With regular chats with a few old coworkers in various FANGish companies(we talk total comp between us) the numbers are always solid at levels, I wish this was more widely known as companies want to keep pay bands secret to drive down engineer's wages. Good work on the site and thanks!
We're working on salary transparency across different levels with our website http://levels.fyi (mainly software engineering to start).
We were thinking of launching an executive version of our site. Still in our plans down the road, but it'd require people willing to submit their compensation to our site in a verified way. We're still brainstorming, but there's a lot more nuance at upper levels where people negotiate across way more things than just strictly compensation.
LinkedIn has a feature now called LinkedIn salaries if I recall. Pretty cool to get metrics of salaries around your area and at companies you may have interest in. Gives you a decent picture of the pay scale for your job.
A long time ago, I was a software engineer at Boeing. The local SPEEA rep had a chart posted outside his cubicle with the salary (grouped by years of experience) for all the DS-9s in the office.
There were enough people that you couldn't identify your peers exactly, but it gave you a very good sense of what everyone else was getting.
Considering salaries listed on Glassdoor for tech companies in my area are about half of what engineers actually make, employers would be much better served by publishing accurate salary info (including RSUs, not just base) if they want to attract candidates.
I love these things. Transparency in salary information gives the employees more power. I know the site is down at the moment but it's worth it to bookmark and come back later. Make sure you set the search fields to 2013 or 2012 to 2013 to remove stale salaries. You don't want to negotiate using data from 2009. ;)
Here is comparing google to microsoft to amazon in Seattle. The gaps are pretty wide even for college hire SDE salaries. Go demand a pay raise today!
Thanks. Yeah that's why my salaries/compensation detail are all public, so I can try and help nudge the needle a bit towards at least having ranges available everywhere.
We've only recently started putting them on our monthly "Who's Hiring" post on the suggestion of some Engineering colleagues.
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