If you work in tech: what are your salaries?

[Anonymous]

My sister does sales for IBM and is 100% commission. She made $850,000 last year.

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Anonymous wrote:My sister does sales for IBM and is 100% commission. She made $850,000 last year.

Sales isn’t tech. It’s sales. She could sell IBM <snicker> or viagra, she would use same skills and her assets.

[Anonymous]

IT ops Fed portfolio manager (W-2) contractor) $184k
Portfolio around $7M/year
6 direct reports

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Anonymous wrote:Just to let everybody know, the salaries that have been reported here are, for the most part, so outlandish compared to what the average computer science or engineering grad can home to make coming out of a top 25 program as to be worth ignoring. These folks are the the 1% of graduates. Not everybody can work at FAANG. By comparison, the average salary for a top 25-ish fresh computer engineer is 91k, but at google it's more like 170k.

Exactly this. I work in a local tech company that sells to the DoD. None of our engineers are making that kind of money. $150K for managers, $130K or so for senior developers, 80k for new hires fresh out of school.

I confirm. I make 120k in low cost area. If I hoped now I may get 150k but that's for a senior position.

I agree. I think some trolls are having fun.

There’s a whole bunch of other tech companies that are paying folks with 5-10 yoe over 300k. Dozens of them.

Can you name them? The list above seems more like trendy unprofitable Unicorns…

Not PP, but I was searching levels.fyi for 5-10 YOE in NOVA/DC area. Below are the companies paying over 300k (total comp)
400k+: Stripe, Netflix
300k-400k: Amazon, Facebook, Bloomberg, Salesforce, Twitter
Of course, if you look at the bay area, there are much much more paying above 300k, even above 1M.

I'm just incredibly skeptical of this. I work for one of the highlighted and we are most certainly not hiring in that range.

I work for Microsoft at 240k. I believe the 300k+ Amazon numbers (No way in hell would I work for Amazon for anything less than 50% more what I make here)

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Anonymous wrote:Just to let everybody know, the salaries that have been reported here are, for the most part, so outlandish compared to what the average computer science or engineering grad can home to make coming out of a top 25 program as to be worth ignoring. These folks are the the 1% of graduates. Not everybody can work at FAANG. By comparison, the average salary for a top 25-ish fresh computer engineer is 91k, but at google it's more like 170k.

Exactly this. I work in a local tech company that sells to the DoD. None of our engineers are making that kind of money. $150K for managers, $130K or so for senior developers, 80k for new hires fresh out of school.

I confirm. I make 120k in low cost area. If I hoped now I may get 150k but that's for a senior position.

I agree. I think some trolls are having fun.

There’s a whole bunch of other tech companies that are paying folks with 5-10 yoe over 300k. Dozens of them.

Can you name them? The list above seems more like trendy unprofitable Unicorns…

Not PP, but I was searching levels.fyi for 5-10 YOE in NOVA/DC area. Below are the companies paying over 300k (total comp)
400k+: Stripe, Netflix
300k-400k: Amazon, Facebook, Bloomberg, Salesforce, Twitter
Of course, if you look at the bay area, there are much much more paying above 300k, even above 1M.

I'm just incredibly skeptical of this. I work for one of the highlighted and we are most certainly not hiring in that range.

I work for Microsoft at 240k. I believe the 300k+ Amazon numbers (No way in hell would I work for Amazon for anything less than 50% more what I make here)

There are a lot of people who are underpaid at these big companies. It's the same everywhere, you have to know the market and negotiate.

[Anonymous]

just like the problem w/ not finding work, tech workers are sick of the dc area's low wages for contractors and they are going unfilled. If you don't pay a developer over 200K/year then you aren't going to get one. thanks

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Anonymous wrote:just like the problem w/ not finding work, tech workers are sick of the dc area's low wages for contractors and they are going unfilled. If you don't pay a developer over 200K/year then you aren't going to get one. thanks

Ha. No it’s easy. Just hire women and old people, they are just as capable for 95% of developer work, but tech company brogrammers shun them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sister does sales for IBM and is 100% commission. She made $850,000 last year.

IBM is not 100% commission. They offer a base salary too

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My sister does sales for IBM and is 100% commission. She made $850,000 last year.

Sales isn’t tech. It’s sales. She could sell IBM <snicker> or viagra, she would use same skills and her assets.

This really isn't true. Our best salespeople can speak to how our products work and how our network is constructed, and they're familiar with the industry. It's not the same skills and assets one would use to sell pharmaceuticals.

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Anonymous wrote:My sister does sales for IBM and is 100% commission. She made $850,000 last year.

Sales isn’t tech. It’s sales. She could sell IBM <snicker> or viagra, she would use same skills and her assets.

No it's not. A lot of sales reps have an engineering background and chased the money. My DH is one of them, we met in college. In enterprise sales you have to understand the customers environment. I'm still in the engineering department and sales reps who are not technical don't survive.

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Anonymous wrote:Just to let everybody know, the salaries that have been reported here are, for the most part, so outlandish compared to what the average computer science or engineering grad can home to make coming out of a top 25 program as to be worth ignoring. These folks are the the 1% of graduates. Not everybody can work at FAANG. By comparison, the average salary for a top 25-ish fresh computer engineer is 91k, but at google it's more like 170k.

Exactly this. I work in a local tech company that sells to the DoD. None of our engineers are making that kind of money. $150K for managers, $130K or so for senior developers, 80k for new hires fresh out of school.

I confirm. I make 120k in low cost area. If I hoped now I may get 150k but that's for a senior position.

I agree. I think some trolls are having fun.

There’s a whole bunch of other tech companies that are paying folks with 5-10 yoe over 300k. Dozens of them.

Can you name them? The list above seems more like trendy unprofitable Unicorns…

Not PP, but I was searching levels.fyi for 5-10 YOE in NOVA/DC area. Below are the companies paying over 300k (total comp)
400k+: Stripe, Netflix
300k-400k: Amazon, Facebook, Bloomberg, Salesforce, Twitter
Of course, if you look at the bay area, there are much much more paying above 300k, even above 1M.

I'm just incredibly skeptical of this. I work for one of the highlighted and we are most certainly not hiring in that range.

I work for Microsoft at 240k. I believe the 300k+ Amazon numbers (No way in hell would I work for Amazon for anything less than 50% more what I make here)

There are a lot of people who are underpaid at these big companies. It's the same everywhere, you have to know the market and negotiate.

A lot of the high comp is coming from stock appreciation. If you get 300k of unvested stock at sign on, and if the stock does a 4X you now are making significantly more, esp if you don’t sell when it vests.

[Anonymous]

I work for one of the top 50. Nope. 15 years and nowhere close to this. TC is $192k. Project manager.

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Anonymous wrote:I work for one of the top 50. Nope. 15 years and nowhere close to this. TC is $192k. Project manager.

Sounds about right, higher than many.

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Anonymous wrote:I work for one of the top 50. Nope. 15 years and nowhere close to this. TC is $192k. Project manager.

Sounds about right, higher than many.

You do realize project and program managers get paid significantly less than the actual developers right!? I have to sit all my managers down when they come on board and tell them their job is literally to keep their team together and yes many of them make more then twice as you. If the some of those developers leave, we lose contracts.

Typical first year developer gets paid 180k. Our best are mid 300k. And the best of the best are getting eye watering amounts via stock options.

[Anonymous]

Yes, some public sector contractors make that much if they work for intelligence agencies. Very tough to find someone with that skill set and with TS/SCI + Poly clearance.