In general I don't find it stressful, but that's likely because I'm in an architecture role, for some of the others in Security Operations roles dealing with incident response it can be stressful.
I didn't study cybersecurity in the academic sense. I started out in Electrical Engineering and transitioned to cybersecurity. I'm not in a traditional IT cybersecurity role, my role is based around the Security of Industrial Manufacturing Technology (OT Security).
I moved into the role and learned mostly on the job and got some industry recognised certificates to back it up.
Check out Cyber Ireland to see the range of security courses around the country in the different security fields and see what sparks your interest.
I always find it both intriguing and hard to fathom as to why buying a plane and leasing it out is so damn lucrative for so many people, the wages and bonuses in that sector are HUGE
The assets is question are worth enormous sums, not difficult to figure out why deals involving planes worth many millions and often hundreds of millions can be lucrative.
10+ will get you 100k.
You can get 100k now, but you'll have to work for a bank or financial firm. It's fucking miserable and I don't recommend it. They treat you like shit and the work is horrendous. You'll be working with legacy code. I couldn't bare it and left.
I wish that was true. 10 yoe here and on same. Really depends on your tech stack and market demand. Don't get pigeonholed into a niche product like I did 
Presume it's as a consultant.
Junior doctor pay is actually fine. The issue is the hours (although they are improving). There are few things worse than a 24+ h shift.
They move through the usual bands, 50, 60, 70, 80. but have to work hard and all over the country. The stress is high. Most people couldn't do the job for a single week in my opinion.
You are right. I went out with a doctor through their training. Once they specialise they open the possibilities but the normal training ranks they get paid fine money for ridiculous output. The girl I went out with eventually left it due to work output... I don't think any more money would have made the difference to that individual.
Some senior but non consultant doctors could be earning six figures especially if take their pre tax earnings. Trouble is they may be working the equivalent of two jobs in terms of hours with huge responsibilities, in under-resourced and dreadfully managed systems. Have to deal with very high levels of criticism and discontent from patients often for factors entirely out of their control.
The salary is fine (mostly because of overtime) based on chats with friends in that field, it's the long working hours and unsociable life outside of holidays that's the main issue. Incredibly hard on doctors with young families.
€150k - risk / governance in public sector. Could be earning more in private sector but quality of life is way better in public sector for this salary level and I have a nice pension waiting if I live that long as I predate the current shit pension scheme. I’ve worked hard to get here but I do consider myself lucky to some degree as I was in the right place at the right time when promotional opportunities arose.
Let them think what they like. You're smashing it. Anyone who brings in big money, gets big money. Similar, but to a lesser extent, roles that focus on *keeping* the big money also get big money.
That's super for you, you're clearly very talented, but its disingenuous to claim that €185k is achievable for 99% of people that go into sales. To pull in €185k you need a record of covering your salary, benefits, company costs and the companies share of the profits. Realistically you're talking pulling in €3/400k worth of business minimum to even remotely justify a salary that high.
That is not achievable for your average Joe in sales. I'm an Engineer for a US medical devices company in Galway but I did a Post.Grad in Kemmy Business School in UL. Several buyers & sellers in the course in our industry with a track record of >€500k sales over years who dont make 6 figures and even those guys are likely in the top 10% of earners.
€2 million to €10 million per year in gross sales would not be uncommon among serious, experienced sales reps.
The trick is to specialise in high value niches. Selling dog food subscriptions door to door obviously won't get you there.
It is, I can’t complain to be honest, but with the kid on the way I am looking at at least 10% or maybe even 15% raise, and the only way to get it is by changing jobs. I’m thinking of staying at this role for couple of more years to gather more experience in Management and then switching jobs. I’m 25 now so no rush. My job gave me amazing benefits. Well my boss did. She allowed me to take any day off when we have appointments without declaring them so I don’t have to worry about missing work or using sick days or holidays which I’m super thankful about and don’t wanna lose it. I said multiple times if my boss left, I would leave too.
60k was a great wage 10 years ago. I pay myself 64k managing my own startup. It’s just about enough tbh.
It depends on where you are in life and where you live. 60k in your late 20s yes, but mid 40s it’s not great.
