you wanna know some fuckin bullshit about the economy
im a software engineer
my first job out of college (after 14 months of unemployment) i made an hourly rate of $25/hr, through a 6 month contract position. a quick easy approximation is to multiply hourly by 2000 to get yearly, so that's analogous to a $50k/yr salary.
but back then, i was single. now im the sole earner for myself and my spouse, and both of us have a number of medical costs.
right now, im unemployed, but at my last job as a software engineer i made a salary of $82k/yr. it sounds like ive been moving up in the world, but per person in my family, that's $41k/yr. i was making less, even before bringing goddamn inflation into this.
and that's also not considering that the average salary for my position given my decade of experience, in my state, is $140k/yr. we would be perfectly fine on $70k/yr per person. that would be so life-changing it might alienate my friends. i was so underpaid, and upper management's excuse was that "we've had bad profits." nevermind they hired the new guy at $120k/yr. i was already job searching when i was fired.
@rachaelspooky I’m so sorry. A friend of mine got laid off when the project she was on got under-bid. I’ve been looking as some of the people I work with have gotten promoted to their level of incompetence. My last raise was less than inflation. My boss justified by saying some got no raise.
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