Principal/Senior SWE base salary comparisons: DC region, Boston, NYC, Silicon Valley, So Cal, Seattle, Austin
Feb 14, 2018
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I'm just gauging salaries at various tech regions within US for someone with the following CV. I'm looking to potentially move to one of these areas (currently in AZ).
Principal/Senior SWE, 20+ year experience, full stack, Java/Python/JavaScript, J2EE/Spring/Django/Android, Oracle/Postgres/Hadoop/Mongo. No experience with AI/machine learning.
Please share base salary only (no sign-on, bonus, rsu, etc) if you're from these areas:
DC region: ?
Boston: ?
NYC: ?
Silicon Valley: ?
So Cal: ?
Seattle: ?
Austin: ?
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Not sure why you don't want equity numbers, as those make the real comp go way higher. Companies are now giving out stock quarterly instead of yearly.
I wonder if that range requires some specific high level of clearance. DC isn't known for high salary like SV.