Ask HN: What are the most paid jobs in Software?

Pay is based on the business value you deliver. That's more true the higher up the pay scale you go. No one is paid a lot just for knowing a language or working at the right company. If you want a big paycheck concentrate on identifying and solving business problems.

If you are talking about getting rich from equity you have to get lucky as a founder or early employee of a company that makes it big. If that was easy we'd all be rich.

I hear CEO of a software company pays pretty well.

More to the point, I was pretty intrigued at the difference in pay rate for golang programmers vs php programmers.

That differential accounts for Go programmers usually having significant experience with C, C++, PHP, etc. A newb is still a newb no matter what language they learned first.

> $200k/year is low

On what planet?