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Tangential to the article, but I think there is an error in this report. At Staff Engineer title you have Broadcom listed at second place with total compensation $786,000. The level listed is ICB 6. ICB 6 is actually 2 levels above Staff Engineer in Broadcom's leveling, titled as Master.

Staff Engineer, ICB 4, average pay at Broadcom comes up as $321k in it's leveling table.

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That's actually intentional, and one of the reasons why our site exists. Every company has different nomenclature for their leveling that doesn't necessarily align with other companies. So we developed a standard as a normalization for all the leveling which you can view here: https://levels.fyi/standard

As a part of this standard, ICB 6 falls under the 'Staff Engineer' standard level (you'll also notice it maps closer to Google and Facebook's Staff levels as well: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer?compare=Broadcom%...)

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