Yes? Especially at large tech companies, it's largely in stock not cash.

Most senior/staff engineering ICs at large tech companies make much more than 250k USD.

Literally new grads make $200k+ at any respected Silicon Valley company.

Senior individual contributors are probably making $350-500k a year.

Directors easily hitting $500-1m a year.

And we're not even at the VP level yet.

At current exchange rates, that's $255K USD, per year. I manage a team of 11 people at a large US tech company. Level of experience ranges from 2-7 years. The lowest paid person on my team makes just under that amount. The highest paid makes about twice that amount.

Looking at these other responses, I think there is a quiet dignity to working at a respectable GS grade (or whatever) that the "HN crowd" just does not understand.

I make roughly 200k USD per year as a newgrad (once you count equity and bonuses, pre tax)... Of course senior engineers make way more, and senior VPs more than your average senior engineer.

Absolutely. Director levels at many large tech companies certainly earn > $1M, even before stock appreciation.

Not in the UK though.

True, that's a good point.

Probably, some of my offers were well north of that as a swe with only 3 years of experience out of college.

The role they are asking for sounds like it requires a deep understanding of software development, people management, and the UK government to be effective, for a entry-level compensation .

I'm amazed by these salaries. I thought I was making decent money but it is nothing like that.

Do any of these sort of salaries exist outside of the US? How about outside of FAANG companies?

They exist outside of FAANG.

I personally haven't seem them outside of the bay area.

As mentioned elsewhere I'm a new grad with ballpark 200k usd total compensation. My base salary is ~2/3rds of my compensation.

Not in the UK. Only in Silicon Valley, at a handful of companies, is this kind of comp normal. Seems silly to compare a government job to inflated stock-based salaries.

Yeah definitely, some even more. This is only applies to tech though, in finance VP/SVP is that senior of a role. A SVP in tech equals a MD in finance.

Some do, yes