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This should probably be titled Silicon Valley startup salaries by experience level.
by bertmuthalaly 9y ago
This should probably be titled Silicon Valley startup salaries by experience level.
- xt00 9y agoYea at startups you often have way more flexibility to grant larger options blocks or a bit more equity to rockstars to bring them in while the salary is closely eyed by the investors to keep burn rate low. So startup salaries are by definition lower and “just enough” to get people come there. If they added something like “assumed value of options or equity when I first joined” that would be useful to understand. The reality is a ton of people at senior levels get paid way more than 150k in Silicon Valley. Plus there are levels above senior at virtually all companies.
- s73ver_ 9y agoI think we'd need both "assumed value of options", and "Actual value of options when they were realized"
- zeamaize 9y agoIt still amazes me how low the compensation is in California. I left the Valley for the Midwest, cut my cost of living by 75%, and increased my salary by 25%.
- guiomie 9y agoThe salaries in this chart are too low to represent salaries in the big companies in SV. It's an average, thus non-SV market are probably lower than the chart, and SV salaries are higher.