Agreed - in law you can essentially get away with a single predictor for much money you make (given your level of experience): whether you work at a big law fir

Agreed - in law you can essentially get away with a single predictor for much money you make (given your level of experience): whether you work at a big law firm. This creates a natural bimodal distribution. In tech there are far more factors: 1. What industry you work in 2. How big your company is 3. Geography (this plays a much bigger role than in Law in my experience) 4. How good you are at negotiating 5. Equity luck 6. What type of tech you do (front end vs backend vs ML etc) Given this complexity, I'd be shocked if there is a bimodal distribution for devs.