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How the Highest-Earning Millennials Made It

As an elder Millennial (born 1980), I found breakdown and deeper dive fascinating.

How the Highest-Earning Millennials Made It to the Top of Their Generation [The Wall Street Journal] – “Pay grew much faster in higher-wage industries than in lower-wage industries between 1996 and 2018, according to a 2024 study in the American Economic Review. Tech is among the lucrative 5% of fields that accounted for more than half of that difference, along with science, engineering and finance.”