[quote=svelte][quote=Coronita]Svelte, so I’m not sure why there’s a difference, but when I went to Indeed, this is what I got….
Less that 1 year : $122k
1-2 years: $125.7k
3-5 years: —
6-9 years: 143.8k
10+ years: 164.8
Indeed also indicates a $600k cash bonus.
That’s puts the 1-2 years around $131.7k.[/quote]
That is strange! I went again and got my same numbers.
Not sure how to explain that.
My kids friends are graduating and I know a few local companies are paying recent UC and CSU CSCI grads under $100K, sometimes closer to $90K. There are probably some hiring at more than that too but I’m not sure who those are.
Really hard to get to ground truth.[/quote]
Yeah, these survey’s are all over the map. I have my suspicions they tend to trend on the lower side because they probably are filled out by people who are looking for a job and reflect what they are previously making. Once someone finds a new job, it’s sort of less motivation to take the time to fill out surveys. It’s no different than app reviews. People fill out app reviews when they are pissed more so than they are happy.
One thing is certain though, there is a minimum wage law for CA software engineers exempt employees. Someone can’t be classified as exempt if their annual salary is less than $104k. And if they are not exempt, they are subject to overtime pay over 40 hours, and there’s a minimum hourly wage for non-exempt software engineers.
For software engineers in CA, it’s just not practical to hire them as non-exempt… So I suspect a lot of employers here in SD are probably oblivious to the CA minimum wage laws increases that went into effect Jan of this year.
If they are paying less than $104k for an exempt employee, the employer is technically breaking the law and can be severely fined….
But many people, even software engineers aren’t even aware of this minimum wage law.
I had one employee that was slightly below, so we are fixing it now and retroactively reapplying it back to be the beginning of the year.
It’s one of the many reasons why I think software engineers are compensated better than other engineering disciplines, at least in CA. You can thank the gaming industry for this.
Oops, and I meant $6k cash bonus. Not $600k cash bonus. That would have been nice, lol…
