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Senior sw make a base salary of 165k and principal at 216k. Do you. Consider these low? https://www.levels.fyi/companies/spacex/salaries/software-engineer http

• thewildginger 3y ago
  For something as specialized as aerospace engineering software? Definitely yes.
  • badpun 3y ago
    Plenty of difficult, ultraspecialized jobs don't pay much, because they're in industries with low margins.
  • speedgoose 3y ago
    Seems to be supply and demand thing. It’s easier to attract people to work in the space industry, or the video game industry, than in the ads industry or the data driven PowerPoint slides for the management industry.
• garciasn 3y ago
  Assuming their revenue is really moving from 4.5b to 11b+ in 2023, yes. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/rocket-report-spacex-may-see-revenue-spike-in-2023-terran-1-gets-a-date/#:~:text=SpaceX%20may%20see%20a%20significant,for%202022%20of%20%244.6%20billion https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/rocket-report-spacex....
• nagyf 3y ago
  You can get higher salary with writing REST apis in Ruby. And fully remote
• VirusNewbie 3y ago
  That is quite low. Senior level at most FAANGs will pay quite a bit more than that in salary and the RSUs will be more liquid.
• b20000 3y ago
  a decent quality house in a te ch metro is 1.5-2 million so you are looking at 14k per month in payments
• ttymck 3y ago
  Aren't they mostly in Los Angeles? Yes that's low, and it's especially low for writing spaceship software.