That's likely because salaries are also linked to how much everyone else in a company is making as well so it's hard for someone to be paid a lot more than othe

That's likely because salaries are also linked to how much everyone else in a company is making as well so it's hard for someone to be paid a lot more than other people at the same level in a company. Contractors can be budgeted differently though being something closer to a pure transaction of "you write me this, I pay you this much". Very curious about these well paying non-finance contracts though - I've been thinking about leaving the financial world, but so far the salary differentials have been stopping me. I've not worked outside of finance, so appropriate places to find those type of contracts is an unknown to me.