[Dylan16807]

If you're one VP of many, you might have to work out of hours occasionally, but you can have a special emergency line that's only used ten times a year. You don't need to sacrifice your life the way a small business CEO might have to.

> And yeah, you clearly haven’t been keeping up with dev pay scales at big companies if you think it tops out at 150k.

Okay. I don't know any of these devs and just did a search.

[ericd]

Check out levels.fyi for a good source of salary info if you want to get a better picture.

SVPs at big companies run entire divisions of thousands of people. They make it to those levels by being workaholics and politically adept.