That's not necessarily true. If salary increases over time, you would expect him to hit median halfway through his/her career, on average (assuming rate of new

That's not necessarily true. If salary increases over time, you would expect him to hit median halfway through his/her career, on average (assuming rate of new programmers joining and old ones leaving is about the same). Of course, if more are joining and the population is increasing, s/he could hit it a lot sooner assuming s/he doesn't drop out.