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Big companies are opening Portland offices as places like California and Seattle become less attractive due to rising prices. levels.fyi salaries should be vie
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
Big companies are opening Portland offices as places like California and Seattle become less attractive due to rising prices.
levels.fyi salaries should be viewed more as the upper limit for top 5% developers, though, not necessarily the average across all jobs in the city.
- giantg2 5y agoReally? I would have thought the user base would be more biased to those early in their careers who are looking at what they are worth.
- PragmaticPulp 5y agolevels.fyi exclusively covers the top companies. Median compensation across all companies in an area doesn't match what you see at levels.fyi at all. It's basically the best of the best compensation that you can get, but not everybody gets it.
- comp_throw7 5y agoThis is not quite right. levels.fyi has data for all companies that have enough submissions. For historical reasons it has a lot of data from well-paying tech companies in SV, but it also has 167 data points for SWE compensation at Accenture (which is pretty far from the "best compensation" you can get). The median on levels.fyi is probably higher than the true median, because well-paying companies are overrepresented (people who work at those companies tend to be more plugged in, etc), but most companies that have a sufficiently large number of developers will have enough data points listed that you can get useful information out of it. Heck, there's 69 data points for SWE comp at Nordstrom!
- giantg2 5y agoMy company is definitely not a top company, yet it is on levels.