Ask HN: How has your salary changed over the past 5 years?
Clearly the pullback in tech has had an effect, and there were reports about 9 or so months ago that tech salaries had fallen around 15%. For me personally my salary has basically been flat for the past 5 years (some ups and downs), and it's probably the longest stretch I've seen that happen. When you take inflation into account it means my salary has fallen about 19%. Overall it definitely feels to me that there is salary compression at many levels - on the lower end I see tons of outsourcing to LatAm and Eastern Europe, so junior folks are competing with those salaries, and on the higher end unless you're in senior management (SVP or above) that salaries are essentially capped lower than they've been in the past. Note I'm not so much in "the thick of it" with regards to the current hotness of AI, so not sure how those salaries compare.
Just curious to hear what others are seeing.