Dan Luu

That ignores stock, the largest component of compensation. That's like removing salary for lawyers!

Total comp for an ok (not amazing) "senior" offer today (4-N years exp.) is $300k. Glassdoor shows $266k, but that's low per @rkoutnik

On the exception side, my 1st team at MS offered a new grad $250k total comp; he had similar offers from FB, Google, and Apple.

*exceptional. He left 1.5 years later for numbers in the range we're talking about here and turned down a significantly higher counter-offer

For people with 6+ years of exp. at some places, numbers like that are mundane. Hard to pass the silly filters, but that's another story.

Also worth noting that specific area of engineering matters at this level - UI engineers don't do as well as platform, for instance

BTW, one reason comp has gone up faster than one might expect is that has shot up since the Google et al. wage fixing agreement was killed

Google et al. started having to actually match FB offers, which caused a bidding war which still seems to be causing comp to increase.