OP: can you please pin the first row?
Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
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Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
#162It'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…
As you get older, your view on benefits changes dramatically.
When I was fresh out of college, I had no wife, no kids, no bills, no house. I took all the cool startup perks - free concert tickets, free box tickets to pro sports teams in town, free RedBull, free pop and food, free lunch.
Now in my 30's I have bills, investments, a house mortgage. I went to interview at some smaller startups and established web agencies and they were pitching me on all the "freebies" and I'm thinking, "You know what? Free RedBull doesn't pay my mortgage or my car payment." My view completely changed from taking the handouts to trying to leverage a higher salary in lieu of those things.
You have to remember, you only have so many years where you can burn the candle at several ends and still walk away with your sanity.
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#163because we can't have nice things apparently...
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#164Wow, after ~90 submissions there have been 0 female-identified entries :/
There are also entries from people who identify as space lizards and attack helicopters, so I wouldn't consider anything in that field to be of value to anyone.
You're telling us the presence of joke entries somehow negates the absence of women? That logic makes no sense.
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#165Wow, you're literally being downvoted for just making an observation. Pretty sad for this community.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11331501 and marked it off-topic.
Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
#166It'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…
It's almost like if he wanted to do this and only include salary information he should have called it 'a simple spreadsheet of salaries'. That way we'd know at least.
My comment is directed at these discussions in general. Knowing only salary and bonus just isn't very useful.
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#167The header row isn't sticky when I scroll. Come on Google, it's 2016.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I was hired for $65k or so after a 6-month job search left me financially drained. There was the promise that typical raises could go into the 10% or more per year region, with a possible promotion to a Senior Software Engineer position, but after a sister company had a poor year of growth and a lawsuit hit my company this past year, I'm at-or-under $70k. It's awful, especially when given that I work 44-48 hours per week and given that my domain knowledge is incredibly broad and I know my specialities inside-and-out, and have a Master's. I was really expecting an appropriate pay raise recently because my work helped my company sign a new client who's something like 100x their size, their "chump change" is, like, double everything the startup makes.
Part of the reason that I'm staying is because I'm in a tremendous amount of debt and therefore I've become extremely paranoid and risk-averse. Part of the reason is that said debt has me working a second job and I am in a largely-dysfunctional relationship besides, so I have very little energy outside of this job. Part of the reason is that I have gained 80 pounds and no longer fit into any nice clothes for a job interview, with very little chance of me getting anything nice any time soon.
Man, that paragraph makes me sound like such a downer. I promise that I'm really happy and easygoing most of the time! That's just the more-sober reality of why I find it a huge struggle to jump onto some new thing.
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#169"you can export the whole sheet and perform your own analysis or just copy the sheet and use Google Spreadsheet to run formulas and/or generate charts/graphs." I can't see a way to get the data out of there other than saving as a html page, there are no standard google docs controls available. Am I missing something?
If you have Excel, you can use Data -> Import from Website
Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
#170It'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…
other data is just harder to crowd source/capture with all the different variations. For a google doc format, less is more.
Also, people don't usually have that stuff memorized, so a quick ad-hoc survey like this would end up with a bunch of nulls and a bunch of incorrect guesses.