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This is great! A huge reason why we built Levels.fyi was because of how much this information is kept in the dark. We’re on a mission to bring these hidden pock

This is great! A huge reason why we built Levels.fyi was because of how much this information is kept in the dark. We’re on a mission to bring these hidden pockets of data out into commons for everyone to benefit. For those of you who want to help, but don’t necessarily want to publish under your full identity for whatever reason, you can pseudonymously share your compensation here: https://levels.fyi/salaries/add https://levels.fyi/salaries/add We recently released the anonymization toggle and it allows for your entry to automatically hide details such as the company, level, or exact years of experience until we have enough data points to make it safe to show. Disclosure: I’m one of the founders of Levels.fyi

CSMastermind 4y ago
First off, I love levels, have contributed my salary to it, and thank you for building such a useful site. With that said, I'm very hesitant to share my compensation or financial information personally. Like many in technology I'm very well compensated but perhaps unlike many I grew up poor and many if not most of my social acquaintances have far less money, then I do. It's not that my friends and family probably don't know this intellectually, like I'm sure if you asked them, they'd probably tell you that was the case, but I'd imagine if you quizzed them on how much I make per year they'd guess $90k, maybe $100k. I worry that tying my actual compensation to my name publicly would lead to all sorts of awkward at best and relationship ending at worst interactions. I've always felt fairly compensated for my work and I can't say I really have a desire to know what my peers make. Isn't there a quote about jealousy being the thief of joy? With that said, I do think there's tremendous value in aggregated anonymous salary data like Levels provides. I think that it helps identify systemic biases and as a hiring manager frankly helps me calibrate to how the market overall is valuing talent. So again, thank you so much for the tool. I like it a lot better than the way OP shared their information.

CSMastermind 4y ago

First off, I love levels, have contributed my salary to it, and thank you for building such a useful site. With that said, I'm very hesitant to share my compensation or financial information personally. Like many in technology I'm very well compensated but perhaps unlike many I grew up poor and many if not most of my social acquaintances have far less money, then I do. It's not that my friends and family probably don't know this intellectually, like I'm sure if you asked them, they'd probably tell you that was the case, but I'd imagine if you quizzed them on how much I make per year they'd guess $90k, maybe $100k. I worry that tying my actual compensation to my name publicly would lead to all sorts of awkward at best and relationship ending at worst interactions. I've always felt fairly compensated for my work and I can't say I really have a desire to know what my peers make. Isn't there a quote about jealousy being the thief of joy? With that said, I do think there's tremendous value in aggregated anonymous salary data like Levels provides. I think that it helps identify systemic biases and as a hiring manager frankly helps me calibrate to how the market overall is valuing talent. So again, thank you so much for the tool. I like it a lot better than the way OP shared their information.