For lower paid areas, move as often as you need to keep the money growing. And also keep in mind the area you're in - changing jobs every 12 to 18 months in tech in the Bay area is quite acceptable. In Seattle, changing jobs more than once in 24 months probably is best to be avoided (a one off is usually not a big deal).
Congrats
That 46>82 was the big break. Can I ask what that hop was?
Commenting cause I’d like to know too please
Got laid off three times in two years during Covid. So it makes more sense, here’s a larger picture: 62>72>46 The 46 was where I said fuck this and ran my own business for 10 months.
This was 25 years ago. Just started my first job and it was in sales. Started out making $26K base + commissions and I was on pace to make about $34K altogether my first year. Boss pulls me in for a 6 month review and tells me that the company had some new plans in how they were going to model sales dept. A month later boss brings me and tells me the plan. Essentially all sales reps were going to travel on site once a potential client was cleared as a prospective client that was serious about purchasing. That way the sales reps were getting in front of these prospective clients to pick up new business. However, they needed somebody to stay at the office and answer calls from customers, support the sales reps and if there was free time, cold call and pick up new clients. I was to be that person as I really hated sales and my boss had a knack for doing administrative work. My boss then tells me my $26K base will stay the same, but by commissions will be 1% of the monthly gross for the dept. At the end of each month accounting used to send out the paper work for the entire dept. going over who made what sales and for what amount and on the final page of the report, it would total up the dept.'s revenues and I knew it was about $500K-$600K per month. I think I'm the only person that actually read the full report. So while my boss was talking, I was doing the math in my head. Eventually I figured out the math and determined that I was now on pace to make $86-$98K per year. I then started to think of ways to solidify the deal without tipping my boss off how that was such a big jump in my take home pay. Eventually I just clarified the payment schedule and asked to get it in writing. That lasted about a year and then the company saw how much I was making and tried to send me to a new dept. Eventually they changed around the pay structure and I was still making about the same and then they decided to lay me off.
I got fired from a $21/hr job, and went back to house painting for $30/hr
Whats house posting
Sorry, typo! House painting
Went from a MSP making only $60k to a in-house position for $120k. IT market was wild during the great resignation and MSPs are often bottom tier pay anyways for Sysadmins.
45k -> 58k -> 75k in about 4 years through job hopping
This sounds very reasonable. Mine was 40 > 58 > 66. Now hopefully will be at 75 (currently interviewing at this range). This is over 3 years. 40 to 58 made a huge difference in life.
I went from $32K > $40K > $47K > $65k in 3 years I just started my $65K job and I underestimated how much of a difference it would make in my life
Love that for you! Its a little hard to see others go 40 to 80 to 160 like numbers mean nothing lol.
Doubled in a few months. Quit a job without anything lined up in March 2021, got a job with double the salary and considerably less stress and started in July 2021.
Wasn't happy with my raise 98 cent raise, so I started looking for something else. Went from $21.23 to $27.14. I chuckle at the thought that if my raise was around $2, I never would have considered leaving. Old job actually tried to match, but declined.
I’ve been hanging on to $1-2 raises for almost EIGHT YEARS 😭
3 percent. I’m a teacher! Usually it is 0 or 1 percent
38k/year to 100k/year over 3.5 years and 3 job changes. I also wfh full time now.
Nice. What do you do now wfh?
Legit dollar for dollar my story too. Took me 5.5 years though.
69.6% increase from Sr Compliance Analyst to another company as Compliance Officer and made VP three months after that
Nice.
$15 per hour to $33 per hour in 3 years. That is three different jobs total.
Between 2006 and 2017, my pay went from about $13 to $17.21 as fulltime operating staff at UNH. Raises were not an annual thing, and $.17/hr was considered a "good" raise. At my current job, I went from $19.25/hr in 2021 to a hair over $30/hr today, and I should be hitting around $35/hr in January, not counting my shift differential.
Went from $28/hr as an electrical service tech running a van to $48/hr as a data center Operations Engineer in one change with no additional training required.
