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This week, I put together a list of 5 factors that might keep your web development salary lower than you expected. In researching the article, I pulled some fascinating salary data from a site called Levels. Since you are part of my inner circle, I wanted to share with you some interesting web dev salary stats from the cutting room.

First, a couple of quick notes to contextualize these numbers. The salaries reported here seem extremely high to me. They’re self reported, so you’re probably getting a higher percentage of people with high salaries reporting than people with average or low salaries. FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) seem to be represented better than mom-and-pop shops, so that’s also making the numbers skew high too. Please don’t beat yourself up if you’re already working and don’t make these numbers. If you’re looking for a job now or in the future, don’t make your job search about hitting these numbers. That’s definitely not my intent here, and I don’t think that’s realistic.

These are all entry-level salaries (filtered as only people with 0 years of experience). Also, I kept only salaries reported in the last two years. Now, onto those sweet numbers!

The lowest salary reported is $10 k . T ha t^{'} s n o t a U S s a l a ry b u t a s a l a ry in I n d ia . T h ere w erese v er a lp eo pl ere p or t in g t hi ss a l a ry f ro m d i ff ere n t co m p ani es - m os t I ha d n^{'} t h e a r d o f, b u tt h ere w a so n e p erso n w h os ai d t h ey w ere p ai d$ 10k by Microsoft.
The lowest North American salary is $53, 000 i s Van co uv er, BC . T ha t in d i v i d u a lw or k s (w or k e d ?) f or a co m p an yc a ll e d F or t in e t an d l i s t e d t h e i r j o b t i tl e a s " J u ni or S o f tw a reDe v e l o p m e n tE n g in eer ."$ 5k of that salary is in stock options and the remaining $48k is cash.
The lowest US salary is for GM out of Atlanta. Their pay is $64 k o f w hi c h$ 58k is the base salary and the remaining $6k is a bonus.
The highest Indian salary I find is $32 k f or M i croso f t, b u t o n l y$ 18k of that is base.
The highest Canadian salary is $116 k w or kin g f or A W S .$ 84k of that is base salary.
The highest US salary reported is $220 k f or F a ce b oo kin M e n l o P a r k, b u t o n l y$ 118k of that is base salary. The highest US base salary is $160k for Roku.
The highest salary that was reported as entirely base with no stock options or bonuses was a $100k salary for Spotify in Florida, NY.
The overall average of all reports for entry-level web devs in the last two years is $102k.
The average reported US salary is $116k.

Again, please don’t make any decisions based on this. It’s just fun to look at. If you want something more actionable, check out my article which will give you some levers to pull on if you want to increase your earning potential… or you may see that list and decide it’s just not worth it. More likely, you’ll find some levers you’re willing to pull and others that you don’t want to mess with. Any and all of those are perfectly fine.

Whatever the case, better to go in with eyes wide open, right?

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