We talk about so many things openly online — travel, relationships, food — but our pay? Not so much…
I’m genuinely curious: what do you make per hour? Appreciate there will be people from everywhere hopefully engaging so please try to add the following.
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US / banking / $65 or so
I work train crew in Canada, probably average $70 CAD/hour
USA / Missouri
Application service management, Financial Services
65.86/hr + 25% bonus
5 weeks vacation
Just got back from 6 months paternity leave @ 100% pay
But I work for a European company, so ymmv.
Just note that people who make more or are more proud of their work will be more likely to share and that will skew the results here.
Canada / Film Editor
It’s a bit precarious and fluctuates, but about $50/hour CAD at the moment, which is a bit of a drop for me.
US/Engineer/58
Its a 116k salary tho
I write the words for startup homepages.
Remote. Currently in Portugal.
$200-400/hour
NE US / Engineer (utilities/grid) / ~$65/hr
US/ Sales, Territory Manager/ $140+k
I work from home when not doing sales calls. Probably legitimately work 25ish hours a week.
Youre not gonna get a realistic balance here.
The people who make a lot are gonna be eager to brag about their salary in an anonymous setting.
MI/USA
Estimating/Construction Management
I’m salaried but about $70/hr
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About $38 equivalent. 100% Govt. position Norway. 5 weeks paid vacation, unlimited sick days, free healthcare. Regulated 37.5 hours per week.
€34 an hour in Dublin.
Kansas/USA
Aviation design engineer
$51/hr
32 dollars an hour
Somewhere between 1 and 100
120k a year after taxes.
Lawyer. Work only 40 hrs a week and get full 8 weeks PTO.
feels like a dream sometimes
How do you calculate hourly rate? Most people only really know their annual income right?
United States/Ohio (work remote for Cali company)
Product Marketing – Data Security
Without counting stock options, assuming 2000 hrs/yr: $110/hr + excellent benefits. I’m at a small series A startup and took a big pay cut to come here.
$185 an hour. I work 12 hours a week, and 30 weeks a year.
US/Analyst/115k/yr
United States/West Coast
Software Engineering/Leadership role
$800ish per hour
United States/Minnesota. $25/hour. Graphic design with 8 years of experience. It’s also a contract based job so I do have to pay self employment tax, full insurance, etc.
Rural Midwest. Small government. $33, but with on call and OT usually gross around $80k. Awesome retirement package. I’m in my early 30s still.
US/Florida
Systems Admin / IT
$50/hr
Been working this field since 2012, best increases always come with a new job, not with staying with the same place unfortunately. Even when I get new certs, they don’t increase my pay, so I take my skills elsewhere. My best jump was from 2018 to 2019. Went from 72k to 93k, because the last place didn’t want to pay me after I got three requested certs.
US – Scientist working in pharma – salary breaks down to $75/hour.
29 per job hour. I work flat rate so I don’t necessarily get paid by the hour. I get paid by the job. I generally get 50 to 60 hours but only work about 36. So i make in between like $35 and $46 an hour on average. I’m a RV tech specializing in paint and body and fiberglass work.
$43.55/hr
Registered Nurse in CO
Add on about $10-$15k in overtime
70/hr program compliance and operational testing. No school just been doing similar stuff for forever.
US, Midwest
Sheet Metal
$45 ish taxable
$48.50/hr
Painter/decorator
About $3 per hour, agricultural engineer, third world country
am i fuck up?
Yes!
US/Texas
Engineering Manager / Oil and Gas – Chemicals
This year:
$99/hr salary only vs. $152/hr total comp
Next year projected:
$103/hr salary only vs. $174/hr total comp
These are all based on 2080 hours. I usually calculate it with holidays and PTO in mind to create an apples to apples comparison against a contract rate (which is typically a pure hourly in my industry).
We get 10 paid holidays and 200 hours of PTO which will increase to 240 in a year or so. I do work some OT so didn’t want to muddy up the basis here.
For a little history, my first job was $5.15/hr in 2000, my last summer job was $10.50/hr, my co-op was ~$18/hr, and my first job out of school was ~$32/hr in 2008.