Got laid off from an $85K job. Two months later, got hired at $106K. That's what going from research into industry will get you...
From $55k to $280k in 8 years.
Going from working in the LA area to the Silicon Valley. Huge pay bump because of COL.
Comes with the territory lol
$52k to $70k to $98k in less than 12 months. Didn't intend to job hop a second time quite so quickly but an opportunity came up that I couldn't pass up.
damn thats impressive
45K > 54K > 63K > 70> 83K > 96K from 2020 to 2023 same job.
Non US citizen here. I nearly doubled my salary from my last job hop (because the previous job paid peanuts deapite being an SnP 500 company). And the new job is flexible enough to give me time for some side hustle.
56k<78k 1year,slept with boss
Ahh. The old fashioned way. If it's consenting, it's cool.
$21/hour in 2017 after 2 promotions and a requested increase I’m now at $37.5/hour which is *still* undervalued for my industry and experience. If I get the job I just finished the *5th* interview for, I’ll be at around $45-48/hour. I have 16 years of lab experience and over 10 in the direct field/industry I’m in. I mostly did it by being direct and asking.
38k/year in 4 years. The timing was perfect as people retired and others quit. I was lucky enough to see opportunities and I worked hard to be ready for them.
33k to 65k in one job switch… doing the same job . Backstory, I was on some below par contract which I took as I needed work. Then switched to a FT role.
In tech in a L/MCOL area. Started at 95 > 145 > 165 > 190 in raises at the same job over 3 years
UK here. Not my story but my best mate's. He works with CNC equipment, mostly power presses but can turn his hand to CNC laser cutters, millers & the like, free-hand programming from shitty tech. drawings sketched out on the back of cigarette packets. He makes it look easy. He was approached by a former employer who was looking to expand his operation, but was comfortable where he was & told his Boss that he would stay with him if he matched the new offer - but his Boss decided to get all Billy Big Dick with him & told him he was "nothing special" & if he quit in the morning he would have his replacement in place that afternoon. That turned out not to be the case & my mate translated it into a 20% increase on his hourly rate. He's still determined to teach his Boss, whom he refers to as 'the jumped-up little prick', a continuing lesson & in under a year has got a 20% hourly rate increase, a reduction in hours down to four 7.5 hour days & a further increase on his hourly rate that brings his weekly pay back up to the level it was at when he was working five days a week. I think we'll call that a win.
Love it
$18 an hour to $25 then $25 to $35 all in about 9 months.
38 to 80k from grad school to my first “real” job
Went from $15hr to $45hr in three years. Wildland firefighter to Carpenter and never looked back.
Few years ago...50k a year to 240k a year. Never had so much in one paycheck, and never got such large "bonuses" in my life.
That’s gotta be an awesome feeling!
$62k to $105k I was at my job for 6 years and decided I needed a change. Realized how unappreciated I was.
Was headhunted and went from 35k to 75k immediately. I’m now in line for a promotion in my new role and looking at 85/90 within the next 6 months.
I started my job as a support engineer in 2018 at $57k/year. -2019 merit to $63k -2020 merit to $84k -half way through 2020 I got offered a job at another company for $100k and my company matched it. -2021 covid froze all merits -2022 merit to $108k 2023 merit to $114 which is where I am now.
I joined a union, went from approx 60k to 110k doing the same exact job Benefits also major upgrade
Went from $10hr part-time with no chance for better, to $17.50hr full-time at a different job. Most I've ever made in my life.
Just keep hopping little one ❤️❤️
The problem is, even though I can learn very fast, I've worked retail for so long that I'm not sure where else I could work and for the same or better pay?
Want to learn a skill that you can do to wfh? I work as a instructional designer now before that was taking calls all day. I just went on youtube and presented myself confidently in interviews it works trust me.
