I work at a FAANG company and median TC for senior engineers (5+ years exp) is around 350k. If you can make staff (prob 1 in 4 L5 eng make it to staff) then you

I work at a FAANG company and median TC for senior engineers (5+ years exp) is around 350k. If you can make staff (prob 1 in 4 L5 eng make it to staff) then you’re at 400 - 600k TC. The weird issue with medicine is that the top doctors usually work at university hospitals that get all the difficult cases, but due to the nature of medical billing, the complicated cases pay less and take longer, this these “top docs” usually make the same or less than their counterparts at a private hospital working on more mundane procedures. At that point, the money comes in from the side gigs I listed above (expert witness, consulting, books, speaking, patents on devices/drugs etc). Some university docs also pull in money through small private practices where they do cosmetic procedures etc.