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Chapter One - To Know the Present
Through the Past
Sideline
/ Jobs with a six-figure USD starting
salary /
The position of data scientist is one of the
fashionable jobs, another is software engineer. They
share similar backgrounds and training; their salary
has also skyrocketed.
According to a survey by a U.S. software engineer,
the starting annual salary of a computer science
graduate is USD120,000 (about HK$936,000) in a
listed tech company; students can also earn a six- 051
figure salary even in a startup company. This is
only the basic salary, if a stock bonus is included,
their annual compensation could be doubled, as
in the case of the author herself who works in San
Francisco.
In her survey, the basic salary plus bonus of
software engineers in other U.S. cities, ranging from
university graduates to those with four years of work
experience, only represented 60% to 70% of the Bay
Area. However, do not forget that Silicon Valley and
the Bay Area are famous for their high living costs,
so employees have a higher income and higher
expenses at the same time.
