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It is not an order of magnitude. I work at a software non-profit and am paid reasonably compared to my FAANG friends. Sure, they make more, but not an order of magnitude more, not even double, and I can sleep at night knowing I'm trying to make the world better for humans rather than trying to enrich a few mega-corporations.

>>asadot+(OP)
It's certainly double or more in many cases for rank-and-file developer jobs, in my personal experience, meaning "jobs I've worked or gotten offers on." Again, maybe I just suck, but then so do a lot of folks I know.

I mean "order of magnitude" in the sense that a 6-figure salary is an order of magnitude more than a 5-figure salary.