It depends what you do in America with regard to 55k / year after 2 years, I gravitated towards a platform / language that pays higher than median for developer

It depends what you do in America with regard to 55k / year after 2 years, I gravitated towards a platform / language that pays higher than median for developers as a whole so I got past that fairly quickly, but for guys who work mainly on the front-end or higher level languages it may be about the same, depending on location of course