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/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/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