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Apparently the job title of HORNY in New York gets you a $420,000 salary and an interesting signing bonus.
I wonder how people are going to go about filtering out the nonsensical data from this sheet.
This makes me wonder how many people are okay with being underpaid. Like my title is officially VP of Engineering. But because of the circumstances of my position and what I was hired to do, I am probably making less than what someone in my position gets in sign on bonuses. $30,000/yr This is because I am not only the first employee but the only employee (if you don't count CEO) and only technical person. I was hired…
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I'm just wondering why a lot of these people with tons of experience are settling for sub-$70k jobs. Is there a reason for this?
It's simple. Nobody hires in the cities I want to live in, or if they do, it's mostly defense related work I won't touch.
What I'd like to see is a salary aggregator that works as a native app only: 1) It should use the Facebook model of release where only "elite" institutions are allowed on at first and only one at a time. 2) It should use geolocation as a way to verify the user works there (other ways are easier to game or too burdensome). Yes, this does leave out remote workers. See #1.
Funny you bring up Facebook, because what I you really need to solve this type of problem is something like Facesmash. (sidenote: I don't know if that was actually a real thing or just something in The Social Network.) You want /r/roastme for coworkers-- but private. Somewhere that you can rank former coworkers and they can rank you-- But the biggest selling point needs to be that this dossier is only ever available…
Wow, you're literally being downvoted for just making an observation. Pretty sad for this community.
It's strange to me that these salary discussions are so narrowly focused on just pay/bonus and don't seem to care about benefits and work/life balance. Here's stuff I track in my own career spreadsheet and compare new jobs against these metrics when considering a new one: * Vacation, sick, and holiday time off * Distance to work and traffic considerations * Relative cost of living * Health insurance cost and coverage…
GlassDoor compiles that information. That site seems better for more complex analysis. I think the point of this spreadsheet is for simple analysis.
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All depends on the area ;) Best offers I have seen out of college is $130K total comp from random people on the internet, haven't seen anything better yet.
I'm just wondering why a lot of these people with tons of experience are settling for sub-$70k jobs. Is there a reason for this?
Where I live in a rural small town, I make top 5% tech salary (~80k$ canadian pesos). The same salary in Montreal is probably 25-30 percentile of tech salary? In Vancouver it probably would be 45th percentile of tech salaries. That said a the price of a Vancouver condo buys a Montreal Duplex and buys a whole New Brunswick suburban sub-division... Or a mansion with a few acres on the sea front and 5 bedrooms / 7 baths...
It's strange to me that these salary discussions are so narrowly focused on just pay/bonus and don't seem to care about benefits and work/life balance. Here's stuff I track in my own career spreadsheet and compare new jobs against these metrics when considering a new one: * Vacation, sick, and holiday time off * Distance to work and traffic considerations * Relative cost of living * Health insurance cost and coverage…
Agreed! This myopic focus on salary numbers is disheartening. I'd add to the above: * culture It's related to "expected work hours per week" but tells so much more and is probably the single largest contributor to whether or not you'll like working there.