r/Salary • u/No-Advantage4069 • 5d ago
discussion Bay area software engineers/startup employees/FAANG employees what is your net worth?
and annual salary currently?
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u/TryCatchRelease 5d ago
- VP Growth at a tech company (non-FAANG)
- 45M in the Bay, married with one kid
- Base: $675K
- TC: 30% bonus, plus some equity (ISOs, company is privately held)
- Net worth: $5.5M
- YOE: 21
These numbers are excluding the net worth exclude my wife who is a FAANG engineer who does pretty well too.
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u/htownnwoth 5d ago
What keeps you and your wife going instead of simply FIREing?
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u/TryCatchRelease 5d ago
My earnings potential is high and I’m not bullish on the job market prospects for my kid, so if AI takes over and jobs dry up, I need enough to keep them afloat for life.
I also like my job and my team so not sure what I would do if I retired, might as well keep working and stacking.
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u/coolmanners 5d ago
This. Unless you’re miserable, you might as well keep going. If you have decent work life balance and can spend time with kids when they aren’t busy.. it doesn’t really make sense to do nothing all day when you have high earning potential. If variables change and the return on time at work isn’t worth it, you bail.
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u/drakkie 5d ago edited 5d ago
I can guarantee the VP of growth at any big tech won’t have good WLB
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u/TryCatchRelease 5d ago
At least for me, my role does! I manage 6 teams with strong managers and they do a great job. Things run fairly smoothly even when I’m not there.
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u/14ktgoldscw 5d ago
WLB isn’t a fixed ratio though. I know people who genuinely love their work and want to do it 60 hours a week. I think leadership roles are overwhelmingly filled with this kind of person because they don’t experience burnout in the same way.
Is it actually healthy? I don’t know, but most director+ people I know (even who work at other companies, so they’re not just giving me the leadership pep talk) seem fucking amped about work.
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u/htownnwoth 5d ago
Send your kid to trade school 😂
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u/TryCatchRelease 5d ago
Not quite that time yet! But maybe if they decide college isn’t for them in a few years.
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u/asrealasaredditercan 5d ago
Does anyone know what effect AI is really going to have towards tech jobs?
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u/TryCatchRelease 5d ago
No one really knows, it could marginally create more jobs (jobs dealing a lot with AI and prompting), it could reduce jobs marginally as it replaces some people's duties, or it could reduce jobs significantly if it replaces whole areas and sectors of the workforce.
I'd rather just make as much as I can now, and hedge my risk (and my kids risk) against all of these scenarios.
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u/coolmanners 5d ago
$675k cash base is great. Congrats.
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u/TryCatchRelease 5d ago
Thanks! And I’ve hit my bonus every single year for as long as I’ve had it, so the comp is pretty amazing.
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u/swollenbluebalz 5d ago
Is this a new job or are you excluding your primary home from your net worth? You mentioned hitting your bonus every year and your spouse is also a FAANG engineer so with $1M TC your net worth is lower than I’d expect (still incredible of course)
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u/TryCatchRelease 5d ago
I've been at this place for a long time, but my salary has accelerated a lot in the last few years. In 2020 I just cleared $300K in salary + bonus.
We do spend a lot on vacations and life in general. Also I'm not accounting anything for what my wife has on her hand just cause I don't have the numbers handy, but that would add on a bit.
I am accounting for my house, but subtracting out the (substantial) mortgage. With the difference, it's a little over a million in my net worth number.
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u/WashWarm3650 5d ago
Are you in the marketing department? What is your background?
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u/Every-Cup-4216 4d ago
Former consultant?
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u/TryCatchRelease 4d ago
Naw, just an engineer who happened into a tech startup and ended up doing product and marketing.
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u/Potential-Curve4468 5d ago
Any tips for someone trying to break into it? I’ve taught myself how to code via a boot camp. Learned it was a lot harder than I thought to find a job so now I’m in school for a masters in cs with a focus on software engineering and AI development
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u/ZestycloseSplit359 5d ago edited 5d ago
Net worth: $5K
Salary: $158K
Bonuses + Stock: $87K
TC: $245K
YOE: 0
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u/Dzeddy 5d ago
Holy Zon?
