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Any guess on what a major FOSS dev grosses? It has to be at least $700k. $1.5m/yr? $3m? About $200k/yr+, it's a good idea to find a lawyer or similar talent ag
by binarycodedhex 6y ago
Any guess on what a major FOSS dev grosses? It has to be at least $700k. $1.5m/yr? $3m?
About $200k/yr+, it's a good idea to find a lawyer or similar talent agent to workout the compensation package because they have the skills and can get away with things a hire cannot. I've done this before, it saved time, and ended up with a better package.
- burgerquizz 6y agolevels.fyi gives $650k in SF. But it looks quite low to me. I'd have say 1M/year at least. Any better guess?
- binarycodedhex 6y agoI think you're right. The issue is, due to the power law distribution of talent, the sample size of such roles (and personalities, i.e., how many Python BDFL's are there?) is incredibly small, so it makes precise assessments difficult and the variance increases wildly since there aren't very good comparables. I think he could command nearly $10 megabucks, give half of it away to charities, grants, scholarships, social ventures, and underserved areas to promote STEM college prep, and still have more money that one ostensibly average, middle-class person would know how to invest (real estate on the near periphery of burgeoning urban sprawl areas). Microsoft is a cash cow and is willing to invest in a solid, deep bench to stay competitive, especially in an apparent transition to either EEE or adopt OSS.
- reducesuffering 6y agoSomeone else commented that he'll be Distinguished Engineer (DE). But levels.fyi shows 69, the level under DE, some reports of 1-2m. He's almost assuredly receiving 1-3m compensation.
- bxbna 6y agoThe ones that let other people do the work or the people who do the work themselves? A lot of prominent folks in the Python space are the former.