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Imagine if someone came up to you and started talking about money: "Hello, good to meet you. What do you do for a living? Oh, that sounds interesting. How much do you make? Do you get a pension? Are you investing in the stock market? You are? Great! What mutual funds and stocks do you own? Wait, you're not diversified? Let me tell you what you need to do!"

A dialogue like that could unlock all sorts of promising insights and opportunities. But at the same time, it sounds almost impossible. We've come to a point where it's generally considered inappropriate or even rude to discuss your income. In an attempt to change that, Redditor u/BigPlunk asked other platform users, "What is your job and how much do you get paid?"

Surprisingly, many of them replied! Gotta love the transparency and honesty of some people.

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#1

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I’m a bum and get $120 a week donating plasma, but plot twist I have an interview at the plasma place tomorrow.

Update: I went to the interview, they called and asked to push it back to 3pm which was completely fine as they had gotten their truck in. The interview went well, and I answered the questions as best as I could. They said it would be full time Monday-Friday 1pm-9:30pm and every other weekend 6am-4:30pm starting at $13-14 an hour. I hope to hear back from them in the next few days, as they mentioned getting my ID, Social Security Card, and High School Diploma so they could make copies.

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30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I’m a farmer. My earnings are flirting with the breadline, but I have very little bills and my life is overall very happy and fulfilling

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u/BigPlunk came up with the idea for their post through browsing Reddit. "I had been reading in the r/AntiWork subreddit about companies trying to shut down employees who were discussing their wages," they told Bored Panda.

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"I was thinking about how secrecy about the money we make only benefits the companies and not the workers. I was thinking about how inflation without wage increases means that workers are actually taking a pay decrease and how discussing wages more openly might lead to more wage increases. I could go on about this topic quite a lot as it is something that has been top of mind for some time now."
#3

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do NYC roll off dumpster driver under a Teamster union contract. $40 an hour in January + medical and pension paid 100% by my employer. There’s guaranteed overtime too, so gross around $130k + the other perks. We also get a 100k severance payout the day we retire. I have a bachelors in business, but fell in love with being outside all day. I also sell scrap metal if I can collect it and I have a thriving eBay business from other things I find in the dumpsters. Made another 20-25k doing that on the side.

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#4

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I do research with brain cells, HIV, cocaine, and fentanyl. $29,500/year aka ~$14/hr. Yes I'm sad that this is what a Master's degree got me.

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After going through the comments, u/BigPlunk People thought people were generally quite eager to share how much they made.

"It seems as though many people want more transparency about wages," they said. "Many people were also saying that they wanted more specific information, including which country/state/province people were living and working in and whether they had healthcare/benefits provided. I think that this thread was the start of a larger conversation."
#5

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I'm a teacher in Zimbabwe. I make $150 (USD) per month. $150 is not enough. We’re just living day by day.

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30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Officer on a container ship work about 6 months out of the year and make about 120k. For the most part my job is looking out a window at some waves.

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The OP agrees that it has been made culturally inappropriate to discuss wages. But mostly because that would largely result in higher wages for all.

"It means there would be no more paying employee A and employee B different amounts to do the same job. Transparency in wages would likely result in issues like racism and ageism and sexism becoming more obvious," they said.

" I have been posting a lot lately on LinkedIn about the need for companies to include salary ranges and detailed compensation packages as part of job postings. Everyone claims 'competitive compensation' in their postings, yet very few are competitive enough to actually throw out a number. I think that many companies that do post a salary range tend to post a very wide range and then hire on the lower side of it."
#7

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Entrepreneur, negative 10k per year

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#8

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Emt 15/hr

Edit: u guys need to realize, I’m on the high end. 15/hr is starting wage here and that’s freaking nuts. I seriously met a guy who worked 20+ years as an advanced EMT over in Tennessee and he was legit making 10.50 an hour. The dude was 48 on, 24 off.

Actually y’all think I’m doing rough? Check out wildland firefighters haha

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#9

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do carpenter here, 67$ an hour with including my benefits.

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#10

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I am a paraprofessional in an elementary school. I spend most of my time in a self contained Kindergarten - 5th grade classroom of mostly "non verbal" students with autism. (Occasionally I float to other classrooms) I make around 20k a year. I love my job, but the pay is insulting.

