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Take care, if some numbers seem a bit high, it's because the median pay here is only based on those who submitted their data to levels.fyi which tends to be mostly FAANGs and big-tech it seems therefore skewing some numbers really high, not based on national statistics for SW jobs of each country which would also include all of of mom and pop shops, bringing the numbers down to realistic levels.

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In my fairly large UK firm we have about 900 software engineers. Internally salaries are transparent, and tend to be in the region of

Junior (34k) / Normal (49k) / Senior (62k) / Principal (71k) / Team Lead (73k) / Senior Principal (89k) / Engineering Manager (104k)

(Throwaway obviously)

About 100 Junior, 300 Normal, 300 Senior, 100 Principal, 100 Team leads, 30 Engineering Managers, and under a dozen Senior Principals.

That seems more realistic, maybe a little on the low side but it definitely varies by industry (e.g. game developers get paid way less).

what does a day in the life look like for a junior swe being paid 34k

TBH when I was looking for SWE jobs in the UK in 2012 the salaries were… About the same? Maybe less for juniors but got quite a lot of 45-60k offers for mid dev. WTF, Brexit?

That’s what I thought these are pretty high numbers.

Really? Even if they're accurate I feel like I should be going to Switzerland asap.

As I commented elsewhere: when you see how much the rent for a small apartment is, and prices in the supermarkets, you may change options.

The pay in Switzerland is because of cost of living, mostly food, apartments.

I'd like to see a version of this in PPP for that reason. Or adjusted by median rents.

They're from levels.fyi, and if you look at Switzerland, something like 20% of all salaries are from Google employees. 100-110k is probably a better number.

I kinda disagree with other posters, even after CoL adjustments you're way ahead in Switzerland, especially given the usually low taxes. RE is totally unaffordable though, the rest is fine.

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