Are you including benefits and profit sharing and 401k and other in that 300k? I barely made half that in my entire career even at Stack.
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Replying to @codinghorror @patio11
For a field with an average salary of $95k, 300k *is* exceptional, the fact that higher salaries exist notwithstanding.
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It is weird that
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IMO the strange thing is that 300k for a programmer is less exceptional than 300k for a lawyer, but many programmers find 300k unbelievable
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Replying to @danluu @codinghorror and
whereas lawyers making $50k/yr don't have a hard time believing that lawyers at white shoe firms can make > $300k/yr
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I'd have to see histograms of each career.
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Replying to @DrPizza @codinghorror and
This is too long for twitter, but you can see this by looking at the % of people who land jobs at top law firms and then looking at their...
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you should blog it!
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I would if I thought that I could convince people, but this seems like one of the hardest tech topics to convince people on!
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Replying to @danluu @codinghorror and
just show the histogram, no need to waste words convincing people.
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I think you can get convincing data for the histogram for law, but for tech it would be a Fermi-style estimate
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