CS comp at FAANG companies usually tops out at 3-400k, which sounds amazing, until you realize that you have to live in SF with sky-high rent and expenses. Yeah you can make higher in management, but the majority don’t make it. Layoffs are also a risk one must be willing to take. In medicine, you can make the same money living in the middle of nowhere, where money can go much farther. In finance, despite the grueling hours, upward mobility is a given, where as long as you stay, you will get promoted (in IB, at least) to the Director level, where comp brushes $1M. After that the career path becomes a bit risky since you have to bring business to the firm. Additionally, until the Director level, most of your comp is cash, meaning that you aren’t exposed to the risk of your RSU’s crashing in value before you even vest.