Starting salary or expected for your child

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Anonymous wrote:Physics major at Ivy. Expecting to make minimum 300k

Good luck with that. The Ivy League is tarnished. The job market is tough. AI is the elephant in the room. There are unemployed former Physics majors with real world experience that trumps freshly printed parchment.

He's doing just fine, completing 3 internships in quant finance. All his friends are employed this summer too, so it doesn't sound like you know much of anything.

Most college students are doing just fine on daddies dime. He doesn’t have a real job yet. Offers disappear all the time. Good luck. I know you’ll bankroll him if he fails because you couldn’t stand the social stigma. Great life. Haha.

I hope I never grow to be this bitter.

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Anonymous wrote:Physics major at Ivy. Expecting to make minimum 300k

Good luck with that. The Ivy League is tarnished. The job market is tough. AI is the elephant in the room. There are unemployed former Physics majors with real world experience that trumps freshly printed parchment.

He's doing just fine, completing 3 internships in quant finance. All his friends are employed this summer too, so it doesn't sound like you know much of anything.

Most college students are doing just fine on daddies dime. He doesn’t have a real job yet. Offers disappear all the time. Good luck. I know you’ll bankroll him if he fails because you couldn’t stand the social stigma. Great life. Haha.

Why are you so angry??

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Anonymous wrote:Physics major at Ivy. Expecting to make minimum 300k

Good luck with that. The Ivy League is tarnished. The job market is tough. AI is the elephant in the room. There are unemployed former Physics majors with real world experience that trumps freshly printed parchment.

He's doing just fine, completing 3 internships in quant finance. All his friends are employed this summer too, so it doesn't sound like you know much of anything.

There are few quant finance jobs. Your kid is lucky to have one but there are many kids from MIT who are doing regular jobs so "all" his friends may be employed but not necessarily at the same level.

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Anonymous wrote:Physics major at Ivy. Expecting to make minimum 300k

Good luck with that. The Ivy League is tarnished. The job market is tough. AI is the elephant in the room. There are unemployed former Physics majors with real world experience that trumps freshly printed parchment.

He's doing just fine, completing 3 internships in quant finance. All his friends are employed this summer too, so it doesn't sound like you know much of anything.

There are few quant finance jobs. Your kid is lucky to have one but there are many kids from MIT who are doing regular jobs so "all" his friends may be employed but not necessarily at the same level.

So? Who doesn’t know this already? What’s your point?

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Anonymous wrote:DC and friends mostly got mid to high six figures TC as fresh graduates from MIT majoring in math, cs, physics etc. they’ll be doing AI research (think OpenAI), quant trading etc.

Your kid sounds really smart. I know of two MIT EECS grads who are not making as much.

If it was a few years ago, the landscape is totally different. Or if they did hardware, it’s also a different game.

Nope just graduated in 2025. In software.

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Anonymous wrote:Physics major at Ivy. Expecting to make minimum 300k

Last school year I paid an Ivy 2024 physics grad $70/hour to tutor my child in Physics C for 9 months.
And trust me, he wasn't doing it because he loves tutoring.

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Anonymous wrote:Please include year of graduation, university (or type), industry (or even company)

Would be interested to see outcomes after all the stress kids and parents (emphasis on latter) go through when it comes to getting into college

Kid graduated but still in the basement... no job.... Got no social skill to make it into the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Please include year of graduation, university (or type), industry (or even company)

Would be interested to see outcomes after all the stress kids and parents (emphasis on latter) go through when it comes to getting into college

OP--- Let's start with you, please answer the following questions:

Year of graduation:
University:
Current Income:
Company Name:
Position:

Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't deny that the cream of the crop of current college graduates are going to start out at six figure salaries, even if it's just $104k, which means they are making more money than many experienced middle aged people with master's degrees. And if you start out in the six figures, you are embarking on a life trajectory that is quite different from someone starting out at 50k. Despite that the person making 50k isn't necessarily less intelligent. All due to choices and decisions.

I try to pass on this lesson to the young people I know. They never listen.

This is just plain wrong. My engineer buddies out earned me at 30 years old. But at 38 I climbed the corporate ladder, whereas they did not. They were just individual contributors or front line managers. I was making double what they made. At one point I made 7 figures. They never came close to that.

that is true. For an engineer to make $$$$$$, they typically have to switch into management. But they can still make 200-250K+ as a techie

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The parents who know what their kids make are the same parents who a few years ago were called helicopter parents here who can't let go and let their kids grow up.

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Anonymous wrote:The parents who know what their kids make are the same parents who a few years ago were called helicopter parents here who can't let go and let their kids grow up.

Or you’ve been a CPA for 36 years and do their taxes for free.

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Anonymous wrote:The parents who know what their kids make are the same parents who a few years ago were called helicopter parents here who can't let go and let their kids grow up.

Or maybe it’s because we actually have a good relationship with our kids, unlike you. We talk to them. They trust us. That’s not helicopter parenting, that’s just good parenting. Sorry if that’s hard for some people to understand.

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Year of graduation: 24
University: Ivy
Current Income: $135k
Company Name:
Position: CS specialized in machine learning

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Anonymous wrote:Physics major at Ivy. Expecting to make minimum 300k

Good luck with that. The Ivy League is tarnished. The job market is tough. AI is the elephant in the room. There are unemployed former Physics majors with real world experience that trumps freshly printed parchment.

He's doing just fine, completing 3 internships in quant finance. All his friends are employed this summer too, so it doesn't sound like you know much of anything.

There are few quant finance jobs. Your kid is lucky to have one but there are many kids from MIT who are doing regular jobs so "all" his friends may be employed but not necessarily at the same level.

So? Who doesn’t know this already? What’s your point?

Not the PP. My point would be that the number of posts re physics majors making bank as quants are excessive given we all agree on the rarity of these jobs. And now, in the wake of press that META is poaching top AI talent, someone's teeing up a thread to claim fresh CS majors are making mid six figures. (Doubt this is a parent, it's some long term poster with too much time on their hands, just my hunch.) Regardless, useless anecdata given these are uncommon.

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Anonymous wrote:Physics major at Ivy. Expecting to make minimum 300k

Good luck with that. The Ivy League is tarnished. The job market is tough. AI is the elephant in the room. There are unemployed former Physics majors with real world experience that trumps freshly printed parchment.

He's doing just fine, completing 3 internships in quant finance. All his friends are employed this summer too, so it doesn't sound like you know much of anything.

There are few quant finance jobs. Your kid is lucky to have one but there are many kids from MIT who are doing regular jobs so "all" his friends may be employed but not necessarily at the same level.

So? Who doesn’t know this already? What’s your point?

Not the PP. My point would be that the number of posts re physics majors making bank as quants are excessive given we all agree on the rarity of these jobs. And now, in the wake of press that META is poaching top AI talent, someone's teeing up a thread to claim fresh CS majors are making mid six figures. (Doubt this is a parent, it's some long term poster with too much time on their hands, just my hunch.) Regardless, useless anecdata given these are uncommon.

Really? If you need data for typical average Joe, you just need to google. Tons of information out there.