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$19.5K in 1980 in Connecticut. Now Sr. Dir ME in Semiconductor Automation. Long but interesting path but well worth it.

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$50k in 2006

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Massachusetts

55k, 2021, very low cost of living city.

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65k in Connecticut in 2012.

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$19.5K in 1980 in Connecticut. Now Sr. Dir ME in Semiconductor Automation. Long but interesting path but well worth it.

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Also somewhere between 50k-60k, in an MCOL city.

$50k in 2016...

90k but in a HCOL area

$70k in Santa Barbara, CA in 2019

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