u/Snoo_39372

Hi, if you are working as a consultant, engineer, data engineer, software engineer etc. in any power engineering related institution in the US can you share your base salary and benefits? You could also share the name of the institution if you are comfortable. This will help the community understand their value and may be allow them to negotiate back with the institution :) I will start with myself.

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Institution: Consulting firm in the South
Area: Power Distribution Planning
Role: Senior Power Engineer (~1 year)
Position: Remote
Base Salary: 145k (~8% bonus, ~10% stocks, 4% 401k match up to 100% of my contribution, $0 health insurance premiums)
Experience: PhD in EE and worked for 2 years in a research lab before joining the firm
Regular work hours: almost always around 50hrs a week (no OT paid but work can be stressful at times)

I got my first personal MBA M4 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. I got it from Facebook marketplace for $675 (USD) and thought its a great deal as it had just been charged for about 80 cycles and still has 98% battery capacity. I mostly develop python applications and have side art projects in iPad that I would like to make content from. So thought about getting one for personal projects (both software and art). Did I make the right choice?

I use M4 Max 32GB/1TB for work which made me love mac and I made a decision to switch to mac from windows. I still own Dell XPS 9570 which I have owned for 8 years now and it still works fine. However I now have the flexibility use both the devices :)

Now I am thinking about getting external SSD of either 1 or 2 TB. Any specific dos and don’ts would be helpful :) thanks.