Entry-level software engineers can earn over $170,000 a year at Meta and Google, new data shows. That beats out pay at Amazon and Apple.
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Grace Kay
Aug 31, 2023, 00:35 IST
Entry level engineers can make over $170,000 at Meta and Google, new Blind data shows.Getty Images
Entry-level software engineers can make over $170,000 in total compensation at Meta and Google, Blind found.
Blind reported that Meta and Google have higher pay for entry-level engineers than Apple and Amazon do.
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Engineers fresh out of college could make over $170,000 at tech companies like Meta and Google, according to recent data from Blind.
Blind, an anonymous job-posting site that verifies users' employment using their company emails, found that Meta and Google typically offer entry-level software engineers higher compensation packages than companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft do.
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Blind said its data is based on "hundreds of thousands of data points about salary, equity and bonus for nearly every job function, major company, industry and state." The company used data that was self-reported by its users from January 2022 to August 2023.
At Meta, an entry-level software engineer earns an average pay package of $179,000, while the highest level engineers at the company take home an average of $655,000 a year. At Google, entry-level engineers collect an average of $184,000 per year in total compensation, while the company's highest level software engineers bring in an average of $655,000, Blind reported, with the caveat that it had less data from higher level staffers.
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Out of the five Big Tech companies, Microsoft and Apple had the lowest pay for entry-level engineers: an average of $141,000 and $142,000, respectively, Blind reported.
The Blind estimates were slightly below data from other websites that track tech pay. Glassdoor put the median total annual compensation for an entry-level software engineer at about $198,000 for Meta and about $202,000 for Google. Meanwhile, Glassdoor estimates the median total compensation for entry-level software engineers in the US across the industry is about $105,207.
The Blind report also looked at pay discrepancies among employees and found that pay varies most heavily at Amazon, but is more consistent at Apple and Google. Engineers at Meta appear to be able to climb the pay ranks faster than workers at the other tech companies.
Spokespeople from Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta did not respond to a request for comment from Insider. A spokesperson from Microsoft declined to comment on the data.
Big Tech employees have long earned more than their counterparts at other firms. But tech recruiters told Insider that some companies were using layoffs to cut the salaries of new hires. Major tech companies have laid off thousands of staff over the past year.
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