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KittyCat
Happy Summer !
Member since 5/05 2241 total posts
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Kathleen
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Need honest opinions on this salary..
Is this decent: 1/2 from home:
Suffolk County
Office Manager Position
42 hours a week
7 Holidays a year
4 sick days a year
$2,000.00 IRA contr. each year
no health benefits (not needed)
no lunch hour - to leave the office
3 weeks vacation
$48,000K per year
Do you think this is decent pay?
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MrsERod
Praying for Everyone.
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
UM - Yeah!!!
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:51 PM |
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MrsERod
Praying for Everyone.
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MrsERod™®
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
and if you don't take it - I WILL!!! 
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:51 PM |
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Elbee
Zanzibar
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
I'd negotiate the lunch. It's federal law ....
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:52 PM |
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Leeners
:)
Member since 5/05 4898 total posts
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Eileen
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
When you say "1/2 from home" did you mean 1/2 hour from home or you'll be working half-time from your house?
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:52 PM |
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Shelly
She's 7!!!
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
THat's how much I got paid for my job as an attorney in Manhattan a few years ago. I would definitely say yes.
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:52 PM |
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WoodIAm
My Boys!
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JoAnne
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Sounds good to me!
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:53 PM |
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MrsERod
Praying for Everyone.
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MrsERod™®
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
p.s. I'm fm'ing you my resume!! Call me if there are any other comparable positions!!! 
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:54 PM |
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KittyCat
Happy Summer !
Member since 5/05 2241 total posts
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Kathleen
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
1/2 hour commute from home.
I don't know, sometimes I hear other peoples salaries and I get down on myself, they have a lunch hour and time off (as far as holidays) I have a college degree in business I just sometimes think I can do better than this than I think when I have a baby how will I live without this pay?
I have this job now - I have been with this Co. for 12 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:55 PM |
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Leeners
:)
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Eileen
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Posted by KittyCat
I have this job now - I have been with this Co. for 12 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then no, I don't think it's that great a salary. It's a good starting salary but to have a degree and be someplace for 12 years... I'd start looking elsewhere.
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:56 PM |
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AJsMommy122
Stop 2 smell the roses
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Maxine
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Posted by Leeners
Posted by KittyCat
I have this job now - I have been with this Co. for 12 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then no, I don't think it's that great a salary. It's a good starting salary but to have a degree and be someplace for 12 years... I'd start looking elsewhere.
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I agree
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:58 PM |
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MrsERod
Praying for Everyone.
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MrsERod™®
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Posted by KittyCat
1/2 hour commute from home.
I don't know, sometimes I hear other peoples salaries and I get down on myself, they have a lunch hour and time off (as far as holidays) I have a college degree in business I just sometimes think I can do better than this than I think when I have a baby how will I live without this pay?
I have this job now - I have been with this Co. for 12 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahhh...i can see why you're torn now! 
can i still send you my resume? you can forward it to the company.
j/k!!!! 
seriously...what would make you decide to choose this position over your current position??
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:58 PM |
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nov04libride
big brother <3
Member since 5/05 14672 total posts
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Posted by Leeners
Posted by KittyCat
I have this job now - I have been with this Co. for 12 years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then no, I don't think it's that great a salary. It's a good starting salary but to have a degree and be someplace for 12 years... I'd start looking elsewhere.
I agree...With 12 years experience and no health benefits, that isn't great. Health benefits adds a lot to what a salary is worth. But it is hard to find jobs on the island...
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| Posted 9/7/05 3:59 PM |
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dpli
Daylight savings :)
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Without an hour lunch and no health insurance, I would say it is a little on the low side. I have heard that the health insurance costs may be worth about $10k a year.
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:01 PM |
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Leeners
:)
Member since 5/05 4898 total posts
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Eileen
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Go to salary.com - it'll ask you questions about your job, etc and then give you comparative salaries for people doing the same or a similar job as you - both across the country and locally. We can only really guess that this salary is good or bad but this'll give you actual data to see if it's as good or bad as you think when compared to other companies.
Salary.com
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:03 PM |
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MrsJ
I love my Katie Bug
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Kathy
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Negotiate the lunch.
use the fact that you dont need benefits and try to get at least 30 min lunch each day (paid)!
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:09 PM |
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Kelly
LIF Adolescent
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This is it
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
42 hours a week and no lunch?????
Right there I'd be like: see-ya
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:13 PM |
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KittyCat
Happy Summer !
Member since 5/05 2241 total posts
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Kathleen
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Hey !! Why did everyone's opionion change when I wrote that I have been here 12 years !!!! (I actually left for 2 to work elsewhere)
I can't say the pay is bad for 12 years b/c I was 18 when I started, of course it wouldn't be so high.
I take the job for granted some days than others I say how lucky I am to have one with decent pay. 
No health benefits was up to me - we added them into the salary, I am under my husbands job plan.
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:18 PM |
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DjPiLL
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Richard
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
If you do find a new job... just make sure you let MrsERod know so she can send her resume out. 
Or hell... let me know and i'll send my wife over there.
But wait... if I do that... then I lose my wife's free cablevision. Screw THAT!
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:20 PM |
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nov04libride
big brother <3
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Posted by KittyCat
Hey !! Why did everyone's opionion change when I wrote that I have been here 12 years !!!! (I actually left for 2 to work elsewhere)
I can't say the pay is bad for 12 years b/c I was 18 when I started, of course it wouldn't be so high.
I take the job for granted some days than others I say how lucky I am to have one with decent pay.
No health benefits was up to me - we added them into the salary, I am under my husbands job plan.
Well, I've looked a lot at jobs on Long Island, and if you can live on that money it is nice to have that commute, which is relatively short. But the no lunch is crazy! They shouldn't be allowed to do that... I have a Master's in HR but I forget the specifics of the laws, but I know they must allow you time to eat.
ETA: I know I make less at my job than I could elsewhere, but I chose to work for the state because of the benefits and stability, so I wouldn't choose purely based on salary, but your benefits aren't so great that I would stick with it because of them. More importantly, how are your boss and co-workers? As I have learned  they can make or break a job!
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KittyCat
Happy Summer !
Member since 5/05 2241 total posts
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Kathleen
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
If anyone is bored can you figure out for me the hourly pay with 42 hours at 2 of them O.T. (time and 1/2 rate) ??
Message edited 9/7/2005 4:40:47 PM.
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:29 PM |
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DjPiLL
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Richard
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
2 hours a month? 48k includes the OT?
Message edited 9/7/2005 4:29:51 PM.
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:29 PM |
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DjPiLL
Member since 5/05 3664 total posts
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Richard
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
About $20.98 an hour. Give or take.
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:30 PM |
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Shelly
She's 7!!!
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
Posted by KittyCat
Hey !! Why did everyone's opionion change when I wrote that I have been here 12 years !!!! (I actually left for 2 to work elsewhere)
I can't say the pay is bad for 12 years b/c I was 18 when I started, of course it wouldn't be so high.
The fact that you have been in a field for 12 years and have a degree does change things. You have a great deal of experience and will need little to no training. Initially I thought you were talking about a starting salary.
I still don't think the salary is too bad, but its not that great either. I could not deal with the lunch thing. Although I end up eating at my desk a lot, I would not want that to be mandatory.
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| Posted 9/7/05 4:35 PM |
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Diane
Hope is Contagious....catch it
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Re: Need honest opinions on this salary..
sounds good.
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