Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 20:28     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
Funny- I remember someone having a party around that time bc they broke $40k.
What time!
And bought a house…

Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 20:25     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
I graduated college in 2004. First real job 2005- starter at 28k. By 2012 I was at 63k.
What a time!
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 19:28     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
2000: grad student $14k
2004: first job post phD $78k
2006: fist job in Europe €56k
2011: transfer to US $150

Lots of changes in early years. STEM career. Layed off (not fed).
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 15:30     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
In 2000, I was 32 and just crossing over the $100k threshold. It was a good time to be a software engineer. (Also of note, I was a female in a heavily male environment, although other talented women were starting to join the team around that time.)
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 15:27     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
I made $18k in my first job out of college in 2000 as a staff assistant on Capitol Hill. Was promoted within a few months to a position that made $28k and thought I was rich.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 13:26     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
27 in the year 2000. I was making $20k as stipend in a PhD program. Since I was an international student I could not take on additional employment.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 13:25     Subject: Re:If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
I was 7 years out of law school, a GS 14 and making about 84-90K (I don't remember exactly how far up the GS 14 steps I was that year).
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 13:15     Subject: Re:If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
Graduated 1995 with MS, made $45K. By 2000, was making $88K plus bonus
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 12:57     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
40k after ten years of working in 2000.
Anonymous
Post 02/23/2025 12:48     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
Wow. I made 28k in 1999 at my first job after college. You had an amazing starting salary.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 16:42     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
I was still in undergrad in 2000. I worked multiple jobs that year to pay my tuition. I made something like $12-$13k. DH had already graduated and was making $36k at his first job.
Anonymous
Post 02/22/2025 16:33     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
Graduated in 1999 and made $36K at a Boston ad agency. I thought I was living large - LOL. Moved to the Bay Area to get my MBA four years later. Got lucky in my last company’s IPO and “retired” last year at 47.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 17:41     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
I graduated law school in 1999. First clerked for a judge and then in 2000 started at a law firm. Salary was $125,000 plus a clerkship bonus.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2025 17:34     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
$36,000, nonprofit. They offered me $35,000 and I negotiated hard to get that extra $1k!
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2025 22:27     Subject: If you are in your late 40s or 50s, how much did you make in the year 2000?
I was 27, I think 80k