Archive: June 2007
What This Job Pays: paralegal
Pay: The average annual salary of a paralegal in the Seattle area is $44,600, with most making from $39,200 to $49,300, according to PayScale, a Seattle company that tracks compensation and benefits.
My First Job: Dennis Dunphy
Dennis Dunphy Now: Attorney Then: Log peeler Current position: Shareholder and litigator in the Seattle office of the law firm Schwabe...
What This Job Pays: interior designer
Information U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://stats.bls.gov/oco Interior designer Pay: The average annual salary of an interior designer...
Michele Scoleri, Bumbershoot Artistic Director
Michele Scoleri has managed to spin her love of music into a two-decade career. Since 2000, this former New York talent agent has been producing events such as Bumbershoot and the temporarily on-hiatus Summer Nights Concert Series for One Reel , Seattle's arts and event-production powerhouse.
My First Job: Jim Anderson
Jim Anderson Now: Company president and CEO Then: Nursery worker Current position: President and CEO of Adaptis, a health-care-outsourcing...
What This Job Pays: insurance underwriter
Information U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://stats.bls.gov/oco Insurance underwriter Pay: The average annual salary of an insurance...
Down-and-dirty expertise
Carpenter ants, leaky roofs and dry rot are Don McFeron's bread and butter. Scouring houses for such hazards and preparing inspection reports...
My First Job: Ross Jones
Currently president and CEO, Wattenbarger Architects. First job: Gas-station attendant in Bellevue.
Microstock photography represents a new business model
Kelly Cline's photographs pop up all over the place — in grocery stores, on Web sites, even splashed on the wall of a supermarket in Serbia.
Rolf Hokansson, Swansons Nursery Perennial Assistant Manager
Rolf Hokansson's horticultural career didn't blossom until later in life. After 30 years working as a social-service administrator for the state's Department of Social and Health Services, he decided he wanted to work outdoors with plants.
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