Depends on whose life it is. If you are a chef to Putin then it might be quite lucrative (at least until your plane falls out of the sky!)
Here’s mine:
You can see the point where I stopped chasing work and decided to aim for work/life balance and then a few years later when I discovered FIRE and decided to aim for FI.
I started another thread to share side hustle progression:
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Out of curiosity, why the jump? Have you been promoted again (or very high perf rating)? Retention refresh grant?
(Otherwise sounds impressive for what I assume is equivalent to L6 at Google, my total comp has mostly been going down over the past 3 years 
given the grant refreshes/stock market)
No, actually my performance this year might be the worst so far. It’s just decent stock grants in the past years coupled with great market performance. If things stay as they are now, I might break the 700k mark next year before heading down to 500. Don’t think I have another promo in me, it’s also getting extremely hard to gain more influence and scope after some time.
You’re at big G? I guess there’s no hiring going on anymore, right?
Yeah not much hiring, should be able to tell from external job postings (and reading external news, seems like they laid off people from the recruiting org? 
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Hi there! I thought about doing this and asking you for some recommendations on how to increase my salary. Here goes my salary progression:
2019 (23 yo): 21.490€
2020: 23.590€ (+9,77%)
2021: 26.460€ (+12,17%), in June 31.500€ (+19,05%) w/ promotion
2022: 33.600€ (+6,67%), in February 130.000 CHF by moving to Zurich
2023: 130.000 CHF, Bonus 6.500 CHF
I moved to Switzerland as part of my FIRE plan, and I was expecting to move on a ~100k salary and to remain that way through 2023. So in the end I am better than I was expecting. However, I also have friends who work in tech companies and I know there’s a lot more money to be made. So I was wondering if tech is the only way, if consulting can also reach those levels of salary, or if you have any other suggestions for me. Here are a few things worth knowing:
- I don’t have a technical background but I do work well as a consultant inbetween business and tech
- I work in banking and I’m not very interested in moving away from financial services
- I’m not expecting major salary increases except with one promotion in the coming years
- Fintech companies don’t really pay much better (I guess?), nor do other banks
- I realize my friends in tech also work much harder than I do, so in order to accept that additional amount of work, it really needs to be well compensated
Do any jobs or companies come to mind? 
Thank you!
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Not a progression, but a small update from me. Changed company and moved to a slightly more technical role: Down to 145k/year (from 155 and 135 in the last two jobs)
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From Jannuary i will work in the banking sector.
Projected 165k
I still don’t exactly know the expectations for my new role, but i hope i can perform at my best.
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Small update + projection
If my compensation continue to grow, I will hit the double of my initial compensation in 2028 
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Here are my rough numbers:
2017: ~5k
2018: ~10k
2019: ~8k
2020: ~20k (internship)
2021: ~40k (internship & first job)
2022: ~50k (work, research, shifting to
2023: ~84k (work, running non-profit project)
I will likely take a voluntary pay cut in 2024. I am no longer prioritizing FI because I want to focus on projects that I find much more important than my personal finances. But I plan to optimise my investing/etc. from what I learned from the FIRE community while not optimising for FI.
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2018: ~50k (internship, unemployement benefit, fixed-term employment)
2019: ~50k (fixed-term employment, unemployement benefit, trainee lawyer)
2020: ~50k (trainee lawyer, open-ended employment, unemployement benefit)
2021: ~45k (unemployement benefit, trainee lawyer)
2022: ~40k (trainee lawyer, DPO internship)
2023: 99k (Legal Counsel in the public sector)
2024: 103k (Legal Counsel in the public sector)
As working in the public sector, the salary will never increase more than 2% of my maximum class. For 2024, it will be 3% because of the inflation though.
Despite this (could be worse and I’ve already known worse in the past), I’m really happy with my work (got a new project), colleagues and managers. There is a welcoming and trustful atmosphere and I’ve started a new education in order to become a CSI/SSK Tax Expert. Also, I’m very satisfied that my previous CAS (data protection and digital finance law) are useful for my department.
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Well done. ML skills are in high demand, make the most of them until the party lasts
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Little update from my side:
This will probably my last career jump before FI, not sure if I will continue or just do what I like. I might be able to jump up to general management (my boss is retiring in 4y and is lining me up), but hey, let’s see where life goes.
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Congrats! That is a massive change within the same industry. Can you share some details about how did that? How did you negotiate at your new job? What changes at your role will happen, like responsibilities, etc.
Given the studies and the field (PhD in a field that’s extremely popular and sought after), I think the issue was indeed the first job salary.
How do you do a 100k upgrade? 
Is this sw.engineering?
Congrats!
2023 was eventful. Got fired from my job and found a new one quickly (good job market for civil/environmental engineers right now in the région lémanique at least) I’ll work part time (80%) starting January 1st 2024.
2016: 75K
Entry salary - environmental engineer MSc working on road projects - Wallis
2017: 77K
Environmental engineer MSc working in hydraulics - Wallis
2018: 90K
Public, Gemeinde of 1k to 2k inhabitants, head of a very small infrastructure department - Wallis.
2019: 90K
2020: 90K
2021: 90K
2022: 92K
2023: 95k (previous job)
2023: 105k: 95k base, 10k variable
Project manager, environmental engineering - Wallis
Expected for 2024 : 82k (80%): 76k fixed, 6k variable (103k equivalent at 100%).
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Working as a SE Engineer with Bsc in IT.
Working in Bern/Zürich
2013-2016: 58k - 65k
2016-2018: 78k (finished my Bachelor Degree in IT in 2017)
2019: 95k (worked at an IT Contractor Company)
2020: 100k (worked at an IT Contractor Company)
2021: 105k (worked at an IT Contractor Company)
2022: 110k (worked at an IT Contractor Company)
2023: 250k (started to work as a Freelancer)
2024: expect 200k-220k (Work less to look after the children)
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congrats, shows that freelancing can be hugely better compensated. I assume that’s pre deductions for pension fund etc.?
If you don’t mind sharing, which specific field do you freelance in? And are you engaged as a contractor for a single client or lots of different clients?
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Im working for a single client. My hourly rate is almost the same as at the IT Contractor Company before. But now i get the whole cake and not only part of it ^^
Pension wise i have to go with the plan the company where i am employed offers me. Sometimes if you want to work with big clients you need a company which already has a contract with the company to deliver them manpower. Otherwise you will not get a contract or get into the firm because most of the time they either want to reduce the amount of external workers or they just wanna work with a specific selection of companies. And because of that i am actually employed but get almost the whole cake. so its me ↔ company X ↔ client
And its normal software engineering
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