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Re:Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, a... by beneichler on Monday April 01, 2019 @01:57PM (#19546120)
These are base salaries - we have data on equity and other compensation factors, but those factors are difficult to meaningfully compare in an anonymized way.

Triplebyte works with over 400 companies, including Apple, Dropbox, Instacart, and numerous early stage companies (including many YC companies). The Open Positions section on the salary tool page should give a pretty good feel for the kinds of specific roles and companies that work with us

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Re:Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, a... by BonesJustice on Monday April 01, 2019 @02:12PM (#19546316)
Seems a rather glaring omission—as a software engineer in NYC, roughly 55% of my total annual compensation comes in the form of a cash bonus.

Since total compensation tends to vary more significantly than base salary, I would continue showing the salary-only graph by default, with an option to toggle total compensation as a second series.

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Re:Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, a... by realbarack on Monday April 01, 2019 @02:27PM (#19546479)
Wow, over half? Is this a finance company?
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Re:Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, a... by BonesJustice on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:22PM (#19547789)
Whoops, brain fart: that should have been 45%. But yes, I work in finance.

It's definitely not unheard of for bonuses of top engineers to reach multiples of their base salary. I'm not aware of compensation being that lopsided where I work, but it purportedly happens at places like Two Sigma.

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Re:Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, a... by thedufer on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:12PM (#19549723)
I'm in a similar situation (~55% of comp is bonus) which is in finance, but most FAANG devs will see something similar, especially as you go more senior, although with an emphasis on equity rather than bonus.
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Re:Base salaries offered to software engineers in SF, NYC, a... by echevil on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:15PM (#19550150)
Still, it would be much more useful to compare total compensation, at least for late stage startups and public companies. Maybe that's something to consider for the next update?
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