--- title: Confronting Career Inequalities | daily.dev description: A VP in tech reflects on pay and respect disparities in the industry, comparing their own compensation to friends in other fields and to a COO peer earning... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/confronting-career-inequalities-4cteephf1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Confronting Career Inequalities | daily.dev og:description: A VP in tech reflects on pay and respect disparities in the industry, comparing their own compensation to friends in other fields and to a COO peer earning... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/confronting-career-inequalities-4cteephf1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4cteePHF1.png og:image:alt: Confronting Career Inequalities og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Confronting Career Inequalities **[Playful Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/playfulprogramming)** · [@crutchcorn](https://daily.dev/crutchcorn) · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A VP in tech reflects on pay and respect disparities in the industry, comparing their own compensation to friends in other fields and to a COO peer earning less. The post explores how timing affects career titles and pay, the disproportionate revenue-per-employee in tech versus other industries (Apple's $2.5M RPE vs. $170K average for professional services), and the moral discomfort of earning significantly more than peers who work harder physically. It also touches on imposter syndrome and the difficulty of reconciling high pay with self-doubt about one's actual contribution. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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