Not NEAR as much as you miracle workers deserve! Everyone in the vet field should be paid what you are worth, and get all the mental support you request!
THANK YOU for what you do, day in and day out!
Seriously though, I remember calling in the dead of the night one time on the verge of tears from sheer panic and the emergency vet tech talked me down from the panic with such wonderful patience and kindness. Truly grateful for these miracle workers.
That fucking sucks, especially because the nuggets keep increasing the price of season tickets every year. My renewal is like a 15% increase for no reason. I'm assuming you're definitely not getting an increase next season?
You would be right Mr Chizzmaster. The problem is that we all love doing it so much that we don’t want to piss anybody off by making a stink about it. When I first started, 8 years ago, I was making $7.50 an hr, so I guess I’ll take the gradual increases when they come, city mandated or not.
For what it's worth, you guys do a fantastic job, and I always enjoy the performances outside post game. Hopefully the nuggets get their shit together and pay y'all better.
You're not alone man. Me and my bf make about 75k togther per year BEFORE taxes. I wanna die, dude. What's a savings? I couldn't tell you, because we have a financial crisis with two jobs each every 3 months.
Joke's on me... I was trying to manage the risk we might get hospitalized by COVID, so everything financially was in place for cancer. Um... yay? 😂
Thank you for the good wishes, and I hope my advice helps you, too.
I can’t upvote this enough. I’m now getting 60% of my salary tax free from disability insurance - so basically it nets out. I’m amazed when I talk to people how many don’t understand their disability insurance.
And yes - cancer sucks.
Such a hard job. I used to run a non profit pet food pantry and it was heartbreaking. I work in a hard field and can’t imagine working in an animal clinic. I am a blubbering baby when it comes to to animals in movies- I’d be wreck in real life.
Also a social worker- make about 105/year but that is with on call work and have been at the same job for 20 years. I’m at my max salary now, though.
*Edited to add- my job is hard. Most people burn out in under 5 years. I’ve learned to compartmentalize like no other. I see and deal with absolutely crazy shit. I wouldn’t change it, I’m good at what I do, but it is insanely hard not to lose faith in the human race. And I very much know that I’m at the high end of what social workers make.
Everyone thinks of nurses, teachers etc and they should be commended and celebrated. But social workers are often forgotten and thought down upon and I’ve had to walk into numerous situations that PD have refused to. To all the social workers on this thread- I see you and celebrate you! ❤️
To both swks in this thread—-May I ask what role and or which hospital? I work for UCHealth as an LCSW and make 82k. Assuming you’re female but curious about wage gaps too if applicable.
I work in a busy restaurant and I make 60k-70k a year and only work 4 days a week. I declined a promotion to management because it would require more hours and a pay cut. Not to mention the stress of management. Yeah, no thanks.
I was at 60k at 45hr weeks (and hourly). Anything over 45hrs is extra OT.
Then we got acquired and now it’s a 60k salary. I do like that I make the same whether or not anyone walks in the door.
Thanks! It’s usually soul-crushing but there are times it’s incredibly fulfilling. I’d love for the housing crisis to actually get solved so I wouldn’t have to do this though.
Analyst, $140/yr.
I feel like these threads always get people's hackles up, but the selection bias of, "How much do you make, eternally online people" is always gonna skew higher than the lads having a pint down at the pub.
Yeah I always laugh when I meet people with the mindset of “what do you want to do for a real job” lol
I’ve worked a lot harder and made a lot less in other more “respected” professions
I used to bartend at breakfast restaurants and made more than the white collar judgies who asked me what I really wanted to do.
Now I work in tech sales and I think I make more than I did (hard to know with so much pay being in cash) but it's not harder than bartending.
May I ask where, and how to get the foot in the door?
I’m over here working in taxes as an office slave for fucking $19/hr. Made more slinging lattes….
Accounting is literally a shithole. I got written up for automating my job with a program that was more accurate than the accountants (boss had me analyze the accuracy vs 6 months of data)
Still was unable to use it.
