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1 mil / year per expert Is this realistic? I don't think it's impossible for a dev to be pulling $1M/yr in total comp, but it seemed more likely happen at Goo
by sillysaurus3 10y ago
1 mil / year per expert
Is this realistic?
I don't think it's impossible for a dev to be pulling $1M/yr in total comp, but it seemed more likely happen at Google or FB rather than AI.
- joshuamorton 10y agoNote that this says "per expert". I'm not sure what exactly you'd consider an "expert", but I think a reasonable definition of "expert" could result in your average expert being a million-dollar-a-year engineer.
- riffraff 10y agoDoes a thing like a million a year engineer exist? I feel like this number would make more sense for a pool of researchers with a strong lead than a single person.
- joshuamorton 10y agoWhile I obviously don't know for sure, I'm quite confident that there are a nonzero number of employees at any very large Tech Company that are engineers (ie. do development work, commit nontrivial code), and whose compensation is over $1,000,000 USD. I doubt its common, and I would expect that many of those employees are not "just" engineers (ie. at the point where you are doing work that is that valuable, its almost a certainty that you are leading a team, and you are designing things), but I'm confident they exist.