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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't even attend Ivies (former UVA grad) and I am making 275K/yr working for the Federal government as a SME in Cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  I am in my 30's and most of my former classmates are making a lot more in the private sector.[/quote]

Why do all these 30 year olds keep posting? You had a rich repository of information about COL and career paths on the internet to guide you. [/quote]

And it’s been pointed out for the older Ivy graduates you always had excellent career centers and recruiting opportunities. [/quote]

[b]None of which ever discussed salaries, which is the point of OP. [/b]Career center was all about passion and interest and how to help the world. Recruitment might have alluded to starting salary and “growth” but never talked about hard numbers unless maybe at the final offer stage. [/quote]

If you could not figure this out on your own, you did not and still don’t have the skills to navigate the big jobs with the big salaries. High paying jobs are extremely competitive, no one will tell you how to get them.[/quote]

Figure out salaries on your own? Talking about salaries was very gauche in the 90s — so basically if you weren’t already in the inner circle of UMC professionals you were screwed either way?[/quote]

Not to be pedantic but c’mon, you don’t need the actual salary to have a good sense of ballpark for IBanking, Medicine, Law, Accounting, Teaching etc etc. That info was easily available in books and newspaper and magazine articles if you cared to do the research.

OP’s issue is not that he did not negotiate well, he missed the ball completely by picking a non lucrative path. The people who need to be handheld like this cannot rise up the ranks to make the big bucks.[/quote]

What are you talking about!? What book or magazine published senior salaries of Investment Banking? I have never even heard of investment banking — it’s not like anyplace in my rural hometown sold The NY Times or anything.

Seriously, what book or magazine published salaries like that? Even today I can’t think of anything…[/quote]

This. DH and I have discussed this thread. He grew up super poor (like, food stamps and stuff).  I didn't - but the only lawyer I knew was the "local town lawyer" - did estates and real estate and business contracts. He just retired last year and I bet he was making $150k at the end.  I had never heard of an "investment banker" until my 20s.  Other than in Wall Street. Which was as much a career fantasy land to me as Top Gun or Jurassic Park.  I didn't know people actually had those jobs in real life.  No one I knew at school was talking about it either.  [/quote]

Did you go to an Ivy? We are talking about opportunities going to an Ivy afforded.[/quote]

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