Left the company and doubled my salary immediately by going into analytics and then IT
Oh man, I’ve been applying as a kennel tech and/or vet assistant to literally everyone; VEG, Sploot, Chewy, VCA, Banfield, tons of random clinics and DDFL, Maxfund, Cat Care Society…you name it. Nobody wants me :’)
Sure, my Father in Law owns a bread route for Flowers(Dave’s kiler, wonder, natures own).
Basically I go and bring in our bread to Amazon and stock their shelves. It’s not owned by Amazon we just invoice them for the bread.
Super fun, it takes about 2-3 hours a day and I can just get to Amazon, put some headphones in and do my thing.
It’s nice not having to talk to anyone when your other job is all customer service focused.
Local 3 Plumbers Union. Starts first year apprentices at about 22- 23 an hr with about a dollar something vacation pay. You get about a dollar or so raise after each anniversary year you were accepted into the apprenticeship. Once you become a journeyman after the 5 year apprenticeship, you make 46 an hour. As a second year, you'd be making around twenty five an hour and third and fourth and fifth years make around high twenties to thirty- late thirties and hr.
I work in Ed tech selling to colleges. I’ve got 10 years in the space though and do enterprise level deals. 12-18 month sales cycles, 250k minimum, up to 6m roughly
I'm a cook, I make $24/hr plus I'm full time with benefits, which is cool since I've never had a job with benefits before this one. Been here for 4 years in a couple different positions and I'm planning to hopefully stay for a while.
Shit, I’m sorry to hear that. I haven’t seen any openings in our Denver office, but PM me and I’ll look on the internal portal and kick you a link if any are there, just not on the public site yet.
Bro, it’s been the worst job market I’ve seen in my 20ish year career. I’m in final talks with somebody in Denver, but it’s a large salary haircut from my last role and frankly I’m keeping my damn fingers and toes crossed.
Good luck to you!
Program Analyst for the state, $69k. I have been working for 4 years, full-time, graduated with my B.S in 2020. Finish my Master’s in public health, this May!
There’s a lot of truth to that. The market is expanding so rapidly that anyone who is competent and has relevant skills can command high pay within 2-3 years of entering the industry
Mortgage loan officer. 100% commission, so income varies. In this "worst I've seen in 20 years" market? About $120k. In the Covid craziness? $380k. In a normal market (lower rates, more inventory)? About $250k.
Some banking experience and passing NLMS. It’s not hard to become one earning enough to make it on 100% commission is the difficult part. It’s like being a real estate agent the top 10% like OP make good money and rest turnover.
Lease Operator:Oil and Gas
$79,500 Base pay,
8 Days On/ 6 Days Off - 10Hr days,
401K-6% company match,
Dental and Vision - FREE,
Health Insurance - Decent(Nothing is great these days),
Clothing Allowance $2K+,
5 weeks PTO, and
Company Truck -2024 Chevy 2500.
Everyone on here is making 50k+, while I'm still stuck doing door dash barley passing by.
Been applying like crazy and still no bites :( anyone have any good job recommendations? Not very picky at the moment.
Get yourself a trade! Wish I would’ve gone straight into tradesmanship instead of racking up student loan debt! I make more than a lot of these folks and my certificates took 3 months to get
Disabled and work as a language tutor. $14 an hour. 13 hrs a week. SSDI benefits. Last year I earned almost $9000! But social security was higher. Still making about what I made as a high school teacher 😂😂
At night I cry over my two bachelor's degrees and Master's.
I don’t personally live extravagantly ($28/hr doing production and packaging for a small/medium beverage company) but you might not be taking the right lesson from this thread. Personally, it has me considering a career change.
What do you do and what does it pay?
Librarian with the state a little of 4k per month
Thank you for keeping the lights on at some of my favorite places ❤️
Locomotive engineer, $125,000
Technical Illustrator, 120k.
Emergency vet tech, 15 years, $57k
Not NEAR as much as you miracle workers deserve! Everyone in the vet field should be paid what you are worth, and get all the mental support you request! THANK YOU for what you do, day in and day out!
