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  • BaldManGoomba@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Data Center Engineer now. But I have an associate in electronic engineering from a community College.

    2010-2013 Walmart. Started $7.65 an hour Ended $10.60 only reason I got a raise because of minimum raise increases Graduated college 2013-2016 left for a niche small electronics company (laser tag) $10 an hour. Got experience in my degree 2016-2018 left to work for Perdue chicken manufacturering plant 15.10 ended at 15.65 2018-2020 casino started at 15 ended at 15.65 2020-2022 data center for bank started at $24 ended at $26 2022-now data center different bank with a union started at $30 now at $32.30

    Most the companies want to give me 3% or less every year one company kept putting off talks of raises. I kept taking more and more responsibility and no one would giving me a decent raise or pay me what I was worth.

    I got $8.45 in raises from companies lots of the big chunk amounts came from minimum raise increase and work place adjustments. Every increase that they gave me for a yearly raise was 3% or less. Me leaving to another company got me $16.20 of pay increases.

    111% increase from raises and 212% increase from job hopping in the last 14 years

    • odelikEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I umm, think you could possibly get 50-70% more salary jumping companies fairly easily. $67k (base) is sorely underpaid for a skilled data center engineer. A quick search confirms my suspicion that a data center engineer makes on average ~$145k a year.

      • BaldManGoomba@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I am also not qualified to be an engineer despite having it in my title I am more like a data center technician or cable/server installer. Which is more inline with my salary

        But give me a couple years with it in my title and tons of learning and a certification I can hit network engineer with 6 figures.

      • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        This dude is working at a bank. They don’t pay well, but job security is decent. Banks rarely go out of business. He should go elsewhere to earn more. But yeah, that’s literally nothing for his job. He could easily double it.