I made $100k in 2014. If I don’t make $133k in 2024, I’m being paid less than before for the same work, plus 10 years of additional experience.
It’s pretty crazy. Never thought I would make over 100k in my life. Now that I have, 100k seems like the minimum to get by if you have kids. And this isn’t in a HCOL area either.
Bro same!
I’m making 5 times as much as I did when I was out of college. And I’m still nowhere near what my parents had.
Which either implies I was living in extreme poverty back then, or this is a hellhole.
My anecdote: I make about the same as my dad did at this age and I have about the same QoL and a nicer, newer home. Our single experiences don’t add up to much.
That’s where you start to question whether it’s lifestyle creep or it’s really just that hard to get by and wonder how you used to do it on 1/2 or 1/3 of that income.
I paid $6.00 for a small coffee and a donut recently.
$81,000 isn’t a lot of money
I bought lunch for my team of five and it came to $75 with tip.
Fuck me. This was like basic sandwiches, chips, and a soda.
Next time, I’ll just bring them over to my house and make steaks for everybody for the same price.
One thing people don’t realize is how cheap luxuries used to be.
When the average salary was about $5,000, you could get a top of the line Cadillac or a Jaguar for $6,000.
Today the average is about $60,000 and supercars are in the million dollar range.
School kids used to be able to buy courtside seats for a game, or see a Broadway show.
Heck, a mocvie and a pizza out used to be a cheap date, now it can run a couple $100
The equivalent of 81k today is 62k in 2016.
If you graduated in 2016 and entered the workforce 62k would’ve been starvation wages in a lot of cities, but could sit you ok most other places.
yup. thats the lowest I can go and even hope of being in the black each month if absolutely nothing happens including eventual maintenance costs.
Makes sense. 100k is the mark where you stop drowning and start treading water
Anybody have a non-paywalled version?
