I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:53AM (#23614663)

What is average pay for a software developer in SV with 10 years experience?

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by the_jeremy on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:00AM (#23614759)

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Franci... (the top graph does not appear to let you filter by YoE, but you can look at what everyone has put.

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by negrit on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:58AM (#23614732)

You can easily get a comfy job with $350k

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by lexs on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:06AM (#23614849)

indeed.com puts the average software engineer with 10 years experience in silicon valley at $141k [0] I think you have a very skewed view of "easily"

[0] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries/Sil...

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by Grimm1 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:11AM (#23614938)

That sounds like base salary. Most compensation in SV comes in the form of stock.

A senior at google makes 170kish in salary and another 130-150k in stock.

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by ska on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:19PM (#23618013)

This is true, but a senior at google is nothing like the median senior in the valley.

This is the problem with level.fyi; it's good information but too many people point at it and say "look how much software engineers make in the valley". This isn't even close to representative.

It's a bit like looking at biglaw salaries in NYC and saying "look how much lawyers make".

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by adventured on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:13AM (#23614975)

> indeed.com puts the average software engineer in silicon valley at $112k with a $5k bonus per year

That figure or the number you edited it to at $141k, is on the low side. The median software developer in the US is at ~$110,000. The top 10% bracket starts at around $165,000.

Emphasis that $110k figure is median, average is higher. The average software developer in SV with 10 years of experience is going to be a lot closer to $200k or over.

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by ska on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:22PM (#23618055)

Mean salary isn't a very useful number if the distribution isn't close to normal; Without all the data it's hard to be sure - but that plausibly seems to be the case for SV salaries. Certainly matches my personal networks experience (sample biased as that may be).

Where did you get that 110k figure, by the way? That sounds very high for me for a median across all US software. Maybe California specific?

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by ORioN63 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:57AM (#23615659)

I haven't checked the data and I'm not sure why you're being downvoted since you don't seem to be breaking any of HN code of conduct.

That said, isn't median a better measure in this context, though? There can be a set of salaries that skews the average by a significant amounts, but most receive ~110k$

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by jrochkind1 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:00AM (#23614746)

"easily"?

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Re:I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors by negrit on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:59PM (#23616717)

Yes it's a numbers game. Apply for as much job as possible and ask for a minimum of $200k base. With a little bit of back and forth you can settle for $180k and then get a lot of equity.

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