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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Well those are essentially gov employee salaries, and tech contractors only make a little more than civilians except for the rock stars.

I’ve tried for years to get into FAANG, I’m likely too old now, so where else in DC would I get higher pay like you allude to?[/quote]

Faang is literally only 5 companies and only 3 of them hire here. There are plenty of companies you can get a lot of compensation now that a lot of companies are hiring remotely. [/quote]

Well how do you find those high compensation companies?  I’ve had offers from over a dozen companies, and they were barely above my contractor salary ($160k). [/quote]

PP, please come back and share your wisdom![/quote]

Do you have a clearance?  You have to shop around.  You have to go to the big companies, not the small companies.[/quote]

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