Not at TGS but indeed a public deca-corn (and ex-FANG) as an IC. What I meant was that ~L6 roles at such companies still number in the hundreds or thousands and are not especially high in the reporting chain. We're not senior managers+ or principal engineer as one might otherwise assume...
$600k gross is not particularly rare for a mid-30s rank and file (software) engineer, myself being one and knowing countless others. $600k net on the other hand... you'd need to gross what, $1.2-$1.3m/year? yeah, not going to be too common I would think, even by Bay Area standards. My guess is...
Old villa constructed with questionable building codes in a tiny disheveled community >30 mins outside of Florence. Probably nice for a second vacation home, but primary residence? No thanks.