[wtfthrowaway1]

Throwaway account; I am currently in my late 30s.

Graduated from Kansas University in 2008.

2008 to 2010 - $50K CTO/co-founder of a small company

2011 - $125K SDE II @ Amazon

2012 - $125K SDE II @ Amazon

2013 - $175K SDE III @ Amazon

2014 - $217K SDE III @ Amazon

2015 - $200K E5 @ Facebook

2016 - $500K E6 @ Facebook

2017 - $800K E7 @ Facebook

2018 - $1M E7 @ Facebook

2019 ~ $1.25M E7 @ Facebook

[gigatexal]

I really need to get these skills up to snuff and get my butt back to the US. These salaries are ridiculous.

[techie128]

Not salary. It's total comp. Most of it is stock growth.

[gigatexal]

Makes sense actually. Still the tax paid on the sale of stock (held for a year or more I think) is taxed under the Bush era cap gains values of only 15% IIRC so that's pretty good.

[mrep]

When your stock gets awarded, the full amount is taxed as income. If you don't sell that stock for a year and then sell it, any gains from the price at the award date and the sell date are taxed as cap gains so not really.

[gigatexal]

Ugh that complicated things for sure.

[gniv]

> is taxed under the Bush era cap gains values of only 15%

Not really. A lot of it is taxed as income when vested, as mrep mentioned. And if you do keep them long term, at that level of income the long-term cap gains tax is 20%. And there is also the Net Investment Income Tax of 3.8%.

[tejinderss]

What technologies you work in ?

[victords]

Jesus, that's a quick career progression at Facebook...

[madengr]

Damn! I graduated MSEE from KU in ‘96 and make 1/8 that. Don’t go into hardware, kids.

[nugget]

Do you mean the University of Kansas?