• It'll depend on the local market. I make about the national average for a DBA with my level of experience, but I live in an area with less than 80% of the national average cost-of-living. Effectively, I'm making a lot more than the national average, because of that. Seattle has a higher than average cost-of-living per Census Bu, so you have to take that into account. Best numbers I could easily find say that you need to make $90k/year in Seattle to have a $70k/year lifestyle, compared to national averages. Same ratio, applied to $120k/year, comes out to about a $97k/year lifestyle. Doesn't work exactly that way, but it's rule-of-thumb-accurate.

    So $125k/year in Seattle puts you at the high end of medium of DBA salaries, compared to national averages of income/cost ratios, assuming c. 8-10 years of experience.

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
    Property of The Thread

    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon