>Entry-level FAANG engineers make significantly more than $120k in the Bay Area Yeah, people seem to conflate base cash salary with total comp, which is very m

>Entry-level FAANG engineers make significantly more than $120k in the Bay Area Yeah, people seem to conflate base cash salary with total comp, which is very misleading. Sure, you start making $120k in base salary at google as a fresh grad, and you top out at around $150k as a senior engineer. However, the total comp ends up being mostly covered by stock, which is what drives that senior engineer total comp to be more in the $400k-500k range. And even at the fresh grad level, I expect the total comp at Google to cross $200k/yr easily.