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Corporate is not the enemy, underused compensation is
Thamina Stoll
July 09, 2026
Hi Sheconomist Insider 👋 It’s Thamina, Founder of The Sheconomist. This is your bi-weekly dose of celebrating the female economy where I help ambitious, purpose-driven women like yourself flip the script on money, career & wellbeing conventions so you can live life on your own terms.
TLDR:
đź’Ľ Corporate is not always the enemy. Underused compensation is.
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đź’° 10 high-paying GTM jobs in tech
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🧪 Freedom Formulas
The Internet is obsessed with you quitting your”boring, unfulfilling,” job.
Fire your boss. Build the course, the personal brand, the laptop life. And underneath all of it, the same message: your corporate job is the thing standing between you and freedom.
I want to push back on that, because I think it's costing women real money.
I had about $2k to my name at 24. By 30, my investment portfolio had crossed $500k. I didn't get there by leaving corporate, I got there by learning how to use it. RSUs I actually understood instead of nodding along. An ESPP I took full advantage of. A 401k I set up properly instead of leaving on the defaults. Raises I negotiated instead of waiting for. A benefits portal I audited like it owed me money because it did.
Corporate is not always the enemy. Underused compensation is.
And look, the quit-your-job crowd isn't lying to you, exactly. Some people should leave. I have a lot of entrepreneurial friends who have built incredible businesses, are full-time creators, and have made more money being their own boss than they would have ever made staying in corporate. Many of them are subscribed to this newsletter (hi, ily!!).
In fact, I myself am planning on leaving my 9-5 eventually. BUT, not everyone is cut out for this life.
Everyone is talking about freedom. What if you actually didn’t need immediate “freedom”, you actually just need your money to be working better for you. You think that means an entrepreneurial job, what if it actually meant using your existing compensation better.
So here's my actual position, the one I'll keep repeating until it bores you: sometimes you have to play the game so you can eventually stop playing it.
Your job's purpose isn't to be your identity, and it isn't to be your cage. Its purpose is to fund your freedom, aggressively, deliberately, on your timeline. When you're using every lever, staying becomes a choice and leaving becomes an option.
Not loyalty.
Options.
So before you draft that resignation letter in your head for the fourth time this year, ask a different question first: has this job actually paid me everything it owes me yet?
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đź’¸ Cooking up Wealth
In line with my contrarian take on corporate jobs, here a list of high-paying GTM jobs in tech with great benefits and equity compensation:
US:
Strategic Account Executive, EliseAI - Base salary: $200,000, OTE $540,000
Sales Leader, Replit - OTE $400,000
Growth Account Executive, Anthropic - up to $380,000 OTE
Senior Product Partnerships Manager, Mercury - up to $226,000
Head of Automated Growth, Rippling - up to $275,000
Europe (unfortunately, companies are not required to provide salary ranges in Europe but I know all companies below do pay decently well)
Go get that bag!!
In abundance,
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