What percent of people do you know who weren't earning at least 75k a year by the time they were 30?

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Anonymous wrote:Many, non-profit workers, nurses, teachers, social workers, etc.

DCPS teachers make a lot. There were gym teachers making well over $100,000.

Gym teachers lots of places make over 100k. If you’ve been at it for some years you can probably make close to 150k in Montgomery Co.

insane

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Anonymous wrote:Who the hell knows this? I've never asked ANY of my friends or relatives (except my dad, when I was applying to college) how much they earned. That would be wildly inappropriate.

Discussing salary is the only way that many of my female friends found out that they were underpaid relative to their male counterparts. But yes, let's work on keeping this salary info hush hush so the discrimination can continue.

Salary discrimination is non-existent. Slice your data properly.

Sorry, can you give a citation for "salary discrimination is non-existent"?

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Anonymous wrote:100 percent of the adults in my household. DH and I are both journalists, and both pretty successful. It took us each until 40+ to reach 100k.

Another journalist here — I was making $100k before 40, but I was not making $75k by 30.

Same here.

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It is all relative. Ron Pearlman became the first man in America to ever make one billion in one year. That was around 30-35 years ago. At that time he made the average lifetime salary of a person every 30 seconds

Today we are closing in on having the first trillionaire

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I don't think I knew hardly anyone making 75K or more by the time they were 30. My group of friends are nurses, teachers, non profit employees, graphic designers, window washers, pastors, florists, etc, etc.

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Idk but I surely wasn’t

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Does OP make potential friends hand her their latest paystub so she can judge if they are a good fit for her?

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Anonymous wrote:At 30 I made about $100k and at 33 I’m over $200k. Most of my friends are similar but a few fall into this lower income bucket.

You guys are getting cute now

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Anonymous wrote:Does OP make potential friends hand her their latest paystub so she can judge if they are a good fit for her?

Quite the opposite actually. I like having friends who will look at me and whom I can do nice things for. Thus, I would rather have friends who are worse off than me financially.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm old (59) so almost nobody I knew was earning $75k in 1993.

$75k today would have been about $37k back then. I'd say about 1/3 of the people I knew were earning less than $37k. I think i was making making more - about $40k.

Right. I mean, you’re not old but this thread really makes no sense unless we look at the year a person was 30. I was 30 in 2001 and that’s not going to match up to someone who is 30 now.

When I was 30 in 2001 I made approximately $40k. Someone in the same position today makes about $67k. I hit $100k about 3 years ago.

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Basically zero.

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Me. I was unemployed for 3 years during the great recession. So $0 at 30.

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Anonymous wrote:OP you don’t know many people and come from a very educated family. Congrats I guess.

+100 The average HHI in my hometown is $50,000

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many, non-profit workers, nurses, teachers, social workers, etc.

DCPS teachers make a lot. There were gym teachers making well over $100,000.

Gym teachers lots of places make over 100k. If you’ve been at it for some years you can probably make close to 150k in Montgomery Co.

insane

You have to do it for like 25 years first though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many, non-profit workers, nurses, teachers, social workers, etc.

DCPS teachers make a lot. There were gym teachers making well over $100,000.

Gym teachers lots of places make over 100k. If you’ve been at it for some years you can probably make close to 150k in Montgomery Co.

All teachers are on the same scale. All that matters is degree/number of credits (lane) and number of years worked (step.) It doesn't matter if you teach elementary art or AP Calculus.

The AP Calculus teacher will have an easier time getting a job in a desirable district.