Inbox (paraphrase): "I'm an engineer considering a switch to PM. Which gets paid more?" That's a potentially useful and nuanced question, so. My ambient impression is that, at high status employers, engineers get paid more than PMs, materially so, early in their careers.
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However, I am credibly informed that PMing is the highest expected value track over the length of the career at large tech firms, mostly due to a) extreme elasticity of compensation packages if you successfully PM on core products and b) advancement opportunities to e.g. biz lead
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I think eng leadership has expected value equal (and sometimes greater than) that of product leadership (and a/b can be said if eng leadership too, no?)
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That seems very plausible to me, but (perhaps ironically given my background and interests) I rate my ability to predict engineering management trajectories (including IC to manager trajectories) more poorly than the other path.
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