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30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I work at a recycling plant, I get $35 an hour to stand at a conveyer belt picking out glass

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#12

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Damn. Reading some of these posts of people with really important jobs with very fancy degrees makes me feel drastically overpaid. I’m a dog walker/pet sitter/Gal Friday. $25-$50/hr. I average about 75k a year. Wear yoga pants and t-shirts to work every day, listen to my AirPods and do my Pimsleur while working, leave time in the middle of the day between my appointments for my violin/cello lessons each week, and am usually stoned most of the day. Love my job. No real benefits so paying for those myself eats into my profit margin, but the total lack of stress or any type of management for my line of work totally makes up for it. I honestly don’t feel like I work. It feels like I wake up and f**k around all day for really good money.

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#13

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do UPS package sorter at a warehouse, 22$ an hour plus time and a half pay for anything over 5 hour shift in a single day (so for example one shift is 5 hours if I work two shifts in a row the second one would be 33$ an hour)

Unlimited overtime too so if I really really wanted to I could triple shift everyday for an entire week (that would be like 15 hours straight everyday working though) and get a months worth of money in a single check

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#14

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do i just started a new job as a software engineer with 384k total comp. to be honest i don’t really know what to do with most of my money besides caring for my aging parents and saving. i feel very lucky and privileged to be here.

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#15

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Underwater Welder. 296k annually.

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#16

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do 13 year old here, I take out the trash and take out of the dishwasher at home and get paid 78 dollars a month or 936 dollars a year by my mom.

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#17

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Licensed Nursing Assistant for a Home Care Agency- $13.50/hr. It’s embarrassingly underpaid, but the girl I take care of is so incredibly sweet (18F with cerebral palsy - nonverbal). Being able to help her and her family out means more to me than my actual paycheck.

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#18

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Private jet captain. Varies with overtime, but this year will be around $360k.

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#19

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Air Ambulance Pilot (helicopter). $80k a year.

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#20

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I work in a steel mill that heats steel bars to a certain hardness. I get paid 18$ an hour and so far we haven’t had anyone die for a year (that’s a record)

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#21

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Master of the custodial arts. $17.50/h.

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#22

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Inspect nuclear reactors under contract, ~$100k/yr but only work 10 weeks a year

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#23

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I’m a line cook / manager for a busy restaurant, and I get paid $19 an hour +tip share + profit share from two recipes of mine on the menu.

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#24

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Artificial intelligence/computer vision. About $230k.

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#25

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I’m an English teacher in charity organization. 6$/h

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#26

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Vet tech, $15/hr in Utah. Getting a raise later this month tho!

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#27

Senior IT analyst, a little under $100k. Not bad for a GED recipient.

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#28

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I work at a small tech company doing any random thing they want. I make 90k.

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#29

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Air Traffic Controller. Around $100k

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#30

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Medical Coder - make $31/hr, about 65k annually.

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#31

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Paraprofessional at an elementary school in a classroom with students who have autism. I get paid $19.70 an hour plus a $70 monthly stipend for helping the kids with toilet duties.

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#32

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Freelance Video Editor. $500-$600/day. "Bad" year I make 40-50k per year. Great year are 95k-110K.

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#33

Here, this’ll surprise some folks: I’m a librarian (hence the user name), and I earn right around $100K with full benefits.

But I’m in the Bay Area, and that’s with a Master’s Degree + 15 years of experience. So it’s not all that impressive in context.

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#34

School Psychologist for public schools. $125,000 for 180 days. Full benefits and retirement. Never ending professional development for licensure renewal. Took me 35 years to get this salary. Started at $40,000 in 1986. Public educators are on a graduated pay scale.

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#35

I’m a lab analyst for a microbiology lab, doing sample testing and environmental monitoring in a germ-free environment where hospital drugs are made. I make $18 an hour. Not bad, but the stress of the job combined with the fact that it’s on the low end of the wage of these sort of jobs means I’m looking for other options.

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#36

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Professor, Stem. ~$85-105k per year depending on grants I bring in.

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#37

EMT/Security for a tribal casino, graveyard shift, $18/hr. I've seen things you wouldn't believe.

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#38

Drive yard truck for Walmart. Make 10k a month or 120k a year

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#39

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do CDL truck driver doing rolloff dumpsters for $20/hr

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#40

I'm head of HR and Finances at a national political party (non-US). I make about 60k a year (before taxes).

Might take up walking dogs as a side gig, after reading this thread.

