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I'm not sure what you're talking about. That's 420,000/y. That's no ordinary tech worker, or even most extraordinary ones. You're a C-suite executive if you're making that kind of money, even in a ridiculous CoL area like SF.

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L6 at Google pays $490,000 a year [0] and 90+ percent of first layer managers at GAFAM are L6 or above. While getting into GAFAM and becoming a manager isn't a stroll in the park, it definitely doesn't require you to be extraordinary.

[0]: https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Google/

> it definitely doesn't require you to be extraordinary

Yes, it does.

Being in the top 1% is extraordinary. It’s a tautology, it’s not really arguable.

In the metric of income in relation to the entire US population, sure. In regards to the ordinary tech worker in a ridiculous CoL area like SF, no it definitely does not require you to be extraordinary to join one of the higher paying companies and work your way into management.

You are correct that in a group of extraordinary people it is more common to find extraordinary people.

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