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So seeing as this polls the whole SF Bay software engineering community of HN, young and old, and the distribution is centered around 120k-129k, can we finally put to rest the ever-perpetuated claim that the average CS grad can expect $150k+ in the Bay?
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That seems like a high salary. What's your title?
Senior Software Engineer. It's actually low. I'm fairly certain that it's below the median from talking with coworkers.
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You get paid a little lower if you're going on visa, so its more like 100-110kish. I spose the 300k ppl are the ceos! (yeh, i wish haha)
Could you explain that? Why would companies pay less to people on visas?
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It certainly doesn't imply you're being truthful. Glassdoor also suffers from the same problem. It's voluntary, unverifiable data. Using it as a source does not help your credibility.
I am swe 3 at google, one below senior, base 140k (supposedly maxed, but I've heard other swe 3 making somewhat more), total comp excluding benefits 230k. As for verification, I'll bet you lots of money at 10:1 odds that these are accurate within 10k (flux depends on stock price).
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Congrats! That sounds like a great compensation package. I'm just trying to understand though how does tax effect the overall amount that you eventually earn ? Does it come down by 35% or 40% or does it depend on when you decide to cash out your capital gains (for the stock part..) ?
Stock grants are taxed as ordinary income, based on market price (or estimated value, for pre-IPO) on the day of vest.
Holy crap. I am student in the UK, recently did a internship at a fairly well known company. Got paid £16k for that year. If I were to get a full time job, it would be around ~30k a year. These figures are insane, people have told me in person this is what the figures are really like in SF but wow. I think applying for a couple of jobs in SF etc just for kicks will be one of goals when I finish uni. I know the term W…
San Francisco isn't the only place in the US that makes software, you know. Seattle is a great place to live, has better salaries than SF considering cost of living, and has a healthy startup culture.
http://jsbin.com/idifos/1Holy crap. I am student in the UK, recently did a internship at a fairly well known company. Got paid £16k for that year. If I were to get a full time job, it would be around ~30k a year. These figures are insane, people have told me in person this is what the figures are really like in SF but wow. I think applying for a couple of jobs in SF etc just for kicks will be one of goals when I finish uni. I know the term W…
San Francisco isn't the only place in the US that makes software, you know. Seattle is a great place to live, has better salaries than SF considering cost of living, and has a healthy startup culture.
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I am swe 3 at google, one below senior, base 140k (supposedly maxed, but I've heard other swe 3 making somewhat more), total comp excluding benefits 230k. As for verification, I'll bet you lots of money at 10:1 odds that these are accurate within 10k (flux depends on stock price).
But 230k is very different from 400k that lefthander supposedly makes.