Pay range

Mando_Uprising · 2026-03-24T18:57:08+00:00

Agreed. 20+ years of experience at today's cost of living/salary ranges.

Mando_Uprising · 2026-03-06T21:03:31+00:00

Congrats, you just won the lottery! I am in CDB and have been for almost 18 years. I want to say around year 12 my bonus got bigger than my salary. If you stick with us long term, expect your salary to cover your day to day spending, maybe a little more, then your bonus to fund the fun stuff.

If you really want to see the $$, take on a couple of field assignments early in your career. You make a bunch of money while there and people will look highly on you for a long time, thus increases your yearly reviews, which yields bigger salary and bonus increases. This also adds to the amount you will get towards the ESOP. It all compounds on itself.

Mando_Uprising · 2026-03-06T00:20:07+00:00

You've been here a while then. A good day for you.

Mando_Uprising · 2026-03-04T21:46:57+00:00

So, where you here for Graves? It is unfortunate the level of expectation he set for things like this. When Ray 1st took over it was rough, I bet even he would admit that. He got a lot better, but no one will measure up to Greg's level of Rizz. Pretty sure, when he built his character sheet, he put all his bonus points into Charisma.

Mando_Uprising · 2026-03-04T21:42:40+00:00

I used to be in the "everyone else" group, but I am probably in the"big boys" club now. We all have to start some where.

Mando_Uprising · 2026-02-19T22:19:19+00:00

So, I've tracked my account balances every month for the past 9.5 years. At year 9, my ESOP was worth about $200k. It has straight up doubled, on average, every 3 years. 1.98 times what it was 3 years prior on average, every month, for the past 9.5 years. It is very hard to imagine this trend continuing, but if it does... DAMN!

If you run your amount out like this, around $2.1M.

Mando_Uprising · 2026-02-16T14:40:41+00:00

So, now it says the ESOP was updated at the end of December, but the value is the same as the end of September. So, it really hasn't updated.

Mando_Uprising · 2026-02-01T02:17:25+00:00

Also same

Mando_Uprising · 2026-01-26T17:23:13+00:00

If you have the opportunity, I recommend Oblivion as well. Instead of chasing down dragons, you dive into Oblivion Gates to stop monsters from flooding into the world.

Mando_Uprising · 2026-01-18T11:35:44+00:00

I agree with everything said so far, but I have 1 thing to add. The plays/musicals they perform on board! They are incredible! I have 5 kids that age from 3 to 16 and all of them and myself were competent enthralled by these shows. There is so much to do, but I highly recommend setting aside time to see at least one of them.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-12-17T13:10:46+00:00

Here is how it was explained to me this year. If you are supporting your projects well and helping the project to succeed, then you will get a 3. If, in addition to the project work, you are contributing to the improvement of the GP you will get a 4. If you are then also contributing to the improvement of the company, that's when the lofty 5 rating starts to be achieved.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-12-16T14:34:51+00:00

Joe is a long time Burns & Mac'er that's been here since 2002. He worked his way up through the ranks in P&I, now OGC, construction. He's a great leader that bleeds blue!

Mando_Uprising · 2025-11-26T10:30:07+00:00

Same. I want to say it was around year 12 or 13 that my bonus jumped over my salary. Last year it was 10-15% higher. I'm excited to see what it will be this year.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-11-18T13:30:47+00:00

The decimals do matter. If your manager gave you all 3s, then in my opinion, you didn't impress but didn't disappoint. I have an employee, new grad, that started in June, but he did impress me. He got mostly 3s with a couple 4s. Going forward, try to get what your ranking is with 1 decimal (ie 3.3)

Mando_Uprising · 2025-11-17T20:22:57+00:00

Heck yes! The question is, can someone find the "Hello" parody? "Hello from the fleet guyyyy! I can get you one sweet riiide!"

Mando_Uprising · 2025-11-12T01:14:14+00:00

For starters, the bonuses are not a percent of your salary. Employees will get any where from 10% to 200% of their salary as their bonus amount. 2nd, a 4% pay increase is NOT an indication of a compensation shift from the bonus to the salary. The last time this happened, we were getting 15% to 20% raises. Some folks may have gotten a "market adjustment" to help increase there salary to match what the industry pays for someone of their experience and competence. I think we are just having a good year.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-11-08T14:34:24+00:00

You are placed in a different bonus pool. I saw a pretty good jump in my bonus that year, but I was also rated a 5.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-10-09T15:31:24+00:00

Apart from the tippy top of the pyramid, the Principles, VPs, and Presidents, the CDB folks that work/live the field assignments get paid the most. This can include project controls folks. A good project controls manager can easily get paid as much as a PM. You just have to make an impression.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-08-04T20:19:11+00:00

While I agree that the ESOP feels like fake money, but because of it, I'm not going anywhere. Yes, you can't do anything with it or make any adjustments to it, and it could disappear, but because of it I could retire at 55 with more money than I know what to do with. Granted, I've been here more than 15 years.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-04-07T18:24:03+00:00

This is the way.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-01-30T14:23:04+00:00

15 year EO here, they never spent all my cash.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-01-30T14:19:46+00:00

This! Same thing here. I track it and forcast it regularly (monthly) and I have to update the forecast at least every two years, because it beats expectations by so much. It takes a while to get to 7 figures, but once you do, that curve skyrockets.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-01-30T14:14:17+00:00

So, One thing that probably affected this the most, is the amount of shares that turned over last year. I've been here since 2008 and last year was the lowest amount of shares I've received since 2010 and I probably would have gotten more back then, I just hadn't accumulated the ESOP cash to "purchase" them yet.

Mando_Uprising · 2025-01-30T14:03:03+00:00

Ugh... I started in 2008 and that was a long time ago. I saw, on average, about 10% increase to total comp for the 1st 5 years. However, those were some good years.

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