My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer

Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer by kosmotaur on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:48AM (#29691321)

625k a year? Doing what exactly? Good for you, but I have never seen a spec with even a third of that salary. Or is it that it's only FAANG who's paying that big?

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Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer by kolinko on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:52AM (#29691349)

Stock options - it's mentioned in the article.

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Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer by kosmotaur on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:02AM (#29691399)

What proportion that must have been compared to the base! Even if it was 60% the base is still mind blowing.

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Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer by uyt on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:08AM (#29691427)

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...

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Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer by paganel on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:10AM (#29691441)

Never set foot in SV nor in the States, but from half a world away it does seem that that figure (i.e. ~600k) for total yearly comp at a FAANG company, given OP's experience, is in the general ballpark, so to speak.

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Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer by ZephyrBlu on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:30AM (#29691533)

Closer to ~30% base. The big money comes from stock comp, not salary.

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Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer by joshuamorton on Sunday December 26, 2021 @01:47PM (#29695136)

He's at Amazon, so the base salary doesn't exceed 185k (and probably 160k).

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Re:My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer by daniel-thompson on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:30AM (#29691535)

https://www.levels.fyi is a good resource for learning about this.

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