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It's your path. There is no good or bad. Are you happy? Do you live the lifestyle you want? What goals do you have...can you meet them? Are you in HCOL or LCOL? are you living within your means?
Those are the important questions.
Exactly. Comparison is the thief of joy.
🙄🙄🙄🙄
Some people never get to that TC. It took myself and all my friends in marketing, product and engineering 10-15 years to make over $100k so congrats, you’re ahead of the majority of Americans salary potential in their lifetime but I don’t think anyone needed to tell you that, you just wanted a little ego boost.
Embarrassing post pls touch grass OP lol
What do you think, OP? Get a sense of reality please
Way way behind. Most people make that as an intern. You should be around 500k TC by now
fishbowl should ban these types of questions
My buddy with 7yrs with an MBA is still at 60
How is that possible
It good. Pls send me to job with woman
I like...
It’s great in my view.
I’m not trying to be rude here, but if you need someone to tell you if you are making good money, you have a much bigger problem.
Low
Touch grass
I know people 12 years in Accenture making less than 130k. A different question is what direct dollar value are bringing in for your TC? Are you bringing in 3x or 5x or more?
I think we should anchor on that number not our TC. It helps get raises, determine if you are less relevant, when you are at risk of RIF, or let you know when it’s time to move on.
Consulting is about sales at every level, what sales are you bringing in, delivering, or supporting.
Is this outside the US or not our actual consultant employees? I find this hard to believe
8 yr out of college. Was at 240ish k tc. Then got laid off. Now at 200k tc and the wlb way better. Its all perspective
60-70hrs each week with high stress and now like 30-40 hrs each week. Sr manager role at a small consultancy
Terrible, you should me making at least $1M
I’m at 5 years with $185k TC and I know I’m super fortunate. Graduated from a state school with little to no debt after working through college.
Way to make this post about you lmao
If you can pay for food and a roof over your head you are doing fine. I hate these posts.
Great. I’m 9 years out at 141
I think your question is saying the quiet part out loud for a lot of people, except the optics look bad in a social media post. If you’re just comparing by only your total comp and your pool of comparison is global for your age across all careers, then probably top 1%. In the US, my guesstimate is top 3%. Now by specific industry, education, and other variables that usually imply higher incomes my guess is somewhere in the top 10%. Just a note that the comparison game is never ending, and at a certain point you need to ground yourself on more substantive criteria for self worth. Even if you hit 1 million total comp, your goal post will just change and you’ll feel similar to when you first hit 100k unless you value yourself with something more solid than only salary.
Bad, I’m 5.5 YOE with $270K TC you can do better
You’re 28 making $170k and wondering if it’s bad? Well I guess it depends on where you live. California probably not, Florida maybe, North Carolina you are doing great!
How many hours are you putting in? 20 vs 60 hours? You will want certain things out of your life as you get older. It’s time to decide.