I've been told on the down low by more than one person recently how much money they are making. They are basically lower paid people bragging that they have made over 100k this year on their various jobs.
This it's causing me to wonder if any job market is really "hot". Or if inflation is raising pay so much that everyone is feeling rich?
Employers are competing with the government and the FUD that was spread, so they're trying to get people in to jobs. There's not really any shortage of people, just shortage of pay that matches skills.
No one wants to work for you when you're paying less than the Amazon warehouse, but you want a Master's degree and 5 years experience.
It's true. Having spent 15+ yrs in the MSP/Project side of IT. It does sting to see lower skill jobs pay way more over the years. Just 6 months prior to COVID I finally clawed my way up to 65k by job hopping. In n Out managers apparently often make over 100k. Kudos to them, I know it's hard work. But no offense. I think the amount of technical info we have to recall daily and the skill in diagnostics is a little more than stocking/staffing a burger joint.
I'm doing some very technical work that requires a lot of knowledge myself. I wonder why I'm doing that when the Panda Express manager made a 15k bonus.
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