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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You make $300k now, but did you perhaps make more before (for instance big law)?[/quote]

I did start out in biglaw, but my wife was making much less at that time.  I'm a Fed making 160, and my wife makes 140k now.  I think the most we've ever made combined was about $325 in my last year of biglaw.[/quote]

So this is it.  You made upwards of $300k for 13 years or so, is that right?    [/quote]

Not exactly, no.  A little more up and down than that.

When I graduated from law school in 04, I made $115k in a DC law firm.  My wife (then girlfriend) was making like $30k at that time.  I stayed at that firm for almost 6 years.  By 2010, we were making around $325 combined, but I don't think we even maintained that salary for a full calendar year.  I then took a paycut to work in the government just as my wife's income increases, and we made around $240k when I made the switch in 2010.  That's grown to $300k by 2016.[/quote]

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