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Work From Home Salaries 2025
Work From Home Salaries 2025

Buzz Feed

time3 hours ago

  • Business
  • Buzz Feed

Work From Home Salaries 2025

Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community if they would anonymously share their salaries with me. Over 1,000 people told me their salaries, and some of them even told me they work remotely/from home. Here are only the salaries from those who work from home, which I think provides a really fascinating snapshot. "I'm the VP of Marketing for a software company working remotely. $250K base, with 25% bonus and equity for future company exit." "$80K. 25 years as a 401(K) administrator at a nationally known company, working from home." "Registered nurse for 17+ years, quality specialist at a not-for-profit hospice, remote work, and I make $87K." "$73K a year. I work as a product designer at an agency specializing in Shopify e-commerce. I have 2–3 years of experience." "$94K. Paralegal in a niche area of real estate. Love that I went from in-person (big law) to remote (small firm) with an 8% bump in base pay. No complaints here." "$700K, staff software engineer at a big tech company." "Key account manager for a major beverage corporation manufacturer. $150K." "I'm a cybersecurity manager for global biotech. $180K base + $100K in stock and bonuses. No degree, but 26 years of experience and lots of certifications." "I am a virtual internal medicine doctor, fully remote. I earn $530K annually." "I am an administrative contracting officer for the US Department of Defense, and I make $122K per year with the best benefits (worth $50K), and unmatched work/life balance. I am also 100% remote. Proud to Serve. USA!" "Senior software engineer, 10 years experience, working remotely at an established start-up, $180K/year plus all the usual benefits." "$42K customer service rep for an insurance advisory firm. 100% remote with a bachelor's degree and an insurance license." "Executive search consultant. I'm in-house with a base of $120K, and my usual bonuses range from $40-85K. Usually, [I make] $185K annually. I'm super specialized and not commission-based." "I'm in IT Support, $90K, 100% remote." "I earn $275K annually, plus long-term incentives as the leader of a small division within a software company." "Customer support operations manager. Remote, $69K salary, no college degree." Finally, "Project manager, $95K. I have a master's, but it's not required." Do you work from home? If so, tell us your salary and how much you make either in the comments or completely anonymously in the Google form below. Your entry may be in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post.

People Who Found Out About Their Spouses' Sinister Secrets After Marrying Them Are Sharing What Happened, And It's Really Frightening
People Who Found Out About Their Spouses' Sinister Secrets After Marrying Them Are Sharing What Happened, And It's Really Frightening

Yahoo

time16 hours ago

  • General
  • Yahoo

People Who Found Out About Their Spouses' Sinister Secrets After Marrying Them Are Sharing What Happened, And It's Really Frightening

