But I can admire their reasoning (empathy, equality) and the fact that they are sticking by a principle. If I had "f you" money I might simply join just cause what they're doing is so damn cool.
Salary? Easily? Where?
I've been browsing a lot of staff and principal jobs on LinkedIn recently. Some Crypto firms are around $300k, and I've seen one or two Fintech with specialized knowledge at $400k, but by far the majority are in the $200k region.
- Netflix pays over $500k
- ByteDance pays $530k (they were willing to do all cash at the time, but they may have changed it to 90% cash recently)
- 2 HFTs, both above $750k
Signing bonuses not included. Some companies had >$100k signing.
I'm not a rockstar and I have around 5 YoE.
If you're okay with stock comp (which historically does better than an all-cash offer due to the massive initial equity grant and refreshers), there are plenty of big tech companies offering around the $500k+ mark today.
Netflix recently advertised an eng mgr role for appsec with a published TC ceiling of 900k, for instance. They even wrote that into the linkedin JD.
That said, the higher you go on TC, the higher the risk that the company doesn't have much of a social contract with its staff and may in fact have a deleterious relationship with society at large - e.g Meta. Not always true, but generally yes.
levels.fyi is pretty comprehensive.
price: its where supply and demand meet
demand isn't that high
supply is high and getting higher
at some point the CFO is going to ask why salaries are $X when people will clearly accept less