What should be salary expectation for Big N (companies like Google, Apple, Facebook...) in Los Angeles area for a JavaScript Software Engineer with 3 yoe working with React and Node.js?
I think you would get entry level at google or FB and get around 200k
Probably just under
For Goog in LA, you’re probably looking at L3 with your YOE and probably ~160k TC with around $115k in salary. Looking at an internally reported paydata chart, L3 in LA make between $112k-$118.5k base. Avg TC of ~$160k.
That seems kind of low? I’m just above that at a startup in LA and figured FAANG would typically pay more
Google pays based on the market in the given area for the given level. So it doesn’t pay as much to e.g. Washington and LA. Google’s highest-paid regions are Bay Area and NYC. So if you want more you can go there. Alternatively, the same pay reporting chart shows L4 in LA fetch around ~$220k at around ~$140k base. I think this is skewed by the fact that L4 is a longer YOE bucket, so it could be a bit less there. But tl;dr if you want more, you could work for ~2 more years and then join Goog as L4. Or join Goog as L3 and promote to L4, which takes 18-24mo anyway.
What’s your current TC? Or you can gtfo
160 TC