| ▲ | tunesmith 10 hours ago |
| In Portland, there was a time in 2000-2002 where Nike and Intel had contract offers out to SW developers for $12/hour, and were getting slammed with applications. |
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| ▲ | raw_anon_1111 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| In Atlanta in 2000, I was making $52K a year working for a medium size company that printed bills. By 2002 I was making $65K at the same company. For context, I had my 2600 square foot 3.5/2 bedroom house built that year for $175K. |
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| ▲ | ryanSrich 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The equivalent of about $20/hr today for those wondering |
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| ▲ | markus_zhang 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Housing is the ultimate decider so I’d say that’s equivalent to at least 50 bucks today. | | |
| ▲ | andai 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Damn, never thought about it like that. That seems a lot more practical and relevant than the Big Mac Index. | | |
| ▲ | markus_zhang 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah I think housing is the real index. CPI doesn’t make sense for individuals unless you build your own index. | | |
| ▲ | dasil003 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It'll never happen because it shines a light on uncomfortable facts that would risk far too much cognitive dissonance across the political spectrum. Please keep the discourse to identity politics, culture wars, the Epstein files, and large-scale, unprovoked acts of international warfare; those will all be much easier for us to talk about as a nation than what we should do about housing prices. | |
| ▲ | lotsofpulp 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Housing (which is actually land in the school district you want to be in) Healthcare Education (not just for learning, but for signaling). Everything else is inconsequential in my budget. |
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| ▲ | tunesmith 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not even close, not when all things are considered. $50/hour is 100k/year, which is still considered a decent salary. 24k/year in 2000-2002 was definitely not considered a decent salary. $12/hour for sw engineers was evil. I hung up on that recruiter and cursed for a while, cold-called my way to a transitional $20/hr job, and then finally landed somewhere at $55/hr which is when things started to feel normal again. $55/hr back then is not the same as $230/hr now. | | |
| ▲ | markus_zhang 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think when you go up from 55 to 230 it is different from 12 to 50. But yeah, somehow I thought that was 20, not 12... |
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| ▲ | eitally 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I started my career at $14/hr in 1999, was at $19/hr in 2000, and switched to salary at $55k by 2001. I spent 15 years in corp IT running software teams... total comp got way better when I entered the big tech industry in 2015. |
