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Re:Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer by incognito_robot on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:18AM (#47860177)
Ah yes, the good old US of A where a 23 year old can start out making $100k/yr.

While here I am, 39yo, having been in this field for 17 years and worked my way up to a lead, and having worked at banks, fintechs, medtechs and consultancies, am 'only' making roughly €76k/yr.

And this is with pouring personal time into studying and applying latest tech in side projects to stay relevant.

Honestly if the financials of the US tech scene ever normalize to what the rest of the world has, you guys are in for a rude awakening.

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Re:Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer by astura on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @07:12AM (#47861905)
It's an outlier, even in America. I live in the US and no 23 year olds at my company are making 100k/year, lol.

Most jrs in America are working jobs like this - https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0dcd3d05ab694ba8

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Re:Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer by buildbot on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:03AM (#47864657)
Not really the case in any of the high cost of living cities - when I graduated undergrad in the mid 2010s, my peers where getting offers from Microsoft for 100-120K for their standard out of school dev positions, Amazon was better as was Apple from what I recall. Plenty of 23 year olds making that much?
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Re:Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @09:56PM (#47871507)
Well there's always the possibility of increasing your salary over time, to over 100k, and save more that way. You might not retire at 45, it may take longer. Still worth starting as young as possible.
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