In tech sales at startups there has been a significant uptick in base salaries and total compensation packages. The most lucrative companies two years ago are f

In tech sales at startups there has been a significant uptick in base salaries and total compensation packages. The most lucrative companies two years ago are fighting to remain relevant (when they haven't updated their compensation packages). It's not all good as it does mean that there's much less margin than there was a few years ago, but as other commentators have pointed out, this data is less than worthless. I have a pretty good pulse on B2B software sales comp data (because that's my job), but I know nothing about how marketers or engineers or FAANG pay. It's like trying to make a generalization about "Finance" but then putting together a compensation survey that takes in the M&A rainmakers at Goldman Sachs in with retail tellers at Bank of America and gives you an average. Pointless.