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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by Grimm1 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:11AM (#23614938)
That sounds like base salary. Most compensation in SV comes in the form of stock.

A senior at google makes 170kish in salary and another 130-150k in stock.

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by ska on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:19PM (#23618013)
This is true, but a senior at google is nothing like the median senior in the valley.

This is the problem with level.fyi; it's good information but too many people point at it and say "look how much software engineers make in the valley". This isn't even close to representative.

It's a bit like looking at biglaw salaries in NYC and saying "look how much lawyers make".

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