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OK, it's not 2-3x. Especially if we're talking salary. Salary for a top individual contributor engineer in the Bay Area (full stack), outside of specific skill
by pageandrew 8y ago
OK, it's not 2-3x. Especially if we're talking salary.
Salary for a top individual contributor engineer in the Bay Area (full stack), outside of specific skillsets like ML/AI, will top out around $200k.
Midwest, someone with the same skillset would probably make $125-150k.
- nostrademons 8y agoTotal comp in Bay Area is often around $300-400K. That includes generous equity though, so may not be relevant when talking about startup salary affordability.
- bdamm 8y agoOften? Seems like $150-200k is closer to the norm.
- nostrademons 8y agoFor FAANG I'm pretty sure it's in the $300-400K range. If you include all tech jobs (including startups and old-line jobs at eg. IBM, HP, Oracle, National Semiconductor, etc.) I could see it averaging out to $150-200K, but only because the previous-generation companies don't give equity and equity in many startups is worthless. The flip side of this is that if you pick the right startup (AirBnB, Lyft, Uber, Stripe, etc. when they were startups), your equity is worth millions.
- opportune 8y agothis is not true for TC at all, case in point see levels.fyi. $200k is basically one level above a new grad at some of the higher paying, well known companies
- pageandrew 8y agoI was referring to salary. I'm looking at Levels.fyi and at Google you only start to break $200k salary at L6 (Staff Engineer).