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by throwaway123467 1884 days ago
> Anyone in tech would laugh at that nowadays

There was a reset between then and now: The Great Recession around 2008. Starting salaries were below 50K, and I was really surprised when a few years later I got an offer at that amount (also right out of college) - I remember looking around for what to expect, and it was more like 35K.