Facebook is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We have a simple system where each engineer has the title "software engineer" and a level 3 through 9. Year after year, engineering jobs are paid the highest average starting salary.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) engineers have a median annual wage of $91,010 and the engineering field projects to have employment growth of nearly 140,000 new jobs over the next decade. Two reasons - 1) years of exp is BS 2) Your current TC reflects you are just an engineer with exp.. people who are special get principal level with < 10yrs exp with What is an engineering degree worth? Facebook is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. The higher the level, the more power the employee has, and the more they are paid. Microsoft employees are situated on a scale from level 59 to 80, while Amazon employees are ranked L4-L10, and Facebook employees receive a status that is on a scale from E3 to E9. Engineers Get Top Pay. Tyler Willis, the CMO of Hired.com, a company that connects job seekers with companies, says it's not unusual for Facebook or Google to hire 300 to 600 entry-level engineers in one year. We start at 3 to calibrate levels across the company (there might be IC 1s and 2s in other departments). As a basis of comparison, Glassdoor says the median base pay across all tech companies for a software engineer is $97,119 with total comp including bonuses, stock at $128,000. To my understanding there are a lot of similarities between the levels at Facebook and Google. At Facebook, all the engineers are required to code on a whiteboard during their interviews. There are tight ranges of potential salaries that a prospective employee might qualify for, based on their level and role. My old boss was a 65 but his title was "principal director of engineering", new boss is the exact same level and job and his title is "principal engineering manager". Senior->principal->partner are the level bands, 63/64->65/66/67, 68/69/70. When it comes to where you actually rank and what you get paid that part is all that matters. Based on this years respondents, the average entry-level engineer or program manager will have a total compensation of $125,665. A vast majority (87%) of that will come from an average base salary of $111,096, with an average cash award of $10,701 and stock award of $3,867. An employee is hired onto a certain level, and can be promoted to a new level. Glassdoor analyzed more than 71,000 open job listings at tech companies that require knowledge of code, software or data to find the 10 highest Here's how salary offers and raises are determined, according to Gale: 1.