[TexasGator]

“Why should anybody take the hard STEM courses, when you end up working long hours for low wages?”

$100K+ is low?

[T.B. Yoits]

$100K+ is low?

For Silicon Valley it certainly is. You're sleeping in your car at that rate.

For a STEM professional in any major U.S. city it is. Police officers a year out of the academy in major U.S. cities make more than that.

[In_Iowa_not_from]

$100K+ is low?

If you're working 60+ hours a week, that is definitely low for the education and experience required.

A person making $30/hr working 60 hrs/week would make about $110K. You can make that kind of money in Iowa with a welding certificagte from a community college. Some of the union factory jobs here start at even more than that for unskilled labor.

Making that and having to live in an expensive location like Silicon Valley? That would be a joke.

[Sicon]

“$100K+ is low?”

It is where I live in NJ. $100k isn’t even close to enough to live comfortably.

[central_va]

$100K+ is low?

Yes, the sweatshop developers to work 60hrs/wk. So it is really $60K/hr plus benefits if any.

[oldtech]

If 100K is low wages, what would about 1/4 of that amount to? No, I wasn’t in tech, but never really made any money either. Nowadays retired on S.S. & have more in the bank than I ever did when working.