There's DevOps Engineers who make more than full stack ones. There's full stack engineers who make more than DevOps. There's frontend engineers who make more th

There's DevOps Engineers who make more than full stack ones. There's full stack engineers who make more than DevOps. There's frontend engineers who make more then DevOps. There's backend engineers who make more than frontend engineers. The people who make the most money: 1. Take the most responsibility. E.g. At my company there's a lot of "simple" tasks (literally tickets like "change the font color from one shade of grey to another shade of grey") that are very high impact because we work in the AdTech space. If the page stops loading for IE11 we lose thousands of dollars a minute. We're responsible for not only "simple" style changes but _making sure those simple changes never cause an outage_. Because of the extra responsibility we have, we're paid above market rate for seemingly "simple" tasks. Taking more responsibility doesn't necessarily mean more work hours. But boy does it mean more opportunities to deliver bad news if something breaks. 2. Work on tasks that have more financial leverage. Getting great at operations means you can figure out ways to cut a company's infrastructure costs by 50% or more in some cases. Getting great at frontend/fullstack means you can figure out ways to increase conversion rates by 50% or more in some cases. Both are important. Neither requires you to necessarily learn a cutting edge technology. It took me a while to figure this out, I'd jump from one hot framework to the next. These are what matter the most in my experience.