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Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Post by rhizome »

mey wrote: post #5
danso wrote: post #2

I don't know if the lag is from the HN rush, but this app needs more caching (the about page took 30+ seconds to run). Speaking of the About page, it should list where the data came from. Another helpful feature: a generated list of the companies for which you have the most data for, so that seeing the list is just a click away rather than having to type it in. edit: the source information is mentioned on the front p…

That seems like a significant-bias for salary.

I'd say it might be useful as a lower bound.

Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Post by simonsarris »

Since it's getting hammered here's one screencap I just made: http://i.imgur.com/YxDb9Sz.png

And here's the top 250 median salary counties as a google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-opUT1wyVtrWuXxfvARV7xt...

Are tech job salaries really correlated to anything at all? When I mention my salary to other software people I get either "I wish I made that much" or "why do you make so little?"

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Post by untog »

tibbon wrote: post #8
mey wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems like a significant-bias for salary.

It is, but so are self-reported industry salaries. This isn't perfect data, but it is (fairly) reliable data that all comes from one place.

Is this prevailing wage data, or actual wage data? Because they can be very different. I'd be interested to see the data source, if anyone has it.

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Post by cedricd »

The data looks to be way way off. I looked at salaries in NY. There were several software developer jobs with salaries in the 1.6M range. Looking at the result set it looked like everything could be off by 10x. I can't see the site now to give specific examples though.

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Post by jpdoctor »

simonsarris wrote: post #13

Since it's getting hammered here's one screencap I just made: http://i.imgur.com/YxDb9Sz.png And here's the top 250 median salary counties as a google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-opUT1wyVtrWuXxfvARV7xt... Are tech job salaries really correlated to anything at all? When I mention my salary to other software people I get either "I wish I made that much" or "why do you make so little?"

448K in Frackville PA? Looks like an extra zero got added. Either that, or it is about to be overrun with hipster geeks toting iPads.

Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Post by sp_ »

untog wrote: post #14
tibbon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is, but so are self-reported industry salaries. This isn't perfect data, but it is (fairly) reliable data that all comes from one place.

Is this prevailing wage data, or actual wage data? Because they can be very different. I'd be interested to see the data source, if anyone has it.

It's the actual wage data. Actually it's the maximum number of the range that an employer can report to the DoL.

Source: I am one of the two people behind the site and for my two H-1B visas the maximum salary that was reported for my visa was what I got paid.

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