Is there a tier list for the different defense companies? Which companies are the best in terms of compensation and overall quality of work life? TC 85 YoE 2 #Defense #compensation #LockheedMartin #northropgrumman #raytheon #boeing #GeneralDynamics #GeneralAtomics #Engineering #career
Have you looked DOD labs like Sandia or Lincoln? You will have excellent WLB there.
I found out the bigger the company, the lesser the salary in the defense companies. Go with sub contract or relatively smaller defense companies for higher salary.
1. Anduril 2. Palantir 3. All others
Amazon and Microsoft for compensation, the rest of them for WLB
Lockheed, Northrop, and Raytheon also have many positions in VA where the COL is lower.
Depends on where you want to live, but in general Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, Raytheon are he primes worth working for. Lockheed has offices in Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale and Palo Alto, so you will get paid more here, but cost of living is higher. All of the other primes will have a huge presence in SoCal and imo will pay the same.