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So far we haven't had a candidate pass because of salary yet. Typically candidates looking for that stable $400k salary never even talk with startups, because they know that's only a FAANG position.

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Out of curiosity, I looked at how much your company pays.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/omniai/jobs

This doesn’t come close to what a mid level enterprise CRUD developer could make in Atlanta.

I'm from Atlanta, and $175k is pretty square with ATL ranges[1]. It's not a Google salary, but startup comp is always more equity weighted.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/atlanta...

My bad, looking at the page from mobile it didn’t look like a salary range. I misinterpreted it. I just saw $125K.

That being said, I would hope that position is remote for $175K. I would have jumped on it when I was a pure software developer working in Atlanta. But working locally in SF for that amount?

If you can’t live comfortably on 175k in SF, you have a spending problem.

And according to the calculators I saw, it would be 46% more expensive than living in Atlanta. But we you can choose other metro areas that are not on the west coast for comparison where you could also make $175K as a senior

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$145K is the median according to levels.fyi and 175K is around the 75th percentile.

According to salary.com, that’s the median for the highest level of IC in Atlanta.

https://www.salary.com/tools/salary-calculator/software-engi...

A person who takes a $175k/y but works 3.5h/d instead of 8h/d really costs the business $400k/y.

Your colleagues' network of high quality instant hires is only interested in switching to $400k/y opportunities.

This coin has many sides but it isn't complicated.

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