It depends how you define Sr Engineer, but I'd look for people who are less tolerant to volatility in their income stream and value consistently high pay over s

It depends how you define Sr Engineer, but I'd look for people who are less tolerant to volatility in their income stream and value consistently high pay over sometimes consistent extremely high pay. The nature of capitalism is such that is capitalizes on people with bills to pay, and influences them into having more bills to have to pay. So people with families, mortgages, expensive cars etc..