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Jun 2017 - Automated QA 22/hr
Feb 2018 - Junior Dev 50k / yr
Looking to make a move to Denver / San Diego. Anyone have an idea what compensation would look like for someone with 1.5 yr experience?
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>As far as $200K being high adjusted for COLA, in the burbs where I live. $330K gets you a house - brand new build in a top rated school system with five bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3000 square feet with a yard, two car garage, and a separate nice size office. What does that get you in SV? Nobody actually plans on retiring in SF. When I'm done working here for 10 or 15 years I'll have enough to move and own a mansion in wha…
Speaking in general, not about me in particular... I'm going to give up 15 years of my life -- the time that most people spend getting married, having 2.5 kids, etc. to live in SV -- when I could spend those fifteen years living in the burbs in a big house with the white picket fence in almost any other major city in the US? Especially if you are a two parent household, the general MO is that the second smaller incom…
First of all I'm not "giving it up" and I have no desire for your lifestyle. It honestly sounds horrible.
Enjoy your life.
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…
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My current employer pays in rupees. I don't have a Masters degree. I cannot share which university to keep my privacy. But I am not from IIT, NIT, or any top state college. Basically I am not from any Tier 1 university or college. My university must be Tier 2 or Tier 3.
What is secret of your high salary. Can you please point out what thing helped to you get high salary?
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Don’t shame people for making more money than others. The idea of this is we all see what we make. The outliers are making what we should all make.
It's not about shaming people. HN is full of West Coast FAANG SV employees who are outliers. It's easy for people to feel that their perfectly normal salaries are low.
Part of a free market is realizing that, if others are earning more money for the same work, there is a good chance that you are undercharging your employer for your services.
2014 - $50,000/year - Software Engineer - Company A
2015 - $72,000/year - Software Engineer - Company A (raise)
2016 - $80,000/year - Software Engineer - Company A (raise)
2016 - $88,000/year - Software Engineer II - Company B (new job; $5,000 signing bonus)
2017 - $92,000/year - Software Engineer II - Company B (raise)
2018 - $98,000/year - Software Engineer II - Company B (raise)
2018 - $110,000/year - Software Engineer III - Company B (promotion)
At Company B, I was offered various stock options and RSUs pre-exit. When the company was acquired in 2018, they became worth ~$9,600/year.
Additionally, Company B offered a bonus program worth approximately 10% of my salary each year.
2009 - $95k
2010 - $100k
2011 - $125k
2012 - $155k
2013 - $170k
2014 - $200k
2015 - $230k
2016 - $260k
2017 - $315k
2018 - $385k (approx.)Everyone is posting salaries... How about hours worked. I sometimes feel like a frog in a pot and am in the office for 45 hours a normal week and at times 50. Once in a while a few hours of production support on nights and weekends. The only time I worked 40 hours was government... I realize it could also be the nature of the application. Looks like the author is mainly on UI while my application, and at my previous…
However, I work remotely (I am not American) so I have that flexibility, and I also don't waste time commuting. To me, the extra hours in the chair are worth it.
I studied at UWaterloo and had many internships from 2007-2010 for which I forget the pay I was making, but I remember all of my full-time amounts (I started with around 2 years of work experience): 2012-2013: RIM/Blackberry in Waterloo, Canada: CAD 70,000, no bonus or stock, 15 days of vacation or so, 40h per week, software developer 2014-2016: YourGolfTravel in London, UK: GBP 41,000 first year, GBP 43,000 second y…
> 2017-present: software developer & architect at TELUS digital in Toronto, Canada, for not less than I was paid in the US Huh, it's good to know Telcos in Canada will pay Software People well. I worked in Software for a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell and the IT staff were paid a tiny fraction of your US salary.
I happen to live in an only moderately-high CoL area too, not sure how people make ends meet in Vancouver, Toronto etc. on similar salaries. It's saying something when government orgs in the same industry are paying more (with better benefits to boot!)
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Out of curiosity and a bit of jealousy :-) What is the programming field companies are willing to give MM of RSU to programmers? Do you really make a difference to their top line? I had the impression that it’s more the project management and business development that can justify that compensation.
Honestly, these companies just have so much money right now and their stock keeps on going up. They're competing for top talent, so bidding wars happen. These were L6 offers at the time. Gets much more ridiculous the higher you go (over $1MM/year comp) I'm not a super specialist or anything, just a solid developer (mostly front end, some back end)