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Ask HN: Your salary now, divided by the salary of your first full-time job?
It would probably also be helpful if you gave the number of years between the two.
- jawns 14y agoMine is 3.2 / 12 years.
- renas 14y ago64.75 / 15 years
- darkxanthos 14y agoMy first regular full-time job (not fast food) 5.4 / 12 years If we want my year of fast food it's 10 / 13 years
- soneca 14y agoNow is actually some negative number, as I am fulltime and self investing in the startup I found. But last year it would have been 9.5x in 7 years
- Ovid 14y ago38.28 / 27 years.
- marco-fiset 14y agoAs a professional software developer : 0.82 / 2 years, unfortunately.
- andyhmltn 14y ago3.7 / 3 years :-)
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- speeder 14y agofirst non-internship full-time job: Solutions Architect, 2011 current job (startup CTO) started in 2012, I get half of what I was getting in 2011
- BSousa 14y ago33 EUR / 20k GBP about 8 years ago. I think the exchange rate was around 1.3 or 1.4 then. But different countries so no comparision.
- duiker101 14y ago2.2, 1 year
- shanelja 14y agoMine is 3.4/1 year
- peterbraden 14y agoJust to point out - if you want a meaningful ratio, you need to correct for inflation.
- jrjarrett 14y ago3.24 Now: Senior IT Analyst with a utility company Then: Applications Analyst with a large, well-known company. 25 years delta.
- ccheney 14y ago2.25 / 10 years
- agracey 14y ago1.1 / 3 yrs. I guess that's what I get for taking a fun job instead of a high paying one.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- bradharper 14y ago3.2 / 14 years
- drstewart 14y ago1.9 / 2 years
- dsschnau 14y ago1.35 / 2 years
- zerohp 14y ago0; 16 years. I am taking a break from work to go back to school at the moment. Before I quit work: 6.4; 15 years.
- robflynn 14y ago6.009615384615385, 15 years. web/software dev for all 15 years.
- GFischer 14y agoIn US Dollars: 2.74 (1) Started out as tech support, made sysadmin, then switched to dev. 10 years. btw PeterBraden is right, you need an inflation adjusted figure. (1) In Uruguayan Pesos, it's meaningless (inflation, etc).
- pietro 14y ago8. 25 years.
- youngdev 14y ago9.47 / 15 years Then: First job 16 yrs old cashier at mexican resturant Now: Lead Engineer
- codeonfire 14y ago8.21/15 clawed out of a deep hole careerwise.
- hemantv 14y ago1.6 3 year INR
- bmelton 14y ago10.3; 16 years.
- runjake 14y ago12; 20 years.
- joezydeco 14y agoDo you want it adjusted for inflation? Some of us have 20+ years under the belt and this should be taken into consideration. http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
- kgc 14y ago1.76 2 years
- munimkazia 14y ago5.6. I've been working for 3 years now. To be fair, I was initially employed in a shitty web agency who liked to overwork and underpay their employees.
- whostolemyhat 14y ago1.7 over four years as a web dev.
- s10r 14y ago1.8 CHF over one year as a software/mobile developer.
- hkarthik 14y ago2.54 / 10 years.
- Jeremy1026 14y ago2.272727 Repeating / 6 years
- srpt 14y ago1.1 / 1 year.
- cjbos 14y ago7.0 - 15 years
- nicks451 14y ago3.82 / 8 years
- informatimago 14y agoover 30 years, 0.78 but at the same time the last desktop computer I bought (a i7 24GB RAM 4TB HD linux box) / the first one (a Macintosh, 131072 bytes! of RAM, 400KB floppies): 0.06 unfortunaterly all the rest is about equal, still no flying car, no affordable housing, no significant robotics, no real replicator, no space ship, nothing.