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What world are they living in where startups are paying $500-$600k?
by uptown 8y ago
What world are they living in where startups are paying $500-$600k?
- dilyevsky 8y agoIf “startup” means “pre IPO” then there quite a few places in town that go up to this for very senior roles.
- eclipxe 8y agoUber, Lyft, AirBnb....500k+ for Sr & Manager roles.
- nemo44x 8y agoI think a lot of people here don't realize how lucrative the sales roles in tech companies are - if you're good at it. Top sales reps often make more than than top level managers. I estimate the top sales people are the highest compensated people in a company. It is true meritocracy, however. You are judged on a single metric more or less and the bottom of the group is dismissed without second thought. You can make a great living on the engineer side of the operation and it's steady but you'll never see the highs of the top sales people even when you're at a point with stock and salary being many hundreds of thousands. It's not a life for me but I have nothing but respect for the effort, time and relationship building great sales people put in. It's a hard, competitive ladder but if you make it work you'll hit high 6 figures and at times 7 figures for many years.
- entee 8y agoCould be a sales gig, commission can push total comp quite high, particularly in enterprise sales gigs.
- ransom1538 8y agoSales. If you bring in 20million in accounts. A 1 million paycheck is just a write off.