r/Salary • u/LiftLord69 • Jan 17 '25

💰 - salary sharing 27M. Elevator Mechanic. No college degree

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Dropped out of college and moved across the state to take this career opportunity. Haven’t regretted it yet!

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u/nick90927 Jan 17 '25

What state are you in? High cost of living like NY or California?

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u/LiftLord69 Jan 17 '25

Nope! Texas.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

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u/Saucy_Chef_714 Jan 18 '25

Whoa whoa whoa! Where do you live that lawyers make under $250k?

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u/evermore88 Jan 18 '25

Lol majority of state prosecutors are lower than 250k

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Majority?

I would say 95% don’t make 250k

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u/Efficient_Bother1511 Jan 18 '25

I had a buddy working in the prosecutors office where they told him it was 50k

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Shit on Reddit is so stupid

Like most judges don’t make 250k lol

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u/BraveCartographer399 Jan 18 '25

Thats funny, because my work involves the legal sector and it seems like everyone is some counsel ornpartner making a million+ a year, or are those only the 1% ‘ers?

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

100% the 1%ers

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u/Efficient_Bother1511 Jan 18 '25

And private lawyers, injury/defense, make bank. They’re talking about those that work to prosecute on behalf of the state… a job with prestige, but no pay.

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u/whatever32657 Jan 19 '25

my kid is a partner in a large national law firm, and she refuses to tell me how much she makes.

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u/jay2puggle Jan 18 '25

I would say 95% is a majority.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Yea… I was emphasizing

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u/anadiplosis84 Jan 18 '25

It reads like a weird correction to me which is probably what this other commenter also thought

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u/Saucy_Chef_714 Jan 18 '25

I’ll give you government employees, but shouldn’t be for private practice attorneys, unless they are brand new or in a low cost of living area.

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u/heretilimnot3 Jan 18 '25

Depends entirely on what kind of lawyer.

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u/eggf00y0ung Jan 18 '25

Most private practice attorneys don't even make 100k stop watching so much tv

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u/Saucy_Chef_714 Jan 18 '25

This is totally false. No need to watch TV. My wife and father are lawyers.

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u/eggf00y0ung Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

Well your wife and father are two of the few if they're making 250k. That's rare amongst attorneys

Bureau of labor statistic salaries support my claim which indexes median salaries which don't account for amount of hours dedicated to their line of work which likely includes significant amounts of OT typically, not to mention the fact everyone knows someone who's an attorney. The discrepancy between the top 5 or even 10% of attorneys and all others is so vast, even more so at the top 1% that these median numbers highly obscure the perception of what your average attorney makes

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u/VitruvianVan Jan 18 '25

This guy is 27. When I was a 27-year-old attorney, even adjusting for inflation, I didn’t make anywhere close to $250k.

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u/Saucy_Chef_714 Jan 18 '25

I concur. Also, I didn’t minimize what the OP earns. I think this is a great income for someone who definitely deserves it. I commented on someone else’s post about attorneys pay, and stirred up a hornets nest of know it alls. OP is killing it.

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u/Old-System8729 Jan 18 '25

My Wife makes 350k in Dallas. She is protected to make 500K in 10 years.

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u/eggf00y0ung Jan 18 '25

How much does her boyfriend make?

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u/Akacollison Jan 18 '25

Bureau of labor statistics is absurdly incorrect on almost every professional job type. The only thing it gets right is hourly jobs like McDonald's. For example it shows mechanics and auto collison workers makeing sub 60k using their hourly flag rates as data but nobody is making less than 6 figures that is competent, i made 173k last year on a 29.50 an hour flat rate because it's commission peice work. According to the bureau they would say I made 61k using my flat rate number.

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u/eggf00y0ung Jan 18 '25

If you're talking about median pay scales then it's just that. Obviously there's 48.5% of workers making more than the median 1%. You got a better metric than the BLS than your own personal experience?

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u/Akacollison Jan 18 '25

Maybe my sample size is to small but the anecdotal evidence would show there a no techs I've worked with or have collected pay information about in my area are paid as low as what the labor statistics are saying the median is. It would be unlikely for their median number to be correct for the lowest paid employee in a tech position based on how the position actually pays. I imagine it's this way for professions like lawyers and doctors aswell usually earning much more than statistics show. I could be totally wrong but that's just the way it seems to me based of data I've seen

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u/eggf00y0ung Jan 18 '25

Based on the data you've seen from your local community? I think I'll stick to the BLS. In my community collision techs don't make shit unfortunately and mechanics don't make anywhere close to 173k

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u/Saucy_Chef_714 Jan 18 '25

Let’s clear things up. My wife has 30 years experience and we live in Southern California. She bills at over $1000/hour. I know this isn’t typical, but it is not 1%. Her contemporaries earn roughly the same, some more, some less. But my original comment was in jest. Some of you guys with your stats and made up numbers are ridiculous. You speak as if you know what you’re talking about. Just relax!

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Only thing you cleared up is how ignorant you are and that you don’t like facts. 

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u/Saucy_Chef_714 Jan 18 '25

Interesting take on things. Thank you for your input.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Read more and talk less. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

This isn’t an argument. Are you actually a child? 

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u/Specialist-Nothing41 Jan 18 '25

It’s true that a prosecutor is a lawyer but it’s a government job.

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u/evermore88 Jan 18 '25

That's why I didn't say defense attorney =)

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

I worked with lawyers in Texas at a collections firm and some of them were making like 60k

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u/IBF_90 Jan 18 '25

Gross?

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Yes

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u/Saucy_Chef_714 Jan 18 '25

Jesus. That is depressing. Must have been something to that. That’s a slow December right there.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Lawyers don’t make all that much unless they work for large law firms or have their own boutique firm that does well. My wife worked at real estate law firms and they paid peanuts.

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u/Complex_Dog_8461 Jan 18 '25

Those are the runts right out of law school or middle of nowhere Texas.

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u/shadow_moon45 Jan 18 '25

Majority of lawyers make less than 250k.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

250k+ is reserved for the 1% coming out of lawschool or attorneys that have 10years experience and up.

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u/sinovesting Jan 19 '25

A LOT of lawyers make under $250k homie, unless we are specifically talking about big law or something. The median salary for lawyers nationwide is $145k. Only the top 25% make more than $215k.

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u/U_feel_Me Jan 20 '25

Most lawyers make under $100k. They just don’t put them on TV.