What was your starting salary after college?

friscostylez said:
His base salary is 375k, but that doesn't even include his signing bonus or end of the year bonus. My man is probably making at least half a milli
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True... But he was coming out of an MBA...

Which meant he probably had a ton of experience In the field already.

I bet he was talented enough to do his own thing, but the firm wanted to bring him on because what he did prior to the MBA.


friscostylez said:
:lol: 80k isn't a lot for an entry-level accountant who only have their bachelor degree? i don't care how many internships they had in college
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That is defintely not normal for an accountant. :lol:
 
For whoever asked about ticket sales jobs for an NBA team....

I graduated in '09 with my bachelors (sports management), and the only "real" offer I got was for a ticket sales gig with the then New Jersey Nets. (I didn't look as hard as I should have for better employment but that's another story altogether).

Keep in mind, everyone knew at the time that the Nets were on their way to Brooklyn.

Pay was $8/hr plus commission. 40+ hours a week, 8 dollars an hour. I accepted, but left after a week.
 
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blackredxiiigoat said:
For whoever asked about ticket sales jobs for an NBA team....

I graduated in '09 with my bachelors (sports management), and the only "real" offer I got was for a ticket sales gig with the then New Jersey Nets. (I didn't look as hard as I should have for better employment but that's another story altogether).

Keep in mind, everyone knew at the time that the Nets were on their way to Brooklyn.

Pay was $8/hr plus commission. 40+ hours a week, 8 dollars an hour. I accepted, but left after a week.
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I would have done the same and thanks for the input.
 
blackredxiiigoat said:
For whoever asked about ticket sales jobs for an NBA team....

I graduated in '09 with my bachelors (sports management), and the only "real" offer I got was for a ticket sales gig with the then New Jersey Nets. (I didn't look as hard as I should have for better employment but that's another story altogether).

Keep in mind, everyone knew at the time that the Nets were on their way to Brooklyn.

Pay was $8/hr plus commission. 40+ hours a week, 8 dollars an hour. I accepted, but left after a week.
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Seems like a fun job though. An acquaintance of mine has a ticket sales job with the Nationals. Hes always chilling in the stadium during lunch breaks and gets discounted/free tickets a lot. Job seems cool but I'd love to know what he makes.


I just graduated with a BBA in Computer Information Systems and recently accepted a 60k job offer with a small Technical/Management consulting firm based in the DC metro area. Most of the kids in my major had job offers around 60k with the better students getting a little over 70k straight out of school. I got lucky though cause my gpa is pretty weak compared to my peers.
 
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38.5

Had another offer for 35k +5-10 bonus but I don't think I would have liked it.

Major was sport administration
 
recently graduated with a finance degree and making $38.5k. i started in the mail room and went to school while working in the same company. think I should be looking for more?
 
GymJones said:
 
recently graduated with a finance degree and making $38.5k. i started in the mail room and went to school while working in the same company. think I should be looking for more?
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Depends, that's a nice starting salary in most cities in the U.S.
 
You want to make Guap move to the Bay Area. Started in sales when I graduated made 75k my first year (last year). This year on track to make 100k+ with those residuals!
 
LazyJ10 said:
Right. Markets in public accounting in general play a factor.

Just look at Robert Half's annual comp book about it, too.

$45-50k is avg starting salary of larger firms (non-big 4) in most metro markets.
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Big 4 out of college and I know for a fact that for the Bay Area market, starting salary was between $52K - $55K for audit. Not much of a bump for cost of living compared to Chicago, NYC, etc. Even comparing SJ to SF, there was no difference in starting salaries. For our NYC counterparts, they were making upper 50's without a MAcc...:x
 
Jetpacunlimited said:
Bingo. Made right at 90k my first two years as a salesman. Got promoted in November 2013 on pace for right at 142k... which is kinda low end money for my position. But I'm still new at it so eh...
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Thats great 
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 you don't need a degree to make money. My boy just got a internship at a car dealership imma put him on to this finance manager stuff. I wish this thread was more active it would give people an insight of what the good jobs are and what the salary is or expected to be.
 
My bro got his CPA and has worked at two of the big 4s and hasn't hit 80k yet. Been outta school bout 3 yrs now in the DC market. Gonna hit it soon tho so I don't believe it.
 
703 Hwy said:
My bro got his CPA and has worked at two of the big 4s and hasn't hit 80k yet. Been outta school bout 3 yrs now in the DC market. Gonna hit it soon tho so I don't believe it.
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The thing with Public Accounting (Especially Big 4), is that you HAVE to have a CPA to get promoted to manager. But once you get promoted you're at 100k+ easy. You start off as an associate, then senior associate, then manger. But you literally will not get promoted to manager until you have your CPA, because you need to be licensed to sign off on accounting work.

Graduated with my BA in Accounting, but didn't go the public route (didn't feel like going though the CPA process. It's a nightmare, I've heard). Ended up getting a job preparing and filing sales tax returns for a smaller firm. Made 62k (that's with bonuses and before taxes) my first year.
 
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703 Hwy said:
My bro got his CPA and has worked at two of the big 4s and hasn't hit 80k yet. Been outta school bout 3 yrs now in the DC market. Gonna hit it soon tho so I don't believe it.
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sounds about right. You make your most money after you leave the big 4, unless you wanna stay till partner. That experience is coveted in the accounting field.

3 years means he'll be up for manager next year, unless its PwC who require an extra year.

He does 1 busy season as manager, or leave soon after making manager, then he can leave for a controller position at another company making 6 figures.

This is assuming he's in audit. I'm unsure of the exit opportunities for the tax people.
 
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