Lol... My base salary at a startup is 50% more than the 75th percentile for Seattle. Also, coffeescript is listed as a distinct technology? Makes no sense to me.
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#82I 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.
Except these estimates seem laughably low.
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#83I am guessing salary are yearly total? Lots places uses salary as a monthly unit.
Not in the US they don't.
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#84Lol... My base salary at a startup is 50% more than the 75th percentile for Seattle. Also, coffeescript is listed as a distinct technology? Makes no sense to me.
Yeah, also machine learning cannot be added in the skills section.
Not sure what happened here. Stack Overflow generally puts out better analysis and posts.
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#85For some reason the form lets you have 'negative' years of experience - is that a thing?
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
50th percentile i guess is the "fair" wage I'm ~30% lower than the 25th percentile... :/
I'm at the 25th percentile (in Canada). In my case I'm not in a tech heavy area so can't job hop to get the usual raises. I imagine in the states the numbers probably vary more too.
Remote work
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#87Seems 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.
My queries for LA we're also low. My guess is they base it off the salary information they've collected from their own job listings rather than a more general statistical survey of the job market.
The information is based on the Stack Overflow developer survey.
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#88Biggest 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.
Apparently, it's more profitable to pay developers nearly twice as much, than it is for a VC or CEO to take a airplane flight a few times a year.
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#89Anyways, it's a good example of how to do inbound marketing. It certainly worked on me!
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#90This "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?
My commute is a little longer (~60 minutes), and my rent is 1.6k a month with most utilities included.