6/9 I need some information on starting salaries for new cs grads in
Silicon Valley. Anyone willing to post some numbers in the motd?
Also if anyone knows a reliable source for this information please
let me know. Thanks. -emin
\_ 45K-75K for fresh out of college.
\_ what kind of idiot's pay this much for new grads?
\_ the kind that cant hire anymore furriners
\_Foreigners are REALLY cheap and hard working. They're also
pretty smart. Get them while you can. -Foreigner fetish
\_ Perhaps it's a Green Card issue. --jon
\_ and put up with more management bs...
\_ Depends on what kind of work you're interested in, and what
kinds of skills you have. $45K-$75K is about correct if you
have a college degree. It can go lower if you don't have a college
degree or if you have very little skills.
\_ not terribly true. With less than two years of college, I was
already able to take about $50k with decent benies. granted, i
was a contracted sysadmin, but hey, it's cash.
\_ i think a decent job with a decent company will start at around
45K-50K. the ones that pay more IMO sucked...i.e. you're working
for a crappy company (like tandem), you're doing crap work (like
writing freaking printer drivers), etc...but for pretty cool C++,
java, CORBA type work that's cutting edge at a big company or a
small but very promising company...you generally get around 45K-50K
plus some stock options. that's the route that i would take.
\_ Person with MS (phd candidate) from Berkeley got 70K at my company.
Person with BS from Berkeley got 60K although he's REALLY good.
My company is big. 30,000 employees. I bet smaller companies pay
even better.
\_ How much can you expect your salary to rise in the first several
years, provided you're doing a good to excellent job.
\_ 13%, 32%, 44%, 15%.
\_ I got a $10K raise from $55K to $65K after my first year
because my company thought I did an incredible job. I think
\_ so how much are you making now d00d??3?
this kind of thing is most likely at start-ups where they
need really good engineers and the company is small enough
for people with power to realize when engineers are worth the $.
-wedge
\_ (real value) I got an 8% raise after first year in large
company (>10000)
company (>60,000 employees).
\_ 8% raise, plus another 6% "increase to match the market"
because the company realized it was paying too little ^_^
\_ I got a 1% raise after my first year!!!!! And they upgraded my
free candy from Tootsie Rolls to Hershey's Kisses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-foreigner
\_ Well, someone go and bug the career center to reveal what's the median
salary range for CS & EE and post it here please!! It was $45K a year
for Bachelor a year and half ago when I asked .
\_ Funny you mentioned this. When they gave me the survey, I wrote
down "$10,000/year PLUS A LOT OF STOCK OPTIONS!!!" I asked all of
my friends to do the same. I wonder if they really averaged
all the numbers :) In short, it's probably better to have an
industry filled with people who have real passion for
technological wonders than people who are overly money
hungry or obsessed with making over $XYZk a year -kchang
\_ i'm sure it hasn't changed that much since then
\_ They probably saw the "$10,000/year" part and filed your
survey in the "Ethnic Studies Major" folder without bothering
to look any further. That's why responses like yours don't
skew the healthy EECS numbers.
\_ 2 years ago when i graduated, i started out at 35K (june 96). at
the end of the year, i also got a 7K bonus so it came out to 42K.
in june 97, my raise after one year brought me up from 35K base
to 50K base. with bonus my salary ended up at around 55K (salary
restructured to give lower bonsuses). then 6 months later in
jan 98, i got another raise and brought me up to 60K base +
around a 10K bonus for this year. i also cashed in on my
stock options as the small company was acquired. got around
20K. this month, i got another raise...our raises are every six
months now and my new salary is 70K base + 15K/year salary +
more options in the new larger company that acquired us (they are
public and IPO). |
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