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Re:What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does by scarface74 on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:27PM (#20855037)
If you live in a major city in the US outside of the west coast or NYC where both the salary and the cost of living are lower, software developer salaries from my experience range from $60-$90 on the low end to $140-$155K on the high end. That for team leads, architects, principal developers or even low level managers.

You’re going to top out as a developer after about a decade if you’re semi aggressive. The only way I found to make the next jump is true consultancy (not staff augmentation).

Re:What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does by kod on Sunday September 01, 2019 @11:36PM (#20856605)
I've definitely seen individual contributor salaries in the 170-190 range in Austin.
Re:What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does by scarface74 on Monday September 02, 2019 @05:38AM (#20857902)
I was more putting scale into perspective comparing the rest of the country to Silicon Valley. A 10-20% variance is believable. But still nowhere near SV/ west coast total comp.