Microsoft's lowest-tier engineering positions (level 57) have base salaries starting at $83,000. Level 57 hires receive stock awards of $5,000 to $13,000 and sign-on bonuses between $0 and $9,000 with no selection criteria specified. Level 59 base salaries start at $120,800 with cash bonuses ranging from $3,000 to $19,300. Level 60 base pay ranges from $111,000 to $160,000 and cash bonuses range from $9,300 to $21,700. These figures produce a clear seniority-based progression but place the lowest entry tier below the commonly expected Big Tech entry-level compensation. Guaranteed hiring benefits are limited, and cash bonus variability creates unequal onboarding compensation among similarly leveled hires.
There are, as Meek Mill so aptly put it back in 2013, " levels to this" - seniority levels, that is. Microsoft's lowest-tier engineering positions are coded, as BI reported another recent story about the tech giant's salary ranges, at level 57. Those jobs start with an $83,000 base salary rate - life-changing money to the average American, but low on the spectrum tech workers grew to expect from hugely profitable corporations competing to hire the best talent.
On top of that base salary, level 57 engineers are also, per the leaks, given a $5,000 to $13,000 stock award upon hiring - the only guaranteed hiring benefit, given that their sign-on bonuses range from $0 to 9,000, with no criteria about how that figure is selected. In the latest piece about the leaked salaries, BI started its salary range charts at level 59, the top of the entry-level tier.
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