Principal 65 band at Microsoft

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Oct 27, 2019 19 Comments

What's the maximum compensation breakdown for a Microsoft level 65 engineer? Salary stock bonus?

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    pihwezgn

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    pihwezgn
    210k base, 400k stock, 100k sign on. 40% bonus, 72k refresh, additional SSA
    Oct 27, 2019 14
    • It's stack ranked if you see people being fit to a distribution curve, because in order to fit the curve, people have to be assessed compared to each other. E.g. No more than 2 people with a rating of 5, 4 with a rating of 4, 10 at 3, 4 at 2, 2 at 1, etc.

      yjjTjJk, that's great to hear! Perhaps the curve is enforced at a much higher managerial level (department or BU level)?
      Oct 27, 2019
    • Microsoft / Eng
      yjjTjJk

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      yjjTjJk
      Could be, however all I care about are my employees and they aren't affected...or stack ranked.
      Oct 27, 2019
  • Check out the details on levels.fyi it seems you can push upwards of 400k+
    Oct 27, 2019 2
    • Microsoft / Eng
      zxy098

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      I feel like a lot of the data is old, and prefer asking here to confirm
      Oct 27, 2019
    • Microsoft / Eng
      yjjTjJk

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      yjjTjJk
      400k is attainable if you have been at level 65 for a number of years and get Max rewards. If you are getting 400k at 65 there is something wrong. You should be at 66 but you are not getting promoted.
      Oct 27, 2019
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    PIEM84

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    PIEM84
    Base is generally ~180-200k range.
    Bonus target is 20% (range is 0-40% depending on your performance).
    Stock target is 36k (range is 0-72k depending on your performance).
    Oct 27, 2019 0