I was talking about any other additional examples you might want to trot out.

My first job at Beneficial Life was barely over $20K in 1995.

I made 24K on my first job out of BYU. In 1997. I would have loved to take an inflation-adjusted 20K job.

True.

When my parents were first married (1960), they were both school teachers and had a combined yearly salary of $6,600.

Because most people don't know how to make and keep money.

Did you all have 3 kids and a wife to feed, and a house you had just bought? Probably not.

What if you made that 24k, and then you lost your job? For a time, my father, with a fairly new PhD, worked as a custodian and delivered newspapers.

What year was this, Mike, just so we have a point of reference?

I remember when my dad's salary was $600 per month. Early 70's.

My FIL made less than that.

My salary has greatly exceeded the rate of inflation over the last 13 years because I have continued to enhance my educational background, learn new skills and accumulated a broad wealth of work experience in different actuarial disciplines.

early 80s.