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Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
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#312Question from an Italian guy, what you are able to do with 100k in the bay area? For instance:
1) Can you rent a good house. 2) Go out for dinner as many times you want. 3) Have somebody to clean your house. 4) Eat in an health way. 5) Still save some money.
Or is this already too much for 100k, especially if you have a family? Because one sees this very high salaries but it's hard for outsiders to form an idea about the actual level of spending this makes you capable of.
Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
#313Question from an Italian guy, what you are able to do with 100k in the bay area? For instance: 1) Can you rent a good house. 2) Go out for dinner as many times you want. 3) Have somebody to clean your house. 4) Eat in an health way. 5) Still save some money. Or is this already too much for 100k, especially if you have a family? Because one sees this very high salaries but it's hard for outsiders to form an idea about…
It depends on where in the Bay Area you want to live, what you consider a "good" house, and the size and makeup of your family, if you have one.
A few bits of anecdotal evidence for San Francisco, 2013 prices that I've seen firsthand. In many desirable neighborhoods renting an entire house will start well above $5K/month. In those same neighborhoods a nice two bedroom apartment will be over $4K. Full-time child care for a toddler might at absolute minimum cost $1K/month (a licensed, shared private home) but much more likely will cost $2K or more (a day care center, if you can get into one, or a shared nanny).
There are of course plenty of ways to live well within $100K / year here, but probably not with a family in a rented house in many San Francisco neighborhoods.
Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
#314Question from an Italian guy, what you are able to do with 100k in the bay area? For instance: 1) Can you rent a good house. 2) Go out for dinner as many times you want. 3) Have somebody to clean your house. 4) Eat in an health way. 5) Still save some money. Or is this already too much for 100k, especially if you have a family? Because one sees this very high salaries but it's hard for outsiders to form an idea about…
Six months ago I moved from Mexico to Mass. I was able to do 1,2,3,4,5. Now, I am making twice as much now but can only do 1,4 and I am trying to figure out 5. Of course there are other reasons why I moved, not everything is money.
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#315Not based in SV. 90k USD, based in Hong Kong.
Is it a typical salary in HK? I remember when I was researching, it was around 40-50K, for experienced.
not typical in my industry (advertising). when compared to salaries in the finance industry, this figure is probably very, very low :)
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a really stupid way to manage your finances. And your self esteem.
But very human. Desires are numberless; salary never is. People also tend to assume that what's going on now is what will keep going on. And that's not even counting the trillion dollars spent each year trying to get people to spend their money.
"But very human."
People also fail to take into account significant others and their family in this discussion. Your spouse sees you have made a certain salary and wants something. Your kids see you have money and want things their friends have (because you live in a nicer neighborhood). Your spouse wants more kids (or kids) because you can now "afford it". You are exposed to things that you can do with money that were never on the table when you had no money. The list is endless.
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^ 130-139KRe: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
because h1b visas require you to stay employed (you have like 30 days before they deport you) and they require you to keep the same job title throughout the whole greencard process or your waiting period starts over.
The later part of the above statement is an incorrect. You can change a job while your green card is being processed provided, a) You have applied for your 485. b) Its been 180 days since you have applied for it. This process is called invoking AC21. In my opinion and experience H1B candidates are paid on par with other candidates. I saw no salary discrimination at least with decent and reputed companies. I agree H1b…
I did some more research after leaving my last comment, and the part i was talking about was "New employment must be the 'same or similar' occupational classification," [1] which according to my coworkers means you can't switch amongst QA engineer, dev/software engineer, and manager.
The dev QA switch probably isn't very common, but dev/qa -> management is apparently an issue, since green-cards for Indians with a masters take roughly a decade of waiting on an h1b to get (again, this is according to my coworkers, not something i have direct experience with).
[1]: http://immigrationroad.com/green-card/ac21-portability-chang...
Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
because h1b visas require you to stay employed (you have like 30 days before they deport you) and they require you to keep the same job title throughout the whole greencard process or your waiting period starts over.
So if you were to get a promotion at your current job, the entire process would essentially start over? Why is that?
it depends on the promotion. the ac21 stipulates "New employment must be the 'same or similar' occupational classification". According to my coworkers, that means they can't get promoted to management from dev/qa.
http://immigrationroad.com/green-card/ac21-portability-chang...
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#320A chart of the data as of 9am Sunday June 2nd:
http://www.chartgo.com/share.do?id=0b12509aaa
( y axis should have been labeled "respondents" not "salary" )