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"High paying" and not-for-profit are not necessarily contradictory terms. Market rate for good engineers is still what it is.
by t-writescode 4y ago
"High paying" and not-for-profit are not necessarily contradictory terms. Market rate for good engineers is still what it is.
- melony 4y agoA significant amount of tech compensation is in equity. It means Patreon would have to offer a lot more in cash to match the same total compensation as other firms.
- t-writescode 4y agoOnly for your (edit: FANG-style) companies, really. A lot of startups give options, which are pretend until the company goes public; and, in many cases cannot be considered real money, ever. I may be "a fool", but when I wasn't working for a startup or a FANG, my stock earnings were pretty piddling, really, and my salary was (a bit less) than FANG's pre-stock earnings.