$50k sounds like a lot, but if you can weather the current storm of every firm and researcher digging into Java and finding all the low hanging fruit, it could

$50k sounds like a lot, but if you can weather the current storm of every firm and researcher digging into Java and finding all the low hanging fruit, it could be worth $300k+ when nobody else has an undisclosed Java vulnerability. Usually the way it works is 6 monthly payments, so you get a wire for $8,500 every month that it is not disclosed.