Comment by skeeter2020
18 days ago
>> $170-180k a year, like an average-level senior software engineer in the US.
I hear things like this all the time, but outside of a few major centers it's just not the norm. And no companies are spending anything like $1k / month on remote work environments.
I mean, it's at best an average-level senior engineer salary, not some exorbitant L6 Googler salary.
Median salary for a software engineer in the US is ~$133k:
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
I question their data if their p90 value is $211k
I recognize that not everyone makes big tech money, but that's somewhere between entry and mid level at anywhere that can conceivably be called big tech
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Salary data like this has to be interpreted by someone knowledgeable. Very often it becomes skewed or invalid in various ways. Source: close relative is a compensation analyst.
Define “senior engineer” though..
People who do this for a living actually have such a definition.