Labor Hierarchy (ultimate prestige tier list)
--- Labor ---
Tier 0:
Founder CEO ($10 Billion+ Market Cap)
Tier 1:
Entertainer with Millions of Fans
[ Athletic Superstar / Box Office Hit / Music Icon / YouTuber ]
Tier 2:
:::::::: Hedge Fund / Private Equity
Wharton + BX PE Analyst (3 yr) + HBS —> 27 years old
:::::::: Brain Surgeon
Caltech + Harvard Med + UCSF Residency —> 33 years old
:::::::: M&A Lawyer
Harvard + Yale Law + SCOTUS Fellow —> 26 years old
:::::::: Software Engineer / AI Researcher
MIT SB/MEng (4 yr) + Stanford CS PhD (3 yr) —> 25 years old
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Does not include every occupation. Only major ones.
Level 1: $150k to $250k per year
- Most white-collar jobs
- High-demand blue collar jobs (electrician, plumber, etc.)
- Cool jobs like commercial pilot
Level 2: $300k to $600k per year
- High paying IC (non-management) roles in top companies outside Wall St.
- Cops in San Francisco (transparentcalifornia.com)
- Tenured Professors at Good Universities
Level 3: $600k to 1M per year
- Upper management in F500 Companies
- Most Specialist Doctors
- Most Corporate Lawyers
- Most Staff+ Engineers in Big Tech
- Median Investment Bankers / Consultants in Top Firms
- Tenured Professors at Top Universities / Business School Deans
Level 4: $1M to $5M per year
- Median Hedge Fund Managers / Private Equity / Top VC Partners
- Median Surgeon (Neuro, Cardiac, Orthopedic, etc.)
- Big Law Partners at Top Firms
- Engineering Directors at Big Tech
- Top D1 college coaches (transparentcalifornia.com)
Level 5: $5M to $10M per year
- Top Twitch Streamers (xQc, Kai Cenat, etc.)
- Top Patreon Creators (DrPinkCake, etc.)
- Top E-Commerce Sellers / Distributors
Level 6: $15M to $100M per year
- Top OnlyFans, minimum $1M+ per month (Amouranth, Belle Delphine, Danielle Bregoli, etc.)
- Top YouTubers (MrBeast, Pewdiepie, Markiplier, etc.)
- Most Pro Athletes in Major Sports (Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Football, etc.)
- Top A-List Movie Stars (Leo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, The Rock, etc.)
- Top singers and DJs (The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Martin Garrix, etc.)
- r/WallStreetBets GME legend "Roaring Kitty"
Level 7: $100M to $1 Billion Net Worth
- Business owners of large, multi-billion dollar businesses
- Founder CEOs of Tech Unicorns (news.crunchbase.com/unicorn-company-list/)
- Exceptional entertainers (Taylor Swift, Lebron James, Conor McGregor, etc.)
Level 8: $1 to $10 Billionaires (aka "New Rich")
- Most Founder CEOs of Companies worth $10B or more (Alexandr Wang, Henrique Dubugras, Evan Spiegel, etc.)
- Most Owners of Top Hedge Fund / Private Equity / Venture Capital (Tiger, Viking, Silver Lake, Two Sigma, Sequoia, etc.)
- Global Supply Chain / Commodity Business Owners in non-Western countries (oligopolistic in nature)
Level 9: $10 to $100 Billionaires
- People who created brand-new industries in the 20th century (captain of industries)
- Top Finance Bros (Ken Griffin, Jim Simons, Masayoshi Son, etc.)
Level 10: $100+ Billionaires ("Daddy")
- nerdy computer guy
- guy everyone quotes for investment advice but never follows his advice
- bald guy
- space guy
- overpriced designer bag guy
My sister is a commercial airline pilot on the 777 as a Captain, mainly flying international. She is definitely not Tier 1. You should have separated senior pilots versus junior pilots.
level 2, maybe level 3
Ayo... this is ass.
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