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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all the replies, but curious as to people here consider to be a "fancy" job and a high salary for a mom who stays very involved with her kids?

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This website (https://dqydj.com/income-by-sex/) says the top 1% of female earners in the US in 2024 made $327,000. So an objective benchmark would be $327,000.

If I were doing a study on this topic I would break women up by their current age and by the age of their oldest child (6 years or older or younger than 6 years).

The former because women’s top earning years are 35-54 with 44 being the peak year. So you’re going to have a gap prior to and during those years and then also within those years.

The latter because women suffer the biggest penalty in the 6 years after the birth of their first child, much of this seems to be due to women taking a step back due to childcare constraints (https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209740120).

There is also a question of involvement. There are fewer objective measures, but what stands out to me is that data suggests an inverse relationship between involvement with career and involvement with children. Beautifully illustrating why having it all seems like a mirage.

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