<story><title>Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers</title><url>https://huyenchip.com/2020/01/18/tech-workers-19k-compensation-details.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>compiler-guy</author><text>This is terrific work, but the early claim that, “As far as I know, this is the largest data on compensation and level details of tech workers.“ makes me wonder if he isn’t aware of the other data sets, or wrote imprecisely.&lt;p&gt;There are extremely detailed and very large sets of this sort of data available if you are willing to spend large amounts of money and sign big nondisclosure agreements.  All the biggest companies share into these sets and know what everyone is paying everyone else.&lt;p&gt;So the companies don’t have an advantage just because they negotiate with many people themselves. They know because they get industry reports about what everyone else is doing.&lt;p&gt;This doesn’t change anything about his points. If anything, it makes them stronger. But better data absolutely is out there.</text></comment>
<story><title>Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers</title><url>https://huyenchip.com/2020/01/18/tech-workers-19k-compensation-details.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baron816</author><text>&amp;gt; Indeed surveyed 1,000 women in the field and found that the main reasons women leave tech are: advancement opportunities, wage disparity, and work-life balance.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if they leave because of a &lt;i&gt;perceived&lt;/i&gt; wage disparity&amp;#x2F;lack of advancement opportunity. Actually, everyone should be wondering that and we should try to get hard evidence. This report suggest that there isn’t much of a disparity, and it’s generally very hard for anyone to get to very high levels. If we had good statistical evidence that women aren’t discriminated against when it comes to promotions and compensation, then more would likely stay. If we had evidence that they were, well, then we could do more.&lt;p&gt;I do have less sympathy for women who have an opportunity to work in tech than for women working as waitresses, or as social workers, or maid.s Women leaving tech are doing so probably because they can afford to. But most women out there aren’t that lucky. What I’d like to see is the government doing more to make it possible for all working women with families to better balance their lives. Probably the best thing they can do is extend the school day and school year and provide stipends for child care. Mandating that more women get board seats isn’t going to help the single mother working at the grocery store cashier very much.</text></comment>