The report seems to have cash salary only.
Most of these companies have a significant payout in stocks every year, and the ratio of stock to cash gets bigger the higher you go in the company.
Re:Top Paying Companies by SWE Level
by johncessna on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:53AM
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I can confirm for the amazon amount(under level IV) is not cash only. That's total comp.
Employment in software engineering is very bottom-heavy everywhere.
The number of software engineers doubles every five years. That means half of all software engineers have less than five years of experience. (And 75% have less than ten years, and 87.5% have less than 15 years, and so on.)
Medians seem to be in their self reported dataset, which surely isn’t a representative sample.
Re:Top Paying Companies by SWE Level
by VectorLock on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:26AM
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I think it lists the Top 10 companies, and then latter on lists the median salary across all the companies they have data for.
Re:Top Paying Companies by SWE Level
by alistairSH on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:32AM
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Ah, that makes more sense. Different data sets for each list.
The numbers also strike me as quite strange - the median comp in SF/SV is barely higher than the entry-level comp listed a few pages prior. Employment in that area must be very bottom-heavy for that to be true?