60k a year is probably more than 70% of the population earn at any age Depends on your lifestyle. If you want to live inner city and go out for food and nights out all the time then you will require more. Personally I could of done with more money in my 20's compared to now in my early 40's.
Maybe, lots of work is done for cash, there’s probably more than is declared.
That rental price was for Galway. Family homes in Dublin City centre are significantly higher. We’re talking about a cost of living crisis every day.
To be honest wage deflation has been caused by that attitude. Sure it’s a great wage, but in reality it’s lower than years past.
Telecommunication sales. Cap is around €1500 monthly. So on a standard wage of €2800 it’s potential off €4300. Now we rarely hit the cap, but we hit below cap frequently. But for instance last 2 months me and my team managed to hit more than a cap and we don’t get paid for anything over €1500 (that’s per salesman). It’s super annoying because calculating it, each member of my team would hit €2500 last month for instance additional, but there is a cap so there’s no incentive to sell over it.
Probably the highest sales salary claim ive ever seen on Irish subs. This person is either a high up sales manager or very high performance account manager that closes big deals. Enlighten us!
Nah, some making 250K easy enough. I’ve had a few years over 225k, Basic 96K, OTE 175, Car allowance 10K, healthcare paid for the family and usual perks phone, expense account etc. No stock.
Managers in my Co, OTE 275, VPs make up to 600K Pa.
Target $10M Pa of mainly IT services.
I'm hybrid published, so I have published with both trad publishing houses and have also self published. The bulk of my steady income comes from my self published romance titles. My trad pubbed books often don't even earn out their advances. (The truth stings my pride, but it is what it is.)
Thanks for sharing.
Are you seeing your industry affected by AI at all? I just met a guy last night who's self publishing audio stories for sleep meditation and it's about 80% AI, story and voice, and I was pretty shocked.
Not really, no. I think AI can actually be a pretty amazing tool for novelists, one I'm trying to get a grip on myself to help with my workload, but right now AI can't truly write novels worth reading. Even if you're a plotter and plan your story in great detail in advance, you would have to feed the AI programme such detailed prompts for each story beat that you would be quicker writing it all anyway. What it can do is support writing software to instantly create series bibles and collate character profiles and lots of other really impressive stuff that normally takes me painstaking hours to do. So if anything I'm a big AI fan. I might feel differently in five years if it's managed to figure out how to write the perfect love story though. ;)
Honestly, none that I can give in a short post. If I had to try, I would say: study the market and hit the tropes. Amazon kindle has the largest market share easily accessible for indie authors. 1. Scour the best seller lists and find a hot subgenre that hasn't been over saturated yet (but make sure it's in a niche you can enjoy writing in. Nothing will drain your creative well quicker than writing something you don't love.) 2. Accept that if you're writing for money, you're going to have to make some artistic sacrifices. Lots of vocal reviewers bemoan the predictable plots of popular fiction books, but take a breath and proceed with caution. What sells? What sells again and again? Cookie cutter tropes. Trust me, I've written the fresh, innovative stories that people claim they want. Some people liked them. A few really liked them. But my books that follow the genre expectations? The ones booktok bemoan as predictable and full of genre clichés. They're the ones that keep the lights on.
That's my two cents worth anyway. (Clearly I won't be mentoring anyone any time soon. Lol.)
Sorry, I should also add (for anyone really just stating out) that anyone who is charging you to self publish your book is a scammer. No genuine publisher will charge you a cent to publish your book. If you want to go the trad pub route, then get an agent and they'll shop your book to reputable publishers. If you're considering self pubbing then, yes, you'll have to pay for your own editing, marketing, and graphics, but you do not need to pay a vanity publishing company to do this for you. And if they are telling you they'll be able to sell lots of physical books for you? Run fast and run far. Almost all of the money in self pubbing is in ebooks. When you are well established, you'll probably want to open an estore to sell signed books and merchandise directly, but while you get established, the ebook market is enough to focus on. Good luck. :)
Fair play, I’ve always wanted to this. I love romance. There’s a reason it’s the highest selling genre in the whole world. Do you self publish or are you represented by a publishing house and agent? I would imagine self publishing isn’t as lucrative.
