a lot of it depends on company cultures and most folks on TWW are probably with technical oriented companies (/assumption) and a lot of technical companies aren't sticklers to the dress code. my boss is a high net worth individual and has run over 10 different startups and some days he wears jeans and a polo, other days he'll wear a $5,000 suit if he has important meetings, it just varies based on his day.

i don't think there is a strong correlation between dress and salary, now professional appearance (dressing similarly to your coworkers and bosses, carrying yourself well, good hygiene, etc.) probably has a much stronger correlation.

4/23/2008 9:43:03 PM

i like how he used non-integers as axis intervals

4/23/2008 9:51:02 PM

That's the program default, and I'm not going back to change it.

4/23/2008 9:56:06 PM

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"i bet that to a point, you have to dress nicer as you make more money (on average), although i bet it starts to correlate less towards the upper end of "high" and especially into the "very high" classification."

HA

pretty much called it, didn't I?

(although this is certainly not really a well conducted statistical analysis, i'll admit)




also, out of curiosity, how did you count my flight suit? was i the one "high" guy in workman's clothes? it isn't exactly like dressing like a mechanic or construction worker, but i don't really know what else to call it.

4/23/2008 10:52:43 PM

Yeah, I counted it for workman's clothes for that reason.

4/23/2008 11:38:11 PM

where's the column for people that like to impress others on the internet by listing their salary?

4/23/2008 11:39:52 PM

right next to the column for people who try to act like they are somehow above it, while the reality is that they couldn't even get union work.

4/23/2008 11:58:48 PM

75K is very high. Only 1% of the human population makes that much in one year. You just have to many expenses.

4/24/2008 11:22:38 AM

human population is kind of a bad reference point

4/24/2008 11:30:11 AM

^that statistic is meaningless if you live in the US or for that matter a city in the US.

73K is the median salary in NYC.

4/24/2008 11:34:43 AM

heh, and that won't even put you in the median apartment.

4/24/2008 11:49:08 AM

i wear scrubs and i am poor

4/24/2008 12:20:29 PM

high - jeans + polo

4/24/2008 12:48:52 PM

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"75K is very high. Only 1% of the human population makes that much in one year. You just have to many expenses."

What's high is relative. Why would you compare your compensation package to that of a third world laborer?

4/24/2008 4:14:01 PM

seriously

people in homeless shelters in the U.S. are doing quite alright by world standards

do you call them middle class?

4/24/2008 5:23:05 PM

i got kids to feed, yo

4/24/2008 9:36:35 PM

flip flops + cargo shorts + t-shirt in the summer
tennis shoes + jeans + t-shirt the rest of the year
and I fucking love it
very high by those standards, but not for silicon valley

[Edited on April 25, 2008 at 6:08 AM. Reason : pay]

4/25/2008 6:06:51 AM

it's not how much you make, but how much you save.

I make $90k in possibly one of the richest counties in country in CT area near NYC. Rent is $1500 for 1 bedroom (not upscale at all!), no car payments, no family, but general cost of living eat up the money quite fast. Fuel, food, tolls, general entertainment ...and just about everything else is considerably more expensive than in Triangle.

stop worrying about how much you make. stash as much as you can, because that is the only thing that matters.

4/30/2008 12:57:47 AM

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" stash as much as you can, because that is the only thing that matters "

+1

But where do you stash it

4/30/2008 5:09:37 AM

In mutual funds!

4/30/2008 9:46:35 AM

Munis!!!

Outside of the tech world, rich people be wearin' suits. Business execs, i-bankers, etc be wearin' nice ass clothes.

5/1/2008 9:31:39 AM

it's all about impressing people you don't like by wasting money on expensive shit in those industries.

5/1/2008 9:36:39 AM

^ by business execs, i mean in any industry...but bankers are all about impression, that's true.

5/1/2008 9:39:36 AM

Shorts today

5/1/2008 9:58:38 AM

shorts, sneakers, polo, hat

5/1/2008 10:19:35 AM

I'd be sporting a hat too if the canes had made the playoffs

5/1/2008 10:30:52 AM

low.

gym clothes. today I'm wearing volleyball shorts and a nerf herder t-shirt with shox.

