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  Year) Salary - Bonus - Company
   1)  50k - 10%  - Company 1 - small private tech consulting firm (NYC)
   2)  60k - 10%  - Company 1 (NoVa)
   3)  70k - 15%  - Company 1
   4)  80k - 15%  - Company 1
   5)  90k - 15%  - Company 1
   6) 100k - 15%  - Company 1
   7) 105k - 15%  - Company 1
   8) 135k - 15%  - Company 2 - series C startup, sales software (SF)
   9)  25k -  0%  - Company 3 - seed round, business tools, co-founder (SF)
  10)  60k -  0%  - Company 3
  11) 160k - 10%* - Company 4 - series A startup, transportation, acquired a year before (peninsula)
  12) 180k - 15%* - Company 4
  13) 220k - 25%  - Company 5 - series D startup, fintech, acquired a year before (peninsula)
*Actual bonus payout was about a quarter of it


After reading all of the other posts here I'm shocked you're not making 2M at line 13. I don't know if there's a bias for the ultra-high earners to post their income here, albeit anonymously, skewing the perception of what's normal.




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