Again, your own levels.fyi link does not support these numbers as being the norm. I do not deny that it can happen. I'm saying that you're misleading people by

Again, your own levels.fyi link does not support these numbers as being the norm. I do not deny that it can happen. I'm saying that you're misleading people by presenting them as some sort of normal thing. Google L4 > L5 (270 -> 360) Meta E4 > E5 (275 -> 390) Microsoft SDE II -> Principal SDE (182 -> 308K; I intentionally skipped a level just to show the ridiculousness). Amazon SDE II -> SDE III (240K -> 330K) Apple ICT3 -> ITC4 (222K -> 333K) And these are midlevel to senior and these are from the site you linked. If you do junior to midlevel your numbers, on average, make even less sense.