And please reply with your age. I’m too lazy to do age ranges in the options (where’s that two-dimensional polling feature already?), and I think the results will be interesting even without age ranges factored in.
ETA: I’m 35, and I haven’t voted because I’m trying to decide where to take my career (and the different directions I could take have drastically different results in this poll).
ETA2: Here’s an example. If you just graduated college and make $35,000 per year, and you think that you’ll progress in your field to a point where you make $100,000 per year (and there’s really no possibility of making more), then vote 200-500%. Let’s not take inflation into account.
I’m in my late thirties.
I’m a senior engineer at a large technology company. Depending on how many times I end up changing jobs, I expect to make between 90% and 130% of my current salary for the foreseeable future. I’d have to go to the director level to significantly increase my salary, and I’m not sure I want to do that.
Mid-40’s, not going to vote because I’m not the demographic you’re looking for. Non-professional, got laid off a few months ago. Hope like hell I make more than that in the future
Engineering graduate student, will graduate within 6 months. Current pay under $20k/year; only really cool offers below $100k will be considered (i.e. Dallara IndyCar, SpaceX/Tesla, J&J Sprint cars); otherwise I’m taking the highest pay/hour I can get.
This is a hard question to wrap my mind around right now. By the end of the year I will have made three times as much as I did last year, and I know I’ll make a few thousand more next year than this year. But I don’t have even the slightest clue what’ll happen after that. I sort of wish I knew what my boss makes, because I could end up in her current position someday (she’s being made a director, so I’m not hoping to scheme to get there)
Mid 40s. In real terms (adjusted for inflation) I don’t expect to make much more than I do now. I made a lot of progress in my career in my 20s and 30s, my last promotion was 4 years ago, and I expect my next one, if it ever comes, is a few years off.
I’m 51 and very well compensated for what I do. I’m in the final stages of a business negotiation that has the potential to quintuple my annual compensation within 3 years. I voted 500-1000%, which may be slightly optimistic, but not by much.
Early 30s. I’m a medical laboratory scientist (previously medical technologist but they keep changing the “official” term) and we’re not known as the best-paid gang in health care. I could see myself getting a little more money as I stay with the organization for several years, but it won’t be a huge increase. Even moving up to management wouldn’t do a ton for me - it would be more, but definitely not double what I make now.
Grad school or a specialized certificate in my field might bring me more money, but probably not if I stay with this organization. I’m comfortable where I am now, and don’t really want to change employers, so I’m content with my current salary.
50s, Teacher. I’ve pretty much maxed out my pay scale. I think I’ll get 2 more minor seniority bumps up before I retire. Not more than a percentage point or two each time.
37 years old, I expect to make less in the foreseeable future as I’m planning to switch jobs to expand my resume a bit. That being said, I don’t see my ultimate salary being more than 30-40% of where I am now. In fact, I’d be happy with where I am now for the rest of my life (COLAs notwithstanding). I make more than quadruple what I was making when I first got out of college, and a day doesn’t go by that I don’t feel extremely blessed/lucky.
