Quote from: RE on Apr 29, 2025, 01:34 AMThis is why the Middle Class is a vanishing species. Starting salaries at even the highest levels haven't even come close to keeping up with inflation. To Boomers though, $100K sounds like a lot of money, particularly for a recent college grad. A reasonably successful Boomer like Kdog didn't crack 6 digits even at the end of his career in IT with a Master's.
Some Boomers cracked $100k by age 30, but drilling wells near the Arctic Circle was a bitch on homelife. No Masters required though. Now, getting back into an office required a 60% paycut. And then ANOTHER 10 years to crack $100k.
But end of career nowadays, no one is talking about $100k, I see ads for assistants to reservoir engineers going for nearly $200k within the last month on Indeed.