Campbell: Left six-figure Boeing engineering compensation for The Rideshare Guy
Harry Campbell · Is This Uber's Next Acquisition? · Feb 1, 2016 · at 3:09
Harry Campbell, founder of The Rideshare Guy, discusses his previous career and compensation at Boeing before leaving to build his gig economy media platform full-time.
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“I was right about 80,000. So probably like a typical mid-level kind of junior engineer. I mean, obviously plus benefits and bonus and all the, you know, I worked for Boeing. So it was one of these top, you know, top aerospace companies plus all the matching. So I mean, total compensation was probably well over six figures”
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