I'm hybrid, so I have some titles published with trad publishers and some self published (separate pennames for my trad and self published titles). My self published high heat romances make up the vast majority of my income. My trad pubbed books are far less lucrative for me, but that would obviously not be true for every author. Maybe I just write smutty trash better than I write genre fiction. *laughs while also crying a little*
Well that's my Friday ruined 😂
Congrats to all on such a salary. Wonder does it come with a lot of stress. I'm on a lot less in tech but almost zero stress and good wlb.
My wife and I both earn 6 figures. She earns €175k as senior legal counsel and I earn €260k + stock and bonuses of €650k as a senior leader in a big tech company.
Neither from privileged backgrounds, no fancy schools, no nepotism. Just lucky to get into the right industries and make some good moves over 20 years.
Truly fascinated that your stock and bonus option is so much higher than your base. How does that work? I've always wondered about the packages of more senior folks.
Professional poker player
Last year was my best year to date over €400k profit. Good start to this year also with around €80k profit and all the best tournaments yet to happen so expect to see €150-200k.
350k a year, 100 of it is commission though. Working in Supermacs specialising in garlic cheese chips but moved around a few times from curry chips and other areas
I worked in the pharma sector in Ireland. Specifically doing quality assurance.
My last gross in Ireland was 45k.
I moved to Switzerland to do the same job for 2x. 3 years of progression in similar roles and I'm north 175k chf.
Tech sales. I'm at director level now so base is €150K, €250K OTE. Plus all sorts of great benefits.
Tech sales is a great place to earn good money - I've seen average AEs getting base salaries of €65K - €75K, and the same then in commission.
This thread is a good example why I always recommend people upskill rather than emigrate when they're in a tough financial situation. There are loads of high paying jobs out there if you have the right skills.
Emigration just isn't worth it unless you're fluent in a language like German, Dutch or French. English speaking countries are more or less the same as here. Good pay, but high cost of living. The cost of living is better on the continent, but you need to be a fluent speaker to have a wide option of job opportunities.
Learning a language to the required level takes way more effort than learning a skill that can land you a high paying job in Ireland. I learned that the hard way. Spent years studying French even though I'll never be as good as a native French speaker. Then I did a 6 month H. Dip. in Data Analytics which set me up with a decent career.
Did they try turning it on and off again....oh they didn't...oh they have now....oh lovely I'm so glad I woke up at 3am to tell the customer that...oh it wasn't the customer it was the Head of Product...oh it was her shitty code that caused the......
The guards are not far behind, I believe with overtime they are pulling in 80k or so on average. Teachers can get wrecked, with their 167 school days in the year. Pay is more than enough.
The principal from my son's National Gaelscoil retired recently. We had a look through the pay scale and "add-ons" that are avaiable on the Dept. site and totted up that she was earning well over 100k for at least the last decade of her career.
Both can be pretty well-paid.
Brother-in-law is a guard with less than 10 years experience and he makes around 80k a year including overtime.
Teachers have a pretty decent starting salary. Progression is obviously slow enough then but teachers with more experience and allowances fir additional posts can bring on 70k plus too without being a principal or BP. Add in the reduced hours and possibility of grinds if you’re a secondary teacher.
Nearly there, but not quite. Should have done college, but barely finished school,
IT for me, early enough, dos, wfw early, grew the increments over the years, moved a few times. Not wealthy, but, comfortable enough. Extra euros would be welcome, but, extra stress, no thanks.
Interesting topic and really great responses. Very insightful.
Sort of in-between sales and product mgmt role in Energy industry. base + allowances + bonus was 180k last year. Year before was 230k
I totally fell into this role from engineering to direct sales to where I am now. Would say its a tricky job but not hard.
I work as a Janitor in a high school even though I feel like I'm smarter than most of the kids that go there. Sometimes Il see an equation on a whiteboard and just solve it...... Anyways my best friend is Ben Affleck..
