Um that salary doesn't look very high for a fucking MS Cloud Architect. What's going on there lol
Is that guy saying $1,500 a month is high? $2,000 a month is about as low as you're going to get in many major cities: Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, San Fran.
In Sydney you could get a really shitty 1 bedder for about $1,200 a month but you really wouldn't want to live there.
And you're 100% right, a senior Cloud Architect is going to be paid roughly $200-300k a year.
I don't think many people have a grasp of how much money we get paid in IT. That's why I always get upset about people bitching about crunch. When you're paid this salary you should shut the fuck up and earn it. When people ask me to work overtime all I can think of is: for the money you're paying me, I'm not complaining