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Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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You're kidding me. I'm in the UK, 10 years dev experience, BSc Computer Science. Every single salary in that list is higher than mine.

anecdotal evidence from Facebook: if you transfer to London office instead of Bay Area, your salary gets slashed 20%

Wow, and it's not like London is cheap.

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Will we see one for female employees? Or would that be too expensive to compile?

There's a variety of points that would be interesting to compile against. Sex, immigration status, school, company, developer experience, managerial experience, number of startups, number of relocations, average years in any one position, number of children, to think of a few.

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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You're kidding me. I'm in the UK, 10 years dev experience, BSc Computer Science. Every single salary in that list is higher than mine.

When I lived in London in the late 2000s, dev salaries were shockingly low relative to what we saw in the states both before and after living in the UK.

And most of the rest of Europe is lower than London still.

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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post #10

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This is an important distinction. The salaries on this sheet seem low overall, and it's probably because they're new grads from bootcamp. Someone with 10+ years of experience should be demanding more than the average salary on this list.

You're kidding me. I'm in the UK, 10 years dev experience, BSc Computer Science. Every single salary in that list is higher than mine.

> You're kidding me.

> I'm in the UK

That's why. This list is very US-centric. The disparity between metro US and metro UK is indeed that high.

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Honestly was expecting a lot more, considering the salaries people throw around on Hacker News. Using http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l... the adjusted value for $136,000 in SF to where I live in New York is a decent chunk less. Especially being in a DevOps/Systems role, and not a Software Dev one.

Everyone on HN makes $200K+, drives a BMW and has a supermodel for a partner. Whenever salary comes up, there's always someone here who knows someone whose brother's girlfriend's room-mate makes $400K at Google, and therefore it's normal for a Software Engineer to make this much.

The averages in this spreadsheet seem to agree roughly with average/median for the Bay Area as reported by Glassdoor[1] and Payscale[2].

1: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-en...

2: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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Honestly was expecting a lot more, considering the salaries people throw around on Hacker News. Using http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l... the adjusted value for $136,000 in SF to where I live in New York is a decent chunk less. Especially being in a DevOps/Systems role, and not a Software Dev one.

Where do you live? I did brooklyn -> oakland and it said that oakland is %15 cheaper.

These are jr. dev salaries

Re: Anonymized list of engineering salaries from bootcamp grads

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post #38

Honestly was expecting a lot more, considering the salaries people throw around on Hacker News. Using http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l... the adjusted value for $136,000 in SF to where I live in New York is a decent chunk less. Especially being in a DevOps/Systems role, and not a Software Dev one.

Where do you live? I did brooklyn -> oakland and it said that oakland is %15 cheaper. These are jr. dev salaries

Rochester 43.76% cheaper. Super cheap living here, tons of good food, cocktails, great lakes, and 15 minutes to get anywhere across the entire city.
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