Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 11:04     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

25k entry level financial services right out of school. 150k by 2003.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 11:03     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

I graduated in 2015 and made $45,000! I thought that was so much money back then but now realize I was very underpaid.

I now make around $180K.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:57     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

65K at age 24, graduated from JMU two years prior.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:53     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

1994, graduated college and was making $19k in manhattan. That sucked lol

1997, finished grad school, started making $30k in DC

In 2001 was making $60ish also in DC


Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:50     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

PhD in 1994. In 2000 I was wrapping up a postdoctoral position earning about $60k.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:40     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

In 2000 I earned $22k as an intern in a laboratory for a senior federal scientist. I went to law school soon after that, and in 2004 I earned $125k in Big Law, which had become $260k by 2007.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:29     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

200k overseas
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:28     Subject: Re:If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

Graduated from college in 97, grad school in 1999. Made 50k in 2000.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:26     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

As a lab tech and a year later, a teacher, about $30k a year.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:14     Subject: Re:If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

I was 10 years out of college, 7 post grad degree in art history--stupid, I know. I was making about $50,000 I think. I make a little over 3 times that now, in the same field.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:07     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

$75K in 2000 on Capitol Hill as professional staff at age 34. Owned a small condo, single, travelled a lot-- life was good.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 10:00     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

It was my first year as an IT consultant and I made 45,000.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 09:56     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

$38,000
And I agree. Salaries have not risen with inflation.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 09:56     Subject: Re:If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

$75k in 1998 just out of college, grew to $100k by 2000. I was in IT at the time.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2025 09:54     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?

I graduated in 1997 and made $37,000 at my first job. Went to law school in 2000 and at my first law job in 2003 made $120,000.