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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

Are you a boomer and thinking of 1980s salaries? Your company must either have lots of vacancies or really low performers if those are your rates. I'd avoid working w/ you.[/quote]

Nope.  44 year old with a masters in electrical engineering.  Been in the industry for 20 years.  First half of my career was in Silicon Valley and second half in the DC area.  I've worked at tech companies in both locations.  I hire mostly embedded firmware guys, hardware engineers, and mechanical engineers for my team.  Our company does software as well, so I know the salaries of those guys too.  When I started out in the late 90s, entry level guys were making 50K in the valley fresh out of school.  I have no idea what people were making in the 80s.  I'm not that old.

If you look at the BLS links posted above, they seem to match pretty well with what I've posted.[/quote]

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