#tech-salaries

#tech-salaries

Seven out of 10 companies have formal RTO policies requiring some in-office time. A surprising 93% of business leaders believe being in the office is necessary. Fully flexible setups (remote or employee's choice) dropped from 39% of jobs to 28% between 2023 and 2024. Only 7% of companies allow fully remote work in 2025, down from 21% in 2024. While 44% of employees say they'd comply with a 5-day office mandate, 41% would start looking for other work, and 14% would quit.

There are, as Meek Mill so aptly put it back in 2013, " levels to this" - seniority levels, that is. Microsoft's lowest-tier engineering positions are coded, as BI reported another recent story about the tech giant's salary ranges, at level 57. Those jobs start with an $83,000 base salary rate - life-changing money to the average American, but low on the spectrum tech workers grew to expect from hugely profitable corporations competing to hire the best talent.

AT&T's principal software engineers are compensated between $167,098 and $207,425, showing competitive pay relative to other tech companies like Meta and Microsoft.

"The last couple of years, more women are saying they're attracted to a nerd. They literally use the word nerd. So I think that's kind of a buzzword to describe these guys in a sexy way."

"There's a ton of ripple effects I'm hearing in the Valley. There is a sense of jealousy, envy, and helplessness, and everybody being like, 'I thought I was doing pretty well. What am I doing wrong?...'"