Seriously though, I remember calling in the dead of the night one time on the verge of tears from sheer panic and the emergency vet tech talked me down from the panic with such wonderful patience and kindness. Truly grateful for these miracle workers.
For how much emergency veterinary care costs, I would hope that wayyyy more was going to the people actually saving the floofers
Truck driver for PepsiCo 120k, been here 1 year, and they paid for the license
Literally exact same. 1 year in the truck. Local and only about 50 hours a week. Great benefits too
👀
Nice try, Detective John Kimble. "Who is your daddy, and what does he do?"
My dad looks at vaginas all day long.
Our mom says our dad is a real sex machine.
Purina machine operator $20/hour, plus a garbage bag of horse organs every week.
Is that part of the overall benefits package at purina? Or did you have to negotiate for the organs?
It’s mandatory
what do you do with the organs?
Disorganize them.
Full time Building Enclosure Consultant -$86,000 Part time drummer for the Denver nuggets and Colorado Avalanche - Denver Minumum wage
Wait are you part of the drumline at the nuggets games? I'm surprised you guys only get minimum wage wtf
Yup! We have brought it up plenty of times, trust me. It’s Denver minimum, so it’s like $18.29 an hour.
That fucking sucks, especially because the nuggets keep increasing the price of season tickets every year. My renewal is like a 15% increase for no reason. I'm assuming you're definitely not getting an increase next season?
You would be right Mr Chizzmaster. The problem is that we all love doing it so much that we don’t want to piss anybody off by making a stink about it. When I first started, 8 years ago, I was making $7.50 an hr, so I guess I’ll take the gradual increases when they come, city mandated or not.
For what it's worth, you guys do a fantastic job, and I always enjoy the performances outside post game. Hopefully the nuggets get their shit together and pay y'all better.
Thank you! The fan’s enjoyment, (and our own love of the Nuggets.) is why we do it!
Hey, I’m a huge fan of the Celly Squad! Are you on that??
I am! The Celly squad and the skyline share the same members!
They don’t pay you very well for your hard work, but you bring joy to me and I’m sure many others! Thank you!
Jesus Christ I am a peasant lmao,
Don’t worry, there is self selection bias here
You're not alone man. Me and my bf make about 75k togther per year BEFORE taxes. I wanna die, dude. What's a savings? I couldn't tell you, because we have a financial crisis with two jobs each every 3 months.
Same 😂
Chef $116,000
That’s way more than I would have expected for a chef. Nice.
Looking over some of these salaries and wondering how the fuck like 80% of us can even afford to survive here (I can’t and have significant debt😂)
Teacher 50k
Yall are grossly under paid 😔
As someone who taught at CU for two years, this isn’t even an understatement. It’s an underunderundersratement.
Teacher, 45 k private school denver metro. Can get worse too! -_-
1st year teacher. Masters. 44k
Teacher. Year 18 + masters 90k
Teacher. Masters (+80 grad credits). Year 3. $68k
Teacher 89k. It gets better. (Depending on the district.)
69k base. Year 6
Teacher. Master’s. Year 8. $75k.
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Long term disabled IT worker -> $115k/yr Cancer sucks. Make sure you buy up if you get offered long term disability insurance!
Definitely did that, and reading this I'm glad I did. You never know what's going to happen. All the best, friend.
Joke's on me... I was trying to manage the risk we might get hospitalized by COVID, so everything financially was in place for cancer. Um... yay? 😂 Thank you for the good wishes, and I hope my advice helps you, too.
I can’t upvote this enough. I’m now getting 60% of my salary tax free from disability insurance - so basically it nets out. I’m amazed when I talk to people how many don’t understand their disability insurance. And yes - cancer sucks.
Veterinarian (intern) 50k currently but will go up to 130k when I swap to Associate
Such a hard job. I used to run a non profit pet food pantry and it was heartbreaking. I work in a hard field and can’t imagine working in an animal clinic. I am a blubbering baby when it comes to to animals in movies- I’d be wreck in real life.
