HACKER Q&A
📣 camjohnson26

What Is Your Salary?


The hiring market is weird right now which makes it difficult for job seekers to know what their value is. Companies try to control the spread of salary information so they have more leverage when negotiating. So my question is where are you, what is your role, and how much do you make?

I’m in the midwest United States earning $150k as a senior frontend engineer with 7 years of experience.


  👤 simonblack Accepted Answer ✓
A better question is "What is your Income"?

Salary is fleeting. You could be fired tomorrow. You could get run over by a bus. Your company may be taken over and shut down. Your blood-pressure might get so high that you can't work. You might become a paraplegic.

"Where is your salary now??"

Prepare your time-after-salary now, while you still have it.


👤 pnutjam
Midwest, bigger city. Sr. Linux Admin - $113,196.00 (company claims $125,666.89 with benefits)

More people need to talk about salary.


👤 redredhathat
NYC 120k with 10% Target bonus. First software engineering job (2 YOE in Project Management beforehand).

👤 LarsLarson
Germany, Junior Fullstack Dev. Just made my Bachelor in CS. 44k€


👤 metabro
Assuming you mean income?

330k usd data engineer 10 yoe Bay Area


👤 Z0rb
320K USD 8 YOE Bay Area