I see a lot of senior engineers with just a couple or a few years of experience. This is interesting...
Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
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#232I'd put my salary on there, but it's a specific number in the $400k-$800k range (yes, base), which is basically identifiable. I may be the only person at my company on this specific number. (And I'm nervous about tightening that range up any more!) How many other highly paid professionals have the same hesitation? The really high salaries may never be part of an anonymous survey like this, where you are required to b…
Can you put a vague description of what you're doing so we can get an idea of what job can command this level of compensation?
Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
#233This survey is getting really badly trolled.
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#234Is it just me, or the link not really to a spreadsheet. I was hoping to filter the data so I could compare my salary, but I'm just getting a big ol' useless HTML table that looks kind of like a spreadsheet.
Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
#235I'd put my salary on there, but it's a specific number in the $400k-$800k range (yes, base), which is basically identifiable. I may be the only person at my company on this specific number. (And I'm nervous about tightening that range up any more!) How many other highly paid professionals have the same hesitation? The really high salaries may never be part of an anonymous survey like this, where you are required to b…
Why not just change it by 50-75k? You're a pretty big outlier anyway, not like it matters in terms of median.
Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
#236Is it just me, or the link not really to a spreadsheet. I was hoping to filter the data so I could compare my salary, but I'm just getting a big ol' useless HTML table that looks kind of like a spreadsheet.
Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
#237I see a lot of senior engineers with just a couple or a few years of experience. This is interesting...
What I've noticed in this industry is that there aren't really standards for titles. Some people brand themselves as seniors after maybe 3-4 years of experience for better pay, and often the companies that are hiring them are none the wiser.
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#238It'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…
Totally agree, especially regarding relative cost of living and work / life balance.
That being said, cost of living is probably the most difficult to asses as there are also many relative variables.
work life balance could probably be assessed simply by an average work week length. I theorize work life balance is affected on an exponential scale with every additional hour.
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#239I've seen this happen a few times. Seattle has had a few salary spreadsheets go around. It generally stays low level (under 5 years) and eventually gets flooded with fakes. I wonder if what we really need is for it to just be straight public with your name attached. What if LinkedIn had a salary section? Let you display your current or historical salary. Would people do that? Say what they make? Seems unlikely. What…
Doing this on LinkedIn would be really bad, because that data would be out there for recruiters, and you'd lose most of your leverage when trying to negotiate at a new job.
Or you'd get contacted my recruiters offering you sacks of cash. Or you'd get an offer and be able to see what current employees and competitor employees make.
Secret salary information has near exclusive financial benefit to the employer. The only employee benefit is protecting their feeling.
Re: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
#240It'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…
Yeah, I scale my salary expectations a lot depending on work conditions. For example, I offer a huge discount for working on free software. On the other side of the coin, these days I'm not sure there is enough money in the world to make me agree to work without doing TDD.
Basically, Nobody has ever offered me less money than I need to live/retire on. Everything else depends on the job for me.