Developers salary is not up to date?

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Jul 21, 2020 7 Comments

I have been in the industry for about 18 years. Starting as a QA, then DevOps, and for last 11 years I am a developer. To be developer it took me 5-6 years attending local university after work, and the role and thought process is definetely way complicated than QA or DevOps have.

I have noticed that nowadays QA can get almost identical salary, while DevOps could get even more. What’s happened why companies don’t catch up with the salaries? I understand that there are developers who basicaly just know the syntax of some particular language and unaware of the science behind it. However, I feel like industry just normalize all the salaries among engineers in IT world.

Hence my question why do you think it’s happened? So QA in our team can get 130k Base and the Developer $140k base?

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  • In some companies I see higher pay for more senior devops engineers, but they are expected to code as well as a developer and know their systems in and out, so higher bar.
    Jul 21, 2020 0
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    DevOps is an enormously overloaded term in the industry, like data scientist - I’ve seen places overpay for config monkeys and YAML engineers more so when they don’t understand the value (or maybe don’t have the need) of having a more technical/software engineering bias for infra 🤷‍♀️

    I’ve never seen QA engineers get paid as highly as standard SWEs, but that’s just anecdote.
    Jul 21, 2020 0
  • Experienced QA/SDET here. Median TC of QA ~85% of Median SWE TC. Difference is in minor in base,more so in bonus %,stock. Ive seen excellent High band QAs(who code complex infra) make as much a Median SWE. Note: Roles and expectations for QA/Dev vary a lot across companies. But you are right, the amount of effort required in being dev is exponentially more in most cases. One more thing to chew on is that a lot of companies these days are having their dev do qa as well.
    Aug 16, 2020 0
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    You have to look at TC to see the difference. They might have the same base salary bands but SWE often get larger cash or equity bonus.
    Jul 21, 2020 0
  • I'm surprised by your experience. I've always seen significantly higher compensation for software engineers.

    Is the full compensation package similar as well?
    Jul 21, 2020 1