Ask HN: Your salary now, divided by the salary of your first full-time job?

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by jawns • 13 years ago

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It would probably also be helpful if you gave the number of years between the two.

jawns• 13 years ago

Mine is 3.2 / 12 years.

renas• 13 years ago

64.75 / 15 years

darkxanthos• 13 years ago

My first regular full-time job (not fast food) 5.4 / 12 years

If we want my year of fast food it's 10 / 13 years

soneca• 13 years ago

Now is actually some negative number, as I am fulltime and self investing in the startup I found.

But last year it would have been 9.5x in 7 years

Ovid• 13 years ago

38.28 / 27 years.

marco-fiset• 13 years ago

As a professional software developer : 0.82 / 2 years, unfortunately.

andyhmltn• 13 years ago

3.7 / 3 years :-)

speeder• 13 years ago

first non-internship full-time job:

Solutions Architect, 2011

current job (startup CTO) started in 2012, I get half of what I was getting in 2011

BSousa• 13 years ago

33 EUR / 20k GBP about 8 years ago. I think the exchange rate was around 1.3 or 1.4 then.

But different countries so no comparision.

duiker101• 13 years ago

2.2, 1 year

shanelja• 13 years ago

Mine is 3.4/1 year

peterbraden• 13 years ago

Just to point out - if you want a meaningful ratio, you need to correct for inflation.

jrjarrett• 13 years ago

3.24

Now: Senior IT Analyst with a utility company Then: Applications Analyst with a large, well-known company.

25 years delta.

ccheney• 13 years ago

2.25 / 10 years

agracey• 13 years ago

1.1 / 3 yrs. I guess that's what I get for taking a fun job instead of a high paying one.

drstewart• 13 years ago

1.9 / 2 years

dsschnau• 13 years ago

1.35 / 2 years

zerohp• 13 years ago

0; 16 years. I am taking a break from work to go back to school at the moment.

Before I quit work: 6.4; 15 years.

robflynn• 13 years ago

6.009615384615385, 15 years. web/software dev for all 15 years.

GFischer• 13 years ago

In US Dollars: 2.74 (1)

Started out as tech support, made sysadmin, then switched to dev. 10 years.

btw PeterBraden is right, you need an inflation adjusted figure.

(1) In Uruguayan Pesos, it's meaningless (inflation, etc).

pietro• 13 years ago

8. 25 years.

codeonfire• 13 years ago

8.21/15 clawed out of a deep hole careerwise.

hemantv• 13 years ago

1.6 3 year INR

bmelton• 13 years ago

10.3; 16 years.

runjake• 13 years ago

12; 20 years.

joezydeco• 13 years ago

Do you want it adjusted for inflation? Some of us have 20+ years under the belt and this should be taken into consideration.

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

kgc• 13 years ago

1.76 2 years

munimkazia• 13 years ago

5.6. I've been working for 3 years now. To be fair, I was initially employed in a shitty web agency who liked to overwork and underpay their employees.

whostolemyhat• 13 years ago

1.7 over four years as a web dev.

s10r• 13 years ago

1.8 CHF over one year as a software/mobile developer.

hkarthik• 13 years ago

2.54 / 10 years.

Jeremy1026• 13 years ago

2.272727 Repeating / 6 years

srpt• 13 years ago

1.1 / 1 year.

cjbos• 13 years ago

7.0 - 15 years

nicks451• 13 years ago

3.82 / 8 years

informatimago• 13 years ago

over 30 years, 0.78 but at the same time the last desktop computer I bought (a i7 24GB RAM 4TB HD linux box) / the first one (a Macintosh, 131072 bytes! of RAM, 400KB floppies): 0.06

unfortunaterly all the rest is about equal, still no flying car, no affordable housing, no significant robotics, no real replicator, no space ship, nothing.

Ask HN: Your salary now, divided by the salary of your first full-time job?

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