Bell Curve

Bell Curve

1
5%

More Brewing, Less Drinking. Salary: $24,000 

"After-work drinks" are supposed to start after work. Well, doesn't matter now...you no longer have job to celebrate the daily conclusion of with a drink.

2
25%

Sack Mover. Salary: $29,000 

It's your first day as a junior brewer, and you don't have a clue what's going on. The five-day course you took taught you the names of everything—that's a mash tun over there—but you just have a lost, panicked look in your eye when someone hands you a forty-pound sack of barley.

3
50%

Brewer. Salary: $34,600 

Look at you, barreling along. Literally. You just brewed your 20,000th barrel of beer, and are celebrating a bit with the other brewers.

4
75%

Brewmeister. Salary: $42,200 

You've done 30,062 barrels as a brewer, but today is a new day: your first barrel as brewmaster. That particular barrel is slightly delayed in its transport out of the brewery, though, because you had to take a bunch of selfies with it and post all over your social media.

5
95%

Master Cicerone. Salary: $63,475 

Twelve of you just sat for the infamous Master Cicerone test...and only one survived. Congratulations to the world's eighth Master Cicerone. Your business card now just says "Supreme Beer Ruler" as the title.