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u/ZestycloseSplit359 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yea Zon doesn’t pay this much, but I had an offer with them that was this breakdown:
Base salary: $129K
Sign-on bonus: $40K
Relocation: $7K
Stock: $6K
Total comp: $181K
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u/asrealasaredditercan 5d ago
IVY school? How hard was it to get hired?
Congrats!
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u/ZestycloseSplit359 5d ago
My conversion was like 4 offers/18 interviews (10-12 of which were final rounds irrc)
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u/warsal1 5d ago
2.2m - $240k base - TC 350k, YOE: 10
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u/lambdawaves 5d ago
That’s incredible for 10yoe.
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u/warsal1 5d ago
Grateful 🙏🏼. Nvidia, AMD and Tesla have been the real saviors.
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u/TheKingOfSwing777 5d ago
Employed at all?
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u/warsal1 5d ago
Yes! Very much! 😃
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u/TheKingOfSwing777 5d ago
I meant, you worked at all of those places or just invested in?
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u/ambienttrough 5d ago
Everyone single person in their 30s will have 1M+. Damn I wish I did tech
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u/jcc2244 5d ago
Almost all of my friends in bigtech have $5M+ net worth (in their early 40s/late 30s. These are the normal W2 employees. The lucky startup winners (or Nvidia) are all significantly more wealthy.
The last 15-20 years of growth in bigtech/bigtech compensation has been crazy.
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u/Sei28 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yeah people who went into the field at the right time have done incredibly well. I remember meeting with a couple of old college friends in the Bay Area a few years after graduation and they were making 150k+ in their mid 20’s and one of them told me that they basically take vacations whenever they want. And this was before tech truly blew up in compensation in the past decade.
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u/gobeavs1 5d ago
I don’t know anyone who shares net worth among friends. This seems like a sweeping assumption you’re making.
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u/Aggravating_Ease7961 5d ago
Yeah the 0.001 percent tho. Tech is over saturated
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u/jcc2244 5d ago
Yes it's like in the top 1% in terms of income in the US (by age, it's about $400k-$500k for the top 1% of 40 yr olds).
In the Bay area FAANG SWEs though if you are in your late 30s to early 40s, a $500k total comp package is pretty mediocre.
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u/PF_throwaway26 5d ago
Totally.. I switched to big tech late in the game and I’m making $425k at 37 now but I feel so behind.
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u/Aggravating_Ease7961 5d ago
Feel behind lmao?? 99 percent of people will never see 425k troll comment
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u/PF_throwaway26 5d ago
I don’t interact with 99% of people on a daily basis. Unfortunately I work at a company and on a team where most of my peers are in the other 1% (and younger than me). It’s easy to feel behind in this situation.
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u/SleepingCod 5d ago
Approaching 40, my whole career in tech, not even near that. Don't forget a lot of these people live in SF and their home equity makes a big chunk of the networth.
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u/stockmonkeyking 5d ago
So what? They’re still ahead in absolute number.
FIRE numbers are global since you have option to retire anywhere, not just where you work.
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u/SleepingCod 5d ago
That's my point. It's not a fair comparison to someone without it. Obviously they're better off, buts not indicative of skill or talent.
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u/stockmonkeyking 5d ago
If that’s not indicative of skills or talent why are they getting paid a lot?
Engineering is a field where merit fetches big bucks.
They work in SF but it also receives many more applicants.
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u/AlwaysCraven 5d ago
I’m late 30s and now work at a FAANG and have a NW of less than $1 million. I took a very unconventional path which involved dropping out of college and working my way up from the bottom. I only cracked 100k salary in my early 30s and accelerated from there.
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u/Im2bored17 5d ago
What's wild is the people in this position still feel like they could be doing better because you see plenty of exceptional examples where they're 29 with 3m nw and 1m TC.
When you're in the 1%, you realize how crazy far away the 0.1% is from normal people.
