Advice to startup founders: prepare to fail

Re:Advice to startup founders: prepare to fail by mavelikara on Sunday January 02, 2022 @08:00PM (#29776064)

> Maybe a few engineers are making that in SV, but the vast majority are under $200k for salary.

There is a poll on Blind running right now asking "What's your BASE salary?". 13442 people responded, as of right now, and the responses are:

    < 100K  : 11.1% (1493) 
    100-149K: 33.4% (4487)
    150-199K: 34.9% (4699)
    200-249K: 13.9% (1871)
    250-299K:  4.0%  (533)
    300-399K:  1.5%  (203)
    >= 400K :  1.2%  (159)

So ~80% of the people who responded to that poll seem to be making under $200K base salary.

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Re:Advice to startup founders: prepare to fail by gnicholas on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:10AM (#29777869)

Interesting! Is Blind representative, or would it skew junior? I would imagine the most senior engineers wouldn't be as likely to be on platforms like Blind, but I could be wrong.

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Re:Advice to startup founders: prepare to fail by mavelikara on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:38AM (#29778311)

I suspect the sample at Blind is representative.

My guess is that only 20% (or less) of engineers are senior in any geography. The ~20% of the people polled who earn 200K+ would be senior engineers, I’d think. But even of those, 70% are in the 200-250K range base, which matches my experience.

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Re:Advice to startup founders: prepare to fail by throw_me_up on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:16PM (#29776562)

Thanks for the stats!

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