 The base salary is the basics. It's like a cash. The moment you join the company, they're gonna give you the base salary. And the base salary is different compared with type of jobs in tech companies. For example, if you're fresh out of college, you have no work experience, but if you join big tech companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, you're getting paid a lot. If you are a software engineer, your base salary could be about $150,000 or up to $200,000, but they also give you lots of equity and stock options, and your total compensation can easily get up to $250,000 as a fresh graduate.