[muse900]

Personal View: As with any other skilled job out there that is not based on commission like software devs unless you find a company that pays out big bonuses, you will have a cap as to what you can gain.

I don't think I know many software devs that make big bucks unless working at the 0.5% or something.

Usually in order to make big bucks you either start your own company or you work on a commission based occupation. That said a software developer can do commission based as a contractor and usually that has a lot of money involved, but again unless you have a company of contractors lets say and you are just 1 person I think there is an X amount of stuff you can manage a year which means that your 'salary' will be capped at some point.