Yep, I swear people see one SWE at Google making crazy amounts of money and forget that that's the far right of the distribution. Your typical SWE pay is $75-$1

Yep, I swear people see one SWE at Google making crazy amounts of money and forget that that's the far right of the distribution. Your typical SWE pay is $75-$150k which don't let the zeros fool you is working class. The fact that crazy high inflation and housing costs has made everyone so much fucking poorer overnight and changed the relative comparison doesn't change the absolute one. Here's what $100k is depending on where your perception of money is anchored. Baby Boomeer: $100k would have been $12k when you were growing up. Gen X: That's about $35k Millennials: That's about $63k