We recently covered a Reddit thread that asked users who discovered major secrets about their spouses after marriage to share their stories. This inspired members of the BuzzFeed Community who have endured similar revelations to open up about their experiences. Here's what people shared: 1."My ex-husband neglected to tell me that he was more interested in men than women. When I did find out, I was pregnant and not working due to severe morning sickness. I wanted to run, but I felt trapped. More of his lies came out, and we divorced a couple of years later. I found out during the divorce that he was soliciting men on Craigslist and inviting them to the house while he was taking care of my daughter." —Anonymous 2."After working to get my husband through medical school and putting off finishing my college career until he graduated, he had an affair with his assistant, and she had his baby while we were still married. I finished my Master's and divorced him." —Anonymous 3."This guy was pursuing me to no end, even sending flowers to my job. I finally agreed to marry him. I never loved him, really. But I was willing to learn to love him. Then, he started acting strange when we picked out a house to buy. I had a VA loan and discovered his name couldn't be on the deed because of a foreclosure. His ex-wife still lived in the home and refused to pay mortgage payments. So, once I purchased our home on my own, he was infuriated that he'd have to sign a disclosure agreement and that he'd have no rights to the property. That didn't stop him from getting a restraining order against me a year later and trying to have me forced from the home when I filed for divorce. He was a true loser." —Anonymous 4."My husband didn't tell me he still owned a condo with his ex and was still close with her and her current husband. I found an email in which he complained to her about how rude my children were. He invited his ex and her husband to visit us, but he didn't tell me until they arrived, and we were scheduled to join them for dinner." —Anonymous 5."My husband didn't tell me he was already married to another man. At first, I was horrified, but it turns out they are both bi and very into me. I'm now enjoying two husbands." —Anonymous 6."He told me he didn't want to buy me an engagement ring because he'd rather use the money for a down payment on a house. I found out after we were married that there was no money. He said he had a BS in Sociology when he was actually five classes shy of his degree. I found this out after being married for 18 years. He told me he never used any drugs, but I found out when we were divorcing that he was getting high with our kids as a bonding experience and that when he was younger, he used to get so drunk/high that he'd crawl out to his car from bars. He was a Boy Scout leader for our son's troop, and I found out he was forging signatures on badges, so my son's scouting career was false. It took me 24 years to be rid of him." —Anonymous 7."He told me he was divorced. Then, a week before our wedding, he had to go to court to get his divorce finalized. I would never have dated a married man. Then, he had an affair and told his new woman that he and I were already divorced. Pathological liar." —Anonymous 8."My ex-husband of 20 years told me after we were married and moved to another state that he had a little girl. The little girl is six months younger than my son. My son was born in July; she was born in December of the same year. We also got married in March of that year. He claims it was before we were married, but we were engaged and had set plans to fly to Miami to get married. I never had another child by him." —Anonymous 9."My ex didn't tell me he had a problem with being on the internet. I found out after six years of marriage that he had a secret Facebook account with only women on it, saying he liked to get down and dirty. I also found out he was doing live porn on the internet with other people posting his privates all over the internet. Needless to say, I divorced him." —Anonymous 10."Before marriage, he pretended to be kind, helpful, a good father, and employed with a steady job. He later admitted to stealing all of my money and all of the kids' money from their savings accounts, as well as spending tens of thousands of dollars on sex workers during work hours as a children's social worker. We're divorced." 11."Lying is integral to my soon-to-be ex's negative value system. He said he loved me; he didn't. He said his grandparents had a small bank account in our name; they didn't. He said he had kidney cancer; he didn't. He said he didn't get money from his brother's estate; he did. He said he'd take me to Hawaii when I finished my thesis; he didn't. I had no idea when I married the loser that everything he said was a lie." —Anonymous 12."This happened in the late 1990s. About a year or so into our marriage, my then/first wife showed me a final collection notice on unpaid college loans. She was visibly upset, insisting that she never got any prior notices in the mail. It got me mad. I cashed out an investment and paid it off to make the debt collector disappear. A couple years later, she asked for a divorce and moved out. In the summer of 1999, I was going through my house, clearing out her excess stuff, when I opened up a storage bin and found — surprise, surprise — all the prior collection notices she had hidden away. That was the least of the eye-opening discoveries I learned about her. We divorced in March 2000. Exactly a year later, I met a sweet woman and married her two years later. We've been happily married for 21 years. Oh yeah, and we both pay our bills on time." —Anonymous 13."Three years after we were married, I found out that my husband is sexually attracted to men. I found a questionable male picture on his computer while restoring it from a virus, and I made it his desktop image, hoping he would object to it somehow. Instead, he didn't bat an eye. When I confronted him, he said, 'I'm working on that.' We obviously are not together anymore." —Anonymous 14."Wooh! Where do these folks come from?!? First, it was his age (older than he stated), then a story about being in the military. Now, the icing on the cake: his baby momma was in labor with twins on our wedding day! All his guests knew what was up. I had no clue and was pregnant really soon after the wedding. Now it makes sense why he wasn't thrilled we were pregnant." —Anonymous 15."I only found out that my husband had previously been married when I went to register my child's birth at the embassy. To top it off, he was still married to