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I'm not in US but Canada.(twitter @enitalp) I'm at around 110k Can without Bonuses. Working in video game industry as a Technical Architect with 20 years relevant in video game and add more than 10 elsewhere. I have the best job in the world. not ready to exchange for an IT bank job even for 300k.

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Could you elaborate why you wouldn't take a 3x more pay and could still program, do whatever you like in your free time. I'm at a stage of life where I'm trying to identify "nay" sayers and "yay" sayers who would go to extreme and forge logic to either say "nay" or "yay". I just thought your answer was a bit borderline there from my perspective.

"You can spend all your time making money, or you can spend all your love making time."

Because money can be a means to an end but surely isn't an end in itself. If you don't need the money and you aren't passionate about doing something there's little reason to make yourself unhappy working to get it.

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