Hm. I was trying to make the point that it's difficult to get to the top 1% of anything competitive. I was pointing out that just getting to the top 1% of in

Hm. I was trying to make the point that it's difficult to get to the top 1% of anything competitive. I was pointing out that just getting to the top 1% of income among all americans is pretty difficult; but I think you are looking at around $421,926 a year, according to the first few reasonable-looking hits. which kinda blows my point up; I know a bunch of married couples who do better than that in software, (I think it's a per-capita number) and even a few single earners (though in my circle, that's pretty rare) It's just not that much money compared to here and now. Of course, I also think that you can't be a software developer at that level without an IQ approaching two standard deviations above average, but I recognize that's a pretty controversial view and I don't have supporting evidence.