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I don't know... Glassdoor's system seems to work pretty well for collecting this kind of data. Sure the number of reported salaries is maybe too small to say anything specific about individual companies, but in aggregate places like Glassdoor and LinkedIn could probably tell us with high certainty what the distribution looks like.

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In a world where (A) compensation is typically mostly in the form of liquid equity grants and (B) compensation amounts change rapidly year-on-year, Glassdoor's system vastly understates compensation in the field.

But you have to recognize that this system is very atypical outside of FAANGs. Most large companies have very modest stock incentive programs.

> FAANGs

Do we just use FAANGs to mean every West coast software company? Because otherwise it is very typical of non-FAANGs as well.

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