Editor’s note: This article was first published in October 2013, and its salary figures and rankings come from the Glassdoor report of 2013, with Juniper Networks first at $159,990 average base salary. Rankings and pay have changed since, and Yahoo no longer exists as it did then.
Software engineering is among the booming jobs, and in principle it is a profession that is here to stay, probably for decades.
When we think of software engineering, tech companies and firms that pay better than the rest, practically everyone thinks of Apple, Google and Facebook. However, according to Glassdoor’s 2013 report, the companies that pay their software engineers the most are not the big tech titans. Top of the ranking is the network equipment maker Juniper Networks, with an annual salary of $159,990, followed by LinkedIn in second place and Yahoo in third. Google is number 4 and Facebook number 9.
*Note that these figures are average annual base salaries. They do not include project incentives or performance bonuses, nor the stock options some companies give their employees.
There are also other benefits. At Google, for example, if an employee dies, the company pays their spouse half of their salary for 10 years, plus $1,000 a month for each child until they turn 19.
Further reading
- The 33 profitable businesses of the future and the industries that will create jobs
- Richard Branson: don’t hire a résumé, hire a personality
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