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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.

June 25, 2007 |

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...

June 18, 2007 |

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...

June 18, 2007 |

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.

June 18, 2007 | Post a comment

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...

June 11, 2007 |

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...

June 11, 2007 |

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...

June 11, 2007 | Post a comment

My First Job: Ross Jones

Currently president and CEO, Wattenbarger Architects. First job: Gas-station attendant in Bellevue.

June 4, 2007 |

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.

June 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

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.

June 1, 2007 | Post a comment