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500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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What do you mean? I see dell, disney, EA, oracle, walmart, all on that list. Like what companies are you thinking of?

Akamai, HP, IBM... Those are just a few I looked up. I didn't look up the ones you did. But I think you're sort of making my point. Do you believe Dell pays better than at least one or two of the companies I listed?

IBM's pay is abysmal though.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Agreed, added a wall of disclaimers to clarify what it is and what it isn't.

Would it not be possible to look at one single level across all company? ie IC4 or something?

not all companies have the same highly structured leveling system as amazon/google/facebook. look at the comp by level at jane street (https://www.levels.fyi/companies/jane-street/salaries/softwa...), it obviously doesn't make sense.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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post #43

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This is total comp so probably an inflated value given that opensea equity is most likely worth zero?

This is why total comp is so flawed, especially if it's a private company. Equity can be a $0. Should have options to see only salaries

Equity can even be negative, when considering tax.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Garbage in, garbage out.

Where’s the garbage in? This is allegedly self reported data by actual employees, not made up fabricated data

I think the fact that the best we can do is allege that the data is user reported, and further assume that users report this data accurately tells you everything you need to know.

Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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post #52

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Are you suggesting that people are putting in bad data to Levels.fyi? Because the data wasn't extracted out of thin air, or made up.

Equity data usually represents a big part of compensation and is basically impossible to value objectively as there are too many factors at play.

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Re: 500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

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Garbage in, garbage out.

Where’s the garbage in? This is allegedly self reported data by actual employees, not made up fabricated data

levels.fyi is pretty good for what it is, but it's obvious a lot of users don't really understand their comp structure (or at least how it maps onto the form). just for example, there are a lot of amazon L4 sde records that have cash bonus + rsu amounts that take them way out of band for that level. they probably don't know how to represent the weird vesting schedule.
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