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The most interesting part of all of this, is that when SV companies soft-brag about their high average salaries, they leave out all the contractors contributing
by josephjrobison 7y ago
The most interesting part of all of this, is that when SV companies soft-brag about their high average salaries, they leave out all the contractors contributing significant work.
So instead of the average Google compensation being $144,652 (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3304439/man-or-myth-the-3-million-google-engineer.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/3304439/man-or-myth-the-3-...), it could be 30-50% lower if you account for contractors.
But an average Google compensation of $80,000 (for example) wouldn't be a good recruiting tool.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoThat's irrelevant if you're recruiting employees.
- not_a_cop75 7y agoBut if you're relying on the name to lead potential employees to contract because it's contact with Google, then the pay scale is misleading. Contracting for Google is a lot like being a Serf for Techdom.
- manfredo 7y agoA total average compensation across all contractors and employees of $80k seems pretty far fetched. Assuming a roughly 50/50 split between contracts and temp workers, if the employee compensation average was $145,000 then contractors would have to make an average of $15,000 in order for the combined average to be $80,000.