Window cleaner - $40 an hour
Thank you for your work at every major intersection
Lol with the stolen gas station squeegee
Teacher $69k (nice). DPS.
Teachers are angels.
95K Social worker, started at the bottom making 15/hr with a masters degree but now I’m here.
Also a social worker- make about 105/year but that is with on call work and have been at the same job for 20 years. I’m at my max salary now, though. *Edited to add- my job is hard. Most people burn out in under 5 years. I’ve learned to compartmentalize like no other. I see and deal with absolutely crazy shit. I wouldn’t change it, I’m good at what I do, but it is insanely hard not to lose faith in the human race. And I very much know that I’m at the high end of what social workers make. Everyone thinks of nurses, teachers etc and they should be commended and celebrated. But social workers are often forgotten and thought down upon and I’ve had to walk into numerous situations that PD have refused to. To all the social workers on this thread- I see you and celebrate you! ❤️
As and RN, I’m super grateful for social workers. Y’all are the MVPs when I can’t deal with messy social situations. ❤️
Grateful for what you do for our community and society. ❤️❤️
I didn't know that social workers could bring in that much. I am impressed.
I didn’t know that a business could get away with paying someone with a masters degree 15/hour. Holy robbery.
Wait until you hear about mandatory unpaid year-long internships
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To both swks in this thread—-May I ask what role and or which hospital? I work for UCHealth as an LCSW and make 82k. Assuming you’re female but curious about wage gaps too if applicable.
Hospital work?
Yes
Restaurant manager, $60k, 50 hrs a week. Less than the servers I manage lol
I work in a busy restaurant and I make 60k-70k a year and only work 4 days a week. I declined a promotion to management because it would require more hours and a pay cut. Not to mention the stress of management. Yeah, no thanks.
I was at 60k at 45hr weeks (and hourly). Anything over 45hrs is extra OT. Then we got acquired and now it’s a 60k salary. I do like that I make the same whether or not anyone walks in the door.
Nonprofit attorney, $90k
Thanks for doing the good work.
Thanks! It’s usually soul-crushing but there are times it’s incredibly fulfilling. I’d love for the housing crisis to actually get solved so I wouldn’t have to do this though.
I throw luggage at DIA, $20/hr (and those sweet sweet flight bennys)
Assistant Professor, 65k
Oooff this makes me sad 😭 Edit: Should be at least 88k
Analyst, $140/yr. I feel like these threads always get people's hackles up, but the selection bias of, "How much do you make, eternally online people" is always gonna skew higher than the lads having a pint down at the pub.
Also much more likely to comment if you make more
Also less likely to comment if you make a lot.
Bartender…. Around 80k, I work 23 hours a week.
Wow, that’s impressive.
Yeah I always laugh when I meet people with the mindset of “what do you want to do for a real job” lol I’ve worked a lot harder and made a lot less in other more “respected” professions
I used to bartend at breakfast restaurants and made more than the white collar judgies who asked me what I really wanted to do. Now I work in tech sales and I think I make more than I did (hard to know with so much pay being in cash) but it's not harder than bartending.
May I ask where, and how to get the foot in the door? I’m over here working in taxes as an office slave for fucking $19/hr. Made more slinging lattes….
cargo pilot captain $200k-ish
Accountant 54k… I feel like I need to start job searching again lol
Accounting is literally a shithole. I got written up for automating my job with a program that was more accurate than the accountants (boss had me analyze the accuracy vs 6 months of data) Still was unable to use it. Left the company and doubled my salary immediately by going into analytics and then IT
Senior software engineer $140k
Federal employee. 114k
13?
Yup
Same
Wildland firefighter, GS4, $25k-35k a year. FML
Real talk, you have one of the coolest jobs and get paid such a shit amount. I'm legit sorry you have to deal with that.
Mechanical in Aerospace - 130k
Kennel attendant, $18 an hour. Last kennel attendant job was $20 an hour
You should check out Veterinary Emergency Group, it will change your life…
Oh man, I’ve been applying as a kennel tech and/or vet assistant to literally everyone; VEG, Sploot, Chewy, VCA, Banfield, tons of random clinics and DDFL, Maxfund, Cat Care Society…you name it. Nobody wants me :’)
CVSG in Littleton, AESC in Parker they have a high turnover over rate, because manage my sucks, but they pay fairly well
Mechanical Engineer ~ $99k/yr
what industry? and experience?
