Tech compensation in 2021

Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by ska on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:10PM (#28872076)

> My point was actually that the article and ones like this seem well research but don't match the reality

Isn't it more that they match the reality, but the reality only for a relatively small section of a bimodal (or more) distribution?

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Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by throwaway2016a on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:03PM (#28872555)

I have no data to back that up but I think you may be right. We always show salary as a normal distribution but maybe it is bimodal.

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Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by thaumasiotes on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:41PM (#28872955)

> We always show salary as a normal distribution but maybe it is bimodal.

Who are we? Which salaries?

Starting salaries for lawyers are one of the most famous examples of a bimodal distribution you can find. Salaries across the country generally are less bimodal than that. But salaries shouldn't be modeled as a normal distribution in any event. They skew high very easily, and they can never skew low.

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Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by throwaway2016a on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:47PM (#28873582)

Sites like Salary.com mostly.

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Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by loeg on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:32PM (#28873454)

https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/ discusses this somewhat (2015 numbers).

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Re:Tech compensation in 2021 by the_only_law on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:06PM (#28873219)

This seems to be my experience with these sort of topics.

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