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$300k per year income is pretty common for 5 years experience in silicon valley including stock grants these days.
by hcnews 9y ago
$300k per year income is pretty common for 5 years experience in silicon valley including stock grants these days.
- c0nducktr 9y agoThere's a lot more to America than Silicon Valley. Whatever the average SV wages are, they're outliers when compared to average wages across the county.
- watwut 9y agoAnd everyone here complains about it being hard to pay housing instead of bragging how great everyone is. If th norm in SV would be so great, I would expect them to.complain less.
- c0nducktr 9y agoMy point is that SV is atypical, so statements about 'how it is in SV' aren't really relevant when talking about the US as a whole.
- mortenjorck 9y agoWhich is just about enough to pay for a standard of living comparable to what you can afford on $85k/year in nearly the entire rest of the country.
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoIt is common for a very small portion at the very top of a job that already pays more than most jobs. The BLS, which uses reliable statistical methods to estimate wage information for occupations, found that only 10% of software developers make more than $157,590[1]. [1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151132.htm