Despite the HN bubble, most of the 2.7 million developers working in the US in banks, insurance companies or other “enterprise developers” will never see a tota

Despite the HN bubble, most of the 2.7 million developers working in the US in banks, insurance companies or other “enterprise developers” will never see a total compensation amount (inflation adjusted) above around $170K in most of major cities in their life. These developers may go their entire careers without ever reversing a binary tree on a whiteboard while juggling two bowling balls on a unicycle.