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How I Became An $800K Meta Staff Engineer
Meta's philosophy is to reward strong performance and provide regular, formulaic increases in pay.
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In 2021, the last full year I worked at Meta, I made more than $800,000. In this post, I'll break down my compensation and how it changed each year. Here's the proof from one of my last paystubs in 2021:
I joined Facebook, now known as Meta, in 2017 with a total comp of $400K, and over the next 4.5 years, my compensation more than doubled.
Here's my total yearly compensation across 4.5 years:
- 2017: $390,000
- 2018: $370,000
- 2019: $504,000
- 2020: $703,000
- 2021: $823,000
But my journey was not a straight shot to counting $100 bills. In fact, for the first six months after I joined Facebook, I was crippled with anxiety. I felt imposter syndrome as a senior engineer, I struggled to adapt to the company's culture and tooling, and I dealt with a re-org within my first few months. This is my story.
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