How to 2X Your Salary as a Software Engineer

Re:How to 2X Your Salary as a Software Engineer by corobo on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:35PM (#15048644)

How realistic (better question - how likely) is it to set the start point at $100k?

I think I was earning (the equivalent of) $8k/year in my first job hah

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Re:How to 2X Your Salary as a Software Engineer by dmoy on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:42PM (#15048691)

For the big tech employers, specifically as a software developer, a reasonable start point now is probably 140-150k. If that's the premise from GP.

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Re:How to 2X Your Salary as a Software Engineer by patrickbeeson on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:52PM (#15048776)

This is highly dependent on where you live. Those figures are very high for the Portland, OR area for instance.

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Re:How to 2X Your Salary as a Software Engineer by squegles on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:25PM (#15049452)

Portland starting salary for a SWE is much closer to the 65k mark.

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Re:How to 2X Your Salary as a Software Engineer by dmoy on Friday August 18, 2017 @06:47PM (#15050350)

Yup true, unspoken assumption there is bay area / nyc / seattle / etc, where the big 4 hire a lot (the majority?) of their workers.

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