It drives me nuts when people point at engineers making $1M on a startup exit, without counting the average income over their tenure. If they worked in the com

It drives me nuts when people point at engineers making $1M on a startup exit, without counting the average income over their tenure. If they worked in the company 5 years with a 100k base salary, the income averages to about 300k per year. Sure, that's a healthy income, but it's about on par with a big tech salary, with the difference that big tech is more stable and predictable, and not heavily backloaded.