It really depends what "Wall Street" means to you. With big banks (my area), you're looking at market rate salary (~100-150k, junior-senior). Retirement+bonus c

It really depends what "Wall Street" means to you. With big banks (my area), you're looking at market rate salary (~100-150k, junior-senior). Retirement+bonus can push it up 25-30%, but that's not salary, of course. My company uses enterprise technology (IBM stuff, Natural, COBOL/Java, Oracle). I have mostly normal hours, open office plans, etc. Python has some traction going. Nothing new and exciting, tons of legacy code. I vary between back-end services and web dev. It is your average boring, corporate gig. The other part of wall street, the hedge funds, can pay way higher (data analysis/quant stuff). Those spots are quite rare, plus pay is more tightly tied to company performance. Who you know is more important than what you know, if that's what you're aiming for.