[quote=AN][quote=flu]Starting salary is irrelevant. It’s earning potential, doing the same thing throughout the years. You’ll find that short of getting into a VP or Director position, you’ll probably top out at a much lower ceiling than any other profession, relative to

1. Investment banking
2. Hedge fund
3. VC
4. Management consulting at companies like Bain and Company and McKinsey & Co…[/quote]
I don’t know those fields. How much does a 10 years veteran make in those fields? How would their salary compare to salary at Google and FB? Can you break out and make it on your own like tech and start your own start up?[/quote]

Don’t ask, don’t tell 🙂 And you’re asking the wrong person. You probably want to ask someone that made it.