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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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Please. My dc is 23 and makes 135,000 a year. And plenty of dc friends do as well. Stay away from liberal arts degrees. They all did. But they still have roommates. Into saving and investing. Good fro them. Wish I had that opportunity at their age.

What field is she in? I know plenty of IT/ security people with starting salaries in the mid 60’s. She cannot be a physician at that age and the starting salary for most lawyers is in the low 70’s. Did she start her own non for profit?

Not PP, but many univesrities publish starting salaries. Here it is for Carnegie Mellon in two fields:

Electrical Engineering: 60-135k 
https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2017_one_pagers/cit/2017_1-Pager_ECE_All_Real_Final.pdf

Computer Science: 48-150k 
https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2017_one_pagers/scs/BS_SCS_One_Pager_2017_%20rev.1.18.pdf

This is for those who just got their bachelor's degree last year.

Total BS. I am 26 and make $60k, which is right in the middle of my friend group (all college educated, some with masters degrees). Nobody I know makes more than $120k. Unless your DD is somehow a biglaw associate at 24, she is making shit up.

So the number reported diretcly by a university career center are "total BS" but your anecdotal evidence is valid? Yeah, sure...[/quote]

I am none of PPs.  The high number reported by a university career center could reflect just one person for all we know.  After all, it would be in their interest to have that be a high number.  Colleges and universities put out lots of numbers and some have been caught with their pants down on that.  The higher numbers could reflect many things . . . like a kid who works in dad's company.  [/quote]

Star performers from good universities do start out with six figures in the computer science world. A software engineer starting out at one of the west coast tech companies is in that ballpark. But not here in DC/MD/VA area - not saying it doesn't happen here at all, just that it's rare. Maybe PP's DC is on the west coast? [/quote]

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