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$4166/month is meeting people halfway, considering these guys could easily make twice that in salary at a normal job.
by marknutter 13y ago
$4166/month is meeting people halfway, considering these guys could easily make twice that in salary at a normal job.
- diminoten 13y agoTwice that? Easily? Color me skeptical...
- smokeyj 13y agoI was pulling in more out of high school. Trust me, half is being generous.
- diminoten 13y agoHuh, I mental math failed, but grats on your success.
- read 13y agoTrue, an engineer could make twice as much, but discussing compensation rather than strategy might be missing the forest for the trees. Why do the Mailpiles believe privacy is the best angle to help people the most in taking email back? If you were to work on only one thing to fix email, would privacy be the most important thing to work on? The counterargument here isn't examples of specific cloud services like Dropbox that people can trust. It's an argument for general global security. Organizations like the United Nations Security Council and NATO generally provide a much stronger joint defense against evil than individual pieces of armor offered to citizens.
- GuiA 13y agoEngineer salary in SV is $100-$200k a year.
- bostonvaulter2 13y ago4166/month is only $50k/year. It's easy for software developers to make more than $100k/year, especially in the bay area.
- rdouble 13y agoSadly, in the Bay Area $4166 is almost exactly what an exempt employee making $100K actually takes home every month.
- superchink 13y agoYes, but if they are collecting $100k to fund their work on this project over the next year, they will still be paying taxes ON TOP of that.
- rdouble 13y agoYa, just had a flashback to a former paycheck...
- binarycrusader 13y agoNo, if they were making $100K, then taxes and witholding, etc. will leave them with roughly 65% of their gross. So they'd actually be taking home closer to $5416 per month. Still "sad" (given that average rental rate on a two-bedroom apartments is $2K+ per month in the general bay area), but not quite as much.
- HerraBRE 13y agoWe will be doing this legally, which means paying ourselves salaries and paying taxes etc. etc.
- binarycrusader 13y agoI wasn't implying otherwise; and the figure I provided is what a typical employee should see in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was just saying that the figures others were reporting were overly pessimistic.
- hnriot 13y agoYes, twice, salaries in Silicon Valley for engineers are $150k +/- depending on experience and ability level.
- chipotle_coyote 13y agoThere certainly are engineering jobs at $150K and higher, but every survey I've seen -- and this more or less matches the offers I've seen -- suggests the median engineering salary here is just a little over $100K.