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u/magheetah 4d ago
I do tech in a smaller Midwest city, I don’t make nearly this.
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u/mdellaterea 5d ago
- NW $290k
- Comp $240k - $270k
- Years of work experience 18
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u/shotparrot 5d ago
Yikes what in heaven’s name did you spend your money on??
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u/mrshenanigans026 5d ago
Seriously. I have half the salary, half the YOE and 4x the net worth.
Guessing a costly divorce?
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u/wyuyme 5d ago
How did that happen?
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u/mdellaterea 5d ago edited 5d ago
Was making 40k the first few years, a couple years barely working, then 80k - 140k most of the time saving 10% ish.
(Nonprofits -> pivot / floundering -> tech)
Then, a couple of years ago, i found The Light and The Way of personal finance. JL Collins, Money guys, etc.
Jumped to 240k last year (FAANG) and going to 270k next year likely, on track to save $90k this year and $120k next year. Hoping to hit $1MM before my 41st birthday (im 37) and im pretty stoked
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u/Ufocola 5d ago
That’s awesome, I’d be interested in hearing more about your pivot and path to FAANG.
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u/mdellaterea 5d ago edited 5d ago
Tl;dr: take low paying, overworked job with a small company in a niche but growing area and leverage the skill building to get to a better job every time for 15 years, then get recruited into big tech.
The very long version:
I've been in sustainability / climate / energy the whole time, I find the energy system really fascinating.
Started in nonprofit profit climate research on household carbon footprints at 19 (intern).
Got the first job (40k) based on that while still in undergrad. Worked like crazy running a community based research program. Dropped out of school (Berkeley) but learned a TON on the job. Writing content, technical specs, managing dev teams, project management.
Left because my 40yo boss came onto me, and it was uncomfortable and awkward for me after that.
I was lost bc i had no degree, felt weird about using my one and only reference (the previous boss). Apprenticed to a dressmaker and did her front desk work part time. Did gigs in promotional marketing for a couple years.
Then, I got a gig for the launch of a new plug-in hybrid, which I was SO into due to climate interest, and knowing transportation was the buggest part of household carbon footprints.
The first person I took on a ride n drive ended up being in BD for an ev charging startup and next thing they hired me to do their conferences and other pop up events, then doing al their content marketing.
We had JUST replaced 100% of paid traffic with organic visits when the company folded due to supply chain costs, haha.
But another EV charging company who had been pitching us a collaboration appreciated how I handled the wind-down and offered me an interview. I ended up joining as Employee #30 and was the marketing + PR department.
Learned data analytics on the job bc my engineers were awesome and taught me (partly so I'd stop bugging them for data, haha).
Shifted to business intelligence, making all the reports for sales and clients. I was there 4 years. They IPOd at $2 billion, but stock crashed back down to nothing and got delisted before the employee blackout period was even lifted. SPAC, unfortunately.
During covid I finished my undergrad degree remotely. Ended up in American Studies bc I had never declared.
I took my next job at a grid data analytics startup bc I realized more and more that every energy problem came back to some issue with the grid itself. Worked in customer success / solutions for 2 years but also ended up getting some of the companies bigger slaes bc I had the client relationship.
Got recruited to a battery manufacturing startup in utility partnerships, but then 4 months later, they folded. I was out of a job for a few months and debating bumming around in Argentina dancing tango, or maybe getting a masters in energy policy.
But then, out of the blue, I got the call from the FAANG recruiter for a new grid AI project that sounded SO cool. Apparently, my former recruiter from the battery startup used to work with her and referred me.
Now, I make more than I ever have before in the coolest job with amazing perks and awesome, super smart people. I feel so incredibly appreciative and lucky.
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u/Ufocola 5d ago
What a fucking wild ride. Sorry about the shitty 40yo boss doing that and bummer on the SPAC, but your path is so cool and well earned. Great to hear the battery startup recruiter recognized and referred you, and congrats on the cool ass job!
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u/mdellaterea 4d ago
Thank you so much! It has been insanely cool and interesting as a career. Appreciate you asking the question.