that person in another country. He did not think it counted since he permanently left that country. Needless to say, he had to pay legal fees in two countries and travel there to get a divorce. I only believed him when I saw the legal documents translated and submitted to our local courts." —Anonymous 16."My then-boyfriend, now husband, always brought me little gifts and cards. I was young and he was 10 years older. I thought it was so sweet and thoughtful. It definitely was a big reason I fell for him. It wasn't until years later that I realized his mom and sister were buying the cards and gifts. It wasn't his thoughtfulness at all." —Anonymous 17."I am a physician, and he is a teacher. Years after we were married, he basically told me that I was not good enough and that he would never have married me if he had been a physician or lawyer. I am his third wife. We are in the process of getting divorced." —Anonymous 18."My ex-husband went into great detail about his yellow truck at home in California (I'm in CT) and said he had broken off an engagement. At our wedding, his mother told me that she had to break up with his ex-fiancée for him when she came over for her regular dinner time when the family was preparing to come for the wedding. Also, he never owned a vehicle. I had been driving him everywhere. He never let me talk to his mom. He cheated on me, so we are not together anymore." "My other ex-husband, as it turned out, had never been with another woman before me. That would be fine, but he told me he had been with three. Two didn't have names, but one was named Zoe, and he made up her backstory. It all came crashing down when he said he had gone to Machu Pichu with her and didn't know what country it was in. I was with him for eight years, and so many wild stories about him exist. I've been divorced for quite a while." —awkwardlamp47 19."I was working with a dental office shortly after graduating from high school, but before I started design school at the Pasadena School of Design. This character supposedly was a dental student at USC, and I was naïve enough to believe him. Two years later, married to this delusional liar and pregnant with our first child, I was still unaware that he wasn't a dentist but just a guy making false teeth for patients. It got worse. He became physically abusive, but my two children and I were able to escape his lies and abuse. I recently got a friend request from him on Facebook. No way in hell would I befriend him." —Anonymous 20."We got engaged after 10 glorious days. A year and a half later, we married. Then, he casually told me everything he told me when we got together was all lies. He didn't know or want me, much less love me. He just wanted to 'do' me but knew I wanted to wait for marriage. Also, he was homeless because his ex left, and he couldn't pay the rent. Many years and kids later, I still feel used. People think we are so happy, but I feel empty inside. Our children, who are on their own and doing well, know their dad is only here because I pay all the bills." —Anonymous 21."My dad was 12 years older than my mom, so he lied about being 40 since he didn't think she would be interested at 28. He had always looked young, so it was easy to pull off. The day she found out his real age was at the courthouse when they were signing the marriage license. He thought she would be so mad, but she laughed it off since she was so in love at that point and didn't care how old he was. She would always lovingly retell the story while he looked on embarrassed." —cute-as-ducks419 22."He only married me for a green card. He was dating other women the whole time we were married. One of his dates called and clued me in. Hello, divorce lawyer!" —Anonymous 23."When I met my future husband, we were making small talk at a Saturday night gathering for single people. I was in my early 20s. He was 10 years older than me, incredibly handsome, and seemed kind. I asked him if he had plans for the upcoming week. He said his friend was having a baby, and he was going to see them sometime that week. It sounded normal enough. I innocently assumed he meant a guy friend, and the friend's wife was having a baby, and my dude was being supportive. Two years later, we were engaged. After we were married, he told me the 'friend' he had mentioned the night we met was actually his ex-girlfriend." "They were going through a breakup when I met him; the baby was his. That pregnancy had ended due to a stillbirth the week we met. I was amazed that he thought he couldn't tell me the truth about that situation at some reasonable point before we married. I would not have married him if they'd had a baby, but I chalked it all up to 'live and learn.' I was trying to do the 'right thing' and honor my marriage vows by forgiving him and putting that in the past. I divorced him 24 years later when I gradually found out he had racked up many thousands of dollars in debt over the years without telling me and had hidden that from me by eventually taking over the financial 'management' of our shared bank account, a task I had openly done for us for years. He had also invested his pension from early retirement, which was a substantial sum of money that could have sustained a humble but secure lifestyle for us for the rest of our lives, into a business venture with an acquaintance against my adamant disagreement. The acquaintance turned out to be a crook who had convinced my ex to allow him to 'manage the finances' since they were business partners. The guy stole all of my ex's (our) money and disappeared with all of the equipment, files, and computers from the business. The acquaintance was operating under an alias and wanted in another state for doing the same thing to somebody else. I am so relieved to be out of that tough marriage. I am much poorer, wiser, and not impressed with the quality of men my age I've met. The bar now is so incredibly low. I don't know if I want to be with anyone again." —Anonymous "My first husband told me right after we were married that he wasn't in love with me yet, but he said he would learn to love me over time. We lasted 20 years and had three kids before his dysfunctional behavior finally made me realize I couldn't fix what started broken." —Anonymous Gosh, how devastating and unsettling. It's incredible how some people can hide their true colors from even those closest to them. Scary stuff. If you also married someone who hid major parts of themselves from you, what happened? Tell us in the comments or submit anonymously using this form. Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.

