r/financialindependence • u/fidgit86 • Aug 13 '21

What do you do that you earn six figures?

It seems like a lot of people make a lot of money and it seems like I’m missing out on something. So those of you that do, whats your occupation that pays so well?

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u/lewax00 Aug 13 '21

Yeah...I broke 200k, while still at the bottom of the SWE ladder where I work. It's crazy. And that's not even including retirement benefits and other financial perks like student loan repayment assistance. It's like they want me to retire early.

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u/jonathanhoag1942 Aug 13 '21

I am thinking you must live in Silicon Valley or San Francisco?

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u/truesoul42 Aug 13 '21

No, Amazon will pay probably 200k total comp or more for an SDE1 (out of college / couple years level of experience), in northern virginia.

"Entry level" software engineers are making that total comp or more from what I've seen, fully remote now.

E.g. Twitter is paying NYC wages to all of its fully remote engineers, and they have no requirements to come back to an office, ever. There plenty of opportunities like that. Every big company needs software engineers, there's still a ton of demand.

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u/jonathanhoag1942 Aug 13 '21

... sounds like I need to look for a new job!

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u/truesoul42 Aug 13 '21

Here's a good website to compare total comp / salary at various tech companies.

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Twitter/salaries/Software-Engineer/

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u/DishwasherTwig Aug 13 '21 edited Aug 13 '21

What the absolute fuck... I make a good chunk more than what my parents do combined in NoVA and these numbers are still over double what I make at the same level of experience. I'm not counting stock options in my salary because honestly I don't know how to calculate that, but even with those removed these numbers are still far above me. And I thought I was doing well for myself...

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u/Snacket 27d ago

Don't forget that you are still doing well for yourself. Comparisons don't matter.