ITShifting.com has used Blind’s Salary Comparison Tool to find out the best paying companies among the U.S. top 10 tech giants.
LinkedIn, Facebook, and Salesforce offer the highest median salaries exceeding $160,000 per year, while Google is the leader in terms of maximum pay which stands at a whopping $440,000.
Here are median salaries marked by dots, with maximum and minimum pays marked by highest and lowest line limits, respectively:
Data collected by Blind, a social network for tech professionals, includes salaries for different categories of workers including cybersecurity specialists, data scientists, database administrators as well as managers, non-IT engineers, sales employees, etc.
Keep in mind, though, that tech salaries often depend on the worker’s level. The higher your level is, the higher your compensation. Each tech company uses its own system of levels. For example, Apple has five levels for engineers, from ICT2 up to ICT6. At Google, entry-level engineers start at Level 3. And Microsoft’s system starts at 59 for a software development engineer and goes up to 80 for a Technical Fellow.
Below are salaries for software engineers in tech giants depending on the level (Levels.fyi data).
Amazon:
- Software Development Engineer, SDE I: $121,421
- SDE II: $149,827
- SDE III: $162,221
- Principal SDE: $161,071
- Senior Principal SDE: not reported
- Distinguished Engineer: not reported
Apple:
- ICT 2: $126,872
- ICT 3: $147,136
- ICT 4: $182,850
- ICT 5: $212,563
- ICT 6: $309,000
Facebook:
- E3: $118,049
- E4: $159,276
- E5: $194,156
- E6: $229,441
- E7: $265,188
- E8: $298,000
- E9: not reported
Google:
- L3 (Software Engineer II, SWE II): $125,639
- L4 (SWE III): $153,047
- L5 (Senior SWE): $184,475
- L6 (Staff SWE): $218,185
- L7 (Senior Staff SWE): $266,000
- L8 (Principal Engineer): $318,750
- L9 (Distinguished Engineer): not reported
- L10 (Google Fellow): not reported
LinkedIn:
- Software Engineer: $145,861
- Senior Software Engineer: $172,224
- Staff Software Engineer: $210,267
- Senior Staff Software Engineer: $243,000
- Principal Staff Software Engineer: not reported
- Distinguished Engineer: not reported
Microsoft:
- Software Development Engineer, SDE (59): $110,509
- 60: $121,468
- SDE II (61): $135,006
- 62: $147,431
- Senior SDE (63): $161,808
- 64: $176,184
- Principal SDE (65): $195,813
- 66: $212,706
- 67: $220,857
- Partner (68): not reported
- 69: not reported
- 70 (Distinguished Engineer): not reported
- 80 (Technical Fellow): not reported
Oracle:
- Individual Contributor 2, IC-2 (Member of Technical Staff, MTS): $131,667
- IC-3 (Senior MTS): $148,021
- IC-4 (Principal MTS): $165,170
- IC-5 (Consulting MTS): $203,200
- IC-6 (Architect): $252,286
Salesforce:
- Associate MTS (Associate Member of Technical Staff): $128,857
- MTS (Software Engineer, SWE): $144,147
- Senior MTS (Senior SWE): $166,276
- Lead MTS (Lead SWE): $201,273
- Principal MTS (Principal SWE): $236,741
- Architect: $273,500
- Principal Architect: not reported
- Distinguished Engineer: not reported
Uber:
- Software Engineer I: $120,450
- Software Engineer II: $152,018
- Senior Software Engineer: $184,709
- Senior Software Engineer II: $216,103
- Staff Software Engineer: $244,636
- Senior Staff Software Engineer: not reported
- Principal Engineer: not reported
Yahoo:
- Associate Software Engineer (IC1): not reported
- Interim Software Engineer (IC2): $128,400
- Software Engineer (IC3): $142,600
- Senior Software Engineer (IC4): $172,211
- Principal Software Engineer (IC5): $181,727
- Senior Principal SE (IC6): $241,600
- Distinguished Engineer (IC7): not reported
- Fellow (IC8): not reported
- Senior Fellow (IC9): not reported
All these salaries do not include bonuses, which can vary between $8,800 and $26,340 for entry levels.
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