I'm guessing, but I'll guess that you live somewhere on the coast. I work in research and I make a very good salary in my city, but I only make ~65k/year. My ro

I'm guessing, but I'll guess that you live somewhere on the coast. I work in research and I make a very good salary in my city, but I only make ~65k/year. My roommate, with many more years of experience, makes 70k/year, and the only people at his company that make more are the senior architects and executives. As is quite normal in this industry, both of us occasionally have to put in large amounts of unpaid overtime in order to make deadlines. That doesn't translate into more money or career fulfilment for us, because the city we live in has a very low ceiling for this sort of thing. Not everyone lives in LA, SFA, or NYC.