Quite possibly, compounding outperforms savings with most 6-figure salary. The longer (such as 50 years term from 30 to 80), the better. For example, the high salary as President like Obama and Trump underperforms long-time compounding. Instead being President for 4 or 8 years, keep 12% or 20% with initial seed to make more savings in the long run. In short, keeping annual 12% or 20% with appropriate trading logic found is MUCH harder than being elected as President, of course in money-wise. ONLY 1% every month long time.