[PheonixPharts]

I have never worked for a FAANG company, or anything close, and can usually not get in the front door at any "prestigious" company.

In my last round of interviews nearly all startups/small companies I talked to where offering 200k+ for remote senior engineers. It's not hard to break 200k remote as a software engineer.

If you're not there I highly recommend you start looking around, even in this market, rather than simply dismissing this comp as "prestigious faang only". Personally I think the 500k+ TCs are going to disappear for all but the rarest of cases (this is closer to what FAANG engs that I know make), but 200k+ is likely to be the baseline for the foreseeable future for experienced software engineers.

[candiddevmike]

I do hiring for small companies, no one is paying that much. 130-150k is base for seniors. Also seeing a decrease in US based developer jobs, lots of offshoring happening. I'm halfway considering moving to Costa Rica and running a firm down there.

[PheonixPharts]

They must be very small because I don't know of anyone hiring senior devs in that range. Even those smaller, early stage companies I know are offering at least 150-190k base, and they struggle to hire.

However if you're dealing with dev roles that are being actively outsourced I suspect you're dealing with an entirely different class of software jobs.

[moneywoes]

Where are you finding these jobs?

[VirusNewbie]

Do you make 300k? You said it was “easy to get” so surely you’re above that?

[PheonixPharts]

Yes and so do all of my teammates and every senior engineer at a publicly traded company you've likely never heard of.

Again it's pretty standard anywhere in tech right now, startup or otherwise, to get 200k base + equity. Technically most startups I've chatted with also offer 300k+ TC... but that assumes the equity component eventually becomes liquid.

Around 200k base is very easy to get anywhere right now, and getting larger than that is a factor of how liquid your equity is. If you join a publicly traded company you should easily be able to get 200k base + 100k/year of RSUs

And to be clear: I'm talking about Senior Engineer level in the US. Most of these roles I've looked at are remote so the NY/SV part is not necessary.

edit: your profile says you work at a FAANG so this should be old news for you.

[VirusNewbie]

I make well above 300k. It wasn’t an “easy” interview by any means.

You can go look at levels.fyi and see that there are plenty of F500 companies that don’t pay 300k for L5. Just spot checked for Ford, Disney, AT&T, Verizon, Target, and more.