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My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by sytelus »

quaffapint wrote: post #147

I see a lot of these crazy high salaries (there's nothing much higher than $150 for a sr dev around here on the east) are in SF area. Are these the exception FAANG salaries or are most companies paying such high salaries out there? It just blows my mind I can't imagine making such money as a dev and I've been doing this for a lot of years.

Median total compensation at FB is $240K and at Google $197K as per SEC filings. Folks with $1M figures are probably in top 3-5% in these companies. I would also add that if you are in bay area with $240K total comp and have family, your standard of living is probably not all that enviable.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/01/15/median-p...

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Post by jabloczko »

I'll post mine because I know there are other juniours reading this who feel like shit when they read how much other people are making. All cash denominated in CAD. I have no degree for what it is worth.

- 2017: Internship, $3k /month

- 2018: Sysadmin, 70k/year

- 2019: Raise, but no promotion, 82.5k/year

I tried to interview in January for some software dev positions, but failed on the coding portion of the interviews. I'm studying hard to learn to program and hopefully by the end of the year I'll be able to interview for some $100k jobs.

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Post by salta2019 »

chestervonwinch wrote: post #80
salta2019 wrote: post #55

Some context: PhD in EE, but spend most of my time coding. 2011: $100k, industry R&D lab, VA 2012: $150k, “”, “” 2013: $150k, “”, “” 2014: $0, self-employed and didn’t turn a profit 2015: $100k, academic researcher, Midwest 2016: $160k, industry R&D, SV 2017: $165k, “”, “” 2018: $170k, “”, “” Since 2016, I’ve been working in SV for a company that pays engineers all cash, a modest bonus, and no stock. I like the work…

> 2015: $100k, academic researcher, Midwest This is more than some tenured research faculty. How the heck did you make so much in academia?

I was hired by a professor who I’d worked with before. He’d just landed a very large grant, so he had some flexibility with the funding.

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Post by minhaz23 »

Bahamut wrote: post #130

I have no qualms letting people know my comp so they know that is possible, and helped many developers in my short 6 year career get better jobs/get life changing comp. Caveat to my numbers - I am an asian male math PhD dropout from a top 15 graduate program who had hardly coded prior to his first developer job. I also have substantial open source contributions to major libraries, starting from my first developer job…

Whats your position/title?

Is the amount of money typical for developers?

Any advice? Like how others can reach that point, faster?

What would you have done differently to reach that point quicker/

Do you think being a phd student helped? Contributing to libraries?

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Post by DVassallo »

person_of_color wrote: post #162
DVassallo wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Base salary was $160K since 2014. But why? The stock part ended up as money in my bank. These aren’t stock options like startups give. Public companies like to pay with stock because it didn’t impact their cash flow. The shareholders pay for it via dilution.

Did you sell stock as soon as it vests? Why?

Yes I did. I was always very exposed on the Amazon stock since I always had 2-3 years worth of granted RSUs that hadn’t vested yet. I didn’t want that much exposure.

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Post by minhaz23 »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #144
soulnothing wrote: post #141

Honest question has anyone else seen salary decreases. I peaked at ~190k w2 contractor so no benefits. But after death march after death march and canceled projects. I got down to ~105. One of my biggest stress right now is due to money. Contributed to by a foreclosure that has a monthly payment. I've been east and west coast and tried FAANG, but unless I waited the vesting it was a drastic pay cut, and the midst of…

Most FAANGs pay well even without vested stock, Amazon in particular relies heavily on stock for compensation but provides bonuses the first couple of years to compensate.

What does vested stock mean exactly? You can't sell until after a certain period? If so, how long is that period?

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Post by minhaz23 »

tastyface wrote: post #187

Here's my fairly unusual salary progression, since we're all sharing: • 2011 — $80k at a startup in CA, a year out of college • 2012 — $90k, and we got acquired by an industry big fish • 2013 — $90k, but got laid off in the middle of the year • 2013 through 2018 — making random software, traveling, and using up my savings; made some money, but not enough to count as "salary" in any real sense • 2018 — $240k ($180k ba…

What is Blind?

Do you think your degree helped?

Is $240k a lot or a little as a senior SWE at a FAANG? Don't freshers hired out of school get offered tht much?

Any advice for others?

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Post by salarythrow5 »

hk__2 wrote: post #18
snrji wrote: post #9

As a developer based in Europe looking at these numbers is quite depressing.

Can we really compare them, though? I live in France, where €90k/y puts you in the top 1% salaries. In the US, you’d need to earn $400k/y to be in the same position. Standard of living and other social benefits come to mind.

90k euros is where, not Paris right? $120k feels very different in San Francisco vs Boise Idaho.

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Post by minhaz23 »

s_t_away wrote: post #181

Adding mine, all at Google: 2008: Base $90K, Total $110K 2009: Base $110K, Total $170K 2010: Base $130K, Total $330K 2011: Base $200K, Total $590K 2012: Base $220K, Total $680K 2013: Base $220K, Total $830K 2014: Base $230K, Total $980K 2015: Base $240K, Total $990K 2016: Base $250K, Total $1.2M 2017: Base $250K, Total $1.4M 2018: Base $265K, Total $1.5M 2019: Base $280K (edited for formatting)

The total is after bonus only? Or..?

Any advice for others? Isn't it notoriously difficult getting hired at Google?

Do other non tech positions at Google pay as much?

What about positions like QA?

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