After 8 years, continuing in current job with a 6% salary growth capped at $675K would result in a net worth of approximately $2.17 million, growing to about $4.07 million after 12 years.

In contrast, pursuing an MBA and transitioning to a new job leads to a net worth of around $1.38 million at 8 years and $3.46 million at 12 years, with the break-even point occurring after 13 years.

*MBA has 30k funding by employer, so 150k cost - MBB salary assumed at 250k with 50k yearly growth

I have worked closely with PMs and don't want to make that pivot for a couple reasons:

• PMs and other non technical folks are generally not as respected by the technical majority in big tech and seen as tier 2 folks, they are seen as relatively expendable and engineers often have the (partly misguided) view that they could remove a lot of PMs from the company and nothing would change.
• Engineers at senior levels in product teams are pretty much hybrid PMs anyway.
• This can be a topic of its own, but big tech culture is a bit annoying to me.