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Senior staff/E7 level at FAANG will get you that comp, especially with stock appreciation if you've been there for a while.

What does someone at Senior staff/E7 level do?

Not the OP but I posted this the last time this question was asked

Pretty much what @United857 said. I had a successful career, but I'm far of an outliner. I did have luck to be at the right place, at the right time.

My day to day work is around planning, coding, and system design.

US tech industry has been staggeringly right place/time for the last decade. As a proxy, the NASDAQ has roughly increased 6x in that timeframe.

Damn, I can do all of that pretty well but earn more than 13x less

Maybe less so if you are at Meta this week ...