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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t wage/hours more relevant as a metric.

The big law/finance high pay for 80 hours isn’t really attractive

200k/70 hours a week is not as impressive as 120k/30hrs a week [/quote]

I totally agree with this. Some 'high earners' (out of the top law schools etc) are working for minimum wage.[/quote]

Also - most people I know making statistically high cash at 32 (biglaw, finance in NYC, pharma reps) often weren't able to keep those lives and jobs going full steam by the time 40 hit.  The hours in those careers are often brutal, so people do their 5-7 years and then shift out to something more manageable in the long term (in house, govt etc).  Now that we're in our 40s, a lot of the people we know making high salaries ($300k and up) had to work their way up slowly, and their salaries at 30 didn't give any hint to their future earnings.

Point is -- what my friends were making at 30 didn't correlate SO strongly with what they are making at 40.  Some of the big earners at 30 and moderate earners now. And some of the low earners at 30 are big earners now.

Anecdotally, I think my DH was making $70-80k at 32.  He makes $500-700k now depending on bonus. I was making $200k at 32 and am making only a bit more than that now (PT).

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