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That is the top performer salary, if any. When I check glassdoor for software engineer salaries at Amazon; average base salary is around 128K$ and top is 225K$
by mclightning 5y ago
That is the top performer salary, if any. When I check glassdoor for software engineer salaries at Amazon; average base salary is around 128K$ and top is 225K$ among all disclosed on glassdoor.
That being said, I don't know if I would plan my life entirely around being in the absolute top %10 of engineers. Avg. seems like a better figure to compare when speaking of whole markets/countries.
I plan to be at top %40 of engineers in a given field as a specialist and be a generalist overall. Seems like EU is a better fit for me then.
- comp_throw7 5y agoCheck levels.fyi, not Glassdoor. Glassdoor systematically underreports compensation for a wide variety of reasons. (And is in general pretty inaccurate; Amazon is publicly known to have a base salary cap of 185k in high cost-of-living locations, and 160k elsewhere, with the rest of the compensation coming from bonus/stock.) 40th percentile compensation in the US is probably still much higher than in the EU, but you do you.