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Re:Why doctors in America earn so much by polyomino on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:55PM (#38103998)
What's the distribution of experience though? In a fast growing field, most will be early in career, which will push this metric down relative to established fields with little growth.
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Re:Why doctors in America earn so much by hotnfresh on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:03PM (#38104160)
The question's whether 20 years of a "competitive" tech salary is enough money to retire.

I think one must have a very-skewed, bubble-bound definition of "competitive" for that to be plausibly true. Programming jobs don't pay enough to grant easy-mode early retirement for most of our field—even in the US.

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