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What Are Silicon Valley's Highest-Paying Tech Jobs? (ieee.org)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the growing-demand dept.

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).

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  1. Chinese Political Officer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    appropriate captcha: messes

  2. It is to laugh.... by erp_consultant · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.