Let’s take Bay Area engineer at L5/E5 equivalent level as 90% of folks will be at that level for a large part of their careers especially with 5-15 yoe. Let’s use USD converted TC for all areas. Please add any info you have for the same. For example a person making $350k in Bay Area can expect to make $150k usd if in Canada. TC Bay Area: $350k TC Seattle: $350k at few, $300k at others TC NYC: $300k TC Austin: $250k TC Boston and other cities in USA: $200k TC Canada: $150k usd TC India : $80k usd TC Switzerland: $300k USD TC London: 160k usd TC Germany: $120k USD TC Australia: $130k usd Please post your own experience for a L5 level for other countries
TC Denver/Boulder: 280
TC salt lake $220k
London is ~£140-180k
@Lazard Do you mind breaking this up? how much base, RSU, Refreshers and sign on bouns?
Amsterdam TC 90K USD average in a decent company
TC India would vary a lot: 50 - 150K USD depending upon the company
Which company is paying 100k usd in India ?
The same companies which pay 350k in SF Bay Area/ Seattle and some well funded startups. Ofc, ISOs are hard to accurately value for the latter, so a ball park figure.
That Australia TC will only be doable in Sydney and Melbourne in the best companies, maybe 10th percentile. A more acceptable figure would be 120-130 USD.
Ok will update to $130k. Thanks
Why are developers paid so much less in Europe than US, even in expensive locations such as London and big cities in Germany?
Which big cities in Germany? Berlin is a lot cheaper than other east Europe capitals
So some of the big cities in Europe are actually cheaper than Seattle? Maybe it depends on if you factor in taxes. I pay more in taxes than rent and food combined so that is really the most significant factor.
Wow. I had no idea Switzerland pays as well as Bay Area..
Cost of living is similar to bay area.
But there are literally zero homeless people in Switzerland. Not a tent to be found outside of a campground. Okay, maybe a few alcoholics fell through the cracks and are holed up in a mountain somewhere hidden. Maybe. But even they will get excellent health care and other services for life.
Bay Area == NYC in my experience
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140 in Germany certainly possible, but it's 99+ percentile. Could be difficult
What is more typical of L5/E5 engineers there? This is converting euro to usd as well
Something like 80-90k EUR is more common I'd say, at least in Berlin. Not many big players there