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My Salary Progression in Tech

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Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by auto »

rubicon33 wrote: post #155
tvphan wrote: post #45

I am Asian but was born and raised in Australia. I have a Bachelor of Science and I work as a web developer, e.g. Spring, ASP.NET, React, WordPress, Drupal, etc. 2013 - 23yo - $45K - First job - Magento developer building eCommerce websites for clients. 2014 - 24yo - $54K 2015 - 25yo - $70K - Second job - Magento / Shopify / WordPress developer, building eCommerce websites for clients. 2016 - 26yo - $75K 2017 - 27yo…

Web development and other easy domains like iOS / Android are quickly going the way of other craft jobs of the past: Blue collar. If you want to make above average salaries you're going to have to specialize. Find something that is both challenging (to reduce barrier to entry) and niche (to demand a higher salary). In other words - specialize. Staying as a generic web/ios/android dev is only going to guarantee that y…

I'm sorry, but anyone who says any domain is easy either hasn't written real code in it, or is making gross generalizations about entry level code monkey positions that doesn't reflect the entirety of the space.

I don't care if it's games, web front end, back end, databases, machine learning, mobile, embedded literally doesn't matter, if you think you can brush off any of them like that, you haven't built something substantial with them.

Are there varying levels of difficulty across niches? Sure, but one person can slap a few python libraries together in an afternoon and call it AI/machine learning, and a 3-5 person team can also spend 6 months building a monster, fined tuned native iOS application.

There's challenges everywhere, it's a matter of finding them.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by crusader86 »

I'll throw my experience in government in here because I don't see a lot of that here, I am a government lead now with a ERP team.

USD, Before Taxes, DC area

2010 - 24k - First 'jobs' working Geek Squad and Helpdesk at a Healthcare Firm

2011 - 40k - Quit second job, started grad school, started working for the Feds as an intern in the Digital Forensics space

2012 - 45k - "

2013 - 45k - "

2014 - 50k - Graduated Grad school, promoted to a GS-9 started working in the ERP space

2015 - 56k - Promoted to GS-11

2016 - 68k - Promoted to GS-12, got my CISSP for the hell of it

2017 - 80k - Debated quitting because of lack of opportunity

2018 - 89k - Promoted, given a lot of responsibility and a great opportunity to learn

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by Bombthecat »

philipp-H wrote: post #284

These are unbelievably high salaries. In Germany such salaries are possible only at management positions (not talking about IB) of large companies only. I visited US 3 years back and I found everything better - clothing cheaper, food more delicious, people friendlier and houses bigger. Yes you don't have social security and have poverty issues but I would still be in US than in Europe considering the amount of money…

You know, that the salary m America is partly so high, because a lot of it goes to retirement, paying back your university etc.

Best plan for sure is :study in germany for almost free, live in US and enjoy a lot of money.

Sure, it is kinda abusive toward the system. But as long it is possible...

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by tatami »

I thought I knew that some people make up to 250k, but some posts here are jaw-dropping.

Just to share my part, all in (South)West Germany and in EUR as software dev:

2014: 28k

2017: 33k (raise)

2017: 40k (new job)

2018: 46k (raise)

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by nonayralas »

Entry ones are harder to remember, but here goes. Leaving company names out since they're mostly small and it would be obvious who I am. Numbers are mostly approximate.

  19 - ~$20/hr Doing remote web dev for my college in WV.
  21 - $60k Doing GTK/C for avionics place in Milwaukee
  22 - ~$25k Went back to school, MS in Computer Vision, worked as TA/RA
  24 - $68k C++, small science software company near Boston
  25 - $78k same company
  26 - $92k Jumped to mid stage startup (still Boston doing integration of machine learning algorithms (Python/Matlab)
  27 - $100k
  28 - $115k (promoted to Data Scientist)
  29 - $125k
  30 - $136k started leading small team of analytics developers
  31 - $145k started leading both teams of analytics developers and data scientists, also started working remotely from a midwest state.
  32 - $155k
Seeing some of these salaries for remote developers for SV companies makes me wonder if maybe that's the ticket. Do they really just not adjust based on location? My mid term goal is to be able to save up enough to give a few years runway to do whatever. It's tough to fathom moving on though because I really do like the area my current company is in.

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Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by remify »

throwaway999624 wrote: post #426

2005 - $15k consulting and college 2006 - $16k consulting and college 2007 - $20k Company 1 2008 - $26k Company 1 2009 - $40k Company 2 2010 - $52k Company 3 2011 - $104k Company 3 2012 - $170k Company 4 2013 - $180k Company 5 2013 - $215k Company 6 2015 - $250k Company 7 2016 - $350k Company 7 2017 - $450k Company 7 2018 - $700k Company 7 2019 - $1.6M Company 7 * * Based on stock remaining at today’s share price. On…

Is company 7 Amazon ?

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Post by mettamage »

iSpiderman wrote: post #353

> It's always been my intention to retire early, > I'm interested in making huge money and retiring early, > I don't begrudge people with their crazy salaries but I do get frustrated that I can't find success myself. I am shocked and surprised at the same time (knowing that I only selected quotes of a few commentators). Shocked to see the same mindset as many managing consultants and investment bankers I have met and…

> Choose life, not career. Find something you love doing and do it for the 'work' itself, not for some postponed happiness.

Insightful story about the investment banker. Your policy about choosing life feels like good advice in light of that story. The implementation details, that’s where it always gets difficult.

My story:

I want to make music. I think of music all the time. Whenever I made music I was passionate about it.

However:

- my music training is limited

- people that I know who are amazing alternate from being homeless to renting out a place. They are poor.

Do I have that much passion that I want to risk 10 to 20 years of my life in poor wealth and perhaps poor family life?

No. I want to live a middle class life while making music.

Sounds realistic?

Just follow your passion people, the invisible hand will help you.

Obviously I am cynical about this, I sincerely hope you can prove me wrong, for I would love to make music.

Re: My Salary Progression in Tech

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Post by [deleted] »

aristophenes wrote: post #120
hk__2 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we really compare them, though? I live in France, where €90k/y puts you in the top 1% salaries. In the US, you’d need to earn $400k/y to be in the same position. Standard of living and other social benefits come to mind.

I don't get this thinking. I think everyone is making the comparison to Silicon Valley, which is ridiculously expensive because their are too many people making too much money that all want to be in the same place. In most of the USA, not only do you make more than you would in France, but things are actually cheaper, not more expensive. Imagine you make $150,000/year, a really nice house cost $300,000 (think $2,000…

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Post by aj_g »

iSpiderman wrote: post #353

> It's always been my intention to retire early, > I'm interested in making huge money and retiring early, > I don't begrudge people with their crazy salaries but I do get frustrated that I can't find success myself. I am shocked and surprised at the same time (knowing that I only selected quotes of a few commentators). Shocked to see the same mindset as many managing consultants and investment bankers I have met and…

Agreed. I'm at a stage in my life where my median friend probably is between 'just entering the workforce' and maybe 2 years of experience (from uni). One reoccurring idea in my mind right now is the notion of 'selling out'--what does the transition look like from "I'm happy living frugally like a college student" to prioritizing your career in your waking hours of your life? What does it look like to slowly convince yourself that just getting that next raise will finally make me happy (even though I have to sacrifice other things to do so)?
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