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If the pay were bad you'd have left years ago. Instead you're well compensated to sit in standups about a roadmap that changed again, shipping things nobody asked for, and every time you think about leaving, somebody points out what you'd be walking away from.
Here's what nobody mentions: leaving doesn't have to mean another company with a different logo. There's a version where you work for yourself. Contracting at a day rate. Fractional or advisory work for companies who need a senior person two days a week. Building and selling something of your own. Teaching the thing you're already the internal expert on.
You'd start it on evenings and weekends while you're still employed, and leave when it covers you.
So the only real question is how much it would have to make. Two numbers and you'll know.
Say it's $9,000 a month and 10 hours a week. That's $297 an hour, once you've set aside 30% of it for tax.
It doesn't cover what the business itself costs to run — software, insurance, materials, whatever your version needs. That comes out on top.
That number is going to look absurd, and it's worth knowing why it isn't what it seems. No salary works out to an hourly rate like that. It's the price your own work would carry, and independent work is priced by the day or the project, which lands somewhere entirely different. You'll see where your number sits against the kinds of work that get priced that way.
Whether it's reachable for contracting, advisory, or a product of your own is a real question, and it's the one the report answers. Three specific ideas drawn from what you already do, each researched against live sources you can check, with a range for what it could be earning by month twelve and what would have to change for it to cover your month.