For what it's worth, I am a trader at an HFT firm and my pay is comparable to what my friends in similarly competitive tech roles make. We are talking about the

For what it's worth, I am a trader at an HFT firm and my pay is comparable to what my friends in similarly competitive tech roles make. We are talking about the levels of compensation that are always mentioned here and generate discussion about how they do not exist. I have not heard of similar comp levels in the aging/cancer/rocket space. My suspicion is that this is the result of cultural differences where management takes a much bigger piece of the pie. I would be happy to change fields once this is fixed.