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For anyone who doesn't know, Dan Abramov is one of the worlds leading experts on, and a core developer of, ReactJS. I think many ReactJS application developers

For anyone who doesn't know, Dan Abramov is one of the worlds leading experts on, and a core developer of, ReactJS. I think many ReactJS application developers around the world would be paid significantly more than this. It's strange - I had heard that the big Silicon Valley tech companies paid well, but maybe not. Anyone here on HN know what typical senior software engineer salary is at Facebook? Presuming Dan is one of the best paid ones then that must mean average is more like USD$100K which seems alot lower than I would have expected. I'm a recruiter - I could get Dan a job here in Melbourne for well more money than that which is weird because Australia doesn't pay at the top end.

cnst 7y ago
He's not based in the US, though, so, I don't see anything strange here. He's getting paid 100k£ base salary. That's a pretty huge salary in the UK — SWE salaries outside of the US major markets are much lower, and in Europe outside of Switzerland, they're even lower still; and even going by the conversion from GBP to USD alone, that's not that bad for most of the US outside of the major markets, either. Not to mention that the total comp is probably much higher as well.
- andrewstuart 7y ago
  I thought these big Silicon Valley companies paid their highly public superstars big coin, regardless of where they live. It seems strange because you'd think they would pay him extremely well as a defensive strategy to keep the other SV giants from buying him away - they seem to be making that task rather easy.
  - cnst 7y ago
    Why? If he's happy at FB, and wants to get more k$, I'm sure he can arrange to get moved to the US and have his salary adjusted for the local market without any issue. Probably would mean 180k$ base or whatnot right away; plus lots of stock (no idea how much stock they give outside of US).

cnst 7y ago

He's not based in the US, though, so, I don't see anything strange here. He's getting paid 100k£ base salary. That's a pretty huge salary in the UK — SWE salaries outside of the US major markets are much lower, and in Europe outside of Switzerland, they're even lower still; and even going by the conversion from GBP to USD alone, that's not that bad for most of the US outside of the major markets, either. Not to mention that the total comp is probably much higher as well.

andrewstuart 7y ago
I thought these big Silicon Valley companies paid their highly public superstars big coin, regardless of where they live. It seems strange because you'd think they would pay him extremely well as a defensive strategy to keep the other SV giants from buying him away - they seem to be making that task rather easy.
- cnst 7y ago
  Why? If he's happy at FB, and wants to get more k$, I'm sure he can arrange to get moved to the US and have his salary adjusted for the local market without any issue. Probably would mean 180k$ base or whatnot right away; plus lots of stock (no idea how much stock they give outside of US).