[benhurmarcel]

> Fun fact for you - if I get promoted this year at Amazon to L5, I'll _still_ make less than a new grad at Google.

Yet you still make more than what the vast majority of engineers in western Europe will ever make in their whole career. And that's still only looking at the most developed countries.

The job market isn't fair. No use getting burnt over that.

[scarface74]

He makes far more than The vast majority of developers in the US.

[lowiqengineer]

I know several people making $350k at companies like Lyft two years out of undergrad.

[scarface74]

That doesn’t negate my point that you still make more than most developers in the US outside of the HN SV bubble writing CRUD apps or bespoke internal apps that will never see the light of day outside of the company. Go to salary.com and pick any major city not on the west coast.