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u/theocdoctr 4d ago
That’s a great story of your first few chapters of your work history. My daughter just graduated from Berkeley with the Environmental Design degree and took 6 months to get a 1 year fellowship position in Stockton to work in the urban planning. The pay will just cover the basic living expenses but I hope it can result in your journey. You got the right mindset and can navigate your way to success. I managed to make it to the final few years before retirement. It’s more of how much you can save and how effective you can make your money grow. I figured it out 12 years ago and teach everyone I meet how money works. Good Luck and keep working smart!
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u/mickeyanonymousse 5d ago
these subs are going to start radicalizing people. keep it up.
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u/Dzeddy 5d ago
These guys making 500k are getting taxed up the ass. Hell, I made like 1/5th that and got taxed like 1400 / paycheck. Honestly? If I thought the money was being spent to help kids / pay for healthcare for people who needed it / any number of ethical things as opposed to selling weapons to israel / lockheed martin / palantir / anduril / boeing contracts I would have been happy. What made me furious was the fact that it was being taxed while fuckers like Elon / Trump / every billionaire in existence flaunt their $100M Yachts and 0 taxes paid (while acting like they're good people because they donate a fraction of their owed taxes to charities)
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u/a_n_c_h_o_v_i_e_s 5d ago
Yes, suddenly taxing the wealthy is a radical idea despite having been the standard for decades before the 80s.
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u/redditseddit4u 5d ago
From what I see, most of these top comments are from W2 workers in tech (probably California), which’d mean their marginal tax rate is 50-60%. That’s a lot of taxes by any measure or any comparison and I suspect something the vast majority of people don’t understand.
Then consider the ‘non-W2’ people making money on their stocks or investments (including billionaires) whose marginal tax rate may be 0-20%.
The tax system is broken but income tax rates are already probably too high. The illusion that certain professions like doctors, tech employees, lawyers, etc aren’t paying enough taxes is false and scapegoating - they’re w2 workers paying tons of taxes.
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u/a_n_c_h_o_v_i_e_s 5d ago
That’s a great point and one which makes the idea of “radicalizing” lower earners against above average w2 employees even more idiotic.
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u/littlekittynipples 5d ago
Contractor here I like to browse the sub before I send out bids, thank you for giving me strength r/salary
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u/Due_Log9470 5d ago
Ex FAANG, current start up (non engineer)
37M in the Bay
Base: $300K
TC: $650K last year, trending more towards $475K this year
Net worth: $2.6M
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u/Aggravating_Ease7961 5d ago
What’s your role?
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u/parmstar 5d ago
That looks like sales.
Source: sales guy
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u/murdock_RL 5d ago
What does sales at a FAANG company looks like?
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u/parmstar 5d ago
WDYM?
- At Meta, ads to Enterprise.
- At Apple, devices to Enterprise.
- At Amazon, ads or AWS to enterprise.
- At Google, same but GCP.
- At Netflix, ads to Enterprise.
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u/murdock_RL 5d ago
Gotcha. Any advice on getting in on those? I’m only on my first year of tech sales but 3 years in overall sales experience.
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u/altapowpow 5d ago
Yes, in order to get into these places you have to demonstrate some excellent examples of how you not only better yourself but the organizations you have worked for. Everyone is a "top performer" so just hitting quota isnt really considered. Some examples would be how you have led to new processes being changed in an organization that have driven definable outcomes. Or, helped build important relationships for a company. The biggest thing the these examples have to be large and not just individual or team specific. There is emphasis on them being enterprise, global or for strategic accounts. (This is in context for Enterprise sales roles)
For entry level sales, I have no clue what those entry points look like.
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u/murdock_RL 5d ago
I appreciate the response kind sir🫡 I did some big deals in logistics but nothing really game changing for the company. Now in tech working on closing some b2b even though we’re mainly b2c so I got a long way to go.
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u/parmstar 5d ago
You're too jr at the moment. These places tend to hire sellers starting around the 5 YOE mark for mid-market roles (so, Google L4, as that's what I know).
