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Ask HN: What's your total income?
Job title, Location,
Salary, RSU/ISOs, Cash Bonus
- throwaway012317 10y agoprincipal software engineer, seattle $160k base, $30k bonus, ~$30k rsu/options
- throwaway110535 10y agoSoftware Engineer, Austin, TX 95k salary + 20k consulting on the side
- joshavant 10y agoI'm moving to Austin soon and currently trying to get a grasp on local salaries. Would you mind adding your years of experience and what parts of the stack you're working in (iOS, Rails, 'full stack')? I'd appreciate the update!
- throwaway110535 10y ago5 years experience; full-stack Rails
- hillz 10y ago$0. Left a 108k job, now developing recipestasher.com for free and fun on my own. Will probably get a real job again soon...
- simonebrunozzi 10y agoVP and CTO, Bay Area 180k/year, ISOs (about 0.3% of the company x year)
- throwaway5023 10y agoSenior software engineer. 25-35 employees in the company. 6 years in the company (almost from the start) 210,000$ base salary Cash bonus is about 12,000$ a year on average (in the last 5-6 years). I have about 0.8-1% of the total shares. Company is not public, round C.
- throwaway5023 10y agoLocation: Bay Area.
- relics443 10y agoHow much were you making when you first started?
- throwaway5023 10y ago100-120K
- ryankennedyio 10y agoLocation may be highly relevant too.
- throwaway3fidy 10y agoSenior QA Engineer, 104k, 0, 5k, 4k passive from apps I made. San Diego. I need to make the jump to a developer some how :-/
- dfshjaioasd 10y agoresearch fellow, china 30k usd, 0, 0
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- throwawayonetwo 10y agosw engineer, pdx, 125k, 0, 10% target (last was 12.5%)
- onchidiacea 10y agoLinux sysadmin, Australia. AU$151k (US$111k), 0, 0
- throwaway29282 10y agoSoftware Engineer I, Oklahoma, $54,500
- dontthrowmeaway 10y agodirector of engineering, northern virginia $175k, 0, 0
- Avshalom 10y agoStockboy, Target, Albuquerque 18421 gross
- pm- 10y agoMarketing Manager, SF $120K, $45K, $15K
- 343230796f6c6f 10y agoDevOps Person, Austin 85k, 8.5k (total) paid out quarterly, 10k from consulting so about 103k total about to leave to join small consulting shop for 110k
- joshavant 10y agoI'm moving to Austin soon and currently trying to get a grasp on local salaries. Would you mind adding your years of experience ? I'd appreciate the update!
- 343230796f6c6f 10y agoabout 3 years - i think an experienced candidate could command about 140k
- ignaces 10y agoFounder, Software Engineer, Santiago de Chile 340k
- throwaway5099 10y agoWeb Developer, Oklahoma $38.5K, 0, 0
- throwaway8737 10y agoSenior software engineer, Bay Area $190k base, $150k/yr rsus, $115k cash bonus Rsus will be liquid soon at given or higher value.
- throwit123 10y agoPrincipal engineer, Bay Area 205k, 30k rsus (public company), 35% annual bonus
- no_protocol 10y agoProgrammer + System Administrator, Middle US $48,000, $0, $0 Edit: About 75% of respondents at this point are from green accounts. I wonder if that will sink it off the front page quickly.
- throwaway53567 10y agoSenior Software Engineer, 118k salary, 6-10k bonus. Chicago.
- BugsJustFindMe 10y ago$0. Left a ~$120k base job in the Boston area to travel for a few years. Not the first time I've done this.
- throaw_434354 10y agoSoftware Eng, London UK, 55000Ł, 0.2% options, 0 20 people, 4 years of exp
- garyfirestorm 10y agoNVH Engineer, 95k, Detroit 3 yrs experience and a master's degree.
