I also didn't believe it until I met someone making that money and then I got hired for a similar amount, so now my whole perspective has changed from "$100-$20

I also didn't believe it until I met someone making that money and then I got hired for a similar amount, so now my whole perspective has changed from "$100-$200k jobs are a myth" to "oh now I make that so it's real, so now $500K+ jobs are a myth"! But ofc I know better and I know that's a personal bias (specially when I see this same bias stronger in my friends with who I grew up with) so now my question is "if this is real how can I be one of those people making $500k+?", even if it's just a mental exercise -because I'm not willing to move to the US-. Edit: ofc the best jobs are not in Stackoverflow, if you try to buy a new ferrari you don't go to ebay.com, so the best jobs are only found mouth-to-mouth, in company-specific pages (normally without price attached), or in more niche places like Ask HN as my fellow commenter suggested: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ or look at what Uber has to say: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-salaries-in-the-netherlands-and-europe/ https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...