How was your experience?
Ask HN: Has anyone moved from a 100K salary to 200k salary directly?
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#2yes
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#3yes
How was your experience?
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone moved from a 100K salary to 200k salary directly?
#4After working for a decade at a nonprofit at 100K, I used hired.com to get an iOS dev position at 175K. A year later I moved to a 200K position.
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#5What's the purpose of this question?
I've had big salary bumps before. My experience was that I made more money and could afford to invest more and buy more stuff with it. What did you expect?
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#6Like others mentioning here, for me it was just a change in company. Work on impactful projects, demonstrate that you know how to learn & work hard, and deliver results -- the rest will come with it.
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#7no
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#8What's the purpose of this question? I've had big salary bumps before. My experience was that I made more money and could afford to invest more and buy more stuff with it. What did you expect?
Not the experience after you got the bump. The experience of getting that 200k it cud be because of switch from one state to another or may be because you specialized in some specific tech.
The purpose is to identify what really led to a 100 % bump , i believe it is not something that happens usually in many cases and few special cases might have led to this.
To understand wat paved the way for this special case to happen.
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#10What's the purpose of this question? I've had big salary bumps before. My experience was that I made more money and could afford to invest more and buy more stuff with it. What did you expect?
Not the experience after you got the bump. The experience of getting that 200k it cud be because of switch from one state to another or may be because you specialized in some specific tech. The purpose is to identify what really led to a 100 % bump , i believe it is not something that happens usually in many cases and few special cases might have led to this. To understand wat paved the way for this special case to h…
The most common way to do such a thing that I am aware of is to move from a small company to a FAANG company, especially when that involves moving to Silicon Valley from somewhere else.
Moving from academia to industry can also result in a large pay increase.