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2009 - Developer - 40 000€ 2010 - IT-Consultant - 56 000€ 2014 - Developer - 61 000€ 2015 - Senior Tech Lead - 67 500€ 2017 - Senior Engineer - 72 300€ 2018 - Lead Developer - 80 400€
I always wonder when I read about salaries in other countries - what do the numbers usually mean? Not sure if this is how it works everywhere, but where I live, we have 3 different ways of talking about salary: 1) What you actually get 2) What you actually get + what you pay in taxes 3) What you actually get + what you pay in taxes + what your employer pays in taxes Usually we talk about #2 when discussing salaries.…
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Why are you offended? The market considers them senior...
I spent 5+ years in the industry and felt weird calling myself senior. Just because you are a friend with CEO and he can vouch for your title doesn't make you senior. In 2 years of experience how many serious products can you take from start to finish? In my opinion, a senior developer is a person who did this multiple times. It's almost like calling yourself lead developer of 1 man team...
2004 - first job at non tech company - $37.5k
2005 - switched to web design company - $40k
2006 - same company, minor raise - $42k
2007 - same company, minor raise - $44k
2008 - switch company, "senior" dev - $70k
2009 - same company, performance raise - $75k
2010 - switch companies - same pay - $75k
2011 - major performance bonus - $90k
2012 - same company - raise - $95k
2013 - company acquihired by BigCo - raise + bonus = $115k
2014 - promo/performance bonus/stock/retention = $170k
2015 - promo/performance bonus/stock/retention = $195k
2016 - move to new job with old friends = $140k salary + bonus
2017 - same job, salary bump and bonus = $140k
2018 - same job, more salary but less bonus. Way less stress = $130k
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Just to clarify, salaries in India differ VASTLY across companies, FAANG or otherwise, depending on whether the org looks at the India center as a cost-saving measure, or as a secondary RnD center. And also, if the org is more services based (the notorious Infy/Wipro/Accenture types) or actually building products. The latter almost always pays more. I'm a non-IIT Masters graduate with 3.5 years of experience and I wo…
Good point. One more point - salaries differ vastly in the same company too. These days it happens in many companies that a very senior folk with 10+ years experience makes something like 2000000 INR (28000 USD) but a fresh college undergraduate is made an offer that is 3000000 INR (41000 INR). It sounds contradictory and pisses the senior folks off but that's the reality of the Indian IT market today.
You all should compare these dev salaries to CS professor salaries :) As a CS professor myself, it is great to know my students can go and be well paid after graduation!
I am a brown male working in India. The salaries are rounded to the nearest 100000 INR. USD values are rounded to the nearest 1000 USD. These are salaries per year . Need to emphasize this because when you see numbers like 3000 USD you may think this is per month. No it is indeed 3000 USD per year. When there are stocks involved, only the stocks that vest per year is included as part of the yearly salary. 2003 - 0 YO…
Does your current employer pay you in rupees? If yes, that’s so great!! Do you have a Masters degree? If yes, may I ask from which university?
2009 - 0 (moved and was living off savings, almost broke)
2010 - 150k (affiliate marketing, self, from home, 3 hours per day worked)
2011 - 24k (just a sliver of affiliate marketing, self, from home, not sure how many hours I worked)
2012 - 42k (SEO contract work, tiny company - part remote, 40 hours a week)
2013 - 42k (SEO contract work, tiny company - part remote, 40 hours a week)
2014 - 55k (marketing at small company - remote, 40 hours a week)
2015 - 75k + fully paid top tier health plan (marketing - large ecommerce company - remote, 40 hours a week)
2016 - 50k (freelance - from home, 20 hours a week)
2017 - 60k (freelance - from home, 20 hours a week)
2018 - Looks to be on track to 100k (consulting - from home, 5-8 hours a week)
For context, 2009 - 2015 I was living in a high cost of living location. Today I live in a very low cost of living location.
Throwaway account. I'm based out of a smaller town with a low cost of living in the north east. 2004 - first job at non tech company - $37.5k 2005 - switched to web design company - $40k 2006 - same company, minor raise - $42k 2007 - same company, minor raise - $44k 2008 - switch company, "senior" dev - $70k 2009 - same company, performance raise - $75k 2010 - switch companies - same pay - $75k 2011 - major performan…
Biggest bonus of the whole lot right there. You've done very well.