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I think the author is in fact unhumble bragging. I have been in IT for 26 years, have managed IT teams, every boss I have had would hire me back. I live in a mid sized city. I don't make close to half those numbers. I have no idea how these people get these crazy high salary jobs.

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If you describe yourself as being in IT, I suspect that means your job description is very different from that of the author’s. Comparing salaries across different types of job doesn’t make much sense.

These numbers are out there - a cursory look at https://www.levels.fyi for example should open your eyes to some of the numbers big companies pay, that I can confirm with my own comp info for my company (a FAANG).

Also it should be noted that the author has some fame in the frontend web world, and is a fairly well known name.

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