These results are odd. The three startups (two YC alums) I interviewed with in the Bay offered me ~60K each time, and wouldn't go any higher.
They don't have money to throw around. Probably would have given you meaningful (lifechanging?) equity tho.
Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
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#42Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
#43These results are odd. The three startups (two YC alums) I interviewed with in the Bay offered me ~60K each time, and wouldn't go any higher.
They don't have money to throw around. Probably would have given you meaningful (lifechanging?) equity tho.
"Lifechanging" only if you win the startup lottery. 95% of YC startups fail.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Move to Kansas City. You can easily get 80-100k.
Probably plan to, or St.Louis, or Chicago in the next half year or so
Nice. Chicago would easily be 100k+ but the COL is substantial there. KC is awesome yet extremely very affordable.
STL maybe in the west burbs. Not the best city, especially for a family.
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#45It seems silly to ignore stock and bonuses. My base salary is only ~$150k, but with stock and bonuses I'll make over $260k this year (Google). Would this compare with a job that also gives a $150k salary but nothing else?
My base salary is $220k; this year my bonus plus equity will be around $200k, so my total compensation will be over $400k. I've been out for a number of years, and the bonus plus stock is performance based, and of course the value of the stock compensation may change depending on the future direction of Google stock --- it's climbed very nicely since the beginning of the year! The main point is that ignoring the stoc…
Interesting. Would you mind revealing your level?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know there are probably a lot of factors, but why don't you move out to the bay area?
Before this thread I thought bay area might be 100k - 120k and cost of living / uprooting the family wasn't worth it. Also worried about the competitiveness of the market out there for software engineers.
Not having to uproot the family is understandable, but if you're worried about the competitiveness of the market, know that there are a ton of jobs as well (ask anyone on HN about recruiter spam, which seems to serve as a proxy to this fact), which perhaps balances things. Six years of experience is non-trivial, I'm sure if you wanted to you could find something.
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#47depressing, midwest software engineer here, 6 years experience 60k.
Have you applied for remote positions? I work remotely for a startup in SF and we're hiring :)
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#48As always, voluntary response data are worthless. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538059 Good luck to all of you looking for higher salaries. I hope you gain the salary you desire, and more knowledge of statistics along the way.
Agreed. Consider: those who don't read HN are probably worse engineers that earn lower salaries, on average.
But also consider: those who don't read HN are probably great engineers who think reading HN is a waste of time.
Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
#49As always, voluntary response data are worthless. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538059 Good luck to all of you looking for higher salaries. I hope you gain the salary you desire, and more knowledge of statistics along the way.
Agreed. Consider: those who don't read HN are probably worse engineers that earn lower salaries, on average.
Confirmation bias 101? This is probably the most "echo chamber" friendly statement of any I've seen here. An assertion with no evidence, seemingly rooted in a self satisfying sense of superiority, based on the bizarre proposition that the only way to stay ahead in the field is by reading HN. The idea that a popularity contest might tell you stuff that's actually ahead of its time is arguably naive. It's not like we have millenia of history to show that world changing ideas at unpopular or anything.
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#50depressing, midwest software engineer here, 6 years experience 60k.
I'm from the midwest with the same amount of experience. 85k here with a 10% yearly bonus. There's plenty of opportunities for a competitive salary in the midwest.