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130K USD salary in the Bay Area It's worth pointing out that this is below FAANG range. A software engineer with zero years of experience in the US should make

by lacker 5y ago

130K USD salary in the Bay Area It's worth pointing out that this is below FAANG range. A software engineer with zero years of experience in the US should make roughly $160K-190K in compensation at the large tech companies. https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Google,Facebook,Apple&track=Software%20Engineer https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Google,Facebook,Apple... In the Bay Area, the cost of real estate will dominate your cost of living. If you are happy to live in a 1-bedroom apartment, that entry level FAANG software engineering job will pay for everything you need in life and more. If you want to buy a house for your spouse and three children, it will start to depend much more on precisely where you want to live. Unfortunately a 5 bedroom house in Mountain View will run you maybe $3.5M. But it depends a lot on where you go though. Look out in the San Jose suburbs and the same house might cost half as much. I don't know much about the London real estate situation so I can't speak to it but if you really want to compare cost of living for software engineers you probably should look specifically at housing, rather than comparing general statistics.

gpderetta 5y ago
London housing is expensive, but I think still significantly less than SV.
OJFord 5y ago
It isn't really worth pointing that out, because GP's quote was '... is equivalent to £50k in London'. (Which is also below FAANG range, but that's still besides the point.)