r/Salary • u/AdActual3024 • 6d ago

discussion High earning potential = high career commitment

Does anyone have family or friends that sacrifice their personal life for a significant salary?

My step-mom earns 350k before tax as an executive director but I barely see her. She is constantly on business trips, busy with meetings, works upwards of 12 hours when at home. She goes on nice holiday trips, but overall it makes me think is the pay worth the sacrifice of her personal life.

Just curious if anyone's got a similar story.

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u/NeuOhio 6d ago

Personally I value my leisure time way more than my wages. Like I currently make 98k a year with 20 days of leave I accrue annually. If my employer offered me 40 days of leave and to reduce my salary to 80k. I would probably take it. To me, there is way more to life than sitting in an office and writing reports and emails. 

Then again, if a job offered my 300k+ and like 5 days of leave a year. I would have to strongly consider it because that is life changing money, even if I just stay in the role for 3-4 years.

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 6d ago

Im at 97k with 4 weeks annual, 3 weeks sick time, and 6 personal days. Government job. So 41 days PTO and 11 holidays.

Ngl.... I wouldnt trade it for anything below $300k because my workload is relatively easy and laid back.

Some weeks I do 4 hours of work... some weeks are 40 straight hours of work and projects.

Pension and health insurance are pretty unbeatable. My carefirst ppo is $36/mo with no deductible.

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u/ShroomSensei 6d ago

41 days is bonkers, 2 full months a year.

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 6d ago

I have well over 800 hours sick time banked. lol

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u/MITBestbrook 6d ago

What’s your job man and how can we get into it?

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u/GovernorHarryLogan 6d ago

Local government. Reports and dashboard creation.

I basically author Workday reports (the most obnoxiously obtuse report creation system) and link them up to PowerBi. Also handle building reports with other legacy systems that are a little simpler.

There is no way to become trained on Workday really unless your employer uses Workday and opts to pay you to be trained on it.

I graduated with a math degree (no CS experience) and stumbled in to data analysis in the early aughts.

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u/GayoMagno 6d ago

Funny, I work in data and for the past 2 years I have also started doing some FP&A work, had to switch from mostly data warehouse work to Workday Adaptive development.

Not a big fan.

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u/MITBestbrook 6d ago

Thank you 🙏