Ask HN: What's your total income?

59 points by jkw ↗ HN
Job title, Location,

Salary, RSU/ISOs, Cash Bonus

63 comments

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Senior software engineer. 25-35 employees in the company. 6 years in the company (almost from the start)

210,000$ base salary

Cash bonus is about 12,000$ a year on average (in the last 5-6 years).

I have about 0.8-1% of the total shares. Company is not public, round C.

Senior QA Engineer, 104k, 0, 5k, 4k passive from apps I made. San Diego. I need to make the jump to a developer some how :-/
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Software Engineer, Austin, TX

95k salary + 20k consulting on the side

I'm moving to Austin soon and currently trying to get a grasp on local salaries.

Would you mind adding your years of experience and what parts of the stack you're working in (iOS, Rails, 'full stack')?

I'd appreciate the update!

VP and CTO, Bay Area 180k/year, ISOs (about 0.3% of the company x year)
$0. Left a 108k job, now developing recipestasher.com for free and fun on my own. Will probably get a real job again soon...
Linux sysadmin, Australia.

AU$151k (US$111k), 0, 0

Stockboy, Target, Albuquerque

18421 gross

Marketing Manager, SF

$120K, $45K, $15K

DevOps Person, Austin

85k, 8.5k (total) paid out quarterly, 10k from consulting so about 103k total

about to leave to join small consulting shop for 110k

I'm moving to Austin soon and currently trying to get a grasp on local salaries.

Would you mind adding your years of experience ?

I'd appreciate the update!

about 3 years - i think an experienced candidate could command about 140k
Founder, Software Engineer, Santiago de Chile

340k

Senior software engineer, Bay Area

$190k base, $150k/yr rsus, $115k cash bonus

Rsus will be liquid soon at given or higher value.

Principal engineer, Bay Area 205k, 30k rsus (public company), 35% annual bonus
Programmer + System Administrator, Middle US

$48,000, $0, $0

Edit: About 75% of respondents at this point are from green accounts. I wonder if that will sink it off the front page quickly.

Senior Software Engineer, 118k salary, 6-10k bonus. Chicago.
$0. Left a ~$120k base job in the Boston area to travel for a few years. Not the first time I've done this.
Software Eng, London UK, 55000Ł, 0.2% options, 0

20 people, 4 years of exp

NVH Engineer, 95k, Detroit 3 yrs experience and a master's degree.