Senior devs are closer to 400K-500K total comp. Very senior devs are above that.
Still, the value of working on your own project full-time (rather than someone else's thing) can easily justify accepting the difference.
Still, the value of working on your own project full-time (rather than someone else's thing) can easily justify accepting the difference.
Keep in mind stories of people telling how they were passed on by some big name corp just to go on to build something big.