That's cool. It sounds like most of us aren't making what you make. I don't make 16x what someone paid minimum wage makes, much less an electrical engineer.
Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy
by MyOutfitIsVague on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:25PM
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The median wage for programmers is about 5x the average minimum wage. You're paid significantly higher than the average programmer.
Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy
by throw1235435 on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:24PM
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Especially outside the US where having a 140 IQ isn't really enough to have a high wage. Only social EQ and high capital does that in most of the world.
Jealousy is absolutely a thing.
You're an outlier and you must surely know that.
I’m just a founder and that’s the dividends from a currently-lucky bootstrapped startup (and that will change). I may be an outlier but employee salaries are quite high too; still enough to be worth replacing — and AI is nowhere near humans, really.
I’m paid about 16x an electronics engineer. Salaries in IT are completely unrelated to the person’s effort compared to other white collar jobs. It would take an entire career to some manager to reach what I made after 5 years. I may be 140IQ but I’m also a dumbass in social terms!