We need to rethink employee compensation

Re:We need to rethink employee compensation by ryandrake on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:26PM (#9774906)

Congratulate yourself, because you are, for sure, a fortunate outlier! I don't doubt that there exist engineers out there making $250K+, but they are definitely not the norm, big company or small. Check out a bigger sample of Bay Area companies on Glassdoor. My bet is you'll find the middle 90% to be between, say, $90K and $150K.

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Re:We need to rethink employee compensation by exacube on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @09:22PM (#9775469)

Every level 5 (senior) engineer at Google and Facebook converge around $250k in total yearly income (probably more for facebook recently since their stock tripled in the past year).

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Re:We need to rethink employee compensation by varelse on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:37PM (#9774959)

Really? My starting salary as a level 1 engineer in the first dotcom boom was $115K. Now had I taken a more fun (but as it turns out in reality frequently not very fun) job in the game industry, that salary would have been ~$70K. This of course is an industry segment with its own crazy outliers.

Fortunately, someone sensible figuratively smacked me upside the head and convinced me to take a more practical job (which ended up pretty fun actually).

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Re:We need to rethink employee compensation by ryandrake on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:47PM (#9774993)

That's about 3X what mine was for a similar junior position during the same time period, so again, congratulations :-)

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Re:We need to rethink employee compensation by rhc2104 on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:49AM (#9776182)

Here's Google on Glassdoor, for "Senior Software Engineer".

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin...

About 250k in total comp. A lot of it is in stock grants, but those are completely liquid.

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