base salary history by year
Here is every base salary i have had since starting my career. I definitely felt like there were stretches early on where i was significantly underpaid. I'm probably still a bit underpaid. Curious how my history compares with others. BASE SALARY ONLY please. Format is: year of salary change, base salary, position category (e.g. SDE), Metro area 2006 60000 SDE Boston 2007 73000 SDE Boston 2007 76500 SDE Boston 2008 81500 SDE Boston 2009 83000 SDE Boston 2010 85500 SDE Boston 2011 93000 SDE Boston 2012 96000 SDE Boston 2013 99000 SDE Boston 2013 102000 SDE Boston 2013 120000 SDE Boston 2014 122000 SDE Boston 2015 124000 SDE Boston 2015 130000 SDE Boston 2016 130000 SDE Boston 2016 133900 SDE Boston 2017 144600 SDE Boston 2018 161000 SDE Boston 2019 170000 SDE Boston
Thank you for including the last 2 columns. I'm glad they weren't redundant info that you could've just mentioned at the beginning!
I actually had it that way initially but i deliberately added it in a redundant way to emphasize the requirements.
All SWE 2016 88000 CAD Vancouver 2017 97000 CAD Vancouver 2018 130650 USD Seattle 2019 153000 USD Bay Area
2012 65000 SDE Chicago 2013 68000 SDE Chicago 2014 75000 SDE Chicago 2015 75000 SDE Chicago 2016 77000 SDE Chicago 2017 77000 SDE Chicago 2018 130000 SDE Phoenix/Austin 2019 130000 SDE Austin
2014 85,000 Project Manager NYC 2015 85,000 PM Seattle 2016 92,000 PM Seattle 2017 104,000 PM Seattle 2018 145,000 SrPM Seattle 2019 185,000 SrPM NYC
All SF Bay Area, SWE 2010 80k 2011 93k 2012 110k 2013 115k 2014 135k ... (startup) ... 2017 185k 2018 190k 2019 tbd fall review
all database consultant 2011 79K TX 2012 108K TX 2013 113K TX 2014 134K TX 2015 164K NYC 2016 167K NYC 2017 169K NYC 2018 171K NYC 2019 175+134(approx)=309K NYC <-- got my GC, did 1099 side gig consulting for 80/hr
Space as a delimiter is bad. Please repost as CSV
2014 62k SWE NYC 2015 62k SWE NYC 2016 100k SWE NYC 2017 103k SWE NYC 2018 135k SWE NYC 2019 150k SWE NYC 2014-2015 I worked as a consultant for an enterprise as fresh grad, billed hourly so the actual earning is somewhere around 96k but that was a lot of hours. They converted me to full time in 2016/17. Thinking about leaving Oscar for higher base and TC.
2008 50k SWE CLEVELAND 2009 55k SWE DAYTON 2010 55k SWE DAYTON 2011 57k SWE DAYTON 2012 90k SWE CHICAGO 2013 100k SWE CHICAGO 2014 110k SWE CHICAGO 2015 125k SWE CHICAGO 2016 131k SWE CHICAGO 2017 139k SWE CHICAGO 2018 144k SWE CHICAGO 2019 180k SWE CHICAGO
2010 100000 SWE Peninsula 2011 100000 SWE Peninsula 2012 120000 SWE Austin 2013 120000 SWE Austin 2014 130000 SWE SF 2015 135000 SWE SF 2016 135000 SWE SF 2017 160000 SWE SF 2018 160000 SWE SF 2019 160000 SWE SF it makes zero sense to talk about base only
I think it makes sense to talk about base. First off, everyone who is on the job market right now wants to maximize their base in addition to maximizing TC. Having everyone share their base helps gauge the market. It can sometimes be hard to get a sense of what base to ask for on blind because a lot of people talk in terms of TC and some have appreciation on their prior grants potentially skewing that number much higher. Secondly, most large companies have rigid salary bands for each level and if you ask for too low a base, they might discriminate against you for it and slot you lower. Also, if you come in at a lower level but at a very high base that overlaps well into the next level it can be often easier for companies to promote you faster since they don't have to give much of a raise to kick you into the next band. Its an easier sell for management on the promo if only a 6% raise gets you to the N+1 level midpoint vs someone at a low base that would require a 25% raise. Then at the N+1 level the band may widen up unlocking larger comp increases. Third, many companies target a fraction of base salary for your RSU refresher and bonus so higher base == higher TC
Everything you just said is wrong.