USA/Midwest
$23.63/hr ($53,300/yr) – because we have no debt other than our mortgage, my wife is able to stay home and raise our daughter. Budget is tight but the Lord provides.
Mid Atlantic USA. IT. Salaried but it works out to around $72 an hour.
Wisconsin, US / Off-road equipment(scissor lifts, boom lifts, telehandlers) / $33.50/hr
I’ve gone from a mail-inserter service tech to forklift service with a $5 paycut because it was a stressful workload at Pitney Bowes and then found the work I do now with a comfortable work and stress/life balance.
It definitely takes patience to get the right thing.
UK – the north
Infosec/Data Protection – Public Sector
£26 p/h
42m
Ohio. About 27.50 an hour after bonuses. Data analyst.
My base salary comes out to about $90 an hour, but I get a bonus and another 15% of my base towards retirement.
Software engineer in somewhat specialized role in a mcol area.
Crane rigger. For 13 years. 39.75/hrs and climbing at steady rate every year.
US/aerospace/around $80 an hour
School district custodian.
Canada
32$/h.
US – California
Industry- operations manager for a bread company
$122k a year.
I can’t let myself think about my hourly rate because I work 50-60 hours a week and more because I’m always on duty. $122k isn’t great where I live in California, I’m not paycheck to paycheck but I’m definitely on a budget.
USA-Maryland
Engineer Tech
$41.95 base pay
$6 Fringe Benefit pay
$6.01 Make whole pay
I work 4-10hr days with a total daily commute ~1hr
I run a specialized nonprofit childcare center. $21/hr and tears
USA, Colorado.
Construction superintendent, construction
$55 an hour, plus 10% bonus, plus $850 a month vehicle allowance.
Putting it down to hourly I make $38/hr as an attorney for the state I live in. I live in the north east United States.
US/Texas
Senior IT Manager
$75/hour (salaried, but that’s what it works out to)
$29.50 an hour + monthly profit sharing, which usually averages out to about $38 an hour depending on the month.
Europe/IT Product Management/ ~$75 with current exchange rate
Top ~6% income earner in my country for reference.
Remote – but I’m based in VHCOL city.
I own a martech agency that works with car dealerships.
I pay myself ~150k a year.
Downside? I work 6-7 days a week and my hourly rate is probably not great. I’d guestimate it’s around $45 an hr right now just from comp.
Upside is I own 100% of the business as we’re expanding rapidly.
USA
Automotive seating
Think I’m just under $38/hour currently but there is a silly amount of overtime especially since the layoffs, pretty rare to see under 60 hours these days.
Prior to this I worked at an automotive part warehouse, started back in 2006 for around $8.10/hour and by time I left in 2015 I was a manager earning around $50k/year, but also working 10-12 hour days effectively making that $24/hour closer to $16-$17/hour.
North America.
Software sales.
I’ve never tried to calculate what I earn per hour of work, if that’s what you mean. Some weeks I work 25 hours ~ and other weeks I’ll work 65+ hours. My income is about 20% base salary and 30% variable commission rates (based on performance) and 30% RSUs and other stock awards.
We charge about $600/hour for most of our services but the bulk of our revenue is SaaS RAR – cost is based on license tier and number of users not hourly.
US /insurance adjuster about $31/hr along will all the unpaid overtime I could soak up.
$120 Hourly Per Man / Better Than it sounds on paper because the overhead is also high.
US / Process Plant Designer / $65/hr
I make as much as some engineers, but I’ve been in this field for 25 years. I think I’m at the high end for this profession. I started out at $12/hr.
USA/Upstate NY
Aerospace Manufacturing/Sr Mech Eng
$116k/year salary or $55/hr.
I make about $60 an hour plus pension. 35 hours per week.
Sr IT security analyst.
5 weeks vacation paid.
No Debt, paid off house last year.
US/ Ohio. $42.23 I work as a MT in a blood bank at a medium sized hospital network. I’ve been there for 11 years and I feel like the annual raises barely beat inflation etc. Since it’s a not for profit company we get an annual profit sharing check which usually is $300 or so. It’s a good job that can be very stressful at times or very chill other times.
