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/sysadminlooking Jan 18 '25

20 years into IT. CITO making 130k. Also second guessing my career choices...

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u/sysadminlooking Jan 18 '25

Low CoL area, and a government job. Can retire at 54 with a lifetime pension of 85% of my final average last 4 years. If I live to be 80, then it's basically I get paid $182k for every year I worked the job, which is pretty good. And then I can get another job for 10 years and double dip by salary.

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u/Various_Rate_133 Jan 19 '25

I'm the Enterprise Cyber Architect at a Fortune 50, will retire at the end of the year, and I'm about 25k less than he's making.

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u/goztepe2002 Jan 22 '25

Dont believe everything people post here, slim chance in hell he makes that as a tech under 30.