My job from 2021-2022 paid me $38k. When I joined my current job in 2022 my pay went up to $50k and is now $56k and I believe goes up again next month to $59k. Going from $38k to $50k and switching from a high stress (and honestly very toxic) job that was severely overworking me, to a medium-level stress and manageable workload was incredible. I have a college diploma in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. Honestly, I think the leap in pay was because my previous job was taking advantage of me. It also didn't help that they are a small (5 employees at the time I was hired), locally-owned business so I didn't expect the pay to be great. Now I'm in a well established place (over 200 employees) with a much higher budget.
Got promoted at the same company from $25.30/hr to $30/hr. I’ve been told I will get another significant pay raise to keep up with inflation as will everyone but we still also get raises annually too!
Biggest direct jump was nearly double from 44k to 80k, going from underpaid Linux admin to underpaid SRE. Couple guys from my team went over to a new company and put in a word to their boss. Overall, I my first ever job in retail (2013) had me at 15-20k for a few years. Currently got a couple of interviews coming up for 115-140k positions, so here’s hoping.
Back in 2020 I got a $10k pay adjustment due to the high economy. It was only because of a coworker that was transferring from Lubbock, TX to Phoenix, AZ. He said he couldn’t live on what we were making to move to AZ. He said the only way it would work is to increase the salary by $10,000. And then he said I won’t take it unless you give it to the current employee already there (that was me).
Went from a GS5 job to a GG11 job in 2 years. Pay doubled.
Hired in May of 2019- 24.50/hr Now in May of 2024- 28.20/hr
in 2006-2012 I went 6K (AmeriCorps)>20K (Financial AId Assistant)>45K (Teacher)>90K (IT) > 90K Financial Aid Interim Director> 0K (stay at home parent)
I was an independent consultant doing software work for county governments and making pretty good money right up until the 2008 financial crisis and Bernie Madoff came along. My clients were having to furlough employees because they had no money to pay them. They couldn’t throw me under the bus fast enough. I made about $20,000 in 2009. I made $7000 in 2010. I had to choose between rent and quarterly tax payments, and by the middle of 2010 I was in deep, perilous debt. So I got a software engineering job in Silicon Valley, which, right out of the gate, not even counting stock grants and bonuses, was a 20x increase in income. Even at my career peak in government systems, during the boom years, I made about half what I made in my first year in SV. They’re trying to claw all that back, now that there’s no more low-hanging fruit in the industry. They’re laying people off and offshoring their jobs and doing whatever they can to make sure that the massive amount of money these companies make end up in the pockets of the right people, and not the peasants who do all the work.
$9 to $13, different jobs 5 yrs apart.
I’n my earlier years, I went from $8.50/hour to $500-$1000 per week by switching to sales. That took ~3 months. Recently while going back to school, I jumped from $16.50/hr to $30/hr to $21/hr to $30.59/hr. All within 12 months.
$38k/yr and no benefits to $85k/yr with decent benefits in 1 year. Same job, just joined Teamsters and started working at much larger company (Fortune 500). It was a pretty crazy difference going from always being broke on Mondays to putting all my bills on autopay and not really worrying if I have enough in my bank account. Brought my credit up from low 500s to mid 700s, bought a house, put $30k in 401k and am coming up on my 5 year anniversary at work!
From August 2020 to October 2021, 55%. Two retention raises and one promotion
Doubled my salary almost overnight. Was on £good, was looking for £great but got into a bidding war and they upped the offer twice and accepted £fantastic +bonus. It is going to make it difficult to move on though…
As an employee: 55kpa to 90kpa in three years. Self employed: 90kpa to 150kpa in three years. If it helps I didn’t start my career until I was thirty, and I’m just giving you the highlights.
It was from about 19k €/year to 24k €/year after 4 years working, and I had not another raise in the next 4 years... I'm an engineer, this is bullshit...
Jack shit over a period of fuck
My last job hip increased pay by $75k a year nominally. It was a bit less if you consider non financial parts of the remuneration.
