How do you feel about Indeed's reported entry level SWE salary?

It's possible this is including many misclassified listings (e.g. hourly paid internships). Additionally, I've seen some listings for higher level jobs for absurdly low salaries ($19,000) which I can only imagine are typos. I wonder if the average somehow includes other regions too with very different cost of living. I wouldn't put too much stock in those average numbers. If you are looking to get an idea for the market for entry level SWE positions, it might make sense to narrow the search to known companies in your region.

"Entry level" needs to be better defined. Is it for somebody with just a short boot-camp education or somebody who has completed a college degree and some internships?

The 99% of employers who are not FAANG are always trying to pay as little as they can get away with.

It's not inaccurate. General job sites often pay below average and attract very low quality applicants. There's the story going around that 99.5% of people in the job pool can't pass FizzBuzz. That's where they all lurk.

The top paid jobs there are Bloomberg, Fannie Mae, eBay. They're not terrible jobs but they're cream of the crop there.

That’s suspect. The site says that’s the average salary reported, implying many make less.

Another data point… if you can find a $15/hr full time job (minimum wage in many US markets now), that’s ~30K per year.

I feel that one number summaries of huge complex distributions are generally meaningless.

Is this good or bad?