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> Jessica Derkis started her career earning $8 per hour ($16,640 annual salary) as the YMCA’s marketing manager. Over 10 years, she’s changed employers five ti

by vacri 9y ago

> Jessica Derkis started her career earning $8 per hour ($16,640 annual salary) as the YMCA’s marketing manager. Over 10 years, she’s changed employers five times to ultimately earn $72,000 per year at her most recent marketing position. Amazing, thanks Forbes. I never knew that if you started out on minimum wage and then moved into a mundane professional role, you'd earn considerably more!

ct520 9y ago
cakedoggie 9y ago
Why the hostility? Are people not allowed to talk about events happening now? I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read? "Oh thanks a lot ENCODE for telling us that 80 percent of the genome had a biochemical function. I didn't know we were going to repeat stuff that everybody new in 2012."??
- vacri 9y ago
  The hostility is because it's ridiculously obvious that moving from a minimum-wage job to a run-of-the-mill professional job is going to net you an incredible percentage increase in salary, especially in the US where the minimum wage is a joke. And where is the 'events happening now' in what I said? Job-hopping? Not exactly a new thing. > I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read? So... I can't be rhetorical to call out bad behaviour, but it's okay for you to do so. Nice work.
  - jpatokal 9y ago
    The person was working as a marketing manager in her first job, so it was a "a run-of-the-mill professional job" from day one, and she's still in marketing, only with 5x more salary. Then again, her first job was at YMCA, and non-profits tend to have low salaries.
    - lostboys67 9y ago
      But 8$ an hour is burger flipper wages and by definition professional jobs are salaried not hourly paid
    - vacri 9y ago
      Since when is an $8/hour professional job 'run-of-the-mill'? Are you seriously saying that that is a typical example of a professional?
  - justadeveloper2 9y ago
    It was a dumb example, that's all. In 2005, I went from being a state employee to a contractor and doubled my pay that year. Is that relevant, though?
- throwanem 9y ago
  Don't take ENCODE's word for it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23431001/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23431001/

by vacri 9y ago

ct520 9y ago

cakedoggie 9y ago

Why the hostility? Are people not allowed to talk about events happening now? I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read? "Oh thanks a lot ENCODE for telling us that 80 percent of the genome had a biochemical function. I didn't know we were going to repeat stuff that everybody new in 2012."??

vacri 9y ago
The hostility is because it's ridiculously obvious that moving from a minimum-wage job to a run-of-the-mill professional job is going to net you an incredible percentage increase in salary, especially in the US where the minimum wage is a joke. And where is the 'events happening now' in what I said? Job-hopping? Not exactly a new thing. > I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read? So... I can't be rhetorical to call out bad behaviour, but it's okay for you to do so. Nice work.
- jpatokal 9y ago
  The person was working as a marketing manager in her first job, so it was a "a run-of-the-mill professional job" from day one, and she's still in marketing, only with 5x more salary. Then again, her first job was at YMCA, and non-profits tend to have low salaries.
  - lostboys67 9y ago
    But 8$ an hour is burger flipper wages and by definition professional jobs are salaried not hourly paid
  - vacri 9y ago
    Since when is an $8/hour professional job 'run-of-the-mill'? Are you seriously saying that that is a typical example of a professional?
- justadeveloper2 9y ago
  It was a dumb example, that's all. In 2005, I went from being a state employee to a contractor and doubled my pay that year. Is that relevant, though?
throwanem 9y ago
Don't take ENCODE's word for it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23431001/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23431001/