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Why is there never a chart on HN that makes me feel like I'm paid fairly? Surely that's some sort of HN bias ...
by Swizec 10y ago
Why is there never a chart on HN that makes me feel like I'm paid fairly?
Surely that's some sort of HN bias ...
- skj 10y agoDare I ask whether the charts make you feel over paid or under paid?
- Swizec 10y agoUnder paid. Always.
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- Impossible 10y agoHah, HN gives me the same feeling pretty consistently. If/when I leave the game industry I'll be disappointed if I have less than $500K total comp as a result of years of reading HN comments on what decent engineers should get paid.
- shinymark 10y agoI love this comment. I've been running my own small game studio for nearly five years in San Francisco and this resonates deeply. After reading HN for a while I constantly question my life choices work-wise.
- mahyarm 10y agoWell don't feel too bad, we also pay $2000-5000/month for 2 bedroom apartments.[1] California also has a tax rate at the same level as Canada. Being a digital nomad you can keep the tax rate and cost of living pretty low. But typical bigco sr. eng total compensation is around $250k. On top of that JS engineers tend to get paid less than mobile or backend engineers, but business owners make the most out of all of them. [1] Depending how long you want to commute to work and where work is.
- Swizec 10y agoI too live in SF these days. Posts like this still make me feel underpaid. Prefering small startups over BigCo seems to have been a bad choice when building my character. But I'm having more fun. Maybe.
- mahyarm 10y agoWell it's not too late to go to a larger place :). I've found it isn't that different, especially when they are a few years before IPO. AirBNB has a really small engineering team for their size too and are very web heavy. If I was going to do a small startup again, I would found a company. Going from 40 employees / series A -> $1 billon unicorn, I realized that I would of made more at a big co even if I was able to sell all of my vested shares. This is a pretty good overview: http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ If you want to chat just send me an email on my profile, I'm in SF too.
- Kurtz79 10y agoFor someone living in Southern Europe, what I read in HN seems positively science fiction, I learned to live with it. With almost 10 years of professional experience now, I'm making less than what I did for an internship in the Bay Area just out of university.