> Jessica Derkis started her career earning $8 per hour ($16,640 annual salary) as the YMCA’s marketing manager. Over 10 years, she’s changed employers five times to ultimately earn $72,000 per year at her most recent marketing position.
Amazing, thanks Forbes. I never knew that if you started out on minimum wage and then moved into a mundane professional role, you'd earn considerably more!
Why the hostility? Are people not allowed to talk about events happening now?
I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read?
"Oh thanks a lot ENCODE for telling us that 80 percent of the genome had a biochemical function. I didn't know we were going to repeat stuff that everybody new in 2012."??
The hostility is because it's ridiculously obvious that moving from a minimum-wage job to a run-of-the-mill professional job is going to net you an incredible percentage increase in salary, especially in the US where the minimum wage is a joke.
And where is the 'events happening now' in what I said? Job-hopping? Not exactly a new thing.
> I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read?
So... I can't be rhetorical to call out bad behaviour, but it's okay for you to do so. Nice work.
The person was working as a marketing manager in her first job, so it was a "a run-of-the-mill professional job" from day one, and she's still in marketing, only with 5x more salary.
Then again, her first job was at YMCA, and non-profits tend to have low salaries.
Amazing, thanks Forbes. I never knew that if you started out on minimum wage and then moved into a mundane professional role, you'd earn considerably more!