Let’s open a thread for salary discussion.
I’m not interested in reading from tabloids how much a controversial beauty queen or former rapper has earned; instead, I’m interested in what kind of work earns how much, and at what age. How precisely each person wants to tell is up to each individual to decide.
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X-ray nurse. 8 years of experience. Salary €2700 including everything. Just over 30 years old.
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Non-commissioned officer, 34 years old, 5400e/month, includes taxable income (i.e., no mission or military exercise daily allowances, naturally).
To set the background a bit, joining the field was due to interesting jobs as well as the fact that salary development is quite fast at first, although it almost stops over time. The intention has always been to invest money, so I was able to get into this hobby faster. I have also studied various things alongside work 
which, of course, do not affect the salary…
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It’s a pretty good idea. I’m just throwing it out there as a thought, but does this really belong on an investment forum? Even though salary is related to money and money to investing, the danger is that the forum will start to sprawl.
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I have to admit I didn’t think a non-commissioned officer would earn that well 
Is that a normal income level, or is there a lot of variation, e.g., among colleagues? I guess age increments at the military affect it at least?
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Isn’t the AU8, or the maximum NCO salary, around €3800/month?
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The difficulty of the task has a big impact, as do any responsibility or hazard bonuses included in the salary. There are hardly any seniority bonuses. Some responsibility bonuses increase with years of service, but they are in the hundreds. And of course, the personal salary component, which is performance-based, so to speak. I don’t get much evening/night/weekend pay.
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Admittedly, we’re going into a gray area with this. However, I felt that the forum is very much based on money in practice, so I opened the thread. I also feel that those on this forum think about money perhaps more than the average Finn. There are threads like this on Suomi24 and vauvapistefi, and you can surely imagine that this topic doesn’t really work there. The administrators will then decide what happens with this 
Edit: link removed, not essential.
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Yes, that’s correct. So the basic salary with a maximum personal component au8 is 3800. To this are added the monthly bonuses I mentioned above. For example, a helicopter flight mechanic gets a responsibility and hazard bonus of about 1300e/month on top of that. I don’t do those jobs myself
Edit: One more thing, I don’t know if any helicopter flight mechanics have au8… so not necessarily on top of that, but on top of something
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Yeah. On top of that, apparently those extras. Surprisingly good pay for the army, though.
Student. I live off your tax money. Nowadays, I also have a small income from work, a few hundred. Investments come from student loans and old savings. After school, I should get a good job pretty quickly.
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@anttirs I’m partly in cadet school for the same reason now! Student loan + 40% of cadet daily allowances, when invested, allows for a comfortable investment of about 870e/month during the three years of studies, and then straight to work.
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Age almost 33, Automation, Lecturer (UAS), €4750/month -6% disqualification deduction.
The deduction will be removed once the vocational teacher training (60 ECTS ~1.5 years) is completed. At the same time, a 10-year annual bonus will be added, so the salary should be ~€5150/month.
I can recommend it to others as well. 12 weeks of free time (vacation) per year. However, we don’t get bonuses, holiday pay, or return-from-holiday pay.
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I’m well under 30 years old. I’m set to graduate as a Master of Science in Technology (Diplomi-insinööri) in autumn 2021. I work almost full-time in consulting, with a salary in line with TEK’s recommendations, so a little over €2,700/month + bonuses. I’m slightly underpaid; by switching companies, I’d likely get at least €3,000/month. There’s a shortage of skilled professionals in the field. When I’ve asked colleagues, salaries typically rise to €4,000 upon graduation and easily over €5,000/month by age 35.
It’s quite amusing, as I feel I’m doing more than just fine with my current salary. I’ve already secured a home loan from the bank, and my investment portfolio holds significant assets by my own standards. I guess I’m still living in student mode, as I have over a grand left for investing every month.
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This is more of a virtue than a vice. When I changed jobs and my salary increased by about 10k€/year, I put the full amount into investments. Since I never got used to a more luxurious life, I don’t miss it either. Now, 5 years later, I’ve started to think about working a 4-day week; the buffer accumulated in my portfolio over the years would allow it.
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This kind of “incompetence deduction” is certainly an interesting thing. It seems quite strange that a guy has been doing a job for almost 10 years, apparently at least reasonably well, since he’s still doing it, but gets paid less because a stamped paper is missing from his folder.
I haven’t really gone to much school myself, but have largely relied on common sense and learning new things. I understand, of course, that in the case of a doctor or similar, one must have sat in school, but in many jobs, the goal is to do the required work, not to show off with papers. And of course, it also goes the other way, that if you haven’t studied, you must also accept that you can’t practice every profession.
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Production Manager in ICT at a state organization. Salary €4500/month. Age 38.
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36, insurance agent (sales work), purely commission-based and not in a direct employment relationship but as an entrepreneur. About 11 years of experience in the field.
Average commissions 10k/month.
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IT field, €64k this year.
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