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Is Base Salary the "starting salary" for a new hire, or is that the "base salary" across all employees across the company? edit: I ask because my starting sala
by drivebyacct2 14y ago
Is Base Salary the "starting salary" for a new hire, or is that the "base salary" across all employees across the company?
edit: I ask because my starting salary at MS is surprising close to the number they have listed as "base salary". I can't tell if base pay growth is small there or if this information is simply inaccurate.
- alexchamberlain 14y agoYeah, I thought that was very misleading...
- prostoalex 14y agoLatter.
- larsberg 14y agoIndeed, glassdoor is bad (estimates low), at least at Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Facebook. I saw it on two fronts; as a manager, the salary ranges are fixed for each of the title/pay grads. As a hiring manager, human resources also paid for Serious Surveys (i.e., not just relying on the people who enter their info into a random website) of salaries for comparable jobs at other places. Of course, that was probably superfluous, as the HR and recruiting people swap between the big tech firms pretty frequently (seemingly moreso than engineers), so for the cost of a trip to the cafeteria starbucks, you could usually get info on comparable salaries from a recent transfer.
- jrockway 14y agoBase salary presumably means salary not including equity grants and bonuses. There's no such thing as "starting salary" because people have varying levels of experience and compensation is roughly proportional to that.