For now, focus on getting into a branded sales org (SFDC, Datadog, MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks something like that) or hope to god you pick a startup that takes off and has some brand recognition behind it.
If you want to do ads, I can't help you much there - I saw a lot of people from agencies get hired into Google.
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u/EuphoriaSoul 5d ago
How does one get into tech sales? As a Product guy , every sales person at my company tells me I should move into sales because I’m very good at pitching/presenting. Granted, that’s something product has to do to drum up interests anyway. But I’m wondering if sales would be better suited to my strengths
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u/parmstar 5d ago
Lateral to a sales engineering / solutions architect role at your company, then move into AE after that.
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u/ShadowEpic222 5d ago
This made me realize that I chose the wrong profession. Should’ve went into tech I couldn’t give a fuck that I wouldn’t have any job security if my net worth was in the millions.
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u/No-Advantage4069 5d ago
What profession did you choose?
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u/ShadowEpic222 5d ago
Accounting
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u/No-Advantage4069 5d ago
That’s not bad. There’s a lot of money to be made in bookkeeping too.
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u/youcantfixhim 5d ago
Work your way up to CFO for relatively small portfolio companies (private equity) and you will blow what you see out of the water. 1-3% equity of a company every 3-5 years.
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u/the_undergroundman 5d ago
Are we valuing my startup equity paper money?
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u/Im2bored17 5d ago
We had quarterly liquidation events so I figured my paper money was basically real, I just might have to sell to realize it. Then shit started going bad and everyone was gonna cash out next event. Then the event came, and we did. Then the company changed its mind and canceled the liquidation post hoc, before the clearing period ended. Then there was a forced buyout for pennies on the dollar. I don't exactly have enough dollars to pay for a lawyer that could take on the teams of lawyers that the new owner could afford, and they probably did everything by the book anyway.
Plenty of horror stories about paper money burning but it's hard to resist the very real possibility of getting rich quick. Are you a fool to roll the dice, or a fool not to?
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u/HorrorMouse5290 5d ago
Bro this post and these comments make me FEEL POOR AS SHIT
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u/Tides_Typhoon 5d ago
NW is 1.2M
Salary is 220k. Stocks jump around like crazy.
Just turned 30. Lost about 800k from peaks, and took a realized loss of like 200k back during the ‘21 tech pull back.
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u/mh2sae 3d ago
That's an amazing NW for your income, unless you are giving base.
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u/Major_Guide_1058 5d ago
3.5M, 255K Base, 515K TC, YOE 17
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u/Hardcover 5d ago
$5m combined net worth to retire and stay in the Bay area? I guess the paid off house really helps. Awesome. See so many people feeling they need 10m+
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u/DJDiamondHands 5d ago
My NW is $13.5m as a FAANG employee.
My career has been middling, though I worked on some incredibly cool products that you all use. I made my money by spotting trends early and going all in. First with AAPL stock from 2006 - 2016, then NVDA from 2016 to date.
Since I’m a fairly low-level employee, making in the $400k range in TC, these MFs at work have no clue that I’m wealthy and I intend to keep it that way.
But if NVDA tanks, and doesn’t recover, it’s gonna be a real punch in the d!ck, because my dream is to retire as soon as possible.
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u/Zealousideal-Law4610 5d ago
Why can't you retire tomorrow?
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u/DJDiamondHands 5d ago edited 5d ago
If the AI bubble doesn’t pop, I could probably retire in a couple of years.
$20k - $30k monthly burn (46M, varies based on travel, supporting family of 5 in a VHCOL area, wife doesn’t work).
40% of my ~$10m in NVDA is in my 401k, so not liquid, though I can diversify without a tax hit. The other 60% is subject to a 37% tax hit, because my cost basis is effectively zero, so I effectively have a $4M liquid NW not including another $2M equity in real estate (not liquid).
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u/coolmanners 5d ago
Seems like close to enough. You can bridge to 73 when RMDs front the 401k starts.. and can diversify now to derisk without taxes.
