Title: Recently there was a thread about someone making ~$500k&#x2F;year at a FAANG company and seeing that there&#x27;s people who hang out here and make ~$300k&#x2F;year I always have questions for high income earners. Since I don&#x27;t know any personally (or at least I think I don&#x27;t) I&#x27;m hoping some are lurking and willing to answer some questions. I&#x27;ve set it to $300k because I think at this range the salary is exceptional even in LA&#x2F;SF&#x2F;NYC.<p>These are my questions and I&#x27;m adding my own answers though my income is not really in this range; some are slightly fudged to prevent de-anonymizing.<p>* What do you do?<p>* What is your job title?<p>* What is your total comp?<p>* Who do you work for?<p>* Where do you live (assuming you don&#x27;t work from home)?<p>* How long did it take you to get here?<p>* How did you get here (networking&#x2F;raw technical skill&#x2F;job board&#x2F;dumb luck, etc.)?<p>* What do you do?<p>- I do frontend development for financial applications; think trader dashboards, openfin, etc. I have done backend work previously and actually prefer it to frontend work<p>* What is your job title?<p>- Associate; a generic corporate title in banking<p>* What is your total comp?<p>- Last year I made $118k including my yearly bonus and 401k matching<p>* Who do you work for?<p>- JPMorgan<p>* Where do you live (assuming you don&#x27;t work from home)?<p>- A large Texas city; one of Dallas&#x2F;Houston&#x2F;San Antonio<p>* How long did it take you to get here?<p>- 5 years from my first job as a developer<p>* How did you get here (networking&#x2F;raw technical skill&#x2F;job board&#x2F;dumb luck, etc.)?<p>- It&#x27;s been a gradual climb; whenever I feel there&#x27;s no more to learn at my current job I look for another, each move included a pay bump. This job I managed through an acquaintance who offered to put my resume in although I was not looking for a job at the time
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