How much do you get paid per hour?

[*bratcat*]

 

[lovetoread]

Nothing.

Being a mom doesnt pay well at all.

 

[Liontamr]

Working at a sports store I get: not enough / hr.

The clothing discounts are always a bonus though.

 

[Wiggles]

After seeing what you're getting, I'm just not telling.

 

[AusTess]

It varies.
But on average about 14 bucks.

fuck all.

 

[madelaine angel]

I work for american Express in england. i get 5 quid (7 dollars 50 ish???) per hour. and NO perks at all.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Seeing as how there is such a huge difference in car insurance, it must stand to reason that the hourly wage would be different as well.


For my job as a medical transcriptionist, I get $21/hour

For what I do it ranges from about $0 to about $0 , but when I am actually employed people in my profession make around $30-60 US ($47-94 Canuckian). It depends on your experience, how much your skills are in demand, and where you work (California pays better than Seattle). That is an annual salary broken down to hourly wage assuming a 40 hour work week, which is not always true in my profession, with 45-50 hours a week being the average, and 80 hours a week during "death marches".

 

[Guest]

 

[Bob Peale]

Sometimes it feels like about $0.27US

 

[enjoyingitall]

I'm a teacher...so not nearly enough, but there are so many other rewards, so many things that can't be earned through money that come fromt teaching..LOL at least that's what I tell my self each time I see my check anyway.

 

[Raina]

$10 per hour as computer help-desk support and $9.50 at a warehouse.

 

[Liontamr]

I actually don't feel so bad about what I am making now considering what others are...

9.50 / hr ... and like I said I get mega sweet deals on shoes and clothes and sports gear (cost plus 10%) .. So in the end, I can't really complain a whole lot.

 

[Bob Peale]

Seeing as how there is such a huge difference in car insurance, it must stand to reason that the hourly wage would be different as well.


For my job as a medical transcriptionist, I get $21/hour

$21 Canadian? I think here in the states the going rate is $12 - $15/hr

 

[Eagle70]

So far, seems like everyone is more or less kicking my ass...i work at a deli counter "part time", but i work 56 hours a week more or less, which is more than the "full timers".

I used to make 7.75, then threatened to quit, so now i'm at the maximum for part timers, at 8.50. time and a half on sundays, plus any hours over 40 are time and a half overtime. Ya know, for a company thats set to make something like 240 million dollars over this year, i'm getting jack shit.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Originally posted by Eagle70 I used to make 7.75, then threatened to quit, so now i'm at the maximum for part timers, at 8.50. time and a half on sundays, plus any hours over 40 are time and a half overtime. Ya know, for a company thats set to make something like 240 million dollars over this year, i'm getting jack shit. [/B]

Well, when I was first starting out (30 years ago) I made minimum wage which was $1.60 then - in today's dollars that is about $6.60. A loaf of bread was about $0.20, a gallon of gas was about $0.28 for regular leaded, and rent on a 2 bedroom duplex was about $125 - adjusted for inflation, that is only clightly cheaper than now.

 

[Zamdrist]

I'm on salary, made 46K last year. Seriously underpaid for a Geek Pimp. (Note the capitals)

 

[Bindii]

I run my own business...so its hard to work out a hourly rate. Last year (our first year of operation) I made a little over $85,000AUD Gross

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

I'm on salary, made 46K last year. Seriously underpaid for a Geek Pimp. (Note the capitals)

Right now, for the midwest, that is not bad - I would consider a job at that salary range just to keep a roof over my head. Geek pay has gone down quite a bit in the last year, and I would be thankful just to have a job if I could get one.

 

[Zamdrist]

Right now, for the midwest, that is not bad - I would consider a job at that salary range just to keep a roof over my head. Geek pay has gone down quite a bit in the last year, and I would be thankful just to have a job if I could get one.

True indeed. I guess when I hear that people, in my area, making 60K-70K it makes me wonder. I do SQL and VB programming, as well as helpdesk, support and anything else someone might need worked on or helped with.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: How much do you get paid per hour?

$21 Canadian? I think here in the states the going rate is $12 - $15/hr

Good guess! Right on at my Hospital.

I'm responsible for 1/3 of my Hospital's income and keeps us profitable, but my salary does NOT reflect it. My ulcer does, though.

 

[Bob Peale]

Re: Re: Re: How much do you get paid per hour?

Good guess! Right on at my Hospital.

I'm responsible for 1/3 of my Hospital's income and keeps us profitable, but my salary does NOT reflect it. My ulcer does, though.

LOL, it's been a while, but I used to do management consulting for hospitals, and 9 out of 10 operations moved their transcriptionists offsite because the revenue stream improved significantly when you paid that rate and didn't have to carry the overhead of office space.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

True indeed. I guess when I hear that people, in my area, making 60K-70K it makes me wonder.

I heard of people in my area making twice what I did, but not anymore. There is a wide variation in software engineering with some people still makingtwice what others do. It just depends on their experience and skill set. Like I said, be happy you have a job and ride it out until the economy comes back in a year or two.

I do SQL and VB programming, as well as helpdesk, support and anything else someone might need worked on or helped with.

SQL and VB are good skill sets, especially SQL. I would widen your horizons with Java, XML, ********** and HTML. Perl is also in demand. The problem with VB is twofold; it is inextricably tied to MS, and it will probably be replaced with something like C# which will also be tied to MS forever. You can go to C# and .NET if you don't mind that - there will be jobs for MS specific devo skills in the near future - but if you want to have a broader choice of job opportunities, learn non-MS specific languages and platforms.

 

[Zamdrist]

...but if you want to have a broader choice of job opportunities, learn non-MS specific languages and platforms.

I do play, I mean play around with Linux, shell scripting, awk, grep and what not. Have even wrote two scripts we use at work, though on Win32 platforms.

Personally I think Java is a joke, but that's my opinion. I have a wide range of skills, just mostly PC specific. How'd that happen I wonder? LOL.

I would do for me to learn Perl though.

I'm not a huge supporter of MS, but I can't say I would be here today without the relative easy of entrance into the programming environment. I know...that's a double-edged sword.

 

[Cheyenne]

Um, I didn't know my hourly rate until I just figured it out. I don't think there is any graceful way of answering this question though so I'll just say I get paid fairly for my position. I have no complaint.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

I do play, I mean play around with Linux, shell scripting, awk, grep and what not. Have even wrote two scripts we use at work, though on Win32 platforms.

Linux experience is good, especially if you want to get into any server side web development.

Personally I think Java is a joke, but that's my opinion.

Java is no joke, ********** yeah, but not Java. I have experience with Object Pascal, C, C++, Assembly and Java, and my fave is Java. It is no lightweight, and I have done serious cross-platform desktop applications with Java. Even with C++ cross-platform work is a major headache, which is why I got involved with Java. My main reservation with Java are that it isn't quite mature yet; Swing is not up to par with MFC from the users perspective (with regards to performance and polish), and the JVM is not up to compiled language performance levels yet. Both are getting better, especially the JVM, and it is just so much easier to do anything in Java once you get your mind around it.

I'm not a huge supporter of MS, but I can't say I would be here today without the relative easy of entrance into the programming environment. I know...that's a double-edged sword.

My entrance into programming environment came via Borland not MS - back then MS devo environs sucked big time for the newbie. Now MS is among the best - but they still lock you into their environment, and that is bad in the long run.

You've got your foot in the door now, use that to go onto bigger and better things. One of my bosses had a sign in his office that said something along these lines - "evolve or die".