#tech-salaries

#tech-salaries

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.

AT&T's principal software engineers are compensated between $167,098 and $207,425, showing competitive pay relative to other tech companies like Meta and Microsoft.

"The last couple of years, more women are saying they're attracted to a nerd. They literally use the word nerd. So I think that's kind of a buzzword to describe these guys in a sexy way."

"There's a ton of ripple effects I'm hearing in the Valley. There is a sense of jealousy, envy, and helplessness, and everybody being like, 'I thought I was doing pretty well. What am I doing wrong?...'"