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Let's talk about how much we earned last year. Maybe this will help some of us to insure we are getting paid within the current market salary ranges.

Don't forget location, what you do, and your company. Optional, what major programming language you use.



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I have an idea. "Full-time software engineers in Lapland, what's your annual salary?"

I think sharing compensation information would be in everyone's best interest to ensure pay equity. While the site obviously focuses more on the technical side, I imagine there are many similar to me who like to develop for fun, but not so much full-time and therefore, we pursued something else like finance, marketing, etc instead.

Me: SFA, level 6, 6 years experience Recently joined (end of 2016) 110k base 45k sign on bonus (25k year 1, 20k) 50k RSUs over 4 years

I feel perhaps I should've negotiated my total comp as ~140k annually seems slightly low.


How does SalaryFairy know what's correct? Just in general?

Someone with a statistics background might have a better idea, but I'm thinking might help to allow users to, in their profile (and have it be optional), enter their salary.

That way, you'll not only be able to show people what other people think they should be making, but you might be able to (once a certain threshold is met) show what people with similar experiences in a certain region are making. And you'd be able to see how close the guesses are to the real thing and maybe figure out a margin of error.

It might also be nice to allow people to put in descriptions of what they did at their workplaces. Someone doing embedded development might get a significantly higher salary than someone doing .NET, even if they have a similar # of years of experience.


Majority of new IT grads earning 150k? This can't be representative sample for US.

> this is from about 100 data points, members of the “Hackathon Hackers” Facebook group, in 2015.

What's the point of analyzing data from such narrow and unusual sample?

RE: how to get data about programmers salaries, I'd say try to check job postings, they usually say how much company offers.


This is London specific.

What was your total compensation (TC) last year, including breakdown into salary, stock bonus (if any), cash bonus (if any), or anything else (benefits, pension etc)? What is your job title, company, industry, or sector? The rules are that any auxiliary information is welcome but optional (if you are worried someone will recognise you don’t give out too much) but top level posts have to have a number on them. Also specify curency if not £


After finding out that one of the top most comments on HN about an open salary discussion was about how a talented junior engineer was paid way below his worth, I feel that this sort of thread (monthly like the Who's hiring posts, or even quarterly) would help everyone negotiate better salaries and get a feel for their worth.

With that said let's stick to the following format:

Position:

Location:

Experience:

Company:

Salary:

Bonus:

Extras: (Longer vacations, stock options, perks etc. whatever made you sign up for your current role)


Another excellent idea: make it a regression:

Wage = a + byears experience + ctitle + dlanguage coded + ...

[a b c d ...] = ([array.T array]^(-1)array.T wage

thus people can figure out for themselves where they should be! :-)


So create a context. Suppose you're a junior developer in Slovenia and want to know how much your peers are earning. Create a pool named something like 'Slovenia junior dev position', enter your annual sallary and post the link to the pool here.

The only thing that kind of bugs me with this app is that the amounts have to be expressed in USD, so i have to recalculate them back to my own country's currency when viewing the results, otherwise, nice app :).


> But on the flip side, you'll know exactly how much your colleagues make.

For most large companies you can already research what the average salary is for a specific position on sites like glassdoor.


The numbers match everything I've gathered from talking to employees, my own paystubs, and job offers I got this year.

I also know foreign co-workers who always report their current pay when job hunting because they have looked themselves up on similar sites.


Yes! And I think that's great! When I posted a job here a few years ago I included the salary too. I'd love to see more companies adopting the same.

I don't have data to show you, I'm speaking from personal experience and I talk about salaries with my coworkers.

On a side note, at least in Norway, every publicly traded company has to file a yearly earnings report, with income and expenses. Seeing how much is spent on salaries, divide by the number of employees, and at least you know if you're paid above or below average (just remember to allow for certain tax expenses the employer pays as "part" of the salary, I suspect that would be different in most countries).

Not feasible (or meaningful) if you work for IBM, maybe -- but for a smallish company that should work. If you can't do that math, you probably shouldn't be doing software engineering either...


Perfect! Now I have a link I can send to all those recruiters that think I don't know what my market rate is. As a full-stack, dbadmin, devops, product management veteran engineer working on everything from Sitecore to virtual reality I consistently make as much if not more than my managers and I am not shy about letting everyone from HR up to executive management know.

Always be true to your skills. Know what you're worth and go out and get what you're worth - I learned that from watching Rocky.


Salary data should be public anyway. Let’s all share ours. I’m currently contracting for $95/hr. My most recent salary was $140k, my most recent contracts besides my current one were a flat rate $24k contract for up to 80 hours and a short term contract for $100/hr. (I obviously like my current contract quite a lot)

Nice idea. I've been sharing my salary history via email for some time now to help equalize it - this just takes it public.

BTW, I would probably suggest qualifying the income by location to set the context. SV pay isn't always, e.g., Boise, ID pay.


Consider using http://www.PayScale.com to find out what you should be paid. You can put in details about your specific job (skills, education, city, title, etc) and it will give you an accurate range of what the market is paying.

Note I work at PayScale BUT this is exactly one of the types of problems we're solving.


Isn't there a way to find your current salary by your future employer? For eg. I am making x$ per year today, could I say I am making 1.5(x) to my future employer and wouldn't he validate/verify it?

As usual, upvoting all the posts the list the salary range in the heading. I encourage others to do the same. #TalkPay ;)
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