On average, Gen Zers say they’d need to earn a salary of $600,000 per year to feel financially successful. That’s around 13 times the country’s median income and more money than 99 percent of Americans will take home this year. It’s also just one of several startling statistics tucked inside of writer and former Google software engineer Emi Nietfeld’s recent guest essay for the New York Times, “Gen Z Fell Out of Love With Work.
I Don’t Blame Them.”
