I work in non-tech role at Sephora and never understand why some of the SF techies make so much money. I went on a date with a guy and he drops out of nowhere that he pays almost 4k per month to rent out a luxury condo in SoMa. What a fckn douchebag. I love working at Sephora and our culture, but these damn techies drive SF's rent crazy high. Non-tech companies in this area need to be paying me more -- it literally makes no sense that some software engineers make almost 3 or 4 times the amount I make just because they decided to study computer science during college. So glad this place exists so I can finally rant about this shit.
Supply and demand? Simple economics really.
This. /thread
Free market. Why don't you switch to software engineering since it pays so well instead of ranting on Blind?
Definitely feel you on this one.
I feel for you sister. Pharmacy also pays ridiculous amount of money; finance can be lucrative too; I heard petroleum engineers earn hefty paychecks as well. If you can’t beat them, join them.
It’s simple actually. Can you, with your set of skills generate revenue for your company that is similar to a techie? Whether techies deserve or don’t deserve the salary they command is decided by the market. As it stands, companies agree with the premise that their skill sets can be used to generate lot of money. Doctors and lawyers are other set of folks who make a lot of money. Same thing holds true for them as well.
I actually think Doctors and lawyers don't deserve to be paid that much. Their pay is artificially pumped by their associated professional board/union/lobbyist. Only techies are paid according to the market
Not to be a complete socialist here, but not everything should be paid by the market. School Teachers/Special Ed teachers provide value to society and not all value needs to be understood financially. Yet these people still deserve living wages and in a city where rent is skyrocketing, their current pay just isn't adequate for life.
Op, TC or .... I seriously doubt you really know how much a good SWE in the Bay area gets paid.
It’s a bubble.
The SOMA apartment is probably not very luxurious given how everything is overpriced in SF.
So you are saying making 500-600k a year is a lot?
Of course it’s a lot!
To be clear that doesn’t mean it’s unfair. Just that it’s a lot. There are also many capable people who make less because they don’t optimize for $. And plenty of less capable people who make more because they do. Choices and market economics.
Damn...someone's angry...