I am definitely getting a FOMO feeling hearing your offer packages. 200+K base? 300-500K total compensation? For IC roles? I thought I was getting decent pay as an experienced software engineer, but these numbers are mind blowing. My base is a long way off from those numbers, and my RSUs aren't even within the same order of magnitude. Sheesh. Maybe it's because I'm living on the wrong coast (MA), or maybe it's a Silicon Valley thing. Or are you folks just pulling my leg?
Boston salaries are far, far lower than Bay Area. So is cost of living. And no, people aren't pulling your leg on this.
I''d agree that MA salaries are like 1/2 of the Bay Area, but other than RE cost of living is the same. The RE is indeed around 50% cheaper, but it's quite expensive as well.
Depends where. 20 minutes from Boston you can get a 4000 square foot house on well over half an acre for significantly less than $1mm. Try doing that in Palo Alto. But yes, food and gas cost the same. Cost of living is always disproportionately real estate.
We're in general underpaid in Seattle now. With the leap in housing prices, everything taxed like crazy etc we are almost to a point where we need California bucks to be able to buy homes that aren't 3 hours away from where we work.
blind is a highly paid self selected subset
A first year banking analyst fresh out of school makes close to 150k with bonus at Goldman.
As does a new grad working at Facebook or Google.
That new grad will make 150K anywhere nowadays. She/he will get a huge bonus to join Microsoft, and surely make >150K for the first 4 years.
Yes they do ^^ and maybe more
Google salaries in Cambridge are in-line with what you posted, FYI. L5 comp totals over $300k.
reading salary posts is usually depressing.. nothing good would come unless you want to act on it and be where you want to be comp and position wise
Median swe comp is 78k (per irs) so blind is clearly not the average and yes pay is much higher in sea sv and nyc but so is cost of living. As long as you are happy, enjoy the job etc, don't worry about it. Someone will always be making more.
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A small percentage probably do, but the vast majority I've seen are accurate.
Possibly. These are for levels that not everyone can reach or that a majority won't reach. But there's no rule that says levels are equally likely to post here. Also paper money is unhatched.
Disagree. An E5 at FB is pulling in north of $250k (salary, stock, and bonus) after only about a year and a half - so that's the new hire grant plus one refresher. Assuming the stock doesn't go down, in year four that'll be north of $300 or higher easy because of the additional refreshers. And that's for a 5, which is the level you HAVE to reach or get fired.
New grad to E5 in a year and a half? Definitely an outlier.