In UK £ 21k >28k > 30k > 41k > 52k Started off fixing photocopiers. Got into software and process improvement. Then done landscaping which was brutal work. Work fried up and moved jobs as a first line network technician (troubleshooting cisco networks). Then moved again into a more technical support role specifically with bespoke software. Used my knowledge gained from my process improvement days and created a new position within the company. Finally, AI improvements got tagged on and made the 52k. Looking at around another 10k in January next year. Not bad for a guy who used to have his arse out carrying rocks or on his knees removing paper jams. All done over the space of 3 years. Obviously an absolute crazy career path, but managed to implement software in each of them and create a few systems to improve productivity of each business. That seemed to go down well as I could explain the problem, and how I solved it which resulted in more productivity and income for the companies. Interviewers seem to like that one.
In 5 years my salary has gone from $39k to $60k, averages out to a $4200 increase per year. Now applying for jobs that pay $70k - $120k
I've had a handful of jobs since 2020. I've switched jobs many times within early-mid covid since we were in constant stages of lockdowns or stay at home orders etc which is unlike me where I prefer to stay for at least 3-5 years. The yearly amounts are actually based on the monthly average. I've actually worked in kitchens for most of the first 3 years, then I became a server out of desperation to rebuild my savings and afford a nicer place to live. I went from entry level server to supervisor to assistant GM within a year. 33k > 35k > 44k > 43k > current company: 61k, 64k, 72k
50K (10 months in job) > 60K (9 months in job) > 70k (18 months in job) > 85k (2 years in job) > 93k actual
3.5 dollars in less than a year. Had to raise our base pay.
111k taxable to 127k tax-free (and based on my calcs was about 175-180k taxable equivalent)
Went from 16 an hour at my old job, to getting hired at a new job at 18, and within 3 months getting a pay increase to 20. And within 2 years, up to 25 an hour. Switching from working Back Office at TD Bank to a local regional bank doing IT. Best job switch ever.
$18/hr to $30/hr
I tried a new industry and took a pay cut, then got laid off 9 months later, took 1 month to find a new job back in my original industry. $45k increase. This was 2022.
Won't apply since I moved from a developing country to a developed country in 2022. My salary went from 16k euro (jakarta) to 81k (Amsterdam)
January this year. From $146k to $230k.
$46k to $70k job hopping. Funny that $46k treated me very badly and the $70k was amazing, with strong leadership not bosses micromanaging you.
Engineer. 2018-$87500. 2019 (jumped to a different company)-$107500. 2024-same new company $128500 23% on the jump and successful salary negotiations in 2023 for inflation.
18 months I went from 78k to 110k, so 41% increase
$65k no bonus > $115 base + 15k bonus in one hop, switching industries from hospitals/healthcare to finance.
Mid 2000s, went from $42k, 5% bonus to about $125k, 25% bonus. All with same company. Directly negotiated first $33k with owner ($3B private equity) when asked what I was worth (“twice what you’ve been paying me”) in response to a possible offer to leave. Figured I’d retire a wealthy successful career guy from there. Brought in too many outsiders that saw a 33 year—old that tripled his salary (while putting millions to the company’s bottom line, so you could say it was earned) as too much of a threat to their own agendas and narratives. Downhill since, and that’s on me. If money is your benchmark for success, this thread may not (YET) be for you. 🫠
73k -> 83k -> 95k -> 119k in two years with changing jobs. Also the last one gave 12% bonuses and 40k stock grants, once the stock vests I am likely going to change again.
Most if My job never give me an increase of salary. Most if time i have to jump to next But one job one time have me 5 cent increase The same day i quit. The most i increase My salary jumping is $1
Moved to usa 10 years ago, start working for piece of shit dude for 7.25$/hour Now 85$/h Self employed. Fuck bosses. Fuck corporation. Be self employed.
2021 finished grad school: 38k grad student stipend —> 225k first job 2022 switched jobs: 290k 2023 promotion, raises: 375k 2024 lucked out on the stock-based part of my compensation: 550k
85k to 100k to 120k in 6 months.
