$175k is actually becoming fairly common for Senior Engineers at funded startups (post Series B usually). $160k is already pretty normal.<p>I tell people that a Senior Engineer should expect $225k in total comp. That&#x27;s a reasonable base line at any of the big companies (Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Netflix&#x2F;etc). You can take less than that, but you should be able to roughly itemize the reasons for discount. (&quot;Startup stock options have an expected value of $X per year.&quot;, &quot;Leadership opportunities are worth $Y per year.&quot;, &quot; Being able to use a certain technology is worth $Z per year.&quot;, etc.)