Labor Hierarchy (ultimate prestige tier list)

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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

4 Comments
 

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.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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