Salary In Big Tech Companies

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Amazon and Meta pay their top engineers the most: an average of $691,000 and $655,000, respectively, to as high as $950,000. Google ranks third, and Microsoft and Apple pay their engineers the "lowest."

Even the lower-salaried engineers at all companies are averaging around $150,000 per year and and higher. At Google and Meta, entry-level employees with none to one year of experience are making $184,000 and $179,000, respectively.

Regarding promotions, Meta engineers seem to level up the fastest and have some of the highest pay, whereas Amazon's promotions seem to take the longest to go through. Amazon also has a wide pay band for engineers, leading to a lot of variance in total compensation.

In contrast, though Apple's total compensation may be the least competitive, its pay bands across job levels are the most consistent and fair. Google also has fairly balanced and consistent pay bands. This means it's rare for someone at a lower job level to get paid more than someone at a higher level...

Microsoft, which also pays on the lower end compared with its competitors, has many job levels for software engineers. This might give the company more flexibility to hand out more promotions...

More details:

https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Blind-Data-Highest-Total-Compensation-in-Big-Tech-tyozNW0a

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/cost-of-living-by-state/

https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/country/united-states

https://www.axios.com/2019/05/27/cost-of-living-cities-united-states