&gt; A new grad at Google&#x2F;FB&#x2F;Amazon with a lowball offer will have a total comp (salary + bonus + equity) of $130k&#x2F;yr.<p>I think these companies are actually <i>too</i> ideal to draw this conclusion from. For everyone Google&#x2F;Amazon&#x2F;FB, you also have a Comcast, an Oracle, an HP or Cisco.<p>You frequently hear about companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc trading employees. You don&#x27;t hear about the typical big company poaching anyone besides executives.<p>Edit: The above doesn&#x27;t seem to represent a clear thought. I&#x27;m trying to argue that the average big company doesn&#x27;t pay as well as those three. Similarly, the average startup isn&#x27;t going to be able to pay massive dividends in four years.