What about retirement/pension plans? This also has cash value and should be part of the comparison.
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#12how frequently will you update this report?
Aiming for once a week, but depends on how much more data we're able to get.
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#13Is it a case of only people making the most money are more apt to report their earnings?
We actually suspect that people who are paid less or are underpaid are more likely to report their salaries. For example, it seems like Glassdoor data skews low.
Do you have any data to support this?
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#14What about retirement/pension plans? This also has cash value and should be part of the comparison.
Unfortunately, we don't have that information right now. We could try to find out. It just wasn't part of the compensation data that the people on Hacker News had posted.
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#15Wasn't there already a spreadsheet floating around HN with many thousands of entries? Why a new one?
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#16Is it a case of only people making the most money are more apt to report their earnings?
We actually suspect that people who are paid less or are underpaid are more likely to report their salaries. For example, it seems like Glassdoor data skews low.
Sure, because Glassdoor is a place for people to go air their dirty laundry. With this, you're surveying a very niche group of users, that are probably being well paid.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
We actually suspect that people who are paid less or are underpaid are more likely to report their salaries. For example, it seems like Glassdoor data skews low.
Sure, because Glassdoor is a place for people to go air their dirty laundry. With this, you're surveying a very niche group of users, that are probably being well paid.
And potentially identifiable...
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#18Is it a case of only people making the most money are more apt to report their earnings?
We actually suspect that people who are paid less or are underpaid are more likely to report their salaries. For example, it seems like Glassdoor data skews low.
I can sort of understand that as a signal not to interview at the company or information for future potential coworkers to use during negotiations. A rising tide raises all ships so to speak.
IMO sharing salary data is the perfect first step for some sort of software engineers association/guild/professional body.
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#19I would be more interested in data that shows how much money an engineer takes back home (net income) compared to the rest of the world.
eg Software Engineer from Atlantis earns 100 000 USD but pays 55% of tax so takes home only 45000 Software Engineer from Middle-Earth earns 60 000 USD but pays 10% tax and takes home 54000
etc
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#20Is it a case of only people making the most money are more apt to report their earnings?
My thoughts exactly $400K? Could someone being paid this level of money please share your career path.