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Wow, I'm 40 year old director at big fortune company... and I find this mildly depressing lol. Why is this so different than Glassdoor?

• cycrutchfield 8y ago
  IIRC Glassdoor is salary, not total comp.
  • logical42 8y ago
    They have fields for additional compensation.
• mrep 8y ago
  Probably because glassdoor averages out compensation over all years despite tech wages continually growing and thus they are weighted down by old data.
• maerF0x0 8y ago
  One reason is that Glassdoor doesnt deprecate old data (or at least gross it up by CPI)
• misun78 8y ago
  Glassdoor is heavily skewed towards older data points and hence underestimates significantly given the sharp rise in comp in the last few years.
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Why is this so different than Glassdoor? Not sure about this, but IIRC Glassdoor is not systematically gathered, and so doesn't support generalization to any population other than “people who choose to provide info to Glassdoor.” Glassdoor is radically out of line with systematically gathered data like BLS data.
• taurath 8y ago
  Glassdoor doesn’t look at stock grants as income.
  • lph 8y ago
    This.
  • bb611 8y ago
    They have started collecting that data. The real issue is they don't seem to properly weight responses to get accurate current year numbers. The estimated total comp for my position is about 1/3 low on Glassdoor, it's about 1/30 low on levels
• dilyevsky 8y ago
  I suspect Glassdoor mostly gets money from employers so it reflects what they like to see =)
  • eeZah7Ux 8y ago
    Spot on. Glassdoor is paid by companies so it's not surprising it became very biased towards low salaries.
    • dilyevsky 8y ago
      Yeah sort of like every shithole on yelp is at least three stars and often four.
• dangwu 8y ago
  Missing stock grants and RSUs, which make up a majority of Big 4 total comp.
  • returnInfinity 8y ago
    This, faang stocks