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> A "six figure salary" today is nothing like what it was when that term was coined. Exhibit A is whenever a story about public employees makes the front page
by hudibras 13y ago
> A "six figure salary" today is nothing like what it was when that term was coined.
Exhibit A is whenever a story about public employees makes the front page of HN (for example, the Detroit bankruptcy or the BART strike) and people start freaking out about train operators making $100K: "They don't even have college degrees, for godsakes!"