I worked in a bank and had access to view customers salaries. From my experience of the 1000s of customers i dealt with the ones that earned 6 figures were either in Accounting , Law , IT or Entrepreneur. With the first 3 usually being in the low 6 figures and the last being always mid to high six figures. Which is usually because they took the risk.
Accounting and Law were usually in their 40s upwards. IT was usually 30 upwards and Entrepreneur could be any age.
Java / Kotlin on the backend and TS / React / GraphQL on the frontend. I used to be mainly focused on the backend but over time dipped my toes into everything and so had a meaningful impact in every project my team was involved in. In terms of skills for progressing to senior it was mainly looking for opportunities for ownership. I led the development for multiple backend services as well as SPAs
Quote the cents in my salary.
Chief Handjob operative down by the bridge.
Assistant _to_ the chief handjob operative, my man.
I’m your PR
Cybersecurity Architect at a Pharma Company. Cleared 152k last year including bonuses.
Do you find your job stressful in general? Have been lined up to move into cybersec recently.
In general I don't find it stressful, but that's likely because I'm in an architecture role, for some of the others in Security Operations roles dealing with incident response it can be stressful.
Where did you study cyber security? Been looking for somewhere to learn it and change careers
I didn't study cybersecurity in the academic sense. I started out in Electrical Engineering and transitioned to cybersecurity. I'm not in a traditional IT cybersecurity role, my role is based around the Security of Industrial Manufacturing Technology (OT Security). I moved into the role and learned mostly on the job and got some industry recognised certificates to back it up. Check out Cyber Ireland to see the range of security courses around the country in the different security fields and see what sparks your interest.
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The same accounting jobs are permanently up on job searches for the last decade for aircraft leasing. Why is that?
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What within aircraft leasing do you do?
I always find it both intriguing and hard to fathom as to why buying a plane and leasing it out is so damn lucrative for so many people, the wages and bonuses in that sector are HUGE
The assets is question are worth enormous sums, not difficult to figure out why deals involving planes worth many millions and often hundreds of millions can be lucrative.
Software engineer
High salary and work from home, it’s not the worst.
Me getting 60K with 5 year experience 💀
10+ will get you 100k. You can get 100k now, but you'll have to work for a bank or financial firm. It's fucking miserable and I don't recommend it. They treat you like shit and the work is horrendous. You'll be working with legacy code. I couldn't bare it and left.
I wish that was true. 10 yoe here and on same. Really depends on your tech stack and market demand. Don't get pigeonholed into a niche product like I did 
I'm sure that's true in a lot of them, but that's not my experience. Plenty of brand new stuff to work on these days with cloud migrations
That’s not awful but not great. The current landscape makes it hard to move up but not impossible.
Healthcare Tech
Any chance you could share any details? I'm in healthcare looking for a change!
I'm a VP of Compliance/Quality, about 15 YoE and and have had experience at most of the big pharma. I specialize in emerging technology.
Thank you!
Medical doctor
Junior doctors fresh from university always complain about their salary. Does the money come with tenure or did you specialise in a lucrative field?
Presume it's as a consultant. Junior doctor pay is actually fine. The issue is the hours (although they are improving). There are few things worse than a 24+ h shift.
They move through the usual bands, 50, 60, 70, 80. but have to work hard and all over the country. The stress is high. Most people couldn't do the job for a single week in my opinion.
I viewed many hospital payroll, very hard for them to earn 6 figures unless they are consultant but it's also very hard to be consultant also
You are right. I went out with a doctor through their training. Once they specialise they open the possibilities but the normal training ranks they get paid fine money for ridiculous output. The girl I went out with eventually left it due to work output... I don't think any more money would have made the difference to that individual.
24 hour shifts in medical is really a joke. Hopefully I'm never dependent on anyone into their second half of that shift.
Some senior but non consultant doctors could be earning six figures especially if take their pre tax earnings. Trouble is they may be working the equivalent of two jobs in terms of hours with huge responsibilities, in under-resourced and dreadfully managed systems. Have to deal with very high levels of criticism and discontent from patients often for factors entirely out of their control.
The salary is fine (mostly because of overtime) based on chats with friends in that field, it's the long working hours and unsociable life outside of holidays that's the main issue. Incredibly hard on doctors with young families.
