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.
Can you report these numbers for Bay Area only? Could be all blind users reporting are Bay Area.
So this excluding signing bonus and refreshers, right?
That’s excluding sign on, because most of the respondents weren’t hired this year. Overlapping refreshes may still apply.
So TC for year 2 to 4 could be considerably higher than TC of a new offer (base + targeted perf bonus + RSU / 4) due to stock refreshers?
L5 is spot on. I’m only making 330TC, NYC. Could be more, but meh. I’m happy. Nice work OP.
Was going to make this joke, then saidfuck it haha
Hmm, I thought I got a decent offer with 116 base, 135k stock, 50 signing, for new grad but that seems kind of low now... is that L3 actually accurate?
**Low considering my recruiter explicitly told me that I crushed my interviews
Given people with <4 years of experience are also automatically stacked to L3, I’m not sure if new grads should necessarily be given over the median compensation. Depends on competing offers, of course.
Can it be that the initial stock grant / 4 is much (x2) higher than the target rsu for the level?
Thanks for the details; a couple of follow up questions. Going by the numbers, more than 50% of L5 gets less than 350K (75% gets less than 365K) and very few L4’s (10%) get above 300K. Am I interpreting the numbers correctly? My hunch was most L5 will get 350-400K and L4’s will get close to 300K (if not more) based on different threads in Blind.
I think in blind most of the TC packages come from the Bay Area. That’s why the numbers are so high.
But there’re still much more responses from MTV folks
Mountain View is bay area