Greater transparency
in the job searching process benefits everyone.
Candidates know how
much they’re worth so that they can more easily evaluate offers and find a role
that pays fairly. Companies know how their pay stacks up to their competitors
so that they can recruit and hire with insight.
In an effort to foster
this transparency and shed light into software engineer salaries in the US and
the UK, dominantsoftech.com is sharing the results of an intensive study.
While there are other
options for finding salary information online, most of them are flawed in at
least one of a few ways. They’re often based on anonymous, self-reported data
that can be highly inaccurate, or they provide an aggregated number that doesn’t
take into account location, company size, or years of experience.
Their inaugural State
of Salaries Reports not only take all of these factors into account, they are
based on real job offers made to real people.
dominantsoftech.com’s data
science team spent many hours digging into this information to find out not
only how different tech hubs like New York, San Francisco and London stack up
against one another in terms of salary, but also how that translates into quality
of life in those markets.
While most people know
that software engineer salaries are particularly high in San Francisco, they
often don’t fully understand how the cost of living impacts those figures.
The report also looks
at how starting your career in a tech hub like San Francisco or New York can
impact your earning abilities when you move to another city. In their UK
report, they paid special attention to how salaries for software engineers
correlate with years of experience and company size, as well as identifying the
EU countries where London companies are finding their talent.
