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To be specific. A 21 year old starting their first corporate job at a large company. Purchasing, supply chain, stock buying, inventory management. Large metropolitan areas like Chicago and surrounding subirbs. I’ve noticed a trend of older experienced employees being passed up for young adults with no experience and I wonder if it’s salary based. I’m told you can start kids right out of school at 35K but I know some that demand 60K right off the bat. I make 46K and I’ve been in the corporate world for a long time.
To be specific. A 21 year old starting their first corporate job at a large company. Purchasing, supply chain, stock buying, inventory management. Large metropolitan areas like Chicago and surrounding subirbs. I’ve noticed a trend of older experienced employees being passed up for young adults with no experience and I wonder if it’s salary based. I’m told you can start kids right out of school at 35K but I know some that demand 60K right off the bat. I make 46K and I’ve been in the corporate world for a long time.
Hell no. $60k is wayyy too much for an entry level "kid" right out of college.
To be specific. A 21 year old starting their first corporate job at a large company. Purchasing, supply chain, stock buying, inventory management. Large metropolitan areas like Chicago and surrounding subirbs. I’ve noticed a trend of older experienced employees being passed up for young adults with no experience and I wonder if it’s salary based. I’m told you can start kids right out of school at 35K but I know some that demand 60K right off the bat. I make 46K and I’ve been in the corporate world for a long time.
Of course it's salary-based. Those companies are opting for cheap, inexperienced labor, over more expensive, competent labor.
It depends on the type of job as well as location. What you pay them will be proportional with the type of quality you'll get.
A large company in Chicago isn't going to be able to afford a UChicago, Northwestern, or UIUC grad on $35k. $60K sounds about right for a strong candidate.
had a friend get an "inventory control and management" BS from a state college and hired in at $35K w/benefits at an electronics hardware supplier in the SF Bay Area. Suffice to say that this was an income level that required she live much as she did in college ... shared housing/roomates and rather frugal living in Oakland (in a not very nice neighborhood).
She spent several years job-hopping with modest raises at each turn-over. Topped out somewhere around $47K at an oil field support company based in the same area.
It didn't look like she was going to make much more than that, so she went back to school for an entirely different career path ... and much higher professional earnings.
In a big city, at a big company, with a marketable degree, you should expect 45 to 55k right out of school.
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