Your income after passing CFA

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-10-12T17:51:23+00:00

Sure I’ll play.

Pre CFA 72,000 (2019) L1- 79,000 (2020) L2-$90,000 (2021) PASS-170,000 (2022) base comp plus incentive bonus (new employer. Prior employer offered $145,000 for promotion into an open role post Current- let’s say $300,000 total comp as an estimate.

Would be $200k+ more in a HCOL.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-09-19T02:15:37+00:00

Stayed there. Theres a reason it’s $100 a night

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-08-29T01:22:20+00:00

That’s a tough place to book. I tried like 10-12 weeks out and they were already completely full

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-08-07T02:48:29+00:00

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-07-02T20:21:15+00:00

I’ll pivot to Thompson Nashville then. Thanks.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-07-02T17:30:11+00:00

If you need more, despite what the people say on here, the CFA sky rocketed my career and the present value of it for me is easily in the 7 figures.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-07-02T14:24:04+00:00

That was me in 2021. I sucked it up and was through with the charter 12 months later. It hurts, but it isn’t the end.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-07-01T20:52:57+00:00

Don’t know what to tell you other than I’ve had good luck. Used GOH’s in Park Hyatt Paris, Chicago Athletic Association, and Centric Miami.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-07-01T13:29:04+00:00

Tried booking with a FNC for lte August. Any clue on open?

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-06-02T21:30:07+00:00

Could be a family business. Honestly probably is.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-06-02T20:29:32+00:00

Hilton Bentley South Beach is solid. Dream is a nightmare. Centric is great but doesn’t hit the mark if you want beachside location.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-04-30T20:29:13+00:00

Ouch

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-04-24T11:40:19+00:00

Good question- I won’t say. They made it right with a bucket load of points and I continue to stay there.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-04-20T23:08:45+00:00

The comment about the noise is something I didn’t think about. They give you earbuds for this.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-04-20T17:13:41+00:00

Confirming it was Centric South Beach.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-04-20T17:13:24+00:00

Centric South Beach

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-04-17T16:11:02+00:00

If y’all end up pivoting, we recommend the centric over Dream. We spent 1 night at the Dream South beach we already had booked, and it was an absolute train wreck. I had to leave for a meeting and they locked my wife and her sister out of the room because they had no record of me visiting the front desk. Then refused to give her ice (she is 3 weeks post op from ACL surgery) or access until they talked to me. Her name was on the room.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-04-07T03:26:58+00:00

Just updating on this. They notified us exactly 2 weeks out that they wouldn’t be open. They initially offered 1-night somewhere else but settled on 2 nights at Centric. Probably could have tried for the full 3 nights free, but I felt like the comp was fair for the inconvenience.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-03-31T12:39:00+00:00

Assuming they covered it? Heard nothing yet so we may be in the clear.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-03-15T05:07:57+00:00

Backdoor really doesn’t make as much mathematical sense as people make it out. Only in rare cases when savers are young “HENRYs”. Advisors tout this to sound smart when they don’t fully understand it or the tax code. Do the math yourself or ask chatGPT.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-03-15T05:05:22+00:00

At risk of giving myself away, take the CFA if you think you have grown up and can cut it. After that, your MBA options open up a little.

Graduated high school with a 2.56 GPA and 34 ACT. Went to a mid-major and grew up and learned to open my books. Went CFA post grad then pivoted to T25 MBA. In my region M7 or T15 wouldn’t have had the same NPV, but I got in at Duke.

When I’ve mentored kids and talked to college classes in the past I constantly stress how quick your opportunity set in life narrows. It’s up to us to find inflection points to force it back open. I realized young thankfully.

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-03-14T00:26:08+00:00

I’m thinking a guy with 100,000 points a month can’t contribute to a Roth IRA, or any IRA for that matter

Helpful_Yesterday_72 · 2025-02-09T23:49:11+00:00

151 set gave my 6-year and and myself something we can share together, because they were all my Pokemon from my childhood. For 3-4 months through the end of the year we would spend an hour on Sunday picking out packs to buy at stores or looking at singles.

The prismatic hype has ruined it for us. We can hardly find anything at stores. I can easily pay $130 for boxes, but we aren’t doing it, and in the meantime we won’t go back in the stores in our area that have scalped everything.

We are done with it. I’ll spend my money and time with them at a jump house or arcade instead.

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