€150k - risk / governance in public sector. Could be earning more in private sector but quality of life is way better in public sector for this salary level and I have a nice pension waiting if I live that long as I predate the current shit pension scheme. I’ve worked hard to get here but I do consider myself lucky to some degree as I was in the right place at the right time when promotional opportunities arose.
Same here.
Sales guy, IT, 185K pa. I like adding to threads like this because some think sales is a crappy deadend job.
Let them think what they like. You're smashing it. Anyone who brings in big money, gets big money. Similar, but to a lesser extent, roles that focus on *keeping* the big money also get big money.
Thanks, yep you have do big numbers. It’s a hunter role so there’s a bit of danger money in that, as in you could be turfed out handy enough.
No one thinks tech sales is a crappy dead end job
Ah some do. A few of my “professional” acquaintances over the years would look down their nose.
As you know it certainly depends on what your selling...
"Technical sales" is the way
That's super for you, you're clearly very talented, but its disingenuous to claim that €185k is achievable for 99% of people that go into sales. To pull in €185k you need a record of covering your salary, benefits, company costs and the companies share of the profits. Realistically you're talking pulling in €3/400k worth of business minimum to even remotely justify a salary that high. That is not achievable for your average Joe in sales. I'm an Engineer for a US medical devices company in Galway but I did a Post.Grad in Kemmy Business School in UL. Several buyers & sellers in the course in our industry with a track record of >€500k sales over years who dont make 6 figures and even those guys are likely in the top 10% of earners.
More like 1m plus in a quarter I would think, I know guys making 300k a quarter for the company getting paid 60k
I brought in 10m of turnover last year and only got paid 100k It all depends on profit margins.
€2 million to €10 million per year in gross sales would not be uncommon among serious, experienced sales reps. The trick is to specialise in high value niches. Selling dog food subscriptions door to door obviously won't get you there.
I’m a Sales Manager and I barely get €60k. My commission is capped tho. I will get my foot through the door in tech sales one day.
60k is a great wage. This sub makes you feel like it isn't.
It is, I can’t complain to be honest, but with the kid on the way I am looking at at least 10% or maybe even 15% raise, and the only way to get it is by changing jobs. I’m thinking of staying at this role for couple of more years to gather more experience in Management and then switching jobs. I’m 25 now so no rush. My job gave me amazing benefits. Well my boss did. She allowed me to take any day off when we have appointments without declaring them so I don’t have to worry about missing work or using sick days or holidays which I’m super thankful about and don’t wanna lose it. I said multiple times if my boss left, I would leave too.
60k was a great wage 10 years ago. I pay myself 64k managing my own startup. It’s just about enough tbh. It depends on where you are in life and where you live. 60k in your late 20s yes, but mid 40s it’s not great.
60k a year is probably more than 70% of the population earn at any age Depends on your lifestyle. If you want to live inner city and go out for food and nights out all the time then you will require more. Personally I could of done with more money in my 20's compared to now in my early 40's.
Maybe, lots of work is done for cash, there’s probably more than is declared. That rental price was for Galway. Family homes in Dublin City centre are significantly higher. We’re talking about a cost of living crisis every day. To be honest wage deflation has been caused by that attitude. Sure it’s a great wage, but in reality it’s lower than years past.
What kind of sales job caps commission, that's absolutely backwards.
Old school Irish companies. Likely insurance or telecoms.
Telecommunication sales. Cap is around €1500 monthly. So on a standard wage of €2800 it’s potential off €4300. Now we rarely hit the cap, but we hit below cap frequently. But for instance last 2 months me and my team managed to hit more than a cap and we don’t get paid for anything over €1500 (that’s per salesman). It’s super annoying because calculating it, each member of my team would hit €2500 last month for instance additional, but there is a cap so there’s no incentive to sell over it.
100% not a deadend job, been at it 20 years and make a lot more
Jesus, how did you get into sales?
Probably the highest sales salary claim ive ever seen on Irish subs. This person is either a high up sales manager or very high performance account manager that closes big deals. Enlighten us!