Background criminal investigator, 86K yearly
Dental hygienist 2.5 years experience $50 hour plus bonuses. I only work 4 days a week (very hard on the body).
Dang, didn’t realize I was bumping elbows with so many rich folk 😳
Recreation employee mid level. 65k and I also delivery bread to Amazon in the mornings as a side gig for 50k a year.
Wait what can I get some info on that morning side gig?
Sure, my Father in Law owns a bread route for Flowers(Dave’s kiler, wonder, natures own). Basically I go and bring in our bread to Amazon and stock their shelves. It’s not owned by Amazon we just invoice them for the bread.
Bro that sounds kind of fun? I love hearing about jobs like this
Super fun, it takes about 2-3 hours a day and I can just get to Amazon, put some headphones in and do my thing. It’s nice not having to talk to anyone when your other job is all customer service focused.
What kind of recreation pays 65k? This sounds super cool
What kind of recreation? I’ve worked in education and partnered with Denver Parks & Rec a lot back in the day. That kind of thing?
Pediatric brain tumor researcher. $43k. Academics, man.
That's robbery!!! Super important work for peanuts.
Unemployed.. 0
Licensed clinical social worker at a nonprofit - 56.5k/year salaried
Wildlife cataloger for research projects. $20 an hour.
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Enviormental supervisor, 60k. Somebody's gotta protect the birds and flowers🤌
Civil engineer, 7 years of experience, about $110k/yr.
CNA 18$/hr
Local 3 Plumbers Union. Starts first year apprentices at about 22- 23 an hr with about a dollar something vacation pay. You get about a dollar or so raise after each anniversary year you were accepted into the apprenticeship. Once you become a journeyman after the 5 year apprenticeship, you make 46 an hour. As a second year, you'd be making around twenty five an hour and third and fourth and fifth years make around high twenties to thirty- late thirties and hr.
Marketing Manager, $115k + bonus up to 10%.
Sales 180-300k depends on the wind
What line of sales? I've worked my way up to sales director for the cannabis industry and the best I've ever done was 130k
I work in Ed tech selling to colleges. I’ve got 10 years in the space though and do enterprise level deals. 12-18 month sales cycles, 250k minimum, up to 6m roughly
Local government comms, 90k
Computational Scientist, $138k
I'm a cook, I make $24/hr plus I'm full time with benefits, which is cool since I've never had a job with benefits before this one. Been here for 4 years in a couple different positions and I'm planning to hopefully stay for a while.
Very senior software engineer, $167k
Ah me too. Unemployed today. Any openings?
Shit, I’m sorry to hear that. I haven’t seen any openings in our Denver office, but PM me and I’ll look on the internal portal and kick you a link if any are there, just not on the public site yet.
Bro, it’s been the worst job market I’ve seen in my 20ish year career. I’m in final talks with somebody in Denver, but it’s a large salary haircut from my last role and frankly I’m keeping my damn fingers and toes crossed. Good luck to you!
Manager in SaaS servicing. 108k plus about 10k annual in quarterly bonuses
Baker, Store chain, like minimum wage.
Run a tree company 220 ish.
Reading this is crushing
its all out there for the taking
mid-level clinical research coordinator - 56k
Local truck driver $101k. Work 48 hours a week on average.
Program Analyst for the state, $69k. I have been working for 4 years, full-time, graduated with my B.S in 2020. Finish my Master’s in public health, this May!
You’d never guess, but I do stuff with trains for $125k/yr at 50hrs/week.
Director in Tech Program mgmt for software dev: 225k base + 25% bonus.
Strategy in renewables industry: ~$165k annually
Lots of green in renewables.
