>plenty

dozens of us!

You gave me some real medical vibes here. "Its rare", "like 1/10 rare or like 1/10000 rare?"

plenty? Like 1000, or like 100,000?

Maybe, if you're on the tail end of a particularly well-timed stock grant and you have a really crazy definition of "plenty." But Levels puts recent L5 offers much closer to $350k, which to be clear is still more than a lot of physicians and most lawyers make.

Google is not the only high paying company. Some companies are paying a lot more for equivalent levels.

You said FAANG, so I picked the one that has the reputation for best work-to-pay ratio. Rather than nitpicking specifics perhaps try to justify that it's "pretty easy" to make half a million dollars a year typing JavaScript into a computer.