Income increase since your first "real" job

[starlily]

$82k since my first job, but I took a pay cut when I joined my current office, so $89k from my lowest post-grad salary.

ETA: The $89k increase was over 6 years, with the biggest jumps at years 2.5 & 4. But since then I only get raises if we get a COLA increase.

[winnied]

20k - four years into my career. Fingers crossed it'll be 30k in the next month!

[noodleskooze]

Maybe a 3k increase over 4 years.

[bostonmichelle]

My base hasn't changed much, maybe $5k or so but I've picked up a lot of overtime and commissions.

[Deleted]

1%

[Deleted]

My first job as a teacher I made around 20k. A couple of career changes and 18 years later I make more than $100 k.

[joenali]

First year of teaching, $28,000. Now up to $52,000.

[mbcdefg]

I'm up about $16k right now :/

[rubytue]

~400% since my first post-college job.

But that was 17 years, LCOL to HCOL, and a masters ago.

Adjust for inflation, it's still 277%.

I guess I shouldn't complain. Also, the bulk of that increase was years 5-12 post undergrad.

[regina22]

444%. Gotta love "paying your dues" at a low paying assistant gig right out of college.

[RoxMonster]

About 10K. I'm working at the same place but have gotten raises.

ETA: This is over 6 years, teaching.

[hbomdiggity]

247% increase in 11 years

[KaraOrNot]

About $5k, over 7 years. The majority of that is when I went from having a training license to a full license (after 2 years). I went 4+ years w/o a raise and when we finally got one, it was 1%.

ETA:  I should mention that I am still in my first "real" job.

[pamela]

My first full-time job was $63k, now at $92k. I got a headstart with the starting salary though because they credited intern time so I started about 2 years in.

[sherbanator]

Over 100k but my first " real" job was the Air Force.

[chia]

My salary has Increased by about 75 k.
I've been working for just over 11 years.

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[y4m]

I make 7x my original starting salary.

[Deleted]

Mine has gone down.

But I started teaching in a district that pays first year teachers a pretty high amount. I now live in a district that pays much less, plus I switched to private.

[countthestars]

50%, 6 years.

[mellymel]

417%, 10 years.

[CallingAllAngels]

-$1500

[Deleted]

I don't consider myself to have had a 'real job' yet but since the one I currently have is paying the bills I will say I do make 20k more now then when I started the job 6 years ago.

[cosmos]

Almost doubled since 2005.

DHs has tripled.

[gogreengowhite]

22.5k in 6 years at the same company.

However, my husband has increased $38k in the past 4 years by moving around companies. His first "Real job" was making what I make now.

So overall we're doing alright.

[Deleted]

Mine went up a lot in years 1-2 because my first job was a clerkship and my second job was at a firm and then a lot when I switched firms a year later. It went down a lot when I left private practice for government. I try not to think about it.

[Deleted]

521% in 9 years at the same company.

[pitterwoo]

None in my 8 years of working. I did get a new job this year and expect to get COL increases now.

[melmo1122]

First job in 1996 I made $20k. Now I'm at $98k plus bonuses.

[anna7602]

Not really comparable. I've switched industries completely since then and work many, many less hours. I think I had maybe 2 weekends to myself the whole first year I was working after college and was only able to take a 1-week vacation at the end of a full year there. 

I don't think I could even begin to do the math on a per-hour comparison. 

[jinkies]

My first full time job paid $28k in 2000. I now make right about that, but only work 20 hours a week. I'm OK with that.

If I use the amount that I topped out at when I was working full time, I'd be in the 20-40K increase bucket, but I've always worked in nonprofits, so the pay is notoriously low.