How much you want to earn is all depend on your working attitude. Qualifications in paper no doubt can bring you into well-established firms more easily. However, to secure your butt in there with high pay, then you better get ready to undergo or be able to take some stress, show your brain juice to your bosses, work smart and hard, treat your office/work place as your 2nd home, treat your colleagues well but don't get too close with each other, at least in office (some bosses don't like it). Remember, your boss hire you to raise the company revenue, directly or indirectly.

Your boss may login to LYN at this hour to find ways to mod his PC case but not you, unless your action is able to bring in revenue for the company. So, show him what you have got in your brain to help him, do what he says, but don't do what he does.