- jafhdjkashdfj 10y agoInvestment analyst, Chicago $150k + $150k bonus
- toomuchtodo 10y agoFrom a previous show and tell session: Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a1Df6dg2Pby1UoNlZU2l0FEykKsQKttu7O6q7iQd2bU/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a1Df6dg2Pby1UoNlZU2l... Form if you want to contribute: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K5UlbdsX3uv8EtDzNkNu8EUgFOu3RQQqWg3L9TuSep0/viewform https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K5UlbdsX3uv8EtDzNkNu8EUgFOu...
- Jugurtha 10y agoI'm getting started with Statistical Learning. It looks interesting to toy a bit with this data after eliminating obscenities. I've seen the storm it generated but didn't think of using it. Thanks.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoGlad I could help!
- nunez 10y ago* Dallas, TX * Senior DevOps Engineer * $115000/yr * None * $5000 relocation, perf bonus unknown
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- majewsky 10y agoSenior IT specialist (a dev-centric devops role), East Germany, 2 years seniority, 5 years professional experience €43,000 = $45,500 salary including cash bonus at 70% part-time (would be €61,500 = $65,000 at full-time) Looking over the responses from the US, that may sound low, but the cost of living is pretty low around here, so it works out nicely for me.
- dd_mocoh 10y agoSenior software engineer, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14 years experience $25k, $0, $0
- memmove33 10y agoSenior Software Engineer at a startup (joined among the first 3 hires), Bay Area. 200k$ base salary 50k$ performance bonus 1% ISOs (after considering dilutions. Company is ~1y post Series B)
- Hash-Basher 10y ago~$100k, Northern Virginia 2 years experience at govt contracting consulting firm
- jensnockert 10y agoERP Programmer in Malmö Sweden ~$60,000 (working 4 days per week)
- throwaway_8 10y agoleft a $150K job at a startup with vested stock worth paper millions that may never realize. now starting my own startup, $0 now but expect to pass $500K in salary this year.
- throwaway34534 10y agoMath/Stat/ML Academic (Senior Lecturer), Australia. Awarded PhD in 2012. ~A$320K (US$235K) Comprised of: * 140K salary * 35K additional loading * 24K superannuation (17% of salary) * 120K contract 1-1 teaching load (1 course each 12 week semester, 3 contact hours per week). $50-100K p.a. research money for conferences, travel, books, research assistance, computers, etc. The 'contract' is paid to me personally by external company for giving advice on demand, preferred (but non-exclusive) access to my research codes, and for me to develop these codes directly on their data sets. Symbiotic relationship as I get to use their data sets as well. The best part is NO BOSS. I do what I want all day long...
- throw_away268 10y agoSoftware Developer, Dallas, TX 140K, only ISOs when downloading from MSDN, ~5%
- amatxn 10y agoDirector of Engineering, $98K, 0 equity, $0 bonus. Amarillo, TX
- lostmsu 10y agoSDE II, one of big companies, Seattle WA, United States $150k, $30k, 0
- TA9988776655 10y agoSr Systems Engineer, Seattle WA 155k, 115k RSUs, ~20k 3 years in the position
- pan69 10y ago$0, Developer, Sydney/Australia, currently building https://www.postways.com https://www.postways.com
- Mandatum 10y agoAUD$225,000, Developer, Melbourne/Australia
- azaras 10y agoDevops, Spain, 31669.50, 0, 0
- hypercluster 10y agoWow, US incomes are insane! Germany €51k ($53.8k), no bonus. 3 years on the job, developer.
- ksec 10y agoI amazed as well. The difference from US to UK and Germany is insane.
- SparkingSquall 10y agoJunior Big Data Developer, Lithuania, €13k ($13.6), 0, 0
- throwaway6303 10y agoSSE Cambridge MA 150K, 0.75%, 0
- GranadaPanda 10y ago$460k, $420k base, $40k bonuses CEO, financial analytics firm in DC
- antisthenes 10y agoAre you hiring?
- romulof 10y agoSenior software engineer, Rio de Janeiro/Brazil $46k, $0, $0