Working as a pen tester with a consulting firm for 6 six years. Been making $111k after bonus. Am I being underpaid? What are other pen testers making? I have oscp and cissp and a few other sans pen test certs.

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What is your favorite pen?
I very much like Bic for day to day use, and Mont Blancs for special occasions such as weddings and signing important contracts.

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Silly question but what’s a pen tester?

Haha I thought this was a sarcastic post until reading this

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Honestly, not sure what your comp should be as i'm not in that space, but $111k sounds low.

Depends on the time of pen test you specialize in. In general, most highly regarded security professionals are paid higher than you, but it really depends on the types of clients and types of projects you have experience with. If you specialize in ransomware attacks with global financials, you could easily double your income overnight. If you’ve been working in SMB around fishing attacks, you’re probably just right.

For a minute I got excited. Testing pens, sounds fun. I would order the entire catalogue of jet pens to test them out. Turns out OP is a cool hacker dude/dudette

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