Biggest factor is where you live... because we all know that people are paid according to the value they create, and bits forged in places with high rent are inherently more valuable.
Stack Overflow Salary Calculator
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#52One thing I was confused by: if I check the box that I work remotely, do I put in where I work from or where my company is based?
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#53Data science is less than devops on average? That doesn't sound right...
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#54Seems inaccurate for SF. It was saying that half of devs were making less than $90k for 3 years of experience. I find that hard to believe. Yes, maybe that's the listings but I think it's insane to think you get paid that when almost every company here past seed stage will pay $100k+ for any new dev.
Maybe inaccurate for the Bay Area in general. It said $146k or so was 75th percentile in the South Bay for 5 years of experience, but I am at the second to lowest level of software engineer at my company (which is one of the biggest tech employers in the area) and my base is $160k.
You're at a big tech company. The salaries at FB, Google, LinkedIn, Apple, etc. all tend to be much bigger than at non-big-tech.
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#55One thing I was confused by: if I check the box that I work remotely, do I put in where I work from or where my company is based?
Company.
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#56The Salary chart is interesting, both because of how US developers earn more than other Western countries, but mainly how a median developer with 20 years experience earns 60% more than a first job developer. I wonder how many other professions have that low a rate of pay increase - or maybe its just grads are overpaid, not sure.
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#57This "calculator" really makes me appreciate the higher salaries in NYC compared to other places. Yes, the cost of living is higher, but if you are willing to commute 30ish minutes a day from outside of Manhattan, you can avoid a lot of the cost.
Where are you living 30 minutes out that the rent isn't still an egregious > 1.5k/mo?
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#58I thought of myself as somewhat overpaid, but the 50th percentile for my job/location/experience was $5k off from my actual salary. Now I want to check out the listings. Part of the point, perhaps?
> Part of the point, perhaps?
Of course it is.
Glassdoor, Indeed, Angelist... all those have these salary calculators to attract inventory (your eyeballs, my eyeballs) that they then turn around and sell as product on their job listing boards.
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#59That was terrible UX. After searching for the link (why not place it at the top?) which can be done easier and clearer. I filled everything in, then it turned out the location was not supported. So I took the bigger city in the area. Then I got the message > We don't support this location. Select a location from the dropdown menu. There is no dropdown menu. I then hovered over the I icon, to only then learn my countr…
Same thing happened with me, then I saw the error: "You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API. For more information on usage limits and the Google Maps Javascript API services please see: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
Ah, they're still using the dev key for Google Maps eh?
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#60As usual, failing to take into account equity and bonuses makes this less useful. Salary is <= 50% of the story for most senior roles.
I'm sorry, but I think this is much better for not including funny money from startups that give private equity grants, at least I in the lower bands of the range. I know people for whom half their pay is equity and they can't even afford to take the options. And for many places I've been, the stock was never sellable outside of shady private stock trading groups that your board may or may not let you sell to.
I agree that you probably shouldn't include stock that can't be sold. There's gotta be a middle ground though, because if you're at a big established tech company with a senior-ish role, your comp is like nearing or exceeding 50% bonus&stock, which you can liquidate on the spot and turn into actual cash.
So if you take someone whose base salary is 180k at whatever big tech, you're missing the part where they actually make >300k/yr in cash.