How old were you when you broke six figures?
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Anonymous
| 30, fed attorney. |
Anonymous
| 28, fed accountant |
Anonymous
| 28 or 29. Can't remember. Female. Finance. |
Anonymous
| 29, female, IT consultant. |
Anonymous
| 23. Finance. |
Anonymous
| 27, lawyer at a big firm. Left after 1.5 years to take a job paying about $45k. Have earned in the $60s and 70s most years since then, and will probably never earn $100k ever again unless I get very lucky. |
Anonymous
| 27 Gov't |
Anonymous
| ^^engineering not Fed attorney |
Anonymous
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>100K in a single year, 28 (because of stock options);
>100K equivalent paycheck (prorated salary) - 32 (law firm summer associate); >100K actual salary - 33 (attorney) Reached as high as $300K before cutting that in half by going into government. |
Anonymous
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this thread should also list how many hours people have to work to make their salaries.
I'd rather be making 100k and working 40 hours a week than $350k and working 80 hours a week. |
Anonymous
Which is another reason this post is pointless because it doesn't capture the ages of the posters. I started big law at 23, but that was about 25 years ago, so my answer would be 6 figures at 23 if I started today, but 24 years ago, starting salaries were not 6 figures, but were still outrageously high for the time. So same job, same industry, different decade, different answer. |
Anonymous
| 35. Female it consulting. Private sector |
Anonymous
I recall associates in big law once counting every hour they were in the office or working at home or working while traveling for one month, dividing it by their monthly gross and coming up with less than minimum wage + overtime would have yielded. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| 33 female. Engineer not govt. |