Yep, reading that guy's salary history almost made me want to go jump off the roof, but I figure he lives in CA and probably went to an "upper-echelon" college. Here's mine, from somebody who went to a college that didn't make the US News top 100:

    (Georgia)
    - 1992: $25,000 (Internship), mostly Cobol
    - 1995: Graduated with BSCS, no-name college, 3.5 GPA
    (Illinois)
    - 1995: $28,000 (got a raise to $35000, the only raise I've ever gotten without switching jobs), Cobol
    - 1996: $40,000, C++
    (North Texas)
    - 1997: $50,000, C++ 
    - 1998: $60,000, C++/Java
    - 1999: $100,000, Java
    - 2002: $100,000, Web programming/Java/Javascript ("lateral" job change, old company went out of business)
    - 2008: Graduated MSCS, sort-of-name college, 3.9 GPA
    - 2011: $120,000, Objective-C, iOS
    - 2014: $120,000, Java/Javascript (another "lateral" change)
    - 2018: $140,000, Java/Javascript