What type of professions earned over $250k a year?

[clarabelle]

When I post on those kinds of dis polls I am posting my DH's income -and no he does not have time to dis -he works 70 or so hours a week

 

[Tinks]

OK, so what are they doing hanging around the DIS?? Oh, and my Dr. DOES not Clear 250k a year, according to HIM.

Don't know if it's already been posted, but if your doctor is in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics,....any guy you would see for a family doc, he ISN"T clearing 250. They generally have to work the hardest, too.

Only the MDs who specialize make the bigger $. They go to school longer and have a training. There are fewer of them that can do a particular skill, so they pull in more money. Makes sense.

 

[lindalinda]

How in the world did President Bush freeze your wages?

I am a govt employee. His administration froze my wages. I dont even get cost of living increases. New hires in my field have been hired in at at 30% pay cut. My pay will be frozen until the new pay rates "catch up" which will be in 10 years or so. I will be long retired.

 

[chrisw127]

I would like to respectfully disagree regarding tenured professors: The average professor is lucky to make around $100,000. They don't call it the academic ghetto for nothing.

 

[BuckNaked]

I am a govt employee. His administration froze my wages. I dont even get cost of living increases. New hires in my field have been hired in at at 30% pay cut. My pay will be frozen until the new pay rates "catch up" which will be in 10 years or so. I will be long retired.

Are you under pay for performance? If not, federal employees, including military, have gotten annual cost of living raises every year for at least the last 20 years. There have been no wage freezes that I'm aware of.

 

[Papa Deuce]

My wife works for a company in the pharma business... They have offices all over the world. I know of at LEAST 10 people just in her building that make 250K plus....

 

[Belle1962]

not me but thinking outside the box I would guess:

commercial sex workers

 

[Island_Lauri]

I still think that it is very interesting (even a little amazing ) that while the estimate is that only 2.5 million tax payers out of over a 100 million tax payers (or just 2.5%) have an adjusted gross income of over $250,000, there are so many right here on the disboards.

Sidenote: An annual income of $250,000 is equal to over $4800 a week.

This is especially interesting when you look at the US Dept of Labor Bureau of Statistics for New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA list which shows only the following jobs as earning an annual mean of $125,000 or more. (Please note I have taken into account 2 professionals being married and filing their taxes together.)

Occupation Title Employment Median Hourly Mean Hourly Mean Annual

Management Occupations 419,240 $54.51 $60.07 $124,940
Chief Executives 12,040 (5) $91.03 $189,340
General and Operations Managers 93,790 $63.75 $67.81 $141,040
Advertising and Promotions Managers 5,500 $58.05 $62.85 $130,740
Marketing Managers 18,350 $64.49 $68.58 $142,640
Sales Managers 21,560 $64.70 $67.32 $140,030
Public Relations Managers 6,270 $55.64 $60.21 $125,230
Computer and Information Systems Managers 26,170 $64.17 $67.07 $139,510
Financial Managers 58,080 $63.60 $68.22 $141,900
Engineering Managers 7,280 $59.37 $63.21 $131,480

Personal Financial Advisors 20,690 $57.25 $62.71 $130,440

Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 1,420 $65.79 $61.85 $128,650

Dentists, General 7,630 $63.87 $67.75 $140,920
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 620 (5) $76.24 $158,590
Orthodontists 460 (5) $80.28 $166,990
Prosthodontists (8) (5) $89.20 $185,530
Family and General Practitioners 4,300 (5) $74.52 $155,000
Internists, General 3,370 (5) $79.57 $165,500
Obstetricians and Gynecologists 1,290 (5) $88.37 $183,800
Pediatricians, General 1,920 $65.72 $70.00 $145,600
Psychiatrists 3,130 $68.97 $66.95 $139,250
Surgeons 2,470 (5) $93.14 $193,740
Physicians and Surgeons, All Other 35,910 $68.81 $67.47 $140,340
Podiatrists 1,120 $58.72 $61.78 $128,500

Air Traffic Controllers 920 $69.42 $67.76 $140,950

You can find the entire list here: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_35620.htm#b00-0000

Some more interesting statistics:

