A Glassdoor survey reveals that it's not Facebook or Google that pays the most for their software engineers. Apple didn't even make it on the top five.
Glassdoor is a free jobs and career community that offers an inside look on jobs, companies and bosses, from its "employee-generated content." It compiled and compared more than 33,000 salary reports of software engineers in the earlier 12-month period to list the top 25 companies that pay software engineers the most. The results showed that all those 25 companies pay hundreds of thousands.
Surprisingly, it is not the famous social networking site Facebook or big data company Google who pays the most, though they are in the top 10. It is none other than Juniper Networks.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Company, which designs and markets high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services, has an average base salary of $159,990 -- a figure that is triple times the average income of the rest of the population.
The second spot belongs to the social networking site for professionals LinkedIn with an average base salary is $136,427, Yahoo follows at $130,312 while Google sits at the top four with $127,143. The fifth place goes to another social networking site Twitter at $124,863.
Facebook, which has the most users among social networking site and earns a tremendous amount of revenue, pays its software engineers with an average base salary of $121,507.
Among the top 25 highest paying companies, 17 are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region that has the highest base developer salary in the U.S., with an average base salary of $111,885 – way more than the national annual average base salary of a software engineer which is $92,790.
A total of 15,732 companies are hiring in-demand software engineers all over the U.S. There are 2,139 companies in Washington D.C., 2,246 companies in New York, and 3,846 in the San Francisco Bay area. That might be the reason software engineers are paid generously.