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Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?

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Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?

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Post by lquist »

hkmurakami wrote: post #25
tokenadult wrote: post #13

As always, voluntary response data are worthless. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538059 Good luck to all of you looking for higher salaries. I hope you gain the salary you desire, and more knowledge of statistics along the way.

voluntary response data is flawed I agree, but I hesitate to call this worthless. I'd plaster warning signs all over the place alarming people to think through their reasoning and consider all the biases that would have taken place in the poll. (come to think of it, if the poll data incites that kind of skeptical thinking in some of its readers, that in itself might make the endeavor worthwhile)

voluntary response data is flawed I agree, but I hesitate to call this worthless.

I really don't mean to be rude, but that might just be because you don't understand statistics.

Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?

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Post by wtvanhest »

kanzure wrote: post #8
doktrin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this is getting downvoted, but the poll choices are in fact surprising. 2/3rds of the options are devoted to salaries between $150k - $300k.

> but the poll choices are in fact surprising. 2/3rds of the options are devoted to salaries between $150k - $300k. You've discovered my secret plot! I even included words to that effect in the description. The other polls literally top out at 150k. I didn't want that.

You may improve the results if you started at $30k and went in increments of $10K. I doubt anyone is making $30k, but it is possible that people at the lowest level listed may not even click the arrow. If they feel like there are people coming in below where they are, they may be more likely to.

If nothing else, it makes the distribution seem to make more sense.

Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?

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Post by gocards »

codezero wrote: post #33
gocards wrote: post #30

depressing, midwest software engineer here, 6 years experience 60k.

I know there are probably a lot of factors, but why don't you move out to the bay area?

Before this thread I thought bay area might be 100k - 120k and cost of living / uprooting the family wasn't worth it. Also worried about the competitiveness of the market out there for software engineers.

Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?

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Post by radiusq »

dustingetz wrote: post #21
dxhdr wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Consider: those who don't read HN are probably worse engineers that earn lower salaries, on average.

some of the best engineers i know don't read HN and they definitely make more money than me. They did read a lot of newsgroups in their twenties.

Do they work in the bay area?

Re: Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?

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Post by myko »

gocards wrote: post #30

depressing, midwest software engineer here, 6 years experience 60k.

Have you job shopped much? I'm from the midwest as well and my first offer out of school was 65k, I hadn't done anything particularly crazy awesome to impress anyone either.
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