[quote=AN]Wasn’t 2000 the peak of the .com bubble? Or did you get paid that much after the .com crash? Were 6-7 years experience s/w engineers making that much after the .com crash?[/quote]

Yes and yes. SD got hit by the dot-com bust but 100k for a senior programmer was about the same back then as now. Although looking at your figures I bet if I did the math on total comp I could buy a 10% increase. But that would still mean salaries haven’t even kept pace with the woefully-understated CPI. ($90k in 2000 is $112k today, a 25% jump)

Louis Vuitton… hahaha. We have paid-off cars and shop at Target. But a large chunk of my income goes to savings… guess I’m old-school in that way. It’s tough trying to be fiscally responsible in our current credit-orgy economy. Other people spending 100% of their income pushes prices of everything to stupid levels.