Reading through the comp offers being shared on Blind, I wonder if they are real or inflated? Fact check.. In US only 6.8 m household have a combined annual income over $200k. It seems a majority of folks on this site are part of the HNW household. Isn't it too good to be true ?
Some are slightly inflated, but for the most part they are completely real. Tech pays well, especially in Silicon Valley. Don’t let yourself be underpaid.
Blind helped me open my eyes and reach 240k ! Long way to go but trust the numbers and negotiate hard.
Two non tech engineers in a normal part of the country with reasonable cost of living can make 200k with 5-10 YOE, so yeah, it’s real.
TL;DR - get woke, if you’re on Blind you’re privileged and we all need to realize how lucky we are. There were 128 million households in the US in 2019, so if your figure is correct that’s the top 5% nationwide. However, you and I are living/working in a tech bubble. There are vast stretches of the country where $100K is a lot of money and you can live very comfortably. Compare that with the coastal cities where it will rent you a studio with noisy neighbors. You can’t buy a nice family home in these places on an income less than the 95th percentile, and national averages obscure this. I bet 5 million of those 6.8 million households are living in a tiny percentage of counties; everyone else lives in a slightly different version of America.
And.. most of them are on Blind... Isn't it an amazing coincidence.
There aren’t 6.8 million people on Blind. You have made a statistical error, the hundreds (or even thousands) of people posting their TC here are an infinitesimal share of that number.
Salary is all relative. Making $200k in California doesn't carry you as far as it would in say Arizona. That's the problem when you average it out across the country. The more important thing to ask is how much you need to make relative to where you live!
I made about $250K in TC - $177 base, 15% bonus, and about $50K in RSU vest per year give it take.
Glassdoor numbers are miss most if the time. It seems like they are doing something completely wrong there.
Yes it’s real. Having coming from a small startup, I thought I was giving a high anchor asking recruiter for at least 150k at Uber. I’m pretty sure the recruiter was laughing out loud after the call.
Look at the average home sale prices in the Bay Area and do basic math. High compensation here is unfortunately very real.
Home ownership is going south. So math doesn't work
They are real. I previously worked at HP and understand why you asking this question.