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$100 in 1982 is about $275 today. $1k ($2.75k today) feels high to me because of the combination of unknown teenager and the fact that programmer pay was relati
by dan-robertson 5y ago
$100 in 1982 is about $275 today. $1k ($2.75k today) feels high to me because of the combination of unknown teenager and the fact that programmer pay was relatively lower in 1982. And if you scale that up to $4k per week that’s $11k per week in today’s money which feels pretty crazy for a teenager. $400 per week in 1982 is a salary of like $60k in today’s money. At 20 hours per week that sounds like a good deal.
- sangnoir 5y ago> And if you scale that up to $4k per week that’s $11k per week in today’s money which feels pretty crazy for a teenager. Maybe that's because minimum wage did not scale to match inflation since 1982. If it had, I don't think $11k would sound as crazy.
- throwawayboise 5y agoIn the late 1980s I did computer work for a small business and was paid about $9/hr. It wasn't really programming though, more of an operator job with some hardware maintenance/troubleshooting mixed in as needed. My first job as a programmer, in the early 1990s, paid $32k base plus overtime and a yearly bonus.