Editor’s note: This article was first published in June 2012; Facebook’s 900 million users and the annual salaries listed for its best-paid positions are 2012 figures and are long out of date.
Let’s take the list of the best-paid jobs found at Facebook, not out of envy for the pay, but as an idea of where possible job openings may lie in today’s labour market: not because of the job title, but because of the content of the work.
The most popular social network of the moment has 900 million users, and among them the 17 best job options have been found. While the salaries of politicians (and their scant benefit to society) or of big-company executives are frightening, some of us think we ended up with the wrong salary.
When looking at the list below, we should think only about the sector where these great jobs and salaries are found. Not because of what we ourselves might earn, but because there may be openings there, if not for such a “juicy” post, then at least for a job that gives us stability.
Top of the list is the senior software engineer. If we look up the company or its location, we might get lucky with an opening, or at least find it worth looking into possible offers. If nothing else, it is a clue that software is still a sector that creates jobs, and software also creates more junior positions.
Seeing posts such as “user interface engineer” or “network engineer”, we discover, or at least it makes us think, that the new technologies and communications sector still needs workers to keep growing. Let’s find out where those opportunities exist.
The top positions
- Senior software engineer: 107,533 euros a year.
- Product manager: 105,618 euros a year.
- User interface engineer: 104,801 euros a year.
- Machine learning engineer: 100,792 euros a year.
- Engineering manager: 100,129 euros a year.
- Research scientist: 100,071 euros a year.
- Network engineer: 98,604 euros a year.
- Business development manager: 93,329 euros a year.
- Software engineer: 90,538 euros a year.
- Junior software engineer: 81,155 euros a year.
- Project manager: 79,777 euros a year.
- Operations engineer: 67,867 euros a year.
- Recruiter: 65,395 euros a year.
- Site reliability engineer: 65,259 euros a year.
- Product designer: 64,112 euros a year.
- Software engineering intern: 60,623 euros a year.
- Account executive: 50,416 euros a year.
Further reading
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