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(Disclosure: I work for Triplebyte and helped publish our salary dataset recently.) $150K is below the median base salary offer we see for senior software engi
by compumike 9y ago
(Disclosure: I work for Triplebyte and helped publish our salary dataset recently.)
$150K is below the median base salary offer we see for senior software engineers. See https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary -- with a few notes:
* This is base salary only. Total compensation is significantly higher once you include factors like equity compensation, bonuses, benefits.
* This does vary a lot with stage of company. Earlier-stage startups use more equity and less salary. We work with companies from pre-series A to public megacorp.
* This is for senior engineers. Less experienced engineers do typically earn less.
* We're fairly selective in the engineers we work with, but it's based on the abilities you demonstrate in our multiple-choice quiz and technical interview, rather than your credentials.
- overcast 9y agoThanks for the response, like you said, you're very selective, and this is for only senior roles. Of course everyone is not a senior, the vast majority I suspect.
- compumike 9y agoYou're welcome. I can't share the numbers, but I believe most software engineers are eventually operating at the senior engineer level within under a decade of professional engineering experience.
- Veelox 9y agoSenior in this context often means >5 years. So if you are 30 you typically count as senior. I believe ~50% of my >10k coworkers are senior or above.
- bradknowles 9y agoSo, if you hit Senior at 5 years, what’s after that? What about the guy with 25+ years of experience?
- user5994461 9y agoLead, Staff, Principal, Director, Vice President, CTO...
- Veelox 9y agoThe other comment is correct. Another way to view it is at "Senior" you are able to keep yourself productive indefinitely. It is similar to journeyman in the trades but sounds fancier.
- kriro 9y agoI would love to see something like "true salary" where people can enter the actual hours they work, vacation days they get and salary (+ taxation as an option). If I compare on a per hour basis and factor in vacation time quite a few good looking US salaries become a lot less attractive for say a French software developer who is working a 35h workweek. It's especially interesting if you compare "boring" development jobs to "highly innovative" ones because in boring jobs (in house J2EE etc.) you're often actually able to more or less stick to the 40h/week without much overtime.
- lallysingh 9y agoI made total $220k/yr at ~40hrs w/4 weeks vacation a year w/base of 140k at a prior job. This was typical.
- antisthenes 9y agoYou can't just write "typical" and not explain. Typical for what? SF? Your company? CA? For people with your level of experience?
- lallysingh 9y agoTypical for my level of experience in tech industry in NYC.
- user5994461 9y ago>>> a French software developer who is working a 35h work week. It's fairly atypical for French to work only 35h a week. I've never seen that anywhere in tech in the private sector.
- alexandercrohde 9y agoI think this is irrelevant, because the question was AVERAGE. Personally triplebyte rejected me (as somebody who considers himself in the top 5-10% [won a math award, 1500/1600 SAT, worked at B-tier companies in SF, started coding around 8]). [https://github.com/anfurny/scalaRiddle https://github.com/anfurny/scalaRiddle]