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But it's not just "top talent" as in the people who can walk into the number one company in an industry and negotiate their millions in compensation, it's "top
by swores 3y ago
But it's not just "top talent" as in the people who can walk into the number one company in an industry and negotiate their millions in compensation, it's "top talent" as in "the upper segment of whatever talent pool suits the roles".
If there are ten small dev companies who aren't competing with FANG because the upper end of their salary range is $80k, the ones that force office work will lose out on the top talent within people who're willing to work for that salary to the other small companies who offer WFH, even if none of the companies are discussing the type of "top talent" who are the best of the best in their field.
- blisterpeanuts 3y ago"the upper end of their salary range is $80k" In my experience quite recently, the smaller non-FAANG technology jobs are in the $100K to $120K range. FAANG jobs, if you can get one, are more in the $150K and up range.
- swores 3y agoI dont live in the US, I was picking a random non-best-developer-in-the-world salary to make the point, not trying to accurately price specific jobs. But surely 100-120k is far too small a range even for the US considering the variance of states AND the variance of companies from those doing similar work to FANG for cheaper all the way down to companies that just need a few wordpress devs to create small business websites?
- Palomides 3y agoBLS stats on all US software developers, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90 percentiles: $ 71,280, $ 96,790, $ 127,260, $ 161,480, $ 198,100 https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm
- swores 3y agoThen I'm pretty pleased with my random $80k as an example of a salary that isn't near the top industry wise, but still has a sizeable pool of people earning, within which there's top - relatively - talent! Thanks