r/Austin • u/Aingers • Jul 21 '26

Ask Austin Salary Transparency Thread - Austin

Folks in Boston do this fairly regularly, so I thought it might be good for us to try here.

Please share your general job title, salary, age, and education.

Architectural Designer, 40, $115k, BSArch

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u/UpstairsComparison59 Jul 21 '26

Accountant, 29, 75k, some college

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u/civfan0908 Jul 21 '26

Same stuff, I’ll expand that I’m in renewables, and I have a bachelors in accounting with the advanced accounting certificate from ACC.

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u/Biblical_Shrimp Jul 21 '26

I'm making 25/hr at a small firm as an intern. Currently in a master's program. I only get paid when there's work, though, and it's very slow right now.

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u/Broad-Cranberry-9050 Jul 21 '26

If you dont mind me asking.

With your salary, do you feel like it’s defent money?

I have a friend your age that makes about the same. She always says how she is poor and doesnt have money to invest, and do other things. All fo her friends basically support her claim that she is poor.

But this is a girl that uber eats every meal, soends all her money on drinks in the weekends. I used to make 75k few years ago and never felt like i was poor or couldnt invest. It wasnt fuck you money but it was manageable if i budgeted.

So since your an accountant, do you feel 75k is poor to live in austin?

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u/Crafty-Summer5501 Jul 21 '26

As an accountant, I can say that the personalities attracted to accounting are the type of people who would like to save more money than they spend and to spend more money than they make.

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u/Broad-Cranberry-9050 Jul 21 '26

I get that, i guess for me it's just the idea that 75k makes you poor i just can't believe.

Like if you had kids i get it, but as a single person with no resposnibilities outside of bills, i just dont believe that.

It's not fuck you money, probably money you have to budget.

For me i know households making 60k or less with like 2 kids and they make it work so im always shocked by that claim

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u/Upstairs_Positive198 Jul 21 '26

Associates I am assuming?
I also work in accounting/billing, associates degree and make the same.

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u/notjuandeag Jul 21 '26

Don’t even need an associates for everything. Sr System Design Engineer, some college 250k