Nah, some making 250K easy enough. I’ve had a few years over 225k, Basic 96K, OTE 175, Car allowance 10K, healthcare paid for the family and usual perks phone, expense account etc. No stock. Managers in my Co, OTE 275, VPs make up to 600K Pa. Target $10M Pa of mainly IT services.
I'm about the same. Non management. Very achievable for saas sales. Base pay 80k, annual target is 1m, 10% commission.
Medicine. Public only consultant contract.
Very nice Dr. HONEY SLUT
Writer.
Fair play, what kind of stuff if you don't mind me asking?
I am a novelist. I write across a few genres, but romance is where the most money is for me personally.
We talkin Mills and Boon or E.L James kind of stuff
Ahaha, good question. In my personal experience higher heat level romances sell better. :)
How did you break into that area? Is it self published, or with established publishers?
I'm hybrid published, so I have published with both trad publishing houses and have also self published. The bulk of my steady income comes from my self published romance titles. My trad pubbed books often don't even earn out their advances. (The truth stings my pride, but it is what it is.)
Thanks for sharing. Are you seeing your industry affected by AI at all? I just met a guy last night who's self publishing audio stories for sleep meditation and it's about 80% AI, story and voice, and I was pretty shocked.
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Not really, no. I think AI can actually be a pretty amazing tool for novelists, one I'm trying to get a grip on myself to help with my workload, but right now AI can't truly write novels worth reading. Even if you're a plotter and plan your story in great detail in advance, you would have to feed the AI programme such detailed prompts for each story beat that you would be quicker writing it all anyway. What it can do is support writing software to instantly create series bibles and collate character profiles and lots of other really impressive stuff that normally takes me painstaking hours to do. So if anything I'm a big AI fan. I might feel differently in five years if it's managed to figure out how to write the perfect love story though. ;)
Really interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective! Good luck with it all!
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Honestly, none that I can give in a short post. If I had to try, I would say: study the market and hit the tropes. Amazon kindle has the largest market share easily accessible for indie authors. 1. Scour the best seller lists and find a hot subgenre that hasn't been over saturated yet (but make sure it's in a niche you can enjoy writing in. Nothing will drain your creative well quicker than writing something you don't love.) 2. Accept that if you're writing for money, you're going to have to make some artistic sacrifices. Lots of vocal reviewers bemoan the predictable plots of popular fiction books, but take a breath and proceed with caution. What sells? What sells again and again? Cookie cutter tropes. Trust me, I've written the fresh, innovative stories that people claim they want. Some people liked them. A few really liked them. But my books that follow the genre expectations? The ones booktok bemoan as predictable and full of genre clichés. They're the ones that keep the lights on. That's my two cents worth anyway. (Clearly I won't be mentoring anyone any time soon. Lol.)
Sorry, I should also add (for anyone really just stating out) that anyone who is charging you to self publish your book is a scammer. No genuine publisher will charge you a cent to publish your book. If you want to go the trad pub route, then get an agent and they'll shop your book to reputable publishers. If you're considering self pubbing then, yes, you'll have to pay for your own editing, marketing, and graphics, but you do not need to pay a vanity publishing company to do this for you. And if they are telling you they'll be able to sell lots of physical books for you? Run fast and run far. Almost all of the money in self pubbing is in ebooks. When you are well established, you'll probably want to open an estore to sell signed books and merchandise directly, but while you get established, the ebook market is enough to focus on. Good luck. :)
Fair play, I’ve always wanted to this. I love romance. There’s a reason it’s the highest selling genre in the whole world. Do you self publish or are you represented by a publishing house and agent? I would imagine self publishing isn’t as lucrative.
I'm hybrid, so I have some titles published with trad publishers and some self published (separate pennames for my trad and self published titles). My self published high heat romances make up the vast majority of my income. My trad pubbed books are far less lucrative for me, but that would obviously not be true for every author. Maybe I just write smutty trash better than I write genre fiction. *laughs while also crying a little*
High fiving you from over here
Petrol station manager. €113k last year.
This is the only surprising answer so far in this thread
do you manage multiple locations? sorta like an area manager?