I moved to the US five years ago, wasn’t able to work for the first 1.5 years then got a job in my field (automation) at $30 an hour. After a year I switched to a different company as the sole in-house automation tech and was able to secure $40 per hour. I put in an average of about 50 hours a week so the $60 overtime pay really helps.
That’s not bad for a guy with no degrees and nearly 20 years experience in my line of work. I can’t imagine how anybody is existing on less than $20 right now.
US, retail, $18/hr
Assuming a 2080 work year.
Total Comp: $192/Hr
Base: $119/hr
Location: Rustbelt Midwest
Manufacturing. Finance.
30 euro
Michigan
Lineman
Base around 124k a year usually make around 300k with OT
Right now I’m making 23.50$ will be making 26$ going to nights. Work at a factory in the Midwest. 4 10s, fri-sun off, can’t ask for better schedule wise
98.76 … Humble brag, but very proud of myself for nearly achieving a life goal of $100 per hour. Should hit it by winter
Canada
Medical Physicist
$44/Hr. Firefighter, southern USA. Comes out to about $120k per year base pay but I get bonuses in addition to this
USA / In house hospital carpenter / $33 an hour.
USA/Iowa
Sys Admin/Healthcare
Hourly rate would be impossible to figure out because of bonuses and call pay and after hours work. I made $82k last year.
1st year Union sheet metal apprentice. WI. 25.95/h on the check. Package is 40$/h ish. 50% of journeyman rate
Depends on what you do. Use a system like Glassdoor.com to find out what you should be making.
I pay my IT project teams $50-150/h (Canada). It’s a huge range depending on a lot of factors.
Film/TV Location Scout and Manager
40 years old
NYC-area
Scout rate is approx $36/hour per 12 hour day for Major Studio film/tv work – so actually $44/hour when automated OT is factored in for the day
Location Manager (department head) is technically $102/hr on studio work or advertising but there is no OT. It’s based on my day rate/weekly rate.
I’m a dual union member – DGA and Teamster. My health insurance is covered by them. No PTO or sick days. No 401k offered (I have a Roth IRA)
$35/hr
United States
EDM Toolmaker
$31.50
I’m a shift lead at Papa John’s, make $12 / hour in the South. Best I could find at the time.
I used to have much better paying jobs (tire warehouse, $17.50) but lost my previous one after a serious injury.
On the plus side, I actually like this job (the people) and I can deal with the pay for the time being. But once I’m fully healed I’ll either see about a GM position for a decent pay raise, or go back to one of my previous industries.
USA/HCOL East Coast city
Alcohol Industry Field Sales/Marketing
$58-92/hr (some weeks are less than 40 hours a week).
My compensation is on the upper end for my role/industry. I spent 10 years in my current market building my network. It makes the actual work portions expedient and I’m mostly just seeing/texting my friends/acquaintances.
US/TX
Heavy earthwork equipment operator with a CDL-A
22 per hour, 8 months on job.
We work a shitton of overtime, so weekly take home averages 1200-1500.
50-100$ an hour bar tending, 30-60$ jet ski guiding and $1200day pay + tips for 8 hours running my charter company.
East Coast USA
Casino Surveillance
~$26/hour
Health and retirement benefits are some of the best in the area, though.
Country/region USA New England/Tristate.
Job/industry-Senior sales engineer/prior territory manager – long tenure here…10+ yrs
Hourly rate about 95/per hour or 17-180k annually. I work 40 or less hours per week, probably realistically 32-35 hours as one day is remote-4/5 hours and then office for 8 hour days, some days I leave early, some days I am 30 minutes late so I pressume its a wash.
Midwest
Alcohol and drug counselor
$34
Summers and holidays off
Always interesting to work out your true hourly rate – eg Lawyers who work until midnight most days and on Sundays… what’s the actual salary divided by hours?
30M, Pittsburgh PA, $16.10. Yes I’m embarrassed about it
$32.71 an hour ER-tech.
Healthcare Staffing Midwest: $24/hour and get to work from home but don’t ever go into healthcare unless you are a provider because virtually every hospital is on the edge of financial collapse.
That’s not hyperbole and I mean virtually all of them.
USA, Midwest, rural area
Law enforcement
$27.50 an hour, with mandated ot I usually clear around 63k a year now.
