Software Emgineer V on Salary.com represents the tippy top outlier of the elite senior engineer totem pole. It’s a stretch to call that an average anything. For a more realistic median salary range, just look at the figures for plain Software Engineer.
Re:How to Hire Your First Engineer
by scarface74 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @07:16AM
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The Software Engineer V salaries at salary.com for the cities that I'm familiar with seems to represent salaries for a developer/architect with 10-15 years of experience who avoided management.
But the idea that software developers can't do well in other lower cost cities without working for a FANG or even companies that most people have never heard of is another example of the SV/HN bubble.
In most other major American cities outside of New York/DC area its about $140K. If you compare the cost of living in any of those cities, it starts looking a lot worse for Silicon Valley.
https://qz.com/906086/san-francisco-is-actually-one-of-the-w...
If you go the billable consultant route with the right skill set, you can get up to $200K
https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=e67229f7e25ea37b
Yes this is a realistic range. I’ve been given firm offers to do that type of work (AWS not Google) but the travel requirements would be too disruptive right now.