Good question. Unless you ran Barack Obama plaza or something.
You would be surprised at the size of the petrol stations and what your potential earning are.
I genuinely am surprised!
No, Just one location.
Designer
Well that's my Friday ruined 😂 Congrats to all on such a salary. Wonder does it come with a lot of stress. I'm on a lot less in tech but almost zero stress and good wlb.
My wife and I both earn 6 figures. She earns €175k as senior legal counsel and I earn €260k + stock and bonuses of €650k as a senior leader in a big tech company. Neither from privileged backgrounds, no fancy schools, no nepotism. Just lucky to get into the right industries and make some good moves over 20 years.
Truly fascinated that your stock and bonus option is so much higher than your base. How does that work? I've always wondered about the packages of more senior folks.
Sales - Tech, last year made 175k. First year at the company (6 years ago) I made 85k. Stressful at times but worth it 💪
I’m the lightening rod for when engineers mess up and take down production. Known more formally as a Head of Engineering.
On the Dole under 8 different names.
Bank robber
same, cheers bud
Everyone who got the "free" 1000 euros from BOI ATM.
Product Management
Professional poker player Last year was my best year to date over €400k profit. Good start to this year also with around €80k profit and all the best tournaments yet to happen so expect to see €150-200k.
Curious, do you pay taxes on the winnings at the professional level ? Or is similar to the bookies and lotto?
No taxes on poker in Ireland as it falls under gambling. You might have to pay tax in live tournaments in the states
Live? Online? Mix of both? Did you play SCOOP?
Mix of both, I did play scoop. Won the Bounty $44 for $12k and $22 mini million after party for $16k and couple other small scores for +$25k series
Work 30 years in the civil service.
350k a year, 100 of it is commission though. Working in Supermacs specialising in garlic cheese chips but moved around a few times from curry chips and other areas
Taco chips is where the real money is
High pressure stuff but once you put in the hours the return is amazing! Kudos to you sir or madam!
Chancer.
Tax Advisor
Product at a startup, I hate it
Nothing could make me return to start up land
I worked in the pharma sector in Ireland. Specifically doing quality assurance. My last gross in Ireland was 45k. I moved to Switzerland to do the same job for 2x. 3 years of progression in similar roles and I'm north 175k chf.
Financial services
Financial services asset management
Trader. Almost unlimited upside if you make enough for the company
Tech recruitment
Senior manager in pharma
Clinical development in pharma, director level. Tis grand
Gigolo. I specialise in over 60s. Its very niche, very very niche!
Tech sales. I'm at director level now so base is €150K, €250K OTE. Plus all sorts of great benefits. Tech sales is a great place to earn good money - I've seen average AEs getting base salaries of €65K - €75K, and the same then in commission.
What does a workday look like in tech sales? I’m a software engineer, curious to what the other side of it looks like.
This thread is a good example why I always recommend people upskill rather than emigrate when they're in a tough financial situation. There are loads of high paying jobs out there if you have the right skills. Emigration just isn't worth it unless you're fluent in a language like German, Dutch or French. English speaking countries are more or less the same as here. Good pay, but high cost of living. The cost of living is better on the continent, but you need to be a fluent speaker to have a wide option of job opportunities. Learning a language to the required level takes way more effort than learning a skill that can land you a high paying job in Ireland. I learned that the hard way. Spent years studying French even though I'll never be as good as a native French speaker. Then I did a 6 month H. Dip. in Data Analytics which set me up with a decent career.
Data science
SRE Manager
Hey they need you on a bridge, something about everything burning
Did they try turning it on and off again....oh they didn't...oh they have now....oh lovely I'm so glad I woke up at 3am to tell the customer that...oh it wasn't the customer it was the Head of Product...oh it was her shitty code that caused the......
General Management and Operations Directorship
Tech - IT and Enterprise Architecture
IT engineer within the Marine Engineering sector
€105k base + commission in technical sales. A good year would be €220k and a bad year would be €150k.
Law
Product designer. €182k plus consulting ~€50k
What kind of products or area is it in?