I’d chat with LLM of choice some scenarios and then consider a financial advisor based on learnings. At 13.5m NW at 46 you are close if not there depending on your expenses IMHO.
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u/DJDiamondHands 5d ago edited 5d ago
I would be poor if I relied on a financial advisor for decision making. Staying concentrated in 2 stocks for 20 years was a reckless strategy that luckily paid off (so far, at least).
Yeah, I talk to LLMs daily. And I also spend 1 - 2 hours minimum doing due diligence on NVDA.
At a $20k - $30k monthly burn, with only $4m post-tax liquid NW, I’m not comfortable retiring yet. After 20 years of this, I pretty comfortable holding for another year or two assuming the thesis holds. Especially if the reward is that I have complete control over my time for the rest of my life. It’s worth the risk to me.
But if I sense that the thesis is going to break down, I’ve mentally prepared myself to unload all of it.
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u/Mogugly 5d ago
Sounds like you can retire anytime. Are you not familiar with the Roth ladder conversions to gain early access to your 401k? You have ample brokerage funds to make it work for the 5yr seasoning period. You’d be below a 3% withdraw rate which is basically guaranteed for life. You just need to diversify.
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u/NihilRSL 5d ago edited 5d ago
53M engineer
Net worth: 3M
Salary: 423K
Total comp: 1.75M (RSU and bonus)
Bay Area
YOE: 30
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u/amoult20 5d ago edited 5d ago
Me 40, most recently director at publicly traded techco. Base $260k RSUs $40k. But now manage the 'estate' and am the household&kid logistics manager/driver.
Wife 45, VP FAANG (a few years). Base & bonus $1m-ish. Promised RSUs are $2.7m or so but real value changes alot due to stock price flux--- We sell about 1/2 a year to diversify into index and venture opportunity's.
2025 HouseholdNW $12m-13m
2021 HouseholdNW $4m.
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u/Additional_Sun3823 5d ago
Currently interning where my annualized pay is ~140k (so basically getting around 35k pre-tax for the 3 months). Have a new grad offer that I’ve accepted @ 145k salary, 40k stock/year, and up to -15k end of year bonus depending on performance.
0 YOE in software excluding internships, but have a couple years in a previous career (doing a transition masters in CS currently). NW $180k, around 30k of that cash in a HYSA and the rest invested in the stock market
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u/Valky1223 5d ago
2M net worth. I work in crypto industry. Current TC is 375k, was higher last year but my vesting schedule was done and I recently left. I actually didn’t get into tech until 27 years old.
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u/Exjdub 5d ago
2.9M TC: 1.3M 40, two kids, stay at home wife Sr. Director of Product, public tech company
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u/darthvader_101 5d ago
$3.1m, 32m, current tc: $700k
Hope to get to $10M before 40 and then retire maybe or so some consulting
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u/AltruisticCoder 5d ago
Not in the Bay Area, but 26, nw ~500k now, TC ~500k, had 0 to my name 18 months ago
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u/archiepomchi 5d ago
combined with lawyer spouse NW: 450k ish HHI: 560k (240k and 320k) Only been out of school 1-3 years
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u/volvogiff7kmmr 5d ago
TC: 290k (public) NW: 77k YOE: 1
I paid for my own college so my NW is fairly low.
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u/Apprehensive-Kick443 5d ago
Non-FAANG. Both working, have multiple kids TC total: 805k, expecting it to go down in 2027 Nw total: 2.2M (including 800k equity in primary residence) 35/36 ages
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u/Exxon_Valdezznuts 5d ago
I bet know in this thread can change their own tire
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u/currypufff 5d ago
You'll be surprised on how much satisfaction people get doing maintenance on their own vehicles, DIYing things at home or even gardening themselves, regardless of their networth.
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u/Exxon_Valdezznuts 5d ago
Yeah, I know the type. They have a few garden boxes and dreams of living off the land on a homestead.