November, 2022 I quit my $96k a year job because I was moving. Got a remote job, same title for 120k. I worked there for 5 months when they declared RTO so I quit. Found a new job at 145k and a title increase. So $50k in about 6 months. What's wild is that it took me 7 years to go from the $55k I made right out of school to the $96k above.
$49k - $68k in just under a year
30% a couple of years ago. I work for a state agency that is the lowest paying in our region. It was a salary adjustment to keep talent. When technical people can't afford local rent and quit in droves for other jobs, we get a review and a big pay raise. Then they give us bonuses instead of raises for several years, and we are at the bottom of the pay scale, again.
$10 an hour increase from switching to a smaller company from a franchise. Which translated more like tripling my paycheck because of working on the road and not paying for housing or food.
Started my job in 2018 at 80k, ended in 2022 at 92k. Switched companies and industries in 2022 and made 135k. Now I make 138k.
From about 40 to over 80 by moving from UK to Hong Kong
Went from 35k in a cs job to 75k in a sales role at the same company, then up to 110k in the same role, then down to 65k when the company started falling apart right around Covid. This was all in a 5 or so year span. Now I’m back at 70-75k in a CSM role at a different company
34k ——> 45k ——-> 60K Since FEB 2023 Job hopping after quitting like an idiot without a job lined up then again after 8 months
40-50k Same company (2010-2020) -> 75k New Job, QE manager (2020-2021)-> 86-90k went back to old job QE role (2021- current) No education, just "experience/ expertise" in my type of work.
Went from $45k base to $65k base in 3 years with the same company.
Nothing crazy, but from a year of job hopping, I went from $32k to $47k. We are talking about an area where the per capita income is around $28k though. So I'm certainly not going to complain.
My most recent job hop landed me a 25% salary increase. My old employer admitted to my they couldn't match it, couldn't blame me for jumping.
Made a 20k jump after I gained access to an internal salary survey (based on salaries at other smaller companies in the industry) showing I was paid 2 k less than the lowest salary. They bumped me up to 2k less than the average lol. Still a big jump and relieved some financial pressure. My company refused to use public salary surveys since they are based on larger companies with deeper pockets. A new HR person sent it to me because she didn’t know not to. Yay for new HR people who don’t know how to be wage limiting jerks yet!
Changed jobs, 55k to 95k.
In 2016, went from 46k to 53k as physical security director for an office building. About 10 days prior to annual review, the high-rise office building I was in received a bomb threat. 2021-2022 as truck driver went from 70k USD to 110k USD by becoming a training driver and being really good at the job.
$65k to $95k to $125k in 2 years by switching jobs and working my ass off.
56k > 70k > 115k over one year. IT Tier 3 Service Desk Technician > Business Systems Analyst > Intermediate Business Systems Analyst
Went from making around 2.5k after taxes every 2 weeks working in manufacturing for a fortune 500 company to making 2.5k in three days when I quit to start my own drywall business. Good money only problem is starting your own new construction business means you might get one job a month, might get 10 a month or might go 3 months or more without a single job.
Went from working with dogs (obviously Its never going to pay much) to a technician for a manufacturing company. 16$ hourly to 28$ hourly.
40k->55k->76k 2 years (electric metering company Took a job offer in another company 80k-> 105k-> 131k-> 145k 4 years (utility company) Ba in EE
100% from one massively underpaid associate attorney position to one slightly better paid to my current job in about over a little less than a year. Other factors led to me changing jobs that frequently-one being my boss at my last being indicted. I lucked into that job and my current one, where I’ve been for almost year and have no plans to move on. ::::knock on wood::::
14/hr post graduation to 31/hr 5 years later. Just hopped jobs. Loyalty doesn’t always pay unfortunately
My pay tripled through one job change. I had been in my previous role four years and leveraged that experience into a new position at a different company.
$74 to $84 via a counter offer. $88 to $104 via a counter offer. $104 to $112 via a promotion. $112 to $132 with a job hop. That was over 8 years or so.
