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Old 07-18-2013, 12:21 PM
 
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82K is a fantastic salary for a 33 year old, even in NoVa. I'd love to know what you do to earn that kind of money.
I made more than that at 33 years old, and I'm in Construction Management. Nothing fancy. It's a very good salary, but not uncommon in this area.
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Old 07-18-2013, 12:56 PM
 
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I made more than that at 33 years old, and I'm in Construction Management. Nothing fancy. It's a very good salary, but not uncommon in this area.
Is construction management like "waste management consulting"?
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Old 07-18-2013, 01:50 PM
 
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Is construction management like "waste management consulting"?


Not at all. Real jobs, real work.
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Old 07-18-2013, 02:06 PM
 
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I feel sorry for anyone who really does work in waste management consulting.
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Old 07-18-2013, 02:11 PM
 
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I feel sorry for anyone who really does work in waste management consulting.
I knew someone who actually got a graduate degree in waste management consulting--and there is a multi-million $ house in the neighborhood owned by a couple in that industry. So maybe we shouldn't feel too sorry!
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Old 07-18-2013, 06:01 PM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Go for it. You're single. You have a job lined up. You have a decent salary offer. You're young. If you don't take it, you will always wonder what it would have been like. If you don't like it, move back to MN in a year or two.
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Old 07-18-2013, 07:55 PM
 
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I knew someone who actually got a graduate degree in waste management consulting--and there is a multi-million $ house in the neighborhood owned by a couple in that industry. So maybe we shouldn't feel too sorry!
No kidding, this guy was loaded.
sopranos - waste management (high quality) - YouTube
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Old 07-18-2013, 10:17 PM
 
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What industry are you in? I know one of the biggest selling points in Northern Virginia is that you have multiple companies from various industries, so you have options for something better down the road. Many other places I have noticed seem to be one industry or one company type of cities, so upward mobility is limited.
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Old 07-19-2013, 08:26 AM
 
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To the OP, on the federal pay scale the equivalent of 60K in the Twin Cities is 62K here, so you're coming out way ahead.
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Old 07-19-2013, 08:45 AM
 
Location: Chester County, PA
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To the OP, on the federal pay scale the equivalent of 60K in the Twin Cities is 62K here, so you're coming out way ahead.
The GS pay scale is not determined based on relative costs of living. It is based on some formula they use to determine what comparable pay is in the private sector in that geographic area. That is why, for example, a GS-11, step 1, makes $62,467 in the DC area, but would make $64,724 in the Houston area. According to the formula they use, the private sector pays more in Houston for comparable levels of employment than the private sector in the DC area. If it were based on relative costs of living, Houston federal employees would most certainly have a a lower salary than their DC counterparts.

Personally, I think there is something seriously wrong with the formula they use when you get paid more in Houston than DC, but it is not because of a cost of living formula. Similarly, when Feds received pay raises, it is based on a formula that is meant to find what average pay increase in the private sector has been, not inflation - of course, that process has been frozen by Congress since 2010, but that is how it is supposed to work.
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