| Depends on your experience and what you're working on. Netflix famously hits those $400,000 type levels with total compensation, as do Facebook and Google. You can earn $300k to $500k in AI for example. And that's not just in Silicon Valley, Google is paying that in Britain as well. [1] For 2016, Juniper Networks had a median total compensation of $157,000 ($135k median base salary). Emphasis that that was just the median for their employees. You can imagine what the top 10% of their engineers are earning. I mention Juniper because they never come up in these discussions, there are a lot of tech companies paying extremely high total compensation figures in the bay area. VMWare's median compensation was $152,000 for 2016. So again, imagine what they're paying the top 10% of their engineers. Not much of a stretch to guess that a lot of them are earning $300k to $400k in total comp. --- "Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talent" "Costs at an A.I. lab called DeepMind, acquired by Google for a reported $650 million in 2014, when it employed about 50 people, illustrate the issue. Last year, according to the company’s recently released annual financial accounts in Britain, the lab’s “staff costs” as it expanded to 400 employees totaled $138 million. That comes out to $345,000 an employee." [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/technology/artificial-int... |