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As someone in Sydney Australia, isn't this a ridiculously good salary? Average Google engineers wouldn't make this.
by zump 10y ago
As someone in Sydney Australia, isn't this a ridiculously good salary? Average Google engineers wouldn't make this.
- cylinder 10y agoYeah this thread is a humble brag. 170k in a state with no income tax and housing at $1400, you don't need to be a software engineer to calculate your disposable income after that.
- skookum 10y agoWe constantly have HN comments about how underpaid software engineers are, how companies are colluding to keep salaries down, etc, etc, etc. Then when someone asks if a salary is in the right ballpark for the local market, they're humble-bragging?
- cylinder 10y agoNothing was posted about specific skills, just "ten years in software dev." This could be building WordPress sites or it could be architecting the backend of Netflix. OP's value will be determined by the demand for his services in relation to how many people have experience providing those services, what their current pay is, and whether they're open to a new job.
- zump 10y agoCompensation is really what the next guy would take +/- 10%.
- ryanSrich 10y ago> Average Google engineers wouldn't make this. Yeah they would. They'd probably earn much more. http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
- zump 10y agoNot in my location. Check GlassDoor.
- skookum 10y agoYour location must not be Seattle, which is the context of the OP's inquiry. The average SDE3 (senior engineer) at Amazon is making more than this in total comp, and Google pays more than Amazon.
- zump 10y agoHow many years for SDE3?
- skookum 10y agoThere will be outliers on either side obviously, but I would guess most SDE3s at Amazon fall into a range of 6-10 years of experience.
- SallySwanSmith 10y agoSDE3 at Amazon is a career position. Generally most people will never move beyond SDE3, so you'll have people with a lot more then 10 years there.
- zump 10y agoWhat percentage of SDE3 are promoted to Distinguished Engineer?
- skookum 10y agoNone directly. Virtually none indirectly. They need to get promoted to Principal Engineer first, then Senior PE, and then DE. Circa 2 years ago I'd guess there were at most half a dozen DEs company-wide and iirc half of those were hired in to that level as opposed to being promoted.
- actuallyalys 10y agoIn a general sense, definitely. The median household income in the United States is a third of that and the median Seattle income is still less than half that [0]. I suspect yeidayeida wants to know if they can do better given their qualifications and meant good in that sense. [0]: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/washington/seattle/ http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/washington/seattle/
- xorgar831 10y agoIt's pretty middle of the road, there are plenty of devs that pull in twice that. It's due to stock however, so it also depends on how well your company is doing.