Psst, Here Is Some Updated SV Salary Porn For Ya

Figures are inclusive of all salary components… (was wondering why they looked so high…)

Impressive :slight_smile: these are difficult jobs and should be properly compensated…

Absence. Apple, Google, Amazon, Tesla and other hardware companies. The software guys in above companies could be taking home similar salaries.

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Google would match FB in that list. I am surprised OpenTable pays that much.

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How is OpenTable on that list? They literally have one product and no clue how to run a business. They sold themselves to Priceline. It’s interesting how many of them aren’t public. I wonder what the split between cash and equity is. Recent IPOs haven’t’ performed well, so those people might be in for a rude awakening of what their equity is worth by the time lockup ends. It also makes you wonder when companies that are losing money like crazy are paying more than profitable companies.

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I really question the salary on that list
this is more realistic please
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/20-highest-paying-tech-companies-america-124611338.html

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Again, isn’t the first article including total compensation including equity, bonuses, etc. while your article looks to be only really including salary compensation? Or at least it seems that way to me…

How does they calculate RSU/Options value for Private companies? For public companies, it seems pretty close to what I know in the market.

Options are usually only for the earliest employees. Those options are usually based on a % of the company. RSU value is based on the most recent round of funding. That’s why you’ll see people rush to join before a funding round… If they say you’ll get $200k of RSU, that’s a lot different if the last around was $7/share and next round will be $12/share. I’d have a lot of questions about the salary data including equity. Are they counting the total value of the grant given that year or 1/4 the value due to 4-year vesting? Are they counting the value of prior grants that vested that year? If it’s prior grants, then it’s probably a reflection of a significant increase in share price. Future comp won’t be that high unless the stock keeps growing at the same pace. Anyone that’s been at a company where the stock was growing 2x+/yr knows the RSU cliff you hit once the stock levels off or decreases.

It’s actually good they’ve switched from options to RSUs for later employees considering post-IPO performance of most. People who join after the last round before IPO would probably be under water on strike price by the time lockup ends. At least with RSU, they maintain some value.

By far the closest stats I’ve seen (aside from Blind app) is this:

There’s also downloadable raw data where the stats came from.

Full story…

Agreed. Dropbox isn’t public yet.

Valuations based on last financing.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/07/12/tech-salaries-apple-google-facebook-salesforce.html