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Mind sharing what your rent was during those 3 years? The best figure would actually be comp minus taxes and rent. edit: Oh, I see you were in Boston -- that's
by viklove 7y ago
Mind sharing what your rent was during those 3 years? The best figure would actually be comp minus taxes and rent.
edit: Oh, I see you were in Boston -- that's a great deal then. I still wouldn't want to work for Google for idealogical reasons, but I can see why the money would attract others. You also had ~9 YEARS of full time experience at that point, which makes it a lot less impressive.
- jefftk 7y agoI'm in Boston, and our rent was about $1100/month for a couple. Rents are higher now (https://www.jefftk.com/p/boston-rents-over-time https://www.jefftk.com/p/boston-rents-over-time) and we have kids now. Taxes would be higher but we donate 50% of our income (https://www.jefftk.com/donations https://www.jefftk.com/donations) so I'm not sure how you'd count that? Also, I didn't have ~9 years of full time work when I started at Google, I had 3.5. My first full time programming job started fall 2008, and this was Spring 2012.
- viklove 7y agoIf you were making 60k+ through your college "internships," I would put them at the same level as full-time work. My first college internship was $9/hour with no benefits, and it lasted 6 weeks... Also, donations are discretionary, so you wouldn't count them at all -- you would just count your salary minus your tax rate (not counting deductions, so that the average Joe can get some context).
- jefftk 7y agoIf you look back at https://www.jefftk.com/money https://www.jefftk.com/money you'll see I wasn't earning more than $12/hr until my first programming job in fall 2008.