All Occupations 8,340,640 $18.81 $24.43 $50,820

Management Occupations 419,240 $54.51 $60.07 $124,940
Business and Financial Operations Occupations 444,170 $32.71 $37.36 $77,710
Computer and Mathematical Science Occupations 248,230 $38.11 $39.68 $82,540
Architecture and Engineering Occupations 96,180 $34.09 $36.41 $75,720
Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations 89,810 $30.39 $34.12 $70,980
Community and Social Services Occupations 152,830 $19.63 $21.51 $44,740
Legal Occupations 110,350 $45.31 $52.95 $110,130
Education, Training, and Library Occupations 595,810 $24.18 $26.71 $55,550
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations 164,850 $25.89 $31.05 $64,580
Healthcare Practitioner and Technical Occupations 427,300 $33.19 $37.98 $79,010
Healthcare Support Occupations 300,780 $12.45 $13.21 $27,480
Protective Service Occupations 259,530 $19.21 $21.78 $45,300
Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations 520,640 $9.98 $11.54 $24,000
Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations 281,950 $12.62 $13.76 $28,610
Personal Care and Service Occupations 258,820 $11.34 $13.96 $29,040
Sales and Related Occupations 897,010 $14.39 $22.34 $46,470
Office and Administrative Support Occupations 1,621,270 $16.13 $17.14 $35,640
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations 3,820 $11.35 $13.34 $27,750
Construction and Extraction Occupations 295,680 $25.52 $26.88 $55,910
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations 297,960 $21.23 $22.00 $45,760
Production Occupations 355,080 $13.57 $15.67 $32,590
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations 499,330 $14.38 $16.84 $35,020

So do you really think that it is just a matter of hard work and 'putting in your time' that gets you to an annual income of $250,000 a year? I guess it is helpful if a judge marries a surgeon. Is that how so many of the posters on this board earn over $250,000 or are they just extraordinary?

 

[corndog]

not me but thinking outside the box I would guess:

commercial sex workers

outside the box?

 

[Island_Lauri]

My wife works for a company in the pharma business... They have offices all over the world. I know of at LEAST 10 people just in her building that make 250K plus....

Hmmm... Just wondering if there is any connection from that to the high cost of healthcare/health insurance in the US

 

[delilah]

I am a doctor and my husband is a research scientist at a pharmaceutical firm. I am not sure how anybody who has a full time job finds a significant amount of time to post on the DIS. I probably spend a total of 1 hour a week reading or posting on the DIS. Our combined income grosses about $250K, which is a respectable but not exorbitant income considering the hours we work and the level of education we have achieved.

 

[Papa Deuce]

OK, so what are they doing hanging around the DIS?? Oh, and my Dr. DOES not Clear 250k a year, according to HIM.

Where should they be hanging? They have free time just like everybody else, don't they? I see no corellation between making a good living and being on the DIS.... In fact, if there is one, I would think it MORE likely that well off folks come to the DIS.

To experience Disney and WDW like so many here do, one would need to make a very good living.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Hmmm... Just wondering if there is any connection from that to the high cost of healthcare/health insurance in the US

It's all relative... $250K a year where I live is upper middle class, but not wealthy by any means.

 

[BuckNaked]

It's all relative... $250K a year wear I live is upper middle class, but not wealthy by any means.

Same here.

 

[Island_Lauri]

And all the small business owners:

Do you mean that your small business has an annual net profit of over $250,000 or you take a salary of over $250,000 from your small business?

I am assuming that you do realize that taxes are NOT calculated on the gross income or even net income of a business. Either you pay income tax on the wages you take from your business or on the net profit if you are unincorporated or have a "S" corporation.

 

[lindalinda]

Island Lauri , reference your list. Air Traffic controllers are listed as making 140,000. This would be at O'hare or Atlanta or New York. On the old pay scale. (Very busy airports.) New hired controllers start at most places at around 35,000 and after full certification (several years training) can make about 80,000. If Obama is elected that may change (hopefully) since the staffing is critical now and they are hiring people "off the street" for training.

 

[lindalinda]

It's all relative... $250K a year where I live is upper middle class, but not wealthy by any means.

I agree. But most of the country it would be well off at least. Not in the high rent urban areas though.

I could live like a queen here on that amount. OK, maybe not a queen, but I wouldn/t be sweating the small stuff.

 

[Island_Lauri]

It's all relative... $250K a year where I live is upper middle class, but not wealthy by any means.

How exactly is it MIDDLE CLASS when it is only 2.5% of tax payers?

Based on 2005 Census Bureau reports, some 40 percent of the nearly 115 million households in the U.S. earned less than $36,000 a year. That represented just 12 percent of all income. The 40 percent on the next rung up the economic ladder took in between $36,000 and $91,705 — or about 37.6 percent of all income. The top 20 percent, who made $91,705 or more, collected half of all income.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21272238/page/2/

 

[BuckNaked]

How exactly is it MIDDLE CLASS when it is only 2.5% of tax payers?

The 2.5% doesn't take into account the cost of living in different parts of the country. Surely you don't believe that someone making $250,000 in DC, NYC or SF are going to be living the same lifestyle (which is just as big a factor in "middle class" as actual dollars) as someone in say Wheeling, WV or Slapout, Alabama. Or do you?

 

[dvcgirl]

Software consultants
Top Salesmen/women at software companies
Executives at software consultanting firms

Thanks for bringing up software consultants....that's my DH.