Wandering Adventure Party

@recursive @noracodes @spinach @datarama @xgranade I don’t like the author for various reasons; unfortunately the author has some of the more accessible and comprehensive writing on industry topics

@noracodes @spinach @datarama @xgranade I was waffling a bit on if I should mark 150k as for senior engineers, but I guess it’s hard estimating the summary statistics of this trimodal distribution.

actually, no. four distributions.

There’s four different distributions for non-managerial “tech” roles:
- as much as other white collar employers at the company
- a premium over other white collar employees
- an entirely different scale versus other white collar employees
- an entirely different scale versus other tech employees

respectively: “in house software development plus IT at school district or small to mid sized company”, “software development at mid to large sized company”, “software development at tech company”, and “shook zuck’s hand for AI money”

@noracodes @spinach @datarama @xgranade average total compensation rate for an engineer is likely around 150k because there’s a lot of people in mid-col areas working for companies that simply don’t pay that much

@noracodes @spinach @datarama @xgranade in Boston, you won’t make the Good Rates despite the high col

it’s extremely “col adjustment is what we say it is, not what it actually should be”

@xgranade @datarama not too rare, but still a relatively small percent

Number of companies that pay like that is numbered below 100, and your average fortune 100 company pays half that to a senior engineer.

my personal estimate is maybe “one in five at a well paying tech company”, which works out to maybe 50k people tops across all such companies.