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Netflix $400k salaries, $350k total comp at Google or Facebook. Uber hires can get over $1M in RSUs in addition to a healthy salary. While you may not be able

Netflix $400k salaries, $350k total comp at Google or Facebook. Uber hires can get over $1M in RSUs in addition to a healthy salary. While you may not be able to afford housing, you can bank $100k/yr if you live frugally. I'm not sure where else in the US that's a possibility.

someguydave 10y ago
Glassdoor.com gives figures of less than half of those values for "senior software engineers". There are many cities in the US where you could comfortably live on $35k and get paid $135k as an engineer.
- phamilton 10y ago
  Glassdoor reports salary and not full comp. Facebook and Google are a lot of stock-based comp. $150k salary at Google is often combined with $200k/year in Google RSUs for a senior engineer who has been there for 5 years. I find it amusing that every time I bring these numbers up, I get people telling me I'm wrong. I'm not making these up. There are people I know making those salaries. There have been countless people here who have talked about how they make that much. This isn't a secret. Living on $35k and making $135k doesn't mean you'll bank $100k/yr. Taxes cut into it. Living on $150k and making $350k does. And if you're smart you can live on $80k/yr in the bay area. I even know people living on $35k/yr out here. Not everyone gets the high paying Google job. Not everyone wants it. But it exists and it pays extremely well.
- twblalock 10y ago
  And in those cities, your housing is a smaller percentage of your disposable income than it is in Silicon Valley, but everything else, e.g. cars, phones, laptops, furniture, food, is a larger percentage. You also neglect stock purchase plans and RSUs, which are the majority of many engineers' compensation. You could make $160k per year at Apple or Google and get $200k of stock every year as well.

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Netflix $400k salaries, $350k total comp at Google or Facebook. Uber hires can get over $1M in RSUs in addition to a healthy salary. While you may not be able

by phamilton 10y ago

someguydave 10y ago
Glassdoor.com gives figures of less than half of those values for "senior software engineers". There are many cities in the US where you could comfortably live on $35k and get paid $135k as an engineer.
- phamilton 10y ago
  Glassdoor reports salary and not full comp. Facebook and Google are a lot of stock-based comp. $150k salary at Google is often combined with $200k/year in Google RSUs for a senior engineer who has been there for 5 years. I find it amusing that every time I bring these numbers up, I get people telling me I'm wrong. I'm not making these up. There are people I know making those salaries. There have been countless people here who have talked about how they make that much. This isn't a secret. Living on $35k and making $135k doesn't mean you'll bank $100k/yr. Taxes cut into it. Living on $150k and making $350k does. And if you're smart you can live on $80k/yr in the bay area. I even know people living on $35k/yr out here. Not everyone gets the high paying Google job. Not everyone wants it. But it exists and it pays extremely well.
- twblalock 10y ago
  And in those cities, your housing is a smaller percentage of your disposable income than it is in Silicon Valley, but everything else, e.g. cars, phones, laptops, furniture, food, is a larger percentage. You also neglect stock purchase plans and RSUs, which are the majority of many engineers' compensation. You could make $160k per year at Apple or Google and get $200k of stock every year as well.