It took me 10 years to get close to that, but I didn't work for Goog/Facebook/Amazon, and didn't jump jobs every 1.8 years to maximize salary increases. Salarie

It took me 10 years to get close to that, but I didn't work for Goog/Facebook/Amazon, and didn't jump jobs every 1.8 years to maximize salary increases. Salaries keep going up; so does cost of living (see: 1400 sq ft house in sunnyvale just sold for $780,000 over the asking price of 1.4m)