I love my job

5/1/2008 11:32:59 AM

Low

Business Casual

I need to work with you guys

5/1/2008 11:49:21 AM

low, and b'iness sloppy

5/1/2008 6:07:36 PM

Jeans & polo shirt.

Sometimes will wear a t-shirt or even shorts/sandals (if warm) espicially if i'm working the 12-10 evening shift.
Or sometimes i may though on slacks & a button up

Current annualized salary is in the high-end of your "low" category.

My job starting in Aug though is a little stricter in i can not wear shorts. So this job is
Polo & Jeans- "High"

[Edited on May 1, 2008 at 6:52 PM. Reason : a]

[Edited on May 1, 2008 at 6:52 PM. Reason : a]

5/1/2008 6:46:47 PM

Rockin' the flip flops today.

5/2/2008 10:14:50 AM

Medium

business casual, no tie

5/4/2008 8:07:53 PM

very high

khaki shorts, polo shirt

5/4/2008 9:13:42 PM

Yeah so I just graduated, but I've got a resume in with the Carolina Hurricanes working in their media relations department.

I'm looking at working in the NHL in the communications aspect.

In all honesty, I don't know the salary range. I just know that it's what I want to do.

Probably slacks, a nice shirt, and a tie every day.

5/5/2008 3:31:27 AM

^Why don't you still post as J? Did you never get that account unsuspended? That was totally cool when you pretended to be somebody else and argue with them too.

[Edited on May 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM. Reason : ]

5/5/2008 9:58:48 AM

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"Username : J Status : Suspended"

5/5/2008 10:09:46 AM

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"Yeah so I just graduated, but I've got a resume in with the Carolina Hurricanes working in their media relations department."

when did this thread turn into i'm applying to a job where i'll wear _____ - instead of what do you wear to work

5/5/2008 11:12:49 AM

Guys, I'm thinking about maybe becoming a CEO one day. Perhaps I'll wear a suit then.

5/5/2008 11:15:16 AM

^^ around the same time as "2500+ Day Club" became "I'll be there in ___ number of days" vice "I'm there."

5/5/2008 11:54:26 AM

depends on the day, I range from a suit and tie to jeans and a polo shirt.

5/5/2008 12:17:37 PM

I've noticed that all the upper management and project managers always wear slacks and nice dress shirts.

Wonder if this is a "superority" status thing or they just try to set a professional appearance to the avg worker.

Engineers wear everything from t-shirts/shorts to button up shirt/slacks

5/5/2008 1:19:19 PM

Obviously if you're higher up and meet a lot of people each day you don't want to look like crap.

I wore shorts and a t-shirt the other day and someone asked if I was going to the gym.

5/5/2008 1:58:39 PM

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"^Why don't you still post as J? Did you never get that account unsuspended? That was totally cool when you pretended to be somebody else and argue with them too."

I never did figure out who was posting as J. It wasn't me. /shrug

And as far as chiming in on what I think I will wear to work instead of what I actually do wear to work, it's a little less painful than me saying "I'm still waiting tables until the internship comes in."

5/6/2008 12:24:54 AM

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"I wore shorts and a t-shirt the other day and someone asked if I was going to the gym. "

or a volleyball game

5/9/2008 4:08:06 PM

med/high - jeans, sneakers/flipflops, t-shirt/polo/sweatshirt whatever.
yay lab environments! (still bites that i could get paid 30% more instantly in the private sector (non-academic))

5/13/2008 1:37:51 PM

medium.. today i wore basketball shorts and a t-shirt. they really dont care as long as i'm not exposing myself or i dont look ratty (holes, big stains, etc)

6/5/2008 10:10:18 PM

^apex tuning? or is this your civil eng stuff?

6/5/2008 10:21:45 PM

High. Jeans and a t-shirt. I'm a copywriter with a creative design group.

7/17/2008 3:48:21 PM

on the high end of the "low"
jeans, t-shirt, and steeltoe tennis shoes
I work outside in the hot and with animals

7/17/2008 4:48:09 PM

dress pants and a button up shirt, sometimes a suit, occasionally a tie if i'm going out to visit my customers

low

7/17/2008 5:58:08 PM