Ask HN: Your salary now, divided by the salary of your first full-time job?

Mine is 3.2 / 12 years.

64.75 / 15 years

My first regular full-time job (not fast food) 5.4 / 12 years

If we want my year of fast food it's 10 / 13 years

Now is actually some negative number, as I am fulltime and self investing in the startup I found.

But last year it would have been 9.5x in 7 years

38.28 / 27 years.

As a professional software developer : 0.82 / 2 years, unfortunately.

3.7 / 3 years :-)

first non-internship full-time job:

Solutions Architect, 2011

current job (startup CTO) started in 2012, I get half of what I was getting in 2011

33 EUR / 20k GBP about 8 years ago. I think the exchange rate was around 1.3 or 1.4 then.

But different countries so no comparision.

2.2, 1 year

Mine is 3.4/1 year

Just to point out - if you want a meaningful ratio, you need to correct for inflation.

3.24

Now: Senior IT Analyst with a utility company Then: Applications Analyst with a large, well-known company.

25 years delta.

2.25 / 10 years

1.1 / 3 yrs. I guess that's what I get for taking a fun job instead of a high paying one.

3.2 / 14 years

1.9 / 2 years

1.35 / 2 years

0; 16 years. I am taking a break from work to go back to school at the moment.

Before I quit work: 6.4; 15 years.

6.009615384615385, 15 years. web/software dev for all 15 years.

In US Dollars: 2.74 (1)

Started out as tech support, made sysadmin, then switched to dev. 10 years.

btw PeterBraden is right, you need an inflation adjusted figure.

(1) In Uruguayan Pesos, it's meaningless (inflation, etc).

8. 25 years.

9.47 / 15 years

Then: First job 16 yrs old cashier at mexican resturant Now: Lead Engineer