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by kevinventullo 1111 days ago
Right, and the mega backdoor you can fund yourself. So there’s not much point in cos juicing the match versus just paying people more, which big tech is not afraid to do.
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Sort of. The employee + employer match can go into regular 401k or roth 401k whereas the mega backdoor roth is only roth.

Thus you can put ~33,000-66,000 into roth ones and only 0-33,000 into pre-tax ones whereas if the employer match got you up to the full 66,000, you could fully customize it to pre or post tax however you like.