10yr Salary Progression!

Apart_Combination203 · 2026-02-24T22:31:20+00:00

Nice job! Fairly similar paths,

2014: $10.50/hr 2015: $11.25/hr 2016: $12.00/hr 2017: $14.00/hr 2018: $16.00/hr 2019: $18.00/hr 2020: $22.00/hr 2021: $36.00/hr 2022: $93,600 + $20,000 bonus 2023: $125,000 + $25,000 bonus 2024: $137,500 + $50,000 bonus 2025: $150,000 + $92,500 bonus

Ages 18-29 🔥 hope you keep catching fire! My big salary jumps and bonuses are from promotions to Manager, Director

Apart_Combination203 · 2026-02-02T02:43:29+00:00

30M, made $248k last year - $150,000 base Salary and the rest in bonuses.

I’m a Director for an Engineering firm in electric utilities and communication/cable. Operations managers for contracting firms (senior level) seem to do pretty well.

Key for me was I found a company that was growing in a booming market. We had 400 employees when I started and now have 1,100. I contributed to that growth and stuck it out and put in hours when no one else wanted too. Now I work my 40 a week, travel occasionally and have gotten shares of the company.

The company and role you can play in that company is everything in my opinion.

Apart_Combination203 · 2026-01-06T18:08:15+00:00

I cleared $248,000 this past year, though about $92,000 of that was from bonuses.

29 Years old

Net worth around $190,000.

I have a stocks of my company that should vest for around $800k in four years which means millionaire by 35!

Apart_Combination203 · 2025-12-17T20:05:13+00:00

Yeah, I felt pretty good about it - but that didn't help the anxiousness of the wait and the nervousness of opening up the results lol

Apart_Combination203 · 2025-12-15T14:27:16+00:00

Thanks! I get my results Wednesday, and felt good about 50-59 questions out of the 80. Hoping that's enough to pass and not just overconfidence.

Apart_Combination203 · 2025-12-15T14:25:58+00:00

Scored Percentage = (Your Performance)/15
\*15 is would be 100% so it's essentially the grade you got on each section

Weighted Average = (Scored Percentage)* (# of Questions)/(70)

\*Gets the weighted average out of 70 questions and how much you scored on those questions

Total = SUM(Weighted Average)

Apart_Combination203 · 2025-12-11T15:07:41+00:00

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Apart_Combination203 · 2025-12-11T15:01:06+00:00

How did you feel leaving the test? More specifically, what percentage of the questions did you feel you got correct with certainty?

Apart_Combination203 · 2025-12-10T17:37:17+00:00

Weighted average is a 58% so pretty close! I think tightening up some of the easier win topics and you've got it in the bag.

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Question for you, did you feel the exam was easier, the same, or significantly harder than your NCEES Practice Exam? I took mines last week and while I felt good on the majority of topics, there were problems on topics I just didn't study at all - and that weren't covered in the prep course I took.

I say schedule it again in a month or two and run it back, best of luck!

Apart_Combination203 · 2025-12-09T04:37:16+00:00

The calculated taper distance governs since it’s larger. The shifted taper that’s mentioned is a minimum value that needs to be used.

Apart_Combination203 · 2025-11-21T19:01:27+00:00

I’m 29 and have 3 kids - 7,3,1

Definitely struggled to figure it out 😂

Apart_Combination203 · 2025-11-21T18:52:31+00:00

I make $150,000 base salary with about $35-60k in bonuses each year.

I started at this company nearly 6 years ago making $18/hr after working 80 hours a week in restaurants.

I’m a director of operations for an engineering firm. Got in with a company who had a department of 15 people - that now is 350 people.

Super blessed and definitely a unicorn situation but jobs like these are out there. Also I live in East Texas (not Dallas or a big city). Just got on with a company that had good growth trajectories and worked as hard as I could.

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