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Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by quaffapint on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:18PM (#19395878)
I see a lot of these crazy high salaries (there's nothing much higher than $150 for a sr dev around here on the east) are in SF area.

Are these the exception FAANG salaries or are most companies paying such high salaries out there? It just blows my mind I can't imagine making such money as a dev and I've been doing this for a lot of years.

Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by sytelus on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:18AM (#19396483)
Median total compensation at FB is $240K and at Google $197K as per SEC filings. Folks with $1M figures are probably in top 3-5% in these companies. I would also add that if you are in bay area with $240K total comp and have family, your standard of living is probably not all that enviable.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/01/15/median-p...

Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by pedrosorio on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:12AM (#19397317)
This is misleading because it's reporting median compensation of all employees in the company.

Median compensation for software engineers at the HQ is higher.

Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by minhaz23 on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:36AM (#19396603)
How can one see these compensation data's in the SEC filings themselves? Where do I look?

Are you saying some of the people here with 400-800k salaries are top 5% at a FAANG?

Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by chillacy on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:51AM (#19396682)
Managers will usually pull 400k+, I wouldn't say that's a top 5% salary. Above 300k isn't unusual at all. Check out levels.fyi for some examples of top-of-band salaries in each level.
Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by minhaz23 on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:12PM (#19402515)
Engineering managers?

Are there any non tech management level positions at FAANG that net these types of salaries as well?

Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by chillacy on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:23PM (#19404872)
Yea EMs. I don't know about non-tech.
Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by strikelaserclaw on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:44PM (#19396275)
No Big Co Job I've ever worked at had many people who visited HN. I suspect only passionate engineers visit this site, so that skews salaries. Most non big city salaries are like 70-110k
Re:My Salary Progression in Tech by 8077628 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:01PM (#19396064)
I suspect they're the exception, although they may be including stock options or could even be nonsense, this being the internet and all.