At Google, for example, a director can easily earn 3m a year, while a senior engineer earns 300k a year. A VP can easily earn $10M to $50M a year. At that leve

At Google, for example, a director can easily earn 3m a year, while a senior engineer earns 300k a year. A VP can easily earn $10M to $50M a year. At that level, the compensation varies a lot, but it can be 3x-10x from the director level. Stock compensation is really great. Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Airbnb, Coinbase, Salesforce (maybe), Oracle (maybe), Square (I could name 10 more) would probably offer similar compensation ladder > I certainly hope OP is communicating ways to be successful and secure, not how to strive to be in the 1%. For most high school students, "rich" means being able to easily pay their bills, have a decent home, and have plenty of disposable income. Only people who are already quite rich define "rich" as having the luxury of choosing whether or not to buy yachts. Being born as an average citizen in a developed country would probably put you in the top 1% of the world already. Very likely. If this is the case, what is the point of the question?