Yeah, my read is that the teenage hacker confronted with this ridiculous payslip sees two ways forward: accept the pay cut for the CV benefit of working with bug bounties, or get a bit better at hiding your ass and make them really pay.

Playing devils advocate but 4k is probably more money than most kids that age have seen in their life

And this will help them land that six figure job

> That's 1-2% of an annual SE salary for someone with similar skillset.

I agree $4,000 is way too low, but a $400k salary is really high, especially for security work.

> That's 1-2% of an annual SE salary for someone with similar skillset.

So commensurate for approximately 2 days of work, a little high for two hours of work, and a little low for 8 days of work.