Google Engineer - Total Compensation in US - Ultimate Post
I see a lot of misleading info on Blind with extremely exaggerated compensation ranges.
Let’s shed some light on the topic with real data points based on random Google engineer responses across the US. The number of respondents is about 2% of the company.
Format is the following:
Level
1% - 10% - 25% - 50% - 75% - 90% - 99%
I.e., the lowest 1%, the lowest 10%, 25 percentile, the median and so on. E.g., for L3 half of the engineers make less than $200k per year, etc.
L3
120 - 125 - 150 - 200 - 220 - 225 - 250
L4
200 - 225 - 240 - 260 - 280 - 300 - 330
L5
250 - 285 - 315 - 330 - 365 - 390 - 450
L6
375 - 400 - 425 - 450 - 480 - 550 - 575
L7
550 - 575 - 625 - 675 - 725 - 750 - 800
Good luck with negotiations :)
PS. Would be great if someone from Facebook compiled the same data based on your internal comp discussion.
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Only top 25% of L5 get over 365, and only top 10% of L4 get over 300.
The Blind effect makes people think that’s just an average comp, where in fact it’s far from reality.
I think this would be a huge benefit to the tech community if people did this because then we would have more reliable data points to go off of and would negotiate more confidently.