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by AlexanderNull 2370 days ago
Way too stingy. Engineers here make $14,000 - $33,000 / month, average is closer to the bottom of that though. Those engineers have executives too.
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Where is "here?" The average engineer salary (even if you say software dev only) in the US is absolutely not $170k/yr, it's closer to half that.[0] And $400k/yr is dentist-level money. I'm not saying nobody makes that, lots of devs (in absolute terms) do, but it's about as helpful as saying "businesspeople make $40M-$40B a year" when the vast majority of them make $65k/yr as a middle manager.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=median+software+engineer+sal...