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The Mystery/Myth of the $3 Million Google Engineer
jfruh writes "Recently Business Insider caused a minor stir among developers with dreams of riches with a story about a nameless Google engineer who's making $3 million a year. Who is this person, and how unusual are pay scales like this inside the Googleplex? Phil Johnson uses public information to try to figure out the answer. His conclusion: the $3 million engineer may exist, but is a rare bird indeed if so."
$3 million in W2 income? Never. Bean counters would never let that happen.
You are either ignorant, unintelligent, or a factor of the two
I've got a "jump to conclusions" mat for you to buy. You can afford it.
I recently left a job that paid $155k in salary plus around %30 bonus for one that *only* offered $145k in salary.
...Which puts you in the top 1% of American wage earners, pretty much demonstrating that AC's point is more or less correct.
why? because of quality of life.
A luxury that must be wonderful for you to enjoy. You stepped down from the 99th percentile to the 97th. Oh, the sacrifices you've made!
And, I was not "born" into this wage; it came out of years of studying when others would call me a "nerd"
We can tell that based on your first sentence. What percentage of people do you estimate are able to pull that off, realistically? You live in a bubble world surrounded by the success stories, and thinking that because there are a few hundred thousand of you, that the tens of millions who have not enjoyed that success simply did something wrong. The fact is that you won one of the lottery seats on the magic carpet. Hard work made you eligible, but it didn't get you there on its own.