Desk·2026-10-11
Cursor paper year clears the Jane Street cash seat
Same software-engineer title. Cursor prints the agent product year. Jane Street prints the NY shop cash under it by about $325k. Bases sit ten thousand apart.
Cursor typical $850,000 against $525,000 at Jane Street.
SWE typical
Cursor typical sits ~1.62× Jane Street
Same title. Agent product clears $850k typical on a $260k base. NY shop clears $525k on a $250k base.
How to plan it
Sit the agent product book before the NY shop year
A 26-year-old planning 2027 should treat Cursor and Jane Street as two next seats, not one high band. Cursor software engineer prints $850k typical on the ledger with a $260k base, sample fourteen, seven work-email, marked hot. Jane Street prints $525k typical with a $250k base, sample fourteen, six work-email, also hot, New York. The agent book leads typical by about $325k. The shop leads cash: the base is ten thousand lower but the year is almost all cash, and the top sits at $900k against Cursor’s $1.66M. If you can hold paper and want the product loop on the default AI IDE, sit Cursor first. If you need the 2027 cash year and can clear the NY shop loop, sit Jane Street — but name the mix. Do not treat an $850k paper year and a $525k cash year as the same next seat.
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