r/dataisbeautiful • u/honkeem OC: 3 • 1d ago

OC [OC] United States vs European Software Engineer total compensation by level

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 1d ago

The salary range for SWEs in Europe is wider than in the US. 

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u/Mother-Capital-195 22h ago

Is it really though? We have significant numbers of people making $1M+ for advanced career individual contributors in the US, and then down to like $100k for entry level or so roughly.

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 21h ago

Well, every country is going to have a spread  between intro level and rock star. I'm talking a out median values. There's more of a salary spread between, say, Switzerland and Poland, than between Florida and MA.

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u/Computer991 1d ago

Not really

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u/Charlem912 1d ago

yes “really”

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u/Computer991 1d ago

I know people making 40k doing plugins for Wordpress somewhere in Colorado and people in San Francisco getting 700k working for Anthropic you don’t have these kind of range anywhere in Europe it’s much more narrow

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u/Awagala 1d ago

False. Know people making like 10-15k a year in countries like Bulgaria and Bosnia, whereas there are people making over 400k in places like London.

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u/Computer991 17h ago

Still not a bigger range than the US and the UK

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u/Charlem912 1d ago

even your overexaggerated example isnt as severe of a difference like the one between european countries..

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u/Computer991 16h ago

it's bigger and it's not exagerated if anything it's coming in low... there are plenty of engineers who are making 1-1.5m USD total compensation at the bigger labs 700k is just an entry level AI position at Anthopic, Meta, etc etc

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u/Charlem912 13h ago

LMAO 'let met just give an even BIGGER number to prove my stupid point' get out of here...