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The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers
- mgh2 4y ago2016
- batmaniam 4y agoHow does one become a product manager?
- trash3 4y ago
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- mycelia 4y agoI’d be curious to see the salary distributions for SWE and PMs. My guess would be that SWE has a greater range and variance, since for example (according to Blind) target compensation for Meta PMs is a percentage (something like .8) of SWE target comp.
- bennyelv 4y agoI’d also like to see the balance of the numbers in each role as well. Software engineering is an in demand specialism, but within a company that does software, are the software engineers the grunts and the product managers the hard to find specialists?
- throwaway81523 4y agoThat is a strange thing to hear. I always thought mid level PM's were getting less than mid level SWE's. I guess the big shots get more, but they have several levels of lesser PM's and SWE's working under them.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoSorry, this is utter horseshit. The people who are paid the most are owners: those who have sizable % of equity in a successful startup. Failing that, those who make the most are principal/lead engineers and managers with greatest impact. At those levels, the performance expectations can be soul-crushing and burn-out inducing. Still, they're not making the millions-to-billions that they're responsible for generating. That's why anyone and everyone from the bottom to the top should want to be a fractional owner in a co-op business where there is averaged pay related to profit impact. I'm amazed that workers still squabble over pay rather than disclose it to each other and ensure they get a fair chunk of what they produce. I don't think you can do that without employee ownership.