Making $80k a year!
In a CNN article, actuary was listed as the first job that you can make $80k a year at.
1. Associate actuary
What they do: Most often employed by insurance agencies, actuaries use data to calculate the likelihood and expense of an event, such as death or illness, and help formulate an insurance policy based on their findings.
Annual mean income: $81,924*
Projected employment in 2016: 22,000**
Increase between 2006 and 2016: 24 percent
Why do they always focus on the insurance side of things? Boring! (Sorry Ahow.)
Others on the list included:
2. Attorney
3. Compensation and benefits manager
4. Economist
5. Floor broker
6. Marketing manager
7. Petroleum engineer
8. Pharmacist
9. Risk management supervisor
10. Veterinarian
Showing posts with label actuary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label actuary. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Friday, February 22, 2008
It's a small actuarial world
When I worked at D&T, I used to get made fun of a lot for knowing all the actuaries in Chicago. I don't think that is all that difficult of a feat when 1) you worked at Unifi/Buck/Mellon/whatever where everyone quit and spread out to different companies and 2) you drink a lot.
This can be bad for people at times. I remember a certain Mercer intern who told a company in Indianapolis that he was interviewing with that he had an offer from Mercer when he DID NOT. Amateur. That kind of stuff is going to come out with one simple email.
This week, I have had two of those experiences that prove, once again, "It's a small (actuarial) world after all." (I can even say most of that in sign language.)
1) A nameless friend from my Mercer days ended up interviewing with my company this week. He had no clue that Katie, Sushma and I all work there! He got referred to the company from someone in our San Diego office! Random. **
2) I was looking through OLD OLD OLD pictures on my computer. (It's Friday.) I came across this picture from our course 3 seminar back in the fall of 2003.
This can be bad for people at times. I remember a certain Mercer intern who told a company in Indianapolis that he was interviewing with that he had an offer from Mercer when he DID NOT. Amateur. That kind of stuff is going to come out with one simple email.
This week, I have had two of those experiences that prove, once again, "It's a small (actuarial) world after all." (I can even say most of that in sign language.)
1) A nameless friend from my Mercer days ended up interviewing with my company this week. He had no clue that Katie, Sushma and I all work there! He got referred to the company from someone in our San Diego office! Random. **
2) I was looking through OLD OLD OLD pictures on my computer. (It's Friday.) I came across this picture from our course 3 seminar back in the fall of 2003.
Yeah, I'm not looking at the camera, but anyway, that guy that is standing next to me (not Ahow), is Daniel and he works with me now in our North Carolina office!!** I IM'd him and was like "Did you go to a course 3 seminar in Atlanta in 2003?" He was like "Ummm, remember, I was a lot younger back then." Yeah, it was a crazy week.
** Note, my company is an extremely small company. Like under 50 employees.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Work Rant
You know what I hate about being an actuary?
Exams, yes...
But today I am talking about benefit calculations. They are usually pretty basic calculations that a high school student could do, but they can take forever because you have to double & triple check stuff since it has to be exact. You have to check the rounding and all that jazz. (I prefer big challenging calculations where you can have a margin of error, apparently.) And the client is always bugging you to get them back quickly. Ugh!
The only good thing about them is when the people have funny names. Right now I am working on a calc for someone named Shawn-Ta. Very phoenetic spelling!
Exams, yes...
But today I am talking about benefit calculations. They are usually pretty basic calculations that a high school student could do, but they can take forever because you have to double & triple check stuff since it has to be exact. You have to check the rounding and all that jazz. (I prefer big challenging calculations where you can have a margin of error, apparently.) And the client is always bugging you to get them back quickly. Ugh!
The only good thing about them is when the people have funny names. Right now I am working on a calc for someone named Shawn-Ta. Very phoenetic spelling!