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I think you can get close to at 200k benchmark as inflation hits. Regardless, companies that are even edging to that mark are mini wannabe faangs and will use t

• chii 5y ago
  > 200k benchmark as inflation hits. but then inflation hits, and so the money is worth less than before - so you didn't really get ahead at all.
  • radicalriddler 5y ago
    Yeah, but 200k sounds a lot cooler than high 100's. It's like saying you're a millionaire, but then someone asks how old you are and you're 60 and an Australian who's been mandated to put 9.5% of your pay into an investment account each year.
    • scarface74 5y ago
      Slightly related anecdote: I was making $33K in 1997. I was in graduate school working on an MBA and I went to a career fair and was in awe at the “high $80K” salaries I could get at consulting companies. Then I got distracted, dropped out of graduate school and didn’t think about consulting companies anymore. Fast forward to 2020 (and a decade of letting my career stagnate until 2010), I was looking at the same companies because I was interested in cloud consulting. I found out that consulting companies haven’t kept up with inflation… https://managementconsulted.com/consultant-salary/ https://managementconsulted.com/consultant-salary/