Woz: How it all began

Actually, when adjusted for inflation his salary was slightly better than what Apple engineers make today: approx. $89,000.

See: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/10/at-glassdoor-find-out-how-much-people-really-make-at-google-microsoft-yahoo-and-everywhere-else/

24,000 1976 dollars is equivalent to about 92,500 of today's dollars.

See: http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html

Needless to say, Steve was doing just fine.

It would appear that this is actually a segment on a money series about Bill Gates and Microsoft.


The title:

"The Money Programme: Bill Gates"

Ironically, I got a Microsoft commercial before the clip. ;)

Yeah, $24,000 in 1976 was nothing to sneeze at. I didn't even make that much when I started my first "real" job in 1996.

You can see the Nixie watch here:
http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/
I saw Woz wearing it when he did his NPR interview in 2006. Very cool, in a retro-nerd sorta way.

He spoke at my former university earlier this year and did a book/Mac signing. I got to shake his hand and he was wearing that ridiculously large binary watch!

lol, reddit had this before tuaw. what a surprise. :)

You'd think that Woz would get sick and tired of talking about the same thing over and over and over again. But he never passes up a moment to talk about the good 'ol days. Amazing.

And, for the record, I think $24,000 30+ years ago was some serious scratch.

$24,000 per year in 1976, adjusted for inflation, is equivalent to well over $90,000 per year now. So it's slightly MORE than Apple engineers make now.

That would be his nixi tube watch, he's been wearing that for a while now.