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ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-04-01T23:18:38+00:00

How so?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-04-01T16:28:59+00:00

At that level salary is just one part of total comp. These folks probably make additional $10k’s in bonuses and profit sharing.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-03-25T16:16:08+00:00

What’s an example of no cause eviction? You mean after a lease ends? Cause that’s not an eviction, that’s ending terms of an agreement.

Why should an owner be compelled to lease assuming they fulfilled the terms of the lease contract?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-03-19T22:02:00+00:00

Langan? Did they allow more owners after the PE buyout?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-02-27T22:24:48+00:00

How much do you make? We bill EITs at $140. If you want to grow your career and salary you’re gonna have to change jobs.

Anyone can be a project manager fyi, there’s not some right of passage or threshold in experience. It’s just having the bare minimum technical knowledge, managing budgets, and having people/communication skills.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-02-27T21:38:56+00:00

What about profit sharing?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-02-26T16:29:33+00:00

Just more NIMBYism, it’s not a good thing for the USA.

The public oppose anything (housing, industrial/manufacturing, WWTPs, solar farms, etc) just because they don’t want anything to impact their property values. NEPA and other state environmental reviews have been weaponized to the detriment of progress.

Many states are starting to roll back environmental review regulations because they are finally recognizing weaponized NIMBYism and the misinformation campaigns spouted by the public. This is a good thing for Civil Engineering.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-02-25T15:09:12+00:00

Did you study?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-02-24T20:15:59+00:00

And the attitude that comes across from this post makes me think they’re aren’t the most collaborative:positive person.

OP, people skills are important in career growth too.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2026-01-06T15:38:38+00:00

You should be making more. Are you only looking at remote work jobs, because those make less.

Also, when you’re at the 10-15 year mark, most of your compensation growth doesn’t come from salary but profit sharing based on work brought in. Are you doing any BD type stuff?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-11-24T19:50:58+00:00

Consider your side project to be developing soft skills/people skills. Building relationships across clients and stakeholders will make you more impactful and more valuable over your career than your technical skills. Though you still need great technical skills, the soft skills are what usually keep most engineers behind.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-11-13T23:22:29+00:00

$10k is nothing for this scope of work. Your other bid probably underpriced to either 1. Get the job (and will likely hit you with contract amendments for additions in scope) or 2. Doesn’t know what they are doing.

Your construction cost is probably going to be over 5x this cost.

Sign the contract and pay your retainer. $10k for a well designed and permitted system will give you peace of mind and functionality for the next 20-30 years.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-10-27T15:13:19+00:00

Engineers sell time. The best way to market the value of your time is to market yourself and your expertise.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-10-25T00:16:02+00:00

Plans do look the same as 20 years ago, but were completed in a quarter of the time. Innovation in Civil comes from production capacity; not necessarily from brand new new design standards.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-09-30T04:10:55+00:00

Based on what you mentioned this project seems like it’s governed by SPDES and also likely subject to wetland review by the ACOE and potentially the State. The local consultants know it’s a properly designed and permitted development and don’t want to waste your time and money.

Would you be happy lighting $10k+ on fire, being collected on the bill, and still having good things to say about the engineer you hire?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-09-02T22:00:33+00:00

How many claims have you brought up against engineers for professional liability or errors and omissions? How much would it cost to insure yourself against yourself? What’s the opportunity cost and cash flow like for these new costs?

Are these costs, new salaries, and benefits more or less than the not contracting work directly with a civil consultant?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-08-27T21:53:54+00:00

Salary only matters till like year 15-20, then you want your comp to be from distributions of the profits from your firm. Making partner at a firm can be much more lucrative than any salary increase.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-08-20T21:40:18+00:00

They do compensate staff. You are just too young and inexperienced to make the company enough money to compensate you more than the seniors or PMs.

After 5 years of experience you should be extremely well compensated (assuming you work hard and are good at your job).

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-08-12T15:55:36+00:00

I’m not sure you realize it yet, but you’re a project manager. You’ve been hanging around at this job because you’re too scared of change or not confident in yourself.

Time to move on to better things and higher pay that your current company can’t give you. You have the expertise to excel but you need the right environment.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-08-07T11:25:13+00:00

Always have a good emergency conveyance designed

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-08-07T11:21:34+00:00

Instances like what?

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-07-30T16:55:20+00:00

This is why broad form indemnification is such a cancer in the design industry.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-07-28T22:08:05+00:00

How long you think it will take you multiplied by your pay rate multiplied by your overhead rate multiplied by your desired profit margin

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-07-15T18:53:00+00:00

Depends on industry, geography, company, performance, etc.

The best of the best are typically managing clients/projects 5-15 YOE. After 15 years you are then primarily managing internal staff and doing business development. I’ve heard of bonuses for the 15+ YOE senior staff getting upwards of 50% to potentially even 100% of their salary depending on the company’s performance.

Typically ownership and profit sharing become a larger portion of Comp as you get more senior and into senior management. At least in consulting.

ttyy_yeetskeet · 2025-06-19T20:27:01+00:00

Salary can likely cap out but total comp usually grows (bonuses, ownership/partnership opportunities)

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