The Consumer Price Index has gone up so much it is insane. (CPI is basically the calculation for the spending power of a US dollar.)
I highly recommend going and calculating your income from the beginning of 2021 vs what it should be now due to inflation.
Here is an example of what that would look like. I used $35 per hour because I thought that was probably a good square number that is reasonable for a programmers salary.
Here is the link to the calculator from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
Rant over sorry guys lol
