I’m a software engineer and I highly doubt you can get into the low six figures with less than 7-10 years of experience. New grad right now are looking at around 50-55k. So I don’t think there are a lot of low six figure engineer around. Like previous poster, even w/ 2 engineers making 200-250k/year total, They still can barely afford a 600k house. If new grad in 1985 made around $30k/year, at 3% salary increase every year due to inflation, then it would be about $56k/year right now. So engineer salary hasn’t change very much if at all, after adjusting for inflation.
