Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 9 months agoThis is how you negotiate.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1933arrow-down112
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minus-squaremwguy@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months ago$100k per year is the equivalent of $57k/yr in 2000. Inflation has gone wild in the last 20 years.
minus-squareTwentytwodividedby7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoThat is an average of 2.5% inflation. It’s really more of an issue of inflated cost of Healthcare and stagnating wages as a result. Of course this is just one contributing factor, bit it is a huge one.
minus-squaremwguy@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoWhich is why 100k is a reasonable ask. 50k would have been reasonable in 2000.
$100k per year is the equivalent of $57k/yr in 2000. Inflation has gone wild in the last 20 years.
That is an average of 2.5% inflation. It’s really more of an issue of inflated cost of Healthcare and stagnating wages as a result. Of course this is just one contributing factor, bit it is a huge one.
Which is why 100k is a reasonable ask. 50k would have been reasonable in 2000.