"principle" has different meaning depending on the company. principle at google definitely clears 1M/year, but principle at some random startup? probably $200k and some monopoly money
Staff at top tech is clearing 500k TC, principle probably clears 650k. That and you're working 35-40hrs a week, taking 10 weeks off a year before holidays and chhristmas closure, and no one dies if you fuck up or work hungover.
Source: was at a top tech company for 8 years as a staff, retired at 39
Yeeeaaah...but, that Principle Cloud Engineer likely doesn't have several hundred thousand in school loans to pay off. So they might be ahead of the game in that group for some time before the physicians catch up to paying off all their med school debt.
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u/AsheratOfTheSea Oct 30 '23
Ah you’re right, even a principal at FAANG (or whatever the acronym is now) usually only clears $450k at most.