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#41

Finance, basically Excel for a living. 95k$ per year taxes and health insurance already deducted.

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#42

Union journeyman plumber/pipefitter $46.33 an hour.

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#43

Agency (travel) nurse $81.50/hr, $130/hr OT

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#44

Aircraft Cleaner, $17/hr + free flights :D it’s a pretty fun job I enjoy it

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#45

Front end Web developer. Between my job and side business coding small business websites I do about $120k a year. Hoping to double that by next year.

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#46

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do I do whatever needs to be done around the warehouse that doesn't require a forklift. $19/hour

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#47

Third mate on an oil tanker. $95k-100k per year

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#48

Professional Theatre Actress. Current job $568 a week before taxes.

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#49

Toddler lead teacher. Just got a raise from 9.65 (minimum wage) to 10.50 but not because I’m valued, because we’re so severely understaffed and everyone that walks through walks right back out once they learn how low the wage is. Don’t blame them one bit.

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#50

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Restaurant Manager for a well known “Breasturant”…$75k base salary and $20-$25k in annual bonuses

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#51

Street Magician. It depends, location and season are the biggest factors. I can make anywhere from $300-$3k a week.

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#52

Custodian $24/hr government/ union job with benefits and pension.

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#53

Disabled Veteran 30k a year

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#54

Massage therapist /esthetician $22hr at my job. $100hr working for myself.

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#55

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Walmart stocker, $15/hour, about $20,000 a year.

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#56

Wendy’s Crew Member, $9 normal hours, $10 when I close. If I become an ambassador I could make $12 an hour but that’s a lot of work. I work the grill usually and they say I’m the best at it not including the managers and one of the ambassadors.

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#57

Nightclub Director. Las Vegas. 100k base. 100k tip pool. 150k performance bonus.

And the other perks

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#58

Substitute Teacher, $40.57 an hour

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#59

Sustainability consultant, 40k.

It's an entry-level position I got right after graduating. I mostly do life cycle assessment and environmental impact assessment. Very fulfilling job but also pretty stressful.

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#60

Cyber security advisor three years in. 141k.

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#61

30 People Reveal How Much They Get Paid For The Job They Do Project Manager in the wireless telecommunications industry and I make $95k a year. I live in the Northern California area.

I also am a part time horse photographer (because I love it) and I make an additional $20-25k at that.

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#62

Nuclear plant electrician 50 an hour, 130-150k a year depending on Ot/bonus. Moving into an operations role in the plant soon

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#63

Strip Club DJ. Gross around $65k doing three nights a week.

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#64

Litigator. $225k

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#65

Design - $100/hr - websites, art direction for marketing campaigns, all contract work currently so it’s either a feast or a famine

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#66

Oil refinery guy, 150k/yr; union job; 401k and pension; good benefits.

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#67

Senior Hardware engineer for a tech company. Everything said and done I’ll make about 270k this year including benefits.

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#68

I work factory for a smaller company that makes mcdonald’s buns i’m quality control. 60k yr

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#69

Dental assistant $30/hr

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#70

Chipotle GM, 58k/year

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#71

English prof, 45k and I teach 4 different classes each semester, supervise MA students, do research, and serve on a bunch of committees/do service for the university. :(

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#72

Meat manager salaried at 77k + bonuses.

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#73

Welder- $25 hourly

Hopefully I can up that wage when I start working union soon.

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#74

Manager of a Cannabis Dispensary $17hr

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#75

$26.51/hr OT at $46/hr after 76hrs fortnightly.

What do I do? Milk cows and act as a farm hand doing what ever the owners of the dairy want.

What's funny is besides the owners wife, my partner and I are the only ones here tht have a professional degree and have any business experience.

Will miss the money when my visa runs outs and I have to go home.

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#76

Data analyst. 65k annually.

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#77

Software engineer, $133k/yr not factoring in bonus and discounted stock

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#78

Malware analyst. $125k

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#79

Paramedic in the UK

£17.50ish/hr after shift overruns and unsocial hours pay I make in the neighbourhood of £43,000 per annum.

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#80

I'm a university student and I have a part-time job as a lifeguard. I get paid $23 an hour which is pretty good.

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#81

Electrical substation design engineer. $126,000/year

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#82

Actuary. About 110k base before bonus.

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#83

Virtual assistant $4 an hour

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