Part of the discrepancy might be the length of time people have been making more than 100K and what they sacrificed to get it. With me, at 25 I was offered the chance to buy into the ownership group of the company I worked for. I knew the offer would come once I got my designation and had been saving heavily since I was hired. When the time came to buy in I had to commit every dollar I had three times over and ended up writing a cheque for slightly more money than they had paid me in the previous three years of employment. It has paid off for me now, but the loans took quite a while to pay back. So I am making decent money now, but there were 10 years or so between University, saving cash and paying off loans where I was pretty broke.
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