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Re: Explore Salaries and Equity at AngelList

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A mobile developer with iOS skills makes 65k in San Jose but 90k+ in all the little cities around it. Something must really suck about San Jose. ;)

Practically though, this exposes their underlying data source. Averaging across limite data sources can suck sometimes.

Re: Explore Salaries and Equity at AngelList

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post #2

a lot lower than i expected - also would love to see the package (so $150k + .5-1%) distribution.

I question why equity is on a bar chart as it's not a directly comparable attribute. 1% of a 100,000 units is incrementally different from 1% of 10,000 units.

It does at least "set a bar", so I could potentially say "well on average 1% of the company for a developer is average."

Re: Explore Salaries and Equity at AngelList

#8
NYC, mobile developers, most jobs are in the 70-80k range with 1-3% equity. That is a low salary at a small amount of equity for someone with a relatively in-demand skillset.

Please check my maths: in the best case scenario, if you get 3% equity and assume 33% dilution on that equity after an A-round and the company has a 10% chance of a medium 25MM exit, the EV is around $50k. If you assume the same developer could have made a $120k salary with no equity elsewhere that company would have to exit within 1.25yrs for it to be +EV which is probably not feasible.

Someone please check my maths as I am looking at exit values from a 2006 study: http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-77bb58e10c69517534aaac1...

Re: Explore Salaries and Equity at AngelList

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Ah, I feel like I have been scooped. I have been working on the same thing. Except mine is a scatter plot with all 4,500 jobs at once, so use Chrome. No fancy searching yet. Check it out at http://labs.radiantmachines.com/al/

Interesting, but not sure how useful the chart is. It might have more utility with some aggregation in there.

Re: Explore Salaries and Equity at AngelList

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post #9
post #4

Ah, I feel like I have been scooped. I have been working on the same thing. Except mine is a scatter plot with all 4,500 jobs at once, so use Chrome. No fancy searching yet. Check it out at http://labs.radiantmachines.com/al/

Interesting, but not sure how useful the chart is. It might have more utility with some aggregation in there.

It isn't really fully baked yet. I have been using it for myself to see the clusters of salary vs equity for certain keywords and roles. I need to move the backend to the web.
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