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I just love this meme that 26 year olds making 3-4x median salary, getting pestered daily by recruiters offering five-figure signing bonuses, are somehow being

• jacquesm 9y ago
  > 26 year olds making 3-4x median salary As if that's all of them. Not to mention the ones that are working absolutely insane hours.
• gaius 9y ago
  Most are not tho': they are being paid mediocre cash salaries with seemingly vast "stock options", and working 80 hours a week. Experienced engineers treat stock options as lottery tickets and insist on fair cash salaries.
• user5994461 9y ago
  After a master at $50k per year and only if they live in one of the two most expensive cities in the world, where twice the national median will not afford them a one bedroom flat in 20 years.
• coldtea 9y ago
  The multiplier of the median salary doesn't matter. Money is not an absolute, it's a relative (exchange) concept. It's what they make in value for the company vs what they get back that matters. Plus, making $100k/year but working 12+ hours day is worse than what just doing the division would show (that it amounts to $67/year of 8-day work) because the toll of those extra hours on personal life, health, family, personal development, opportunity cost, side business etc is not linear.
• lj3 9y ago
  I once calculated my $/h when I was working a deathmarch (80+ hrs per week for over a year). It came out to considerably less than what my brother was making per hour working an assembly line in a factory.