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> I estimate conservatively I produce $500,000 in value a year

Do you actually earn this amount per year? Or, is this just a projection of what you think the value of code you write is?

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You can never earn the amount of value you produce. Your employer can't survive if they hire you for that amount.

Not sustainably, but they could if they underpay others. Or run a deficit.

I think he was talking about the value he generates, so possibly something like revenue/profit per employee kind of thing. For example, FB and Google make more than $1M revenue per employee. You can go more granular and look at the impact of your team or yourself as well.

But can be his comp as well, these are not unheard[1] of numbers.

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Yes, I'm talking about value. My comp is less than that figure. There are some developers with total comp like that though.

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