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Re:The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! by _delirium on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @02:30AM (#4995699)
Side question: are there really senior engineers who make >$400k in salary? I thought you had to go into upper management to break much above $200k in actual salary (paycheck, not equity), even in the Bay Area. But I could well be out of touch with recent developments in Valley pay.
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Re:The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! by prostoalex on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @02:33AM (#4995708)
Restricted stock units are treated as income, so while not technically "in salary", tax implications are the same.
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Re:The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! by Cookingboy on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @02:39AM (#4995716)
What prostoalex said, while it's still rare, but for senior engineers who work for companies that give out a lot of valuable RSUs such as Google/Apple, etc, it's very possible for them to make more than that amount.
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Re:The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! by jspthrowaway2 on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @02:56AM (#4995746)
A lot of people at Google are north of $500k, I've heard. We're talking engineering and product, not management.

I mean, what would you pay someone like Ken Thompson? There are the outliers like him, of course, but I've also heard that even the less-known folks do well.

Though I've heard all of that from Xooglers, it remains anecdotal. I also remain slightly old-school when dealing with other peoples' salary and give them respect; I'll freely tell you what I make (if permitted legally), but I understand people are not as open as I am and I try to respect their privacy.

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Re:The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! by dllthomas on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @03:02AM (#4995764)
Anecdotes are perfectly valid evidence for "there exists", albeit checked for all the usual biases of any testimonial evidence.
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Re:The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! by jacques_chester on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @03:56AM (#4995868)
The problem here is the distinction between discrimination (there exists X) and calibration (X is close to true figure Y +/- Z, where Z is inflation from anecdotal inflation bias).
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