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Mid level faang employees get paid over 10 times more than me? I need to get a new job...





Fwiw, here are a couple other rough estimates of pay in the US. These are entirely my opinion, but I am in engineering so I think these are pretty well calibrated. I only share these because they might be useful to get a sense of how your job measures up:

Entry level engineering (any type): 80k minimum

Entry level software engineering: 120k minimum

Multiply by 1.5x for high cost of living area (Bay Area, New York, Boston, LA)

Multiply by 2x for FAANG in HCOL area

Levels.fyi gives good estimates of software eng pay bands above entry level. Non-software almost always makes less :/




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