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What Are Silicon Valley's Highest-Paying Tech Jobs? (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Job-search site Indeed crunched its Silicon Valley hiring numbers for 2018, looking at tech job searches, salaries, and employers, and found that engineers who combine tech skills with business skills as directors of product management earn the most, with an average salary of US $186,766. Last year, the gig came in as number two, at $173,556. Also climbing up the ranks, and now in the number two spot with an average annual salary of $181,100, is senior reliability engineer. Application security engineer is third at $173,903. Neither made the top 20 in 2017. And while it seems that machine learning engineers have been getting all the love in 2018, those jobs came in eighth place, at $159,230. That's still a bit of a leap from last year, when the job made its first appearance on Indeed's top 20 highest-paying jobs in the 13th spot at $149,519. This year's top 20 is below; last year's numbers are here.
Further reading: 'Blockchain Developer' is the Fastest-Growing US Job (LinkedIn study).
Good to be below average yet again
both make a lot of money. Management jobs with engineering and business experience, I'd guess just business, then engineering would follow.
Next would be AI's, but ain't nobody paying them.
For many years I've made between $225k and $425k as a developer.
Average around $260k. Last year was $345k.
duh
It's technical in that you have to use electronic lists and send lots of emails to people. If you hustle you can sell houses in the Bay Area and make 5X what an engineer does, with a whole lot less brains.
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The fucking SJWs get $285,000 administrator jobs to purge the company of anyone who is not a Maoist or a Muslim, then they learn to code once they're in the company and become highly praised technology leaders afterwards. Average blokes can't even get an interview and often end up blacklisted without knowing it because they blogged something mainstream in 2009 that people decided was off-color in 2016.
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San Francisco Orchestra Minimum Salary 141K average 171K
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1102/
But you still have to live in Calf. That 150K salary cant even get you a 1 bedroom apartment.
Exactly. We don't make shit in Kentucky.
Corporatism != Free Market
hand-to-hand combat, armour & offense weapons, physical fitness, writs of indulgences for bad neighbourhoods, can get overtime and paid administrative leave for mistakes until their deterministic trial, but this occupation is highest suicide rate at 400 per year according to Psychologist Kevin Gilmartin.
Or at least give the mean after throwing out the outliers.
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I'd rather live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and make less money. Granted, I do have to make sure I have security bolts holding the bars onto my windows, since the crackheads have vice grips to loosen the regular bolts and rob you, but at least I don't have to deal with expensive housing, a long commute, and crowds.
Whenever I get a call from a recruiter in the Bay Area, I tell them I am not interested in relocating unless they have something ridiculous to offer. 200k doesn't count as ridiculous. As earlier posts mentioned, 200k in the Bay or NYC sort of sucks.
So I wouldn't count realtors as tech jobs, not by a long shot.
Is that in local currency? Geeze. I make that much in a place that costs 1/3rd the amount to live in.
186K to live in Silicon Valley?
Where the average house costs a million bucks?
And the State tax rate is double the rate where I live now?
And gas costs nearly $5 a gallon?
I would need at least double that to have the same standard of living as what I have now.
With wages like that, I can see why companies chase h-1bs. Yet, "The jobs Americans can't do", pay 60K/year, for lowered skilled positions?
i make $225k/year as a developer. Suck it silicon valley.
One correctional sergeant made $983,6602 in total compensation 2017.
And people wonder why government in California is going bankrupt...
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There have been rumors of salaries in the 3 million dollar plus range per year for certain rockstar AI developers in Silicon Valley. Were these people not included in the study or perhaps they limited themselves to positions that are more generally available and discounted well known celebrity or high profile hires as outliers.
When I lived most of the workers were essentially migrant workers. We got paid a lot but no one intends to stay. My experience with a family of 4, our costs went up 50% (150K to 230K) and our cost of living went up 60% (40K to 65K). But our after tax savings went from 60K to 95K. That's pretty significant for a young family. The healthcare there was far better than in Ontario and the public schools (if you choose the right ones) are amazing. Weather is unbearable if you happen to be a family of red heads though.
The author of this "study" is correct in saying that "engineers who combine tech skills with business skills ... earn the most" but they are incorrect in placing product management at the top of their list.
An experienced enterprise sales engineer at a company like Salesforce or Oracle can pull in $250,000 a year. And unlike a "director product management," a sales engineer at that pay level is not a manager; one can hit this level of pay without having any headcount.
Why are sales engineers paid so well? Three reasons:
(1) Limited supply. Finding people with the rare mix of technical and interpersonal skills is difficult and big companies need a lot of sales engineers.
(2) Revenue generation. Unlike product management, sales engineers are on the front line of the revenue generation process. Lose all of your product managers and your sales team can keep functioning for a year or so. Lose all of your sales engineers and the revenue engine seizes up immediately.
(3) Sales culture. Big companies throw huge amounts of money at their sales executives. The top salespeople at places like Salesforce and Oracle bring in over $1M per year. Paying the top sales engineers $250K is a relative bargain.