Those of you who have hit $100k in your salary... what did your path look like? How many YOE did you have?

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3 years to 100k as a consultant.
SEs in most B2B probably command 100k OTE out of school.

I jumped pretty hard after just two years (9 yoe total) to a lead SE role for 220k OTE.

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9 yoe total. So we’re the same. I just got into Sales Engineering 2 years ago. Sorry if that wasn’t clear!

From my research, outside of the top firms (FAANG / Salesforce / ServiceNow / Cloud data like Snowflake), Lead SE with around 10 yoe range from 210-240 OTE.

I’m moving to an AI platform early stage startup. The paper money is honestly pretty good too but worthless to mention.

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For me it took longer than it should due to staying in my first job for 5 years. Started at 52k base out of school (Precast consultant) went up to $67k when i left. Jumped to a Project engineering position in additive mfg for $87k, year later jumped to a SE position in a drone company for $125k and a year later jumped to another SE position in Saas for $136k.

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- 0 YOE: 75k TC
- 1 YOE: 105k TC
- 2 YOE: 135k TC
- 3 YOE: 215k TC
- 4 YOE: 220k TC
- 5 YOE: 350k TC

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Damn ok. Are you 5YOE in total or 5 just in sales engineering? Is SA the same as sales engineer

TC ? Or just base?

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60/10 after an internship. Moved to 85/15 after a few years because I changed companies. Bumped up to 105/40 after like 7 years there (like 11 years total experience). But I'm at/below the minimum of the range for my position, so very unhappy and trying to find a new job without any success. But we keep trying lol

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i’m at 9 yoe. 175 base, 75 commission, ~40 rsu vest per year.

cracked 100k base around year 3-4.

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- 0 YOE: $90k OTE
- 1 YOE: $126k OTE
- 2 YOE: $190k OTE $10k RSU
- 3 YOE: $220k OTE $35k RSU (layoffs)
- 4 YOE: $200k OTE $50k paper money
- 5 YOE: $205k OTE $25k paper money (things went down.

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