> Practically, you are unlikely to make more than 2x your starting compensation from school I wouldn’t go that far. I don’t know what my parents made in 1968

> Practically, you are unlikely to make more than 2x your starting compensation from school I wouldn’t go that far. I don’t know what my parents made in 1968 or for that matter 2008. But from the time period I mentioned 1978 - 2008, if their income just kept up with inflation, it would have gone up by 650% according to the official CPI calculator (https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=196801&year2=200809 https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=1968...). Well actually, they retired in 2002 at 55 and 57 respectively - from teaching and factory work - and have been retired since then. They’ve taken two 5 month long cross country trips and have only slowed down their shorter road trips in the last couple of years because they were worried about Covid