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Ask HN: How long did it take you to double your salary?

2 points by tucif ↗ HN
Taking your first full-time industry salary as base. How many times did you change jobs/companies? Did you move to management? What else did you do?

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sharemywin
Took about 8 years to double with 3 different jobs. 2 jobs at consulting companies. Last was at an insurance company full-time.
throwaway_goog
Doubled (total comp) every time I switched jobs, and then once without switching. It's hard to measure exactly because college & a couple startups were mixed in there, but averaged about 2-3 years of work experience per doubling. Each switch was moving from edge to center of an industry - I went from a startup writing software for schools, to financial software, to Google, and then the doubling within Google was moving from a UI-focused role to one that included UI + backend data mining. No official management positions, though I've led teams.