500 Highest Paying Tech Companies (Dec 2023)

[danpalmer]

This data is really not that useful, or doesn't reflect what the simple title suggests it does.

There doesn't appear to be any attempt to control for job level, and it's not even clear how one would control for such a thing. Public company stock and private company stock appear to be valued the same which may be true on the surface, but is a wild misrepresentation of reality (in many ways). Different companies need different distributions of skills, so would have different median salaries even though they might be paying the same amount for the same job. This doesn't account for geographical distribution, those centered in the bay area are likely going to be higher up this list despite others potentially paying much better in their regions.

[miketromba]

Agreed, added a wall of disclaimers to clarify what it is and what it isn't.

[altdataseller]

Would accounting for years of experience control for job level somewhat? That's the only info that could be extracted

[najork]

The data seems wildly inaccurate. The total comp for some of the private companies seems way too high, not to mention how the equity is extremely illiquid. The total comp for nvidia seems way low given how their recent performance.

[ghaff]

And there are a ton of large "boring" tech companies that are not on the list at all. I don't expect that they're anywhere close to leading the pack in comp, but not in the top 500?

[VirusNewbie]

well, some private companies have liquidation events regularly, like Stripe or SpaceX. I'd consider that only slightly more risky than a public company.

I assume the same for Databricks, but i'm not sure?

I think nvidia has some title inflation. I have a friend who work there as 'distinguished engineer', and it's more likely they would be L6 or L7 at FAANG.

I'm guessing overall Nvidia's comp is very similar to most FAANGs in terms of skill and YOE but not title (maybe excepting entry level, since it goes lower and is more fine grained).

[altdataseller]

Are you suggesting that people are putting in bad data to Levels.fyi? Because the data wasn't extracted out of thin air, or made up.

[drexlspivey]

“ In March 2022, OpenSea saw revenues of $61.33 million; in March 2023, it had revenues of $172.33k. The drop represented a whopping 99.72% fall. The platform's fees have also fallen from $193.94 million in March 2022 to $1.41 million in March 2023.”

That’s OpenSea, no 11 on the list making $1.4m of monthly revenue and paying SWEs 430k salary

[codegeek]

Also clubhouse. Is it still alive ?

[DeIlliad]

OpenSea still being a thing is insane to me.

[ldjkfkdsjnv]

Talk about an absolute squandering of capital.

[acchow]

For a marketplace that takes a cut of transaction, why is revenue != fees?

[notatoad]

i'm assuming they pay you in NFTs, not cash?

[fnbr]

These numbers are wildly inaccurate. I spotchecked multiple places that I know the salaries and they're wrong.

[altdataseller]

How would you know they're inaccurate, unless you work in HR and know everyone's salaries? Just because the median is lower or higher than you or your immediate peers doesn't mean it's inaccurate, because you might have a bias

[zippergz]

Agreed. I've worked at more than one company on this list, in positions with visibility into multiple peoples' total comp, and none of those are shown accurately here.

[jimbokun]

Are they mostly too high, too low, or all over the place?

[urda]

Also agreed, there's a lot of inflation of reported numbers here.

[roflyear]

from my check, this doc seems to be showing the base comp (cash $$) for many positions. not all, but many.

[jeffchao]

Saw the description on the README which shows median, fair, but there's a lot of nuance such as whether or not it's a new offer, location, and level. As a consumer of this info I'd usually try to understand comp against those extra dimensions. That said, great simple table though!

[Icathian]

Neat, thanks for sharing.

1. Posting some methodology in the README might be good, such as any filtering you did or didn't do.

2. You do have some obvious duplicates on there, e.g. `cit` and `citadel`, `jane` and `jane-street`. It's probably not worth the effort to manually clean that up, but I figured I'd mention.

[miketromba]

Good call, added some more details.

[mupuff1234]

Yeah, i somehow doubt clubhouse stock has any value.

[hiddencost]

Garbage in, garbage out.

[altdataseller]

Where’s the garbage in? This is allegedly self reported data by actual employees, not made up fabricated data

[darth_avocado]

Is this new offers only? Because it matters a lot. I know people who joined Facebook an year ago when the stock was at rock bottom and are now making 800k+ as a Senior, mostly due to stock appreciation. (And thus reporting as such on levels.fyi)

[Matthias247]

It seems extracted from levels, so it's about whatever people report there.

[VirusNewbie]

I don't work at TGS, but I have a feeling they're much higher on average than this shows.

I've seen their recruiting emails, they are happy to hint at being able to 3x whatever someone's current comp is.

[runamuck]

Which TGS? Total Global Sports or the TGS Energy Data Company?

[francisofascii]

A good start, now just needs a tech stack, location, and remote columns.

[b8]

This list in inaccurate. Renaissance Technologies isn't even listed, and they offer very high TC. TGS Management offers way more than $500k for SWEs, I know one SWE makes $700k there.

[blackmesaind]

Would it be included in TC that your company managed Roth IRA grows by 66% each year? If so, it would be easily the highest on the list.

[claudiulodro]

If the numbers are wildly inaccurate as everyone seems to be saying, what are the actual highest-paying tech companies? The usual FAANG and quant-type companies everyone knows?

[altdataseller]

Roblox has to be among the top 5

[jimbob45]

Choosing companies by compensation is so 2019. In 2023, it's about your commitment to and track-record on remote employment.

[altdataseller]

Actually choosing companies at all is so 2019. Now it’s companies choosing you :(

[frankfrank13]

Apparently at CZI, L4 engineers reported to make less than L3 engineers. Seems like some data quality issues here

[w0m]

sounds like garbage data, but if they hire L3 and promote to L4, new hires will often make more than old-hands promoted up.

[neilv]

Recent OpenAI datapoints on Levels.fyi show something like $300K salary and $600K "stock", for hires just in the last few months...

Is that RSUs at some current valuation? ISOs with strike price at current(!) but assuming stratospheric growth continues over vesting period? Something else?

Is the stock value what the landslide support for the CEO-in-exile was about?

[altdataseller]

This is why adding equity to these comparisons is so problematic. It’s not apples to apples

[atlgator]

Can't speak to the accuracy of the salaries, but it's a handy list of "higher paying" tech companies for those applying right now. Nice to have it all in one place.

[spike021]

Assuming a decent amount don't still have hiring freezes. I know one of them definitely does. At least in the US.

[cobbzilla]

Uh, Convoy is on the list.

Maybe filter out the bankrupt ones?

[sbarre]

Hertz sure seems out of place in that list.

[Brystephor]

Number 8 on the list is "Radix". When you look into levels.fyi, it shows the salary as $25k.

There's definitely some publicly traded tech companies that are missing from the list.

[peacebreaker2k]

is clubhouse still a company ?

[darth_avocado]

On the topic of levels.fyi, the enshitification of the product has begun. It won't let you access things unless you provide your work email? Yeah right, like I am going to do that. A bunch of other mandatory questions in the sign up process also irk me a lot.

[LWIRVoltage]

This is a issue, as if you need a work email and your workplace actively monitors email and sees a confirmation message of some sort from levels, they could assume you are hunting for a new job and act on it. This seems to defeat the purpose of levels

[zuhayeer]

Work email isn't required to sign up, you can skip it

[ldjkfkdsjnv]

levels.fyi is the real source of truth