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July 9, 2015 at 12:45 AM #787823
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[quote=kev374]I can’t believe these figures, no software engineer I know makes $200k+ a year, even Sr. Architects are making only $150kish a year. Most Sr. Software Engineering salaries I have seen in the LA area in the range $100-130k or so…and there are so many companies here that do not want to exceed $110k, that’s with a laundry list of requirements including every hot technology listed in the job description.

The market seems really dead right now, my old company said they had 25 resumes in a single day for 1 open position, all the H1bs or the thousands of H1bs that are converting to Green cards daily.[/quote]Wow, those are some low pay relative to the higher cost of living in LA compare to SD. That must suck. Qualcomm in SD pays regular engineer between $76-110k base: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Qualcomm-Software-Engineer-San-Diego-Salaries-EJI_IE640.0,8_KO9,26_IL.27,36_IM758.htm, Sr. is $92-123k http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Qualcomm-Senior-Software-Engineer-San-Diego-Salaries-EJI_IE640.0,8_KO9,33_IL.34,43_IM758.htm and Staff is $109-153k http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Qualcomm-Staff-Software-Engineer-San-Diego-Salaries-EJI_IE640.0,8_KO9,32_IL.33,42_IM758.htm and Sr. Staff makes $145-169k http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Qualcomm-Senior-Staff-Software-Engineer-San-Diego-Salaries-EJI_IE640.0,8_KO9,39_IL.40,49_IM758.htm. If you add in cash and rsu bonus, then Sr. Staff makes over 200k on average and $276k on the high end.

Also keep in mind QCOM is not the highest paying company in SD either.

Intuit Sr. Engineer makes between $100-143k with the average being $120k. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Intuit-Senior-Software-Engineer-San-Diego-Salaries-EJI_IE2293.0,6_KO7,31_IL.32,41_IM758.htm Add in cash and RSU bonus and you’re looking at $138k average and $181k on the high end.