I been working my a-s off and I’m only at $90k. This is not enough.
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Obviously OP is inept & lazy by expecting a cogent answer 1) from this forum at all, and 2) without providing any useful information.
You are exactly where you deserve to be. You are the only author of your reality.
Where do you live, what do you do, and what level of skill do you have?
For competent kids with a fresh and appropriate engineering or computer science degree on the east or west coast of the US in a state where most people still have their own teeth they got all six digit offers ten years ago.
If you are in a competitive area finding out what a competitive salary is shouldn't be difficult, and if you are underpaid a job jump is the right answer. That jump may require moving. Make wise jumps not too far from every five years growing modern skills along the way, work in a high pay area with many companies that need what you do while living like a poor college student, and invest wisely you may have the chance to retire before you become unemployable.
Don’t stay. That’s how you make more.
I made 90k in 1997.
If you make over 100k, you’re the reason for the mass layoffs
The only people not making $100K at Cisco are grade 4 interns or grade 6 new-hires, administrative assistants, lobby ambassadors, and the fitness center staff. I joined Cisco as a grade 8 in '06 making $90K+, so if that's what a software engineer made 20 yrs ago, then that's got to be easily over $120K-130K by now with how little Cisco raises pay.
This is a joke, right? 100k is not a lot of money at all in most US cities.
$100K is barely enough to live & work in RTP. It's nowhere enough to live & work within commuting distance of SJC. Maybe $100 is fine for people who WFH in southern states where the cost of living is low & real estate costs are much more reasonable, but if you live in a metro area where Cisco has a campus, $100K barely cuts it and is more if you're in SJC, NYC, etc. It's been a while since I lived in TX, but I bet $100K barely cuts it in Austin, Richardson, or Plano TX where Cisco has offices. I've never lived in GA, but I'd bet Atlanta where Chuck lives is probably higher cost than anywhere else in GA.
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Bro, take me with you.
It’s all about the side hustle hommie!
Everyday at work, I pick up one random item on the way out. Doesn’t matter what it is or what it was being used for. Post them on eBay. I made $2k-$3k last year.
I’ll be taking some switches and APs this year. Times are tough.
Left seven years ago. Made over $200k last five years before LR. Highest year $258k with bonus. Took package and punted. Life is good.
Leave and then come back. Left at 80k and then came back a year later at 115k.
I live in a luxury apartment but all I do is complain about how Cisco overworks me and underpays me. I come home crying into my king-size bed with silk sheets, staring at the skyline, wondering if it’s worth it. My fridge is full of overpriced organic snacks I never eat, my closet’s packed with designer clothes I only wear on Zoom, and I drown my stress in Michelin-star takeout, yet it never feels like enough.
ETF, and carry on.
“ If you make over 100k, you’re the reason for the mass layoffs”
This is a joke, right? 100k is not a lot of money at all in most US cities.
A bunch of snobs
I barely make 60k. If you make over 100k, you’re the reason for the mass layoffs
Leave Cisco for one year doing AI work, then return for $300K. Easy pees.