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For some reason the form lets you have 'negative' years of experience - is that a thing?
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.
Everyone wages are more so tied to how much leverage they have. Increasing one's output has never been a great recipe for increasing compensation, however, increasing your leverage (get a new offer, get a government certified monopoloy, lower the supply of people with your skills, etc) will do wonders for your wage!
Seriously, though.
For true random sampling of the software developers in the United States, use the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who employ real statisticians:
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000
You can also break them down by U.S. state:
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcst.htm
And by MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area):
But where in the form do I put in the fact that I use spaces instead of tabs, to let them know that I should be making more?
I 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?
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.
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.
My guess is that they don't have enough data for niche topics like ML. (ML is still pretty niche in terms of headcount compared to, say, webdev.) The tags that they offer are probably those where they have reasonably many data points to actually get something resembling a distribution.
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.
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.
Beware: the Stack Overflow Developer Survey is not a scientific survey. Participants are self-selected, not randomly sampled. For true random sampling of the software developers in the United States, use the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who employ real statisticians: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000 You can also break them down by U.S. state: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcst.htm And by MSA (…
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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.