Tech salaries used to be menial (~100k). What year(s) did they shot up ?

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iCah61

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Jun 28, 2021 11 Comments

Title says it all.

Do you think that full remote positions can normalize it in the next couple of years ?

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  • Facebook
    okinawa123

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    okinawa123
    When technology became ubiquitous through cheap computers and smartphones, the point of leverage of software skyrocketed. Therefor company revenues soared. That coupled with labor shortage yielded massive salaries.
    Jun 28, 2021 3
  • New
    goatcandy

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    goatcandy
    Lots of people here apparently weren't alive in the late 90s and aughts. There was a dip after the dotcom bubble but opportunity shot back up a few years after. Big tech paid well in the early days of Apple II and the Macintosh revival in the 90s, Microsoft the whole time, Oracle, etc. As always, some of one's income relied on stock performance.

    I also know a ton of devs who made a killing fixing Y2k bugs. πŸ˜‚
    Jun 29, 2021 0
  • All because of limited supply of labor in US.
    Jun 28, 2021 1
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    iCah61

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    iCah61
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    Its true that blind exposed this, however, so far as I know, the salaries used to be in the early 6 figures for most of big tech.
    Jun 29, 2021 0
  • Amazon / Eng
    wawY45

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    wawY45
    I imagine many Blind users weren't around prior to 2012! It's not necessarily that the salaries shot up, perhaps it's more a matter of the salary information now being so openly sharable, whereas it wasn't in the prior days?
    Jun 29, 2021 0