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I'm not jealous (we've got a great work/life balance and a good mission), and I've heard of those compensation levels before, but something about the way you said "merely 400k" made me realize that those single salaries are more than my entire team(5 sysadmins and a manager)'s compensation.

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I mean that a bit sarcastically to be clear. It’s a ridiculously good income. If you read Blind, there are a lot of L5 that are so upset about not getting L6, I think it lacks perspective.

Yes I realize I’m saying this and I make a lot more, but if I was “stuck” at $400k I don’t think I would be upset.

The median household income in NYC is something around $75k.

400k isn’t that outrageous for higher level IC positions, especially in the NYC market.

Oh I know, and usually I'm pretty jaded (I live in a lcol area so even tho I make less than than 75k I live comfortably). But tonight for some reason it really sunk in how cheap human labor in this area can be.

This makes me curious what the HN consensus is about reasonable salary ranges along the east coast.

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