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Probably took me longer than most- until my early 40’s to hit $100 per hour, but since then, the growth has come much faster to reach $132 per hour and 2026 should be close to $144.
I got laid off from Accenture during Covid, and almost immediately found a role with a PE firm PMing a Salesforce project for them for 155.00 a hour on 1099.
As a relatively young single dude, 13-14k checks every two weeks with no rent or real responsibilities working from home was a wild feeling.
If i work out how many hrs a year i actually work and divide my salary by that, it comes out to about $190/hr. My partner about the same. We live very comfortably
As a single male, you need to make $150k a year, in an AVERAGE cost of living area
Pffttt yea I make more than that and it’s still not enough
Assuming you’re in your thirties and by “growing up” you mean when you were in your early teens, we can do some rough inflation math.
$50 (2004) = $85.21 (2024)
Assuming full time, 40hrs, that comes out to $177k in today’s money.
Avg manhattan one bed rent is 5k, and more for the village etc. i stand by what I said.
https://www.rent.com/new-york/new-york-apartments/rent-trends
$4.4 would be a small, below average apartment. My last studio was $4.5