If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

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Anonymous wrote:2000: grad student $14k
2004: first job post phD $78k
2006: fist job in Europe €56k
2011: transfer to US $150

Lots of changes in early years. STEM career. Layed off (not fed).

I’m sorry to hear that. Did you get laid off recently? What was your job?

Tech layoffs have been brutal.

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02/26/2025 17:05

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Graduated college in 2000 and my first job that same year was $45,000. Working in the tech industry.

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02/27/2025 19:20

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0. Maybe negative. I was in grad school.

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02/27/2025 19:28

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1999. 45k. Company gave an aptitude test and trained cohort in 6 week boot camp to make the Y2K changes because the real programmers were $$$. Kept us on afterwards.

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02/27/2025 19:35

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Anonymous wrote:Graduated college in 2000 and my first job that same year was $45,000. Working in the tech industry.

Makes sense. 45k in 2000 is @ $80k today. That is close to entry level for tech companies. software developers at top tech companies like Amazon, Google and Meta start at $140 cash and @$200 total comp all in with stocks and bonuses (but those jobs are competitive and stressful and the stocks are not guaranteed) But the median SDE at banks and other corporations start at least around $80k!

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02/27/2025 22:33

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated from college in December 1999. I made 58k in my first job in 2000.

Looking back, it seems like such a great starting salary. It feels like inflation has increased tremendously since then but salaries have not.

I graduated in 1998 and made $35k my first year. I think $45k in year 2000. Now I’m at $500-$600k depending on bonus, which is a jump I never would have guessed back in 2000.

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02/27/2025 22:36

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Bought our house in 2000. I earned $60K that year.

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02/28/2025 06:32

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275k dot com boom