50 Jobs And What They Pay In The US – BuzzFeed

1. “I’m a film and TV makeup artist, and our union scale rate is roughly $65/hour for the first eight hours. We get time and a half until 12 hours, then double time after 12 hours on higher budget productions. I work a lot of double-time hours. We have quarterly union dues and all of that, and have to work 400 hours every six months to qualify for our medical insurance. I’m in Los Angeles.” —amytaylor1968 2. “I was a mailman for 30 years. The last year of my job, I was making $55,000/year. I’ve been retired for 12 years and my yearly income is $23,000.” —huggable 3. “I earned a B.A. and M.Ed. to become a teacher, but quit after eight years. I’ve now been a legal assistant for about three years, and I just completed an online paralegal certification and am job hunting. I currently make $60,000/year and will make more when I jump to a paralegal gig. I’m $50,000 in debt for degrees I earned to do something I loved, but left because I could barely keep my head above water. I knew it wouldn’t get better and it wasn’t worth the stress. I love being a…
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