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@mrbee: haha very funny. clearly you know the answer to that. But don't forget we have 14% sales taxes and that's apart from being over taxed on top of it. I guess you can't have it all.
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@Lindsay05: ditto!!! I'm from Quebec so even our sales taxes are higher than the rest of canada. 14% !!! FML.
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Made over $45k when I first got out of college over 10 years ago. Now, I make nothing as a sahm lol.
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When I graduated in 05 I started work on my masters...got a long term sub job in a school and made about 150/day. At my highest, I was making 55k, the district I'm in now, I'm more at 48k.
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when i graduated in 06 i made about 30k at a paper distributing company as a logistics specialist, now i make about 66k as a legal secretary in ny. i've come a long way!
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I was a journalism major, I made $21K at my first job out of college, at a newspaper. Now I make $65K but I have a marketing job. I consider myself extremely lucky. I wouldn't be making more than $40K if I'd stayed in journalism, not where we live. Not by a long shot. I have been out of school for 12 years.
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I graduated college in 2011 and became a junior corporate tax paralegal right out the gate (wills and estates are dead in the water over here
) making $38,900 CAD per annum. I'm still with the same firm a little over a year later and make $41,000 a year without bonuses.And another HUGE agree on the craziness that is taxation in Canada- you should see the ridiculously low sums some of my clients pay (percentage wise obviously) compared to how I'm taxed making so little. Thankfully I'm in Alberta though and we are still a GST (5%) only province. I feel so bad for you HST'ers!
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My first job out of university was in 2005, making 35k annually. Thankfully, it's more than doubled since then...but i may attribute it to moving to a city that pays better.
@Lindsay05: Fortunately, taxes do more than just support those who do not work.
I would gladly pay more taxes if it meant better services and programs. Coming to Alberta from Ontario, i see a difference in healthcare and social programs.
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@caffeinated: of course
thats why I said thats a whole other topic! It would be hypocritical of me to fully mean that when im sitting here enjoying maternity EI benefits for a year!
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@Lindsay05: Haha, of course!
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I have a master's in art therapy. I made $27 right out of college and now I make....... nothing! I'm a sahm. I get paid in giggles and poo.
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Fresh out of college in 2004 with a BS in engineering I earned 40k per year. Now 8 years, a few job changes and a professional license later, I made 2.5x that and my husband is just under me. It seems like a good amount but living in NYC is expensive! Very high cost of living.
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Straight after college, I was working as a financial analyst at a national bank making $39k a year. Three years later, I moved to a consultant position for $53k. This job was generous, five years in I was making 80k plus bonus. Now I'm a sahm and make nothing
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Since graduating it has gone up probably 50% in 6 years. I was a steal right after graduating though becuase I wasn't licensed yet.
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Graduated in 2000 with a BS in CS and was making 48k+bonus, now I am making ~3x that amount.
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I just graduated Feb this year with a (fairly useless) degree in Linguistics. I was working my last 2 years of college making NZD $17.50 an hour (which here is aMAYzing for a student), but quit when I graduated, planning on moving to the US. That never quite happened, so now I'm too pregnant to get a job, and am planning on being a SAHM anyway!
On the other hand, DH went to college (in the US) for 4 years on and off, and never graduated. Was probably making around 80k in CA when he officially gave up on college, and is making a lot more than that now, in New Zealand (still with no degree... I'm working on sending him back!
)@Mrs. Jacks: On a note completely unrelated to this thread... I read that article, and I think it would be interesting to see data on how much tax evasion etc. was going on when the top rate was in the 90%s!
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I graduated in 2003 and started as a research tech at $28000. Now, I'm at 50k. I think it would be higher, but we've at a salary freeze the past two years. I'm so tired of this recession.
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HST blows! I am in Ontario
In 2006 I graduated with a BA, but didn't get a real job until late 2007 (I spent early 2007 doing my "paid pennies, but had to go and do it because I wanted to" job) and in the first "real job" was paid $32K. No further education since, just worked my way up, and am now at $66K, I have no goals to ever make more, totally happy where I am at, but know I will see annual increases as the year's go by.
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My first salaried position paid $32K as a a Marketing Coordinator. I graduated in 2002.
I now make about triple that in Medical Device Sales. And I get a free car/gas which I don't count as income but it's a pretty substantial monetary value.
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My first job out of college, I made $6,000/year.
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I graduated with a BS in 2003 and was making around 25k. I was up to 32k in 2006 when I went back for my masters but then when I moved to MT I went back to making 25k again. Now I am back on the east coast and making about 53k. I'm a social worker so I knew going into it that I probably wouldn't make very much. Luckily DH is in finance so we do very well.
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I worked part time and summers all through college in a professional job so they automatically hired me when I graduated at age 22. I remember my salary: $37,000.
It's been 9 years (yikes!) but I now make around $82,000. But, I have always worked in a field I don't like so I could make more money so I can hopefully stay home with LO.
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I remember my first salary like it was yesterday. $34k. 10 years and a 6 month executive management training program later, I'm making 4x that. We live in San Francisco, though, where cost of living is outrageous!
) making $38,900 CAD per annum. I'm still with the same firm a little over a year later and make $41,000 a year without bonuses.
I would gladly pay more taxes if it meant better services and programs. Coming to Alberta from Ontario, i see a difference in healthcare and social programs.
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