[ZephyrBlu]

SDET, SWE and QA are completely different roles so of course they have different comp. Twitch's comp seems very similar to Amazon's for SWEs though: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Twitch&track=Software....

> Sites like what you share are often going to be representative of the upper band of the salary range since that's who self-reports

Many people have corroborated that levels.fyi is accurate for large tech companies like Amazon and Google. It's accurate for my company as well.

If FAANG comp is middle class, at what point does it become upper middle/upper class? I believe ~$500k is 1% income in the US. Some SWEs who are "workers" break that. Is someone who has top 1% income really middle class?

A lot of SWEs also receive equity compensation (I.e. ownership), which is very much not a middle class phenomenon.