BC/Canada
I work in autobody.
$27 CAD/hr
Engineer in the Netherlands, €33 per hour
I’m a contractor so I bid my own jobs but I average between $80 to $110 an hour.
I charge Between 75.- and 450.- an hour depending on how desperately you need me and how dangerous the job is and the time etc.
But that’s my hourly rate, not what I pay myself.
I have an automotive restoration business as day job but also do shipwreck recovery, emergency plumbing, (plastic) welding, courier services, and other high risk urgent repair work.
y’know when you got a problem, nobody can help you and it’s a urgent/dirty/dangerous or all three, I’m your guy. Jut gimme a coffee, pay the fee and consider it done.
U.S./New York City
CAD designer and drafter (freelance)/ Broadcast TV and Live Events
Between $65-85/Hr USD depending on the client.
As a self-employed freelancer, I cover some of my own software/computer/insurance costs, but also get to write off part of my rent/utilities as a home office.
I also have six figures of student loan debt.
Northwest USA
Heavy equipment/ entertainment mechanic
$31/hr.
I dont actually know what my hourly rate is. The way my salary is calculated is a base hourly of like $85, but then lots of other payments on top of that. It works out to me working 2 weeks on, 4 weeks off. Make about au$400000. Australian rural doctor.
I think being open about income is a good thing. Not doing so only stands to help our employers pay less.
USA/North East
Data/System Admin
~$50/hour (salary)
Pay is good for my expected workload. Work/life balance is great. Hybrid schedule is also nice. Boss is cool.
$38CAD (so, like $28 usd?)
Western Canada
Software
About 40$ an hour. I work in a warehouse
Software engineer contractor. Ohio, US. $70/hour
Usa, north east
Bcba /education/school/special needs.
$80/hour
When not on prevailing wage 25/hr, but I travel up and down California often and PW varies by county, lowest is 56 or so an hour, highest I’ve seen is 95+ iirc.
$60/hr
FIFO (fly in, fly out) iron ore miner, Western Australia. Circa $64 hr. Week on/week off roster so 26 swings per year.
I have absolutely no idea, we get a monthly salary. I have never bothered to consider what it is hourly.
Diesel Tech in US on the east coast
$31.25/hr
P.S. to other mechanics the rust belt sucks. How is it down south?
Southern California/US
Local Government/Parks & Recreation – I’m a Senior Recreation Leader
Currently, I’m making $29.74/hr
$150ish per hour. Plant manager for logging company in rural Maine.
USA New England
Ups driver
$45/hr
$383/hr
Salaried. US, western NY. Salaried but it works out to $71.54/hr. Engineer by schooling, not doing engineering currently.
US / Midwest
$68.75 hr
IT / Networking
I think we don’t tall about pay cause Honestly it’s irrelevant. Like make as much as you can to survive but making money isnt the purpose of living. Also not everyone cares about accumulating money. On top of that cost of living varies greatly depending where you live.
~$52 USD/hour (salaried)
USA/Washington DC area
Research Scientist in the Public Sector
US
Software development
$75000 salary breaks down to $37 an hour?
US/east coast major metro
Regional Executive in finance
Not an hourly employee but my base salary breaks down to $101/hr
NSW. Administration. $35.54/hr.
Eastern US
IT/ Network Tech
$30hr/62k yearly
Western Pennsylvania $28.50 supervisor at a coal preparation plant.
USA/East Coast
Cybersecurity Governance / IT
$65/h
Having wage being a taboo is how compagnies and bosses ensure they can pay you less then you are worth. In non unionized setting, if the worker is scared the others would be jealous cause they make more, they won’t ask to confirm if they actually make more or less. Best thing you can do is talk about it and help others. ( it’s also illegal in most place to prevent employees from discussing wage/salary)
I’m working in a plant, a cosy job in the lab for quality control. Salary is middle of the scale for that plant, so high for a newby, but it’s also the max i’ll make ( normal yearly inflation and upgrade, but i’ll always be in the middle of the scale)
In Canada, 35$/h. Job would probably be worth less if i didnt have to do shifts night and weekend. With the 2h mandatory overtime per week and night/sunday bonuses, it’s around 80k a year.