The Hidden Financial Side Of Gender Transition
The Hidden Financial Side Of Gender Transition

Buzz Feed

timea day ago

  • Health
  • Buzz Feed

The Hidden Financial Side Of Gender Transition

If you're a longtime BuzzFeed reader, you might recognize the handsome face of Ash Perez. Ash was making videos with us back in the golden age of BuzzFeed, alongside folks like Quinta Brunson. Now, after coming out as trans in 2023, he's working on a series with the Try Guys called New Guy Tries, all about exploring his masculinity. Recently, Ash stopped by Financial Feminist Podcast, hosted by Tori Dunlap, to talk about the costs of his transition. In the episode description, Tori wrote, "This is a great episode if you've ever been curious about the experience of your trans friends and neighbors, especially if you've wondered how to be a better ally to their community." One part of their conversation is taking off online, where Ash gets into all the costs that have gone into his transition. Here's what he had to say: First, Ash shared that he enrolled in gender therapy to explore his identity. "I was paying, I think, $350 out of pocket for that, for one session." He also had top surgery and got his eggs frozen as part of his transition in case he wants to have kids someday. Ash shared that he spends about $20 a month on testosterone. According to a 2022 study in The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, the cost of gender affirming surgery can range from around $7,000 to $63,000, depending on the procedure. In the US, health insurance plans that get federal funding are required to cover gender affirming care, but how much is covered (and how challenging it is to get) can vary widely depending on each individual's plan and location. Private health insurance plans that don't receive federal funding can opt not to cover this healthcare, despite the fact that the American Medical Association endorses it as essential. "Then [there's] the cost, again, of taking off work, having someone take care of you," Ash continued. "Finding community, camps. There's amazing resources for trans people, but, like, you pay for those spaces." Before Trump's executive order requiring documents like passports to reflect gender assigned at birth, Ash also spent $500 updating his documents from female to male. Then, Ash shared an unexpected cost. "I'm going through fucking puberty again. The amount that I've spent just now on acne care that I thought I was fucking done with is been monstrous." He also needed a whole new wardrobe as he transitioned. "The first is changing your style. And then on testosterone. I'm literally growing." Tori chimed in to point out that Ash lives in Los Angeles, and Ash replied, "What if you're in Kentucky? And by the way, if you're trans in Kentucky, you probably don't have the doctors that I have access to, so you're gonna fly for surgery. I would say probably over 50% of trans people have to fly to get the care that they need." Finally, Ash estimated that he's spent at least $15,000 on his transition so far. He further summed it up by saying his transition has included many costs, some expected, some surprising, and some truly heartbreaking, like the cost of facing discrimination. "It's not just what you're spending. It's what you're not earning." In the comments, more people shared what they've spent on their transition: And opened up about some of the hidden costs: Seeing the costs laid out like this is a peek into the trans experience that we don't often get to see in media, and I'm so glad that Ash opened up about this side of his journey. Understanding the financial impact involved in transitioning really goes to show how much it means to the people who are on this path, because it's such a big commitment to take on. Can you relate? If you feel comfortable, share what you've spent on gender-affirming care in the comments! Looking for more LGBTQ+ or Pride content? Then check out all of BuzzFeed's posts celebrating Pride 2025.

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