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Well 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 n
by mahyarm 10y ago
Well 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.