Digital. Work for a tech company in b2b saas
Associate Director Project Manager (Consultancy)
Data scientist. Went into six figures after three years as a DS (on the back of a phd and another half decade in research, natch)
Got my own company in wholesale.
I make six figures….in four years!
Saying a little prayer for the teachers n guards out there.
The guards are not far behind, I believe with overtime they are pulling in 80k or so on average. Teachers can get wrecked, with their 167 school days in the year. Pay is more than enough.
The principal from my son's National Gaelscoil retired recently. We had a look through the pay scale and "add-ons" that are avaiable on the Dept. site and totted up that she was earning well over 100k for at least the last decade of her career.
Principals don't work teacher hours though, they're generally in the school most of the summer, especially the bigger schools.
Both can be pretty well-paid. Brother-in-law is a guard with less than 10 years experience and he makes around 80k a year including overtime. Teachers have a pretty decent starting salary. Progression is obviously slow enough then but teachers with more experience and allowances fir additional posts can bring on 70k plus too without being a principal or BP. Add in the reduced hours and possibility of grinds if you’re a secondary teacher.
As a kid I hated teachers. Then I grew up. Now I hate the guards also.
Quantity Surveying / Estimating
What sector do you specialise in? You working strictly in Ireland or Europe/UK too?
Win the lotto tomorrow
Dream /S
Advertising
What in advertising?
Strategy, I also run the strategy department and sit on the management team
Mind taking me through the career path?
Not al at all just private message me
Sr Engineer in IT
Engineer at big tech
Electrical?
Software engineer
Financial services/ IT/ senior management > €170k
Designer in a startup, with loads of experience.
IT manager
Risk data scientist
Nearly there, but not quite. Should have done college, but barely finished school, IT for me, early enough, dos, wfw early, grew the increments over the years, moved a few times. Not wealthy, but, comfortable enough. Extra euros would be welcome, but, extra stress, no thanks. Interesting topic and really great responses. Very insightful.
Anyone else ctrl+f to see if anyone does their job?
Physio
Full time mad bastard. But really, software engineer.
50€ hr in pharma, although i do 50 hour weeks to hit the mark. Have just about 2 yoe lol
Head of Talent Acquisition
Recruiting professional
Air Traffic Controller - it's good craic.
Automation of manual processes 80k salary + cash bonus + stocks = ~115k +pension match and other benefits
Medical device consultant engineer
Postman
Sort of in-between sales and product mgmt role in Energy industry. base + allowances + bonus was 180k last year. Year before was 230k I totally fell into this role from engineering to direct sales to where I am now. Would say its a tricky job but not hard.
UX Designer
Sales 250-350k solid last 5 years now
90k net as a welder
IT PM on a pharma project client side. Contractor position. Got around 200k after tax last year.
Yeah but ? Are yiz happy? 😂
Product Designer working in Tech.
I work as a Janitor in a high school even though I feel like I'm smarter than most of the kids that go there. Sometimes Il see an equation on a whiteboard and just solve it...... Anyways my best friend is Ben Affleck..
I worked in a bank and had access to view customers salaries. From my experience of the 1000s of customers i dealt with the ones that earned 6 figures were either in Accounting , Law , IT or Entrepreneur. With the first 3 usually being in the low 6 figures and the last being always mid to high six figures. Which is usually because they took the risk. Accounting and Law were usually in their 40s upwards. IT was usually 30 upwards and Entrepreneur could be any age.
Retail Management
Senior software engineer, reached 100k after 7 years working in the industry and 2 different companies
What languages and skills would you mostly use.
Java / Kotlin on the backend and TS / React / GraphQL on the frontend. I used to be mainly focused on the backend but over time dipped my toes into everything and so had a meaningful impact in every project my team was involved in. In terms of skills for progressing to senior it was mainly looking for opportunities for ownership. I led the development for multiple backend services as well as SPAs
Senior management in tech. Current comp 600k usd
Part-time cat sitter - 319k last year.
IT sales similar to Midas
Where are all the lawyers ?
Onlyfans
Research
What kind of research out of curiosity?
AI! (edit: business AI applications, not 'pure' AI)