[merpnderp]

300-350 for mid level developers and up to 600 for seniors? Where is this?

[kzhahou]

Big tech companies in silicon valley.

[conanbatt]

I want to believe the numbers you provide are right, but then I look at https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Salaries-E40772.ht... and cant see where to get more reliable sources for thinking facebook or google pay that.

[jedberg]

Keep in mind that the people who make a lot more than that are highly motivated not to share. I know for example that the Netflix salaries on Glassdoor are definetely too low, since I know a broad range of salaries there.

[kzhahou]

Those salaries on Glassdoor pretty much match what I'm saying, with salaries running up to $165 for senior devs. Add 30% for bonus and $100-150K in stock and you're into the $300K+ range I'm describing.

The $600K+ figure is for director level and above.

The $2M/year individual contributor was an outlier.

[bhousel]

$150k salary + $150k stock does not equal $300k salary. Not even in SV. And that 30% bonus sounds like made up nonsense.

[kzhahou]

Why the hostility? I'm not making any of this up. That bonus is typical of multiple places I've been, usually comprising 15% individual performance bonus and 15% company performance.

And of course 150 sal != 300 sal. 300+ is total comp, as I already said.

[hueving]

Software Engineer 5 at Facebook is total comp $268k on glassdoor. Your estimates are way too high.

[mvgoogler]

For Google at least, those numbers are pretty much spot on.

Source - I'm a mid-level engineer at Google and my total comp is within the stated range.

[ldehaan]

Google and Facebook don't let it be easily known who their highest paid employees are, or even that they exist. They'd get poached.