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Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

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Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

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Post by mrzool »

throwaway561 wrote: post #27

160k / full stack / ~16h / 10years . fully remote. (france) I have a pretty chill job working at a large company where there are no deadlines and the bar for 'hard working' is pretty low. I try and get urgent things done as fast as possible but otherwise I take it pretty easy. I work in the evenings so I have my days free to ski/bike/ be with the kids in the hols, then i take some time off to pic them up from school…

Is your contract really for 16h/week, or that's your honest assessment of how many hours you actually work in a week?

Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

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Post by Humorist2290 »

~120k base salary with another ~40k equity per annum. EU, mostly in office. 10 years exp. Nominally working 40 hours, but very relaxed and enjoyable.

My last post had a much better salary; +50% or so. The working hours were grueling though -- 60+ hour weeks often, and constantly putting out fires. I'm happy to have moved, even if it meant a big pay cut. Burn out isn't worth the extra money.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

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Post by dewey »

This depends on so many factors that without giving detailed information the replies won't be useful at all and it's just a a biased data set of people humble bragging about their salaries.

Just use a site like https://www.levels.fyi or the StackOverflow salary ranges as a guide and you'll get much more useful data points.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

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Post by lbrito »

Paul_S wrote: post #31

Just use levels fyi or glass door - the self reported salaries here will be the self-selected top of scale. And given how vague the question is the information you get here will be useless for anything but reinforcing whatever you already thought.

Glassdoor has terrible data. levels.fyi is great for big tech but very spotty for anything outside of Farangula or whatever the acronym is these days.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

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Post by lbrito »

floydnoel wrote: post #4

also check out the Blind app which much more focused on this topic.

I was about to comment how funny it is that self reported salaries here are in the 100-200s, while on blind every post-adolescent twat straight out of college claims to make north of 350k.

IMO HN posters are much smarter and more productive on average than blind posters. Makes me think salaries strongly correlate mostly with how much tedious algorithm trivia one can crank out.

Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

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Post by submeta »

plasticsoprano wrote: post #44

Base is 205k OTE is 265k TC is about 300k I do about about 5 real hours of work a week, 10 if you count the internal meetings that I passively listen to. Fully remote. About 11 years experience in current role.

Would you mind sharing more details about your role?

Re: Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you?

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Post by dcchambers »

I thought I was underpaid given the salaries I see people brag about online, but if the salary ranges presented by recruiters are any indication, my company is right in line with the industry..with the obvious variable being stock-based comp.

My suspicion is that the majority of people lie online about salaries to inflate their egos, even in an anonymous setting. There are some people making ridiculous amounts of money - but most are not.

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