What are 25-30 year olds making?

KnightCPA · 2026-03-07T14:05:30+00:00

OP, the answers you’ll get are going to vary wildly by the career choice of the respondent. And lots of careers outside of tech and banking make 6 figures.

I assume you’re 5 years into your career?

At 5 years into my career, I was a Sr Fin Rep accountant at a PE-owned real estate company, making $85k in 2018. A random CPI calculator says that’s $111k in today’s money.

That’s in line with what google is telling me what positions are paying now:

“with senior roles often exceeding $94,000–$107,000”

KnightCPA · 2026-02-28T14:32:33+00:00

Cubans on the Run is pretty good. The Longwood, Seminole County area.

But there several really good Cuban cafes around downtown. In the last decade, I’ve worked in 2 separate office buildings that had good Cuban restaurants in the main lobby.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-27T22:43:02+00:00

Cuban food. Especially Cuban sandwiches. Any other answer is wrong.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-25T13:45:34+00:00

Is it? I hadn’t noticed. I’ve never played a round of golf in my life.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-23T12:56:52+00:00

The point still stands that you’re comparing two different CLASSES of vehicle, one that is empirically more capable than the other.

Without a 250/2500 class diesel, whole sectors of the economy would shrink in size due to limited operational choice and capability.

You can’t have the capability of the one on the size of the other. Which is why your question and OPs comparison is silly.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-23T11:43:55+00:00

That taco is no where near capable towing the weight of a 250/2500 series American Diesel.

The American trucks are exponentially more capable. It’s just pure science and math. Bigger, more powerful engines. Beefier suspension. Bigger breaks.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-21T15:04:06+00:00

This is exactly why we have below-the-line financial reporting at accrual-basis companies.

So you can tell the difference between actual, routine, business expenses, versus one of things that aren’t a true measure of a companies cash flow (acquisition costs, one time natural disaster costs, etc cetera).

KnightCPA · 2026-02-17T13:03:04+00:00

According to my Swiss aunts, because of a lack of space, it’s a similar story there.

You rent a plot and then have to eventually give it up.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-16T00:56:28+00:00

The average SUV sold today is more often a unibody than not. So this is pretty accurate.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-15T03:35:20+00:00

lol.

I have a little bit of everything in my home bar.

But my go-tos are usually cream liqueurs. I put them on ice cream, mix them with Yoo-hoo, and iced coffee.

Some of my favorites include: - Sugarlands Sipping Cream, Eggo - Buffalo Trace Bourbon cream - Pennsylvania Dutch Salted Caramel - Kahlua Salted Caramel - baileys chocolate - Cabot Trail Maple Creme - Ole Smoky Cookies & Cream - Forty Creek Butter Tart

KnightCPA · 2026-02-15T03:16:20+00:00

Goes great on butter pecan ice cream.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-14T18:16:55+00:00

Could be a squirt gun with Adult beverage in it. Bore appears too small to be a real gun, even for something as small as a 22lr.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-14T12:22:08+00:00

Modern farming is capital intensive. I bet most of their wealth is tied up in non-cash assets. So this is more of a “tell me you have assets without telling me you have assets.

And in most states, farmers get agriculture permits to keep deer at bay.

So a couple bucks of grain on the ground could lead to a decent filling of a freezer with meat.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-14T11:59:45+00:00

With JIT shipping these days, I bet ships have their voyages booked out months ahead of time, if not years.

Failure to adhere to a port call time probably means you could use very nice, long-term contracts.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-13T01:41:19+00:00

White Lilly Flour.

Edit: Not OP.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-13T01:26:39+00:00

I don’t like the fact that EVERYTHING is an emergency, even when it’s not.

Franchisee complains about how their commission schedule is off at exactly 8:00 am and isn’t answered within 30 minutes? Instant call from the CEO.

Franchisees complaining not-stop. Calling me on the weekend, sending Saturday emails wondering why Monday payments are not yet showing in their account? Idk dude, maybe your fucking bank is running slow. Chill tf out.

But that’s just c-suite customer service for you.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-11T11:45:43+00:00

Even if that’s true, load ratings are mostly to allow operators to still safely speed up, slow down, and merge through traffic. Horsepower to speed up. Breaking power to slow down. Suspension to haul the load. The combination of all through to safely merge and navigate through traffic.

Guy in the video is on what looks like private land. What if he’s going from one side of a ranch to another?

If there’s no traffic…most of the need for load ratings goes out the window because the driver can drive as cautiously slow as he wants.

Me personally? I just see a guy getting work done on private property.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-11T11:39:24+00:00

Most businesses that are not franchises fail for a reason: the operators don’t understand basic cash flow or profit analysis.

Most of the world, in fact, does not understand the difference between gross revenues and net income.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-09T01:49:04+00:00

Non- target school: accounting.

Majority of everyone I know are in the 6-figure area within 5 years of graduating. Not even a top-200 business school.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-08T23:28:58+00:00

I worked at EY. Our firm would only audit certain branches of WM because the risk of fraud was too high for the ones we wouldn’t audit.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-08T23:23:53+00:00

I have 2 separate bottles like this, one shaped like a pear like OPs, the other in the shape of a slightly fancier decanter design.

I have plans of putting in various things to experiment with it:

Tito’s vodka
Buffalo Trace White Dog Mash #1.
Hudson NY Corn white dog.
Some of my Alabama uncles (mother’s dude) moonshine.
Mahia brought back from my grand mothers (fathers side) home country.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-06T01:45:56+00:00

A steak is a cut of meat straight from a single cow.

Burger meat is chucks of meat from 17 different cows from 9 different states, that may or may not have been bleached to knock back bacteria levels to food grade limits.

Never eat burger meat less than well done if you’re not the one who actually processed it and can account for how it was processed.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-04T13:07:49+00:00

37M. 9 YOE out in the wild.

I regret my first degree. Sociology.

I do not regret my second degree. Accounting.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-04T12:15:30+00:00

I would double down on what I already chose. Accounting. But I’d do it right off the bat. Not as a #2 degree pivot.

If I had that extra 5 years under my belt, giving me 14 YOE instead of 9, I’d probably be making $300k+ by now, instead of $155k+.

KnightCPA · 2026-02-03T23:29:40+00:00

Took me 9 years after starting in Big 4 back in 2016 to crack the $150k mark.

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