"married, both in tech, their salary will be in the 300k-400k" No, it's rare to have both couples in tech AND making 150K plus each. Avg Engineer salary is no

"married, both in tech, their salary will be in the 300k-400k" No, it's rare to have both couples in tech AND making 150K plus each. Avg Engineer salary is not even quite that high at Google. A 150K job is still a 'pretty good job' and a little more rare than you'd imagine. Also, there's a lot of moving around, and that means a few months every few years of not working.