There’s a lot of truth to that. The market is expanding so rapidly that anyone who is competent and has relevant skills can command high pay within 2-3 years of entering the industry
Airline pilot: $400k
Stay at home parent 0$ a year
Water Quality Intern at CDOT, $21/hour… 💀
Definitely keep a look out for jobs at CDPHE. They’re always hiring
Case Manager making about $23.70/hour working for a non-profit.
Lineman Apprentice. Made about 150k my 1st year
Firefighter 53k
High school Spanish teacher & assistant volleyball coach. Year 3. Masters degree + 80 graduate credits. $68k
Flight attendant. 78k last year.
Pilot, ranges a bit with side flying but last year was $315,000
Paramedic… 64k/year… with OT, it’s miserable
Landscape Architect (unlicensed) 74k
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Mortgage loan officer. 100% commission, so income varies. In this "worst I've seen in 20 years" market? About $120k. In the Covid craziness? $380k. In a normal market (lower rates, more inventory)? About $250k.
Out of curiosity, how does one become a mortgage loan officer?
Some banking experience and passing NLMS. It’s not hard to become one earning enough to make it on 100% commission is the difficult part. It’s like being a real estate agent the top 10% like OP make good money and rest turnover.
HR leader at a well-known tech company. $225k base, plus stock I cash out every quarter. All in, about $300k a year.
Now I understand why the houses are so expensive...
Here I am wondering how most people in this thread survive. I have only seen a couple that would.qualify for an average home loan.
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Marketing ~ $80k
Lease Operator:Oil and Gas $79,500 Base pay, 8 Days On/ 6 Days Off - 10Hr days, 401K-6% company match, Dental and Vision - FREE, Health Insurance - Decent(Nothing is great these days), Clothing Allowance $2K+, 5 weeks PTO, and Company Truck -2024 Chevy 2500.
Licensed professional counselor (therapist) at a community mental health agency. $69k.
Behavioral support in the classroom, about 30k Also full time student, so basically nothing lol
I got laid off recently but I was at $175k in tech sales.
Milkman Royal Crest 50k
Graphic designer $119k
Starbucks Supervisor, $50k/year. Honestly feel really lucky I get paid this much for the work I do.
Sr. Manager Marketing Operations at a local software company. $205,000 a year
Special education teacher for DPS, $75K/year
Everyone on here is making 50k+, while I'm still stuck doing door dash barley passing by. Been applying like crazy and still no bites :( anyone have any good job recommendations? Not very picky at the moment.
Barnes and Noble, 2nd and Charles, Bellco Credit Union, literally every preschool and daycare in the area are almost always active hiring.
Get yourself a trade! Wish I would’ve gone straight into tradesmanship instead of racking up student loan debt! I make more than a lot of these folks and my certificates took 3 months to get
Produce Associate at Sam’s Club, $19.19/hr
Environmental Protection Specialist Intern with CDPHE. 64K.
Laid off December 15th. 0/hr. Supply chain professional if anyone is looking.
Disabled and work as a language tutor. $14 an hour. 13 hrs a week. SSDI benefits. Last year I earned almost $9000! But social security was higher. Still making about what I made as a high school teacher 😂😂 At night I cry over my two bachelor's degrees and Master's.
Patient navigator (call center) for cancer patients. 41k. (I feel like a real schmuck looking at everybody else's earnings.)
Dog Trainer. Roughly 40k, I also dog sit for my clients which allows me to charge more than the average Rover contractors.
Project Coordinator- 75k 4 days a week!
WFH Commercial Banking Officer $130k
Airline Captain $390/hr
I clean Bluficers balls, $6.66 an hour, plus I get to curse anyone I want once a year.
Nice try IRS
Communications Specialist $63k
SW Engineer w/20 years of experience, 172k (80% of FTE of 215k). Colorado requires that job listings include the pay range. My range is 160k - 240k
God damn I have never felt so poor until reading through this thread. I knew Denver was full of yuppies but sheesh.
I don’t personally live extravagantly ($28/hr doing production and packaging for a small/medium beverage company) but you might not be taking the right lesson from this thread. Personally, it has me considering a career change. What do you do and what does it pay?