Senior eng manager at one of the big tech companies, been there about 10 years, 20 years total experience, high performer, work in a non bay area office. ~$300

Senior eng manager at one of the big tech companies, been there about 10 years, 20 years total experience, high performer, work in a non bay area office. ~$300k base, ~100k bonus, ~$500k stock, per year. Individual contributor engineers at the same job level / experience at our company generally make a little more, compared with people on the manager track. If those numbers seem shocking, keep in mind that the most reliable way to get wealthy is not to gamble on a startup, but to get your way into a Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, etc., and stay there for a decade or two. Which makes sense, since those are the companies making all the profits, and give generously back to retain top employees.