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Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by throwaway01505 » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:21 AM UTC

I've been pretty fortunate. Hard to believe that in 2004, my little family survived on only $16k. That was a tough year. I was really grateful for government assistance, as we were below the poverty line.

And last year I made more than $2M. I paid more than $1M in income taxes. I hope some of that money is going to help little families like mine in 2004.

2004: $16k

2005: $36k

2006: $47k

2007: $53k

2008: $56k

2009: $63k

2010: $53k

2011: $116k

2012: $152k

2013: $160k

2014: $246k

2015: $444k

2016: $556k

2017: $1830k

2018: $2260k

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by tbrownaw » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:21 AM UTC

Wow y'all have some crazy high numbers.

Memphis TN (on the low end of the US cost-of-living scale), all at the same place.

Early 2007 (right out of college): ~$48k (hourly equiv., contractor)

Late 2007: $51k (salary, "real colleague")

...(no notes... IIRC there were like 2 promotions in there, a couple percent standard raise the other years)...

2013: $81k

...

2017: $96k (promotion / transfer)

I also started with 4 weeks PTO (up to a hair over 6 now), which I hear is a fair bit higher than usual. OTOH it's a privately held company, which means there's no such thing as stock options.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by bitcoinmoney » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:22 AM UTC

DVassallo wrote: post #191

bitcoinmoney wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share what sort of skills related to cloud would net me 380k/year? Got a phd ee doing C++ mostly.

5 years experience at one of the leading cloud companies (AWS, Azure, Google) will very likely put you right in that market. Nothing special to join. It’s very hard to enter directly as an SDE-3 (or equivalent) without having experience at one of the big companies. I think in 8 years at Amazon I’ve only seen 1 person doing that. With a phd and some work experience you can likely join as an SDE-2 and get to an SDE-3 l…

Also, what language were you using?

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#274

Post by rootsudo » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:22 AM UTC

34K.

45K.

74k.

116k.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#275

Post by salaryanony1 » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:22 AM UTC

bronxbomber92 wrote: post #114

salaryanony1 wrote: post #54

Salary progression, no college degree. Cash only comp, no RSUs or anything like that. 20 - $65k (Office Rural NY, SE) 21 - $65k (Remote, 10 Person Startup, SE) 22 - $75k (Remote, 10 Person Startup, SE) 23 - $85k (Remote, 10 Person Startup, SE) 24 - $85k (Remote, 10 Person Startup, SE) 25 - $225k (Remote, SF Series B Startup, Lead SE) 26 - $225k (Remote, SF Series B Startup, Lead SE) 27 - $393k (Office, SF Series C/D…

What industry were you working in when at the Series B and Series C/D companies? Do you feel like your salaries at those companies represent the going-rate your colleagues also received?

Series B company was a B2C mobile app. Series C/D company was B2B startup.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by BadassFractal » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:23 AM UTC

throwaway01505 wrote: post #271

I've been pretty fortunate. Hard to believe that in 2004, my little family survived on only $16k. That was a tough year. I was really grateful for government assistance, as we were below the poverty line. And last year I made more than $2M. I paid more than $1M in income taxes. I hope some of that money is going to help little families like mine in 2004. 2004: $16k 2005: $36k 2006: $47k 2007: $53k 2008: $56k 2009: $6…

Wow! What did you do that led to such a dramatic growth starting in 2013?

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by BadassFractal » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:24 AM UTC

salarythrow1234 wrote: post #166

My progression: 23 - 45K (University sysadmin, east coast) 26 - 60k (University research systems programmer, east coast) 31 - 65k (SWE, small IHV, remote) 32-42 -- incremental raises up to $145K (senior SWE, same company) 43 - 425k (Senior SWE, Google, Mountain View CA) 44 - 390k (Senior SWE, Google, Mountain View CA) 45 - 350k (Senior SWE, Netflix, Remote) 46 - 400k (Senior SWE, Netflix, Remote) 47 - 525k (Senior SW…

Wow! Curious what kind of hours you've had to work for that sort of increase.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by alkibiades » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:24 AM UTC

My progression

Year 1: 230(130+ 40 signing + 40 stock + 20 annual bonus)

Year 2: 265(135 + 50 signing + 50 stock + 30 annual bonus)

switched companies between year 1 and 2. expect total comp to go down next year but do expect refreshers

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

#279

Post by prodisdev » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:25 AM UTC

tvphan wrote: post #45

I am Asian but was born and raised in Australia. I have a Bachelor of Science and I work as a web developer, e.g. Spring, ASP.NET, React, WordPress, Drupal, etc. 2013 - 23yo - $45K - First job - Magento developer building eCommerce websites for clients. 2014 - 24yo - $54K 2015 - 25yo - $70K - Second job - Magento / Shopify / WordPress developer, building eCommerce websites for clients. 2016 - 26yo - $75K 2017 - 27yo…

I am in Australia as well, I started on a similar base as you. I told employers that I was willing to learn and do anything. Most the stuff I have worked on is back-end services.

2010 - 25yo - 41k - First job - .net dev (internal services / sql).

2011 - 26yo - 41.1k

2012 - 27yo - 65k - Second job - job advertised as .net became pseudo COBOL dev.

2013 - 28yo - 80k - moved more in to tech lead / manager role.

2014 - 29yo - 86k - Third job - .net web dev (webforms / mvc).

2015 - 30yo - 86k

2016 - 31yo - 163k - COBOL / .net + odds and ends

2017 - 32yo - 163k

2018 - 33yo - 170k

As others have said, technology really isn't the thing that will drive your increase in remuneration. It is understanding client requirements, creating business solutions, being able to communicate said solutions.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by minhaz23 » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 5:26 AM UTC

alaskamiller wrote: post #68

charleshan wrote: post #10

It would be interesting to see something similar from someone that worked in SV for 10+ years.

Grew up in Silicon Valley: 1998-2002 High school, Barista, Subways, $7/hr 2003-2007 USMC, $25k/yr 2007-2008 Apple, knowledge manager, $50k/yr 2008-2009 Gawker, BusinessInsider, writer, $30k/yr 2010-2011 SF startup, marketer, $55k/yr 2012-2013 Google, HR admin, $60k/yr 2013-2015 Berkeley startup, tech lead, $80k/yr 2015-2017 Started own consultanty agency, $50k/yr 2018-2019 Digital agency, PM, $100k/yr

you've had a wide variety of positions. how did you manage all that? did you educate yourself before interviewing at companies or was the purpose to have a wide breadth of knowledge so you purposefully sought out a variety of positions?