2025-05-07
13 分钟Here's your Money Briefing for Wednesday, May 7th.
I'm Julia Carpenter for The Wall Street Journal.
Millennials are finally getting rich,
but their newfound wealth looks a little different than it did for baby boomers and other previous generations.
Some industries have just really pulled away from others in terms of pay.
If you look at millennials who are software developers or financial analysts,
those people are roughly four times as likely as any given millennial to be in their generation's top 5% of households by income.
And millennial workers like Ryan Hoff say they're already feeling the effects of this tectonic shift.
It really feels as though there's a bimodal distribution, if you will,
within the millennial generation of folks who are doing very, very,
very well and then folks who rightfully worked very hard but still can't quite find ways to get ahead due to student loans,
increased real estate values, interest rates, and things like that.
Where and when they started their careers determines so much about millennial workers and their future.
We'll talk more with Ryan and with Wall Street Journal reporter Joe Pinsker about where this generation goes next.
That's after the break.
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Your family is going over to your neighbor's home for dinner for the first time.
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