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Quote: "And John Londelius, VP of Flight Test, gave us each a $1,000 bonus, so that was rather nice. That was back when a thousand dollars was worth a thousand
by unnouinceput 5y ago
Quote: "And John Londelius, VP of Flight Test, gave us each a $1,000 bonus, so that was rather nice. That was back when a thousand dollars was worth a thousand dollars."
That got me curious and got that in today's dollars that's ~$8750. Indeed back then a thousand dollars was worth a thousand dollars :).
- zhte415 5y ago10% of the median price of a house then vs less than 2.5% today. Inflation isn't always a great measure for comparison, especially as over longer periods of time it starts to get decisively apples to oranges.