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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was also going to add that to the pp who feels like a failure: there's a huge sampling bias problem in comparing yourself to friends --- almost no one comes out of the woodwork to say they are making $90k a year 5 years out, and yet the data in the PDF shows those people (or something like them) clearly DO exist in significant  number (see median line). The people who openly share salaries with friends do so because they know their salaries are strong. That biases the numbers obviously.

I'm at $200k 5 years out. It seems reasonable frankly. Between what I make and what DH makes we are in the low 300s. Honestly, past a certain point extra money doesn't really matter.[/quote]

I am that pp and thank you for these comments.  Did not go to a top 5 (think top 10-15 Darden/Cornell/Stern/UCLA level) so there are not as many BCG/Goldman Sachs types as a Harvard or Chicago.  It just seems like every company I joined there was either a massive revenue drop, person who hired me got fired, huge reorganization, etc. that happened about a year after I got there.  Also, working in the Rust Belt was probably not the greatest move although the COL is much lower.  Now I am thinking about getting into another field because perhaps corporate finance was great to study in B-school but not a good fit in the real world.[/quote]

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