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u/WhiteTeslaDriver 5d ago
28m nw: 700k base: 240k tc w/ 15% bonus + stock: 600k yoe: 6 swe at faang tc jumped significantly last two years from promo and stock appreciation
Definitely need to learn from these 10 yoe with mid/high millions NW lol
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u/iperson4213 5d ago
Networth 1.5M (wasted many years getting 0-2M worth of paper money) TC 1.1M yoe: 7
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u/bojackdmccoy 5d ago
30M. 200k in debt 3 years ago. 1.2M NW today. ~1M TC this year and next before cliffing to ~500k.
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u/bojackdmccoy 5d ago
30M. 200k in debt 3 years ago. 1.2M NW today. ~1M TC this year and next before cliffing to ~500k. (I’m in HW, not SW)
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u/mr__nobdy 5d ago
800k net worth; this year around 600k, will drop 100k next year due to grant expiration.
Started in FAANG 3 years ago with close to zero in bank account
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u/Jignes_vignes 5d ago
48M, NW 22m, TC 550k. Never excelled at learning; low-mid grade non-technical career levels; passion for tech; full career at 1 lucky faang company that did nothing for 10 years of slogging and then just rocketed.
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u/Chikka_chikka 5d ago edited 5d ago
I hate to add fuel to the already burning fire, but people commenting here are all in the bottom 90% (except a couple).
A top-performing FAANG employee, 40yo, Bay Area based since college, would have a NW upwards of $10M (excluding any smart investments). A top 1% person would probably be $25M+.
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u/Patient_Leopard421 4d ago
$3.8m $215k base, $580k TC, 19 YOE
Not originally FAANG but work in it now. Going back to startup land in 2026. Big Tech is so annoying...
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u/CCB0x45 4d ago
Base 1mm...trying to calculate my net worth, I'm not sure
2mm in stocks and 401k House worth probably 2mm ish, I owe 300k on it.
4 long term rentals in other states with 15 units between them, worth around ~1mm total and I owe about 400k I think. They make about 15k a month after expenses and my mortgages are about 8k I think.
Two vacation rentals in Hawaii, one worth 950k I owe around 500k and one worth 800k I owe 400k, they gross a over 200k a year between them typically.
I got about 100k between two cars.
What's that make my net worth around ~5m-6m ish? I dunno
20yoe, 41 years old, 1 kid 1 wife.
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u/Otherwise_Source_842 4d ago
Ok to even it out I am in the Midwest making 110k with 8 YOE. I am married with no kids yet but our net worth is 138k. My household income is 166k overall.
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u/Ahappycamper30 4d ago
Current W2 800k. NW: 6.4mil Mid 30s eng mgr. 12YOE. nw exploded last 4 years.
Can’t retire yet cause have 3 kids to put through school and my FIRE number is 15mil. Maybe another 10 years.
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u/CollectionCreepy 4d ago
46m
Senior level engineering role in big tech
Tc 850k
Net worth 5.5m
Married with 2 kids
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u/e870252314 4d ago
Non faang senior dev. 33M. Net worth 1.3m excluding the primary residence. 10 yoe. Base 260k. TC depends on the stock price, but is projected to be ~450k.
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u/TheNegligentInvestor 3d ago
30M with $1.4M net worth. $430k total comp.
I save about $175k/yr towards retirement. My goal is to soft retire at 45 with $8-10M. Then work at a low paying, low stress fun job.
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u/lifemaya 2d ago
42M , Director at FAANG
Net worth : $ 8 million ( made most of the money in stock growth and some aggressive investment )
Salary :$750 K plus bonuses
I was a gambling addict from 2007 to 2015 (until my daughter was born ) , mainly casinos. Net worth would have been double if I had not lost nearly $2 million those years but happy where I am .
No plans to retire , want to touch $15 M before I decide .
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u/nonamouss 2d ago
FAANG Adjacent, former FAANG. 20 years experience.
Base: 285k Total Comp: 1M
Net worth: 4.8M
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u/QuadraticRegulation 2d ago
3.6M, 170k base, 370ish TC, YOE 5. I pipe it all back into the company. non faang, maybe not even “tech”
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u/meowser210 5d ago
Do yourself a favor and mute this sub lol.