The Levels.fyi website recently released a 2022 programmer income report, based onOver 150,000 salary applications collected.Compensation data in the report reflects annual compensation totals collected over the past yearmedianincluding salary, stock and bonuses.

“Just as the market heated up rapidly at the beginning of the year, by the end of the year the market had entered a harsh cooldown. Layoffs and a hiring freeze were bright spots at the end of the fourth quarter, and 2023 was increasingly uncertain. Still, relative last year,Salaries are still generally increasing at the very top companies and levels. “

While the data is for software engineers, the highest-paying companies and locations often apply to a variety of technical roles, the site says. And the salary and level depend on various factors, including interview performance, past experience, competitive offer, etc. And the statement said that these salary figures are mainly for those technology companies and locations with the highest salaries, and may not reflect the salaries of other companies in the market.

The report shows that in the classification of entry-level engineers, quantitative giants Two Sigma It tops the list with a median salary of $274,000. This is followed by Stripe, a payment solution provider, with a salary of $266,000. Databricks, the commercialization company behind Apache Spark, came in at No. 6, with a salary of $221,000.

For mid-level engineer positions, Databricks has the highest median salary of $443,000. This is followed by GM’s self-driving subsidiary Cruise and the game platform Roblox, at $361,000 and $354,000, respectively. ByteDance, the only Chinese company on the list, ranks fifth with a salary of $323,000. In addition, in the Staff Engineer list, Byte also ranked seventh with a salary of $564,000.

The median salary of the Chief Engineer (Principal Engineer) can reach as high as $1.044 million at Facebook; followed by Stripe, with $900,000; Airbnb ranks third, with $796,000. They were followed by Apple ($752,000), Netflix ($725,000), Twitter ($700,000) and Snap Inc. ($690,000). Principal engineers generally have 15+ years of work experience, usually less than 3% of employees in a company are at this level, and smaller companies may not even have any individuals at this level. Its influence spans the entire company and sometimes industries. It is expected to operate completely autonomously.

From the perspective of geographical distribution, the top three regions with the highest income for programmers in the United States are San Francisco ($234,000), Seattle ($213,000) and New York ($187,000).

Within Asia, the region with the highest income for programmers is Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel ($159,000). China’s Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shenzhen and Hsinchu City in Taiwan Province ranked fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth with salary levels of US$89,000, US$85,000, US$79,000, US$77,000 and US$69,000, respectively.

More details can be found in the full report.