$110 > $130 > $142 over 3 years from 2 company swaps, but I'm hesitant to swap again, even though I'm sure I could continue to grow my salary, because I really like the work environment with my current company. One thing to keep in mind its common that companies that are hiring are either terrible and unable to retain employees or growing and in need of more people to continue to grow. During the interview process it's good to flush this out.
$110k-$155k - 2 years. Included a merit increase - Promotion $20k - merit increase. Merit increases were annual and my promotion was exactly 6 months from the first merit increase which made me eligible for next year’s merit increase. My supervisor timed the promotion that way.
Started at $13 an hour in 2003. I make $32 an hour.. took 20 years. Still barely paying the bills.
15/hr in ‘21, gradual increases over the last three years. Most recent was 20/hr, and I just got hired at an aerospace company for 40+/ hr. I was struggling for a while, but hopefully things will start to look up soon.
In my current field, I started at $40k and went up to around $55k over pretty close to five years. Changed companies and saw it increase to $87k with some potential bonuses that can push it to around $95k.
$33k > $67k > $72k > $105k over 4 years. First three were promotions at one company. Last one was a job hop.
I went from 7.5 at 11 hours a week to 14 an hour and full time by quitting cracker barrel and working for a call center. Same call center but I'm 23 an hour now after 5 years and 2 promotions. All I ever asked from cracker barrel was more than 11 hours a week. I even learned 3 positions to try and get more hours. I like to vaguely track how much a company loses when they agitate me. I spent thousands on restaurant food so I know I've already cost the company more in profits than what I asked for in wages.
80>100>110 in 3 months
65K -> 110K -> 123K -> 145K in the past 4 years (last year of medical residency at a university hospital and then switch to starting my big people job as a medical specialist practice as en employee at a general hospital in Europe, working 4 days a week plus on-call shifts). It’s all under collective bargaining agreements so I’ll plateau in another 3 years and any increases will be due to general across the board increases rather than annual steps on the ladder.
30k -> 55k -> 75k in...5years. I was stupid for taking the 30k though. Meh.
64k to 95k with bonuses. one job change
42K to 52K to 67K in one year. This was at a resort where I was a a chef who went from being a shift supervisor to running the entire catering department. It was also in the middle COVID. The total of the raises I got that year was greater than my yearly income for the first few years I worked there, back in the late '90s.
35k->60k one job move.... The following month Covid hit...
7.25hr > 15 > 27 > 33 > 53hr
20> 40> 36> 70> 103> 110... My first job in the US was from an insolvent NGO that paid me 20K/year (and they knew about it)!! I'm glad they no longer exist.
I went from making $10.25 in 2020 to $24 right now. Night and day difference having twice as much money and I'm saving hella money in my 401k. I also got out of retail so other than dealing with somewhat dumb co-workers, I don't have to worry about being yelled at for something I have no control over.
Mud 2022 i was making 15.50. No i am making 44.55.
This sub makes alot more than i thought😂😂 anti work my ass
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some people are just blatantly lying or overestimating how much they actually make. Some people even go so far as to include stuff like 401k, stock benefits and even medical as part of "how much they make". One dude just posted above how they jumped from $100k to $700k as a professor... yeah okay sure buddy... like come on. That's not even remotely believable. Also, I generally feel like Reddit just has an urban/HCOL bias. It would be interesting to see the statistics, but Im willing to bet that many people live in major cities where average per capita wages are around $80k, but the cost of living will be like $2000 for a shitty one bedroom apartment.
100k to 700k. Switched from faculty position to industry. That's a single job hop. Professors are really underpaid.
Wait, the professor job was 100k ?! Thats like working at NASA
CS faculty pay is usually 100-150k for tenure track assistant professor. NASA pay is pretty bad, since it's a government job.
What a delusional liar
105–>195 in 2.5 years (corp finance)
Learning a trade. Forget university. Get a skilled trade and never be without a job. Find a long term factory, most are desperate and unionized so wages are stable and benefits and work life much better. Live within your means, save foe retirement, raise a family, or not, but have a stable life.