alt Hacker NewsYou're right, better to get the self selected data from levels.fyi that mostly cater to 6 cities in the country. Way more accurate then!
You need to vacate your bubble pronto.
You're right, better to get the self selected data from levels.fyi that mostly cater to 6 cities in the country. Way more accurate then!
You need to vacate your bubble pronto.
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Like you mention, big tech gravitates to a handful of tech hubs across the US, which drives up salaries for every company in the area. Which is more data suggesting something is wrong with BLS' numbers.
My expectation (based on anecdotal/personal data - if you have better data I'd love to see it) is that the median developer in a tech hub makes more than an entry level big tech kid. So unless there's either an error, omission, or unexpected inclusion in the BLS data, the data implies that nearly all of big tech, plus ~50% of developers in tech hubs, accounts for about 10% of the workforce.
That doesn't make sense. What does seem plausible is that this data doesn't account for bonuses, options, RSUs, and the like, which would put big tech entry level jobs right around the median for developers. I'm not certain if that's the case, but it at least passes the sniff test.