After a decade in Big Tech, Seattle-based Google principal analytics lead Sundas Khalid says she has increased her income by nearly 700%, earning $292,000 from her full-time job last year and another $302,000 from her content-creation side hustle.

Growing up, Khalid didn’t have much money and wasn’t financially literate. “I was always into saving, but investing was like a foreign world to me,” she told Business Insider. She broke into tech with an Amazon internship in 2013, which led to a full-time data engineering role paying $77,000 in her first year. In 2019, she joined Google as a principal analytics lead. Advertisement

When it comes to salary negotiations, Khalid says giving the first number is a mistake. “If I wasn't earning my market value, a company could offer me a lower salary

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