Anonymous
09/14/2025 16:30
Subject: Dads at elementary drop off
OP you are giving baby boomer and you need to broaden your thinking. This is 2025, not many are going to work in three piece suits whether they work from home or not. Come on now…dressing up for anything is more of a thing in Europe.
Anonymous
09/14/2025 02:14
Subject: Dads at elementary drop off
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm a mom and stopped RTO because it was a time suck, so work from home. So I'm like those dads. Otherwise, I notice some parents stay at home or have very part-time jobs because the spouse makes $$$. Think spouse works at Amazon so mom can be a freelance graphic designer sort of thing. Some people negotiated fulltime WFH during Covid and got grandfathered in. Also, don't forget in expensive cities, a lot of people have generational wealth or some sort of leg up that affords them to not work full-time.
How much do you think people make at Amazon on average, that would allow them to have a stay at home spouse in the most expensive neighborhood of Arlington?
Not sure about Amazon, but DH is a manager at another big tech company and clears $500K before any stock appreciation with under 10 YOE. Directors (2 levels up, average age is probably around 40) are easily over $1M and VPs (mid 40s) are minimum $2M but most push $3-4M. And that’s before any stock gains. If you hit EVP you’re mid-7s or higher.
PP here - forgot to add those #s are for non technical roles. I’d multiply by 1.5 - 2 for technical roles at each level eg SWE Manager should be around $600-750K etc.
Google? Otherwise, you’re out of your mind.
Google, Meta, OpenAI (w recent PPUs refresh for all employees including 2024 grads their average employee is over $1M now regardless of level), Coinbase, NVIDIA, Apple, Anthropic, Twitter before the Elon buyout.
Big Tech and the leading crypto / AI companies are a beast comp-wise and employ hundreds of thousands (millions?) collectively.
People around the DC area don’t realize how well those companies pay because we’re a law/policy focused job market and most of these employees are on the west coast or NYC. It’s kinda an IYKYK around here still.
To be fair not only the people working for these companies are small in number but they are also the best in their fields. We are comparing outliers to the general workforce. Let's not do that please.
Only high ups are making that kind of money. Normal is $150-350K or so.
Anonymous
09/13/2025 20:38
Subject: Dads at elementary drop off
Anonymous wrote:In your 50s with elementary school aged kids? Sounds awful.
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