Small-town Mobile Site. Salary: $40,000 or less 

What happens when you refuse to move away from the small town you grew up in and refuse to give up your dream of mobile development? You get a job with a local company that doesn't actually know what the Internet is. You spend your days being told to make insignificant adjustments ("That should be red! Oh yeah, red is nice.") to an insignificant app.

Development Engineer #531. Salary: $60,000

You landed a job with a popular travel site, and moved to Seattle where you swear the $60,000 you're making each year feels a whole lot like the $30,000 you were making back in Wherethehellami, Montana. The work is mildly rewarding, but you're a nameless hero—even within the company's massive development team.

Mogrokifidxy. Salary: $80,000

You took a job at a start-up whose name and app you can't actually pronounce. The office has a Ping-Pong table and you're told you can set your own hours, but you understand that if you ever leave before putting in twelve hours minimum you're going to get some seriously nasty stink eye from your fellow inmates. But hey, the work is creative and there's free catered lunch every day.

Creator of Paladin Shadow. Salary: $100,000 (for now)

After years of working through lunch breaks, you've finally released your own game, and boy are people just dying to swing a giant virtual sword at a group of monsters that look suspiciously like your ex-girlfriend's cat. Though the game is published, you have an incredible amount of work fixing bugs, providing support, and adding content. The money is great for now, but unless Paladin Shadow 2 is a hit, you may be back working for someone else in a few years' time.

Creator of SpaceBook. Salary: $130,000+

You've reinvented reinventing social connectivity, and the world is heaving money at you by the slug. You're so rich that dollars are now worth more to you as building materials than as currency, and you use them to build a blocky green ladder to the top of Mt. Olympus where you de-throne Zeus and spend the rest of your days on a throne drinking ambrosia and reading through people's private messages for fun.