The Silicon Valley Wage War: Unveiling Salaries Of Top Talent At Apple, Microsoft, Google
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) offer some of the highest salaries in Silicon Valley.
This allows the companies to attract some of the best talent and, in turn, deliver some of the most cutting-edge technology advancements every year.
While the tech industry as a whole has experienced workforce reductions in certain areas, these industry giants are actively expanding their teams in high-demand fields (i.e, artificial intelligence) and have demonstrated their unwavering commitment to securing top talent by offering substantial salary packages.
Digging Into The Details: Apple, Microsoft and Google don't publicly disclose salary details, but the companies are required to report offers in work-visa applications submitted to the U.S. Office of Foreign Labor Certification.
According to a Business Insider report, out of the three technology juggernauts, Apple had the highest pay floor at just over $102,000. For comparison, Google offered salaries as low as $55,000 and Microsoft made offers as low as $77,000.
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The data doesn't include stock-based compensation and grants that can significantly increase overall pay. Additionally, individual performance rewards and bonuses are not accounted for in the provided data.
Here's a look at some of the base salary ranges the tech giants offered to prospective workers for open positions last year.
Apple
- Global Supply Manager: $145,000 to $185,000
- Architectural/Engineering Manager: $200,750 to $286,874
- Software Development Engineer: $138,762 to $216,300
- Manufacturing Design Engineer: $124,200 to $203,335
- Machine Learning Engineer: $155,000 to $205,000
- Systems Design Engineer: $134,307 to $217,990
- AR/VR Development Engineer: $127,000 to $230,000
- Application Development Engineer: $131,808 to $255,000
- Data Scientist: $119,000 to $186,929
- Legal Counsel: $210,000 to 225,000
Microsoft
- Support Engineer: $77,000 to $135,000
- Data Analyst: $104,000 to $140,000
- Content Developer: $133,000 to $156,000
- Technical Writer: $94,000 to $158,000
- Product Marketing: $106,000 to $164,000
- Business Analytics Specialist: $101,000 to $166,000
- Product Manager: $110,000 to $225,000
- Software Engineer: $175,000 to $250,000
- Data Manager: $133,000 to $270,000
- Business Planner: $135,000 to $310,000
- Product Analyst: $101,000 to $218,000
- Accountant: $111,000 to $191,000
- Solutions Consultant: $78,000 to $225,000
- Product Manager: $146,000 to $251,000
- Marketing Manager: $148,000 to $293,000
- Software Engineering Manager: $210,000 to 340,000
- Network Engineer: $106,000 to $266,000
- Privacy Engineer: $136,000 to $198,000
- Visual Designer: $148,000 to $205,000
- Data Scientist: $103,000 to $269,000
Some parts of this story were previously reported by Benzinga. It has since been updated.
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