Hacker News with Generative AI: Salary

IBM CEO: 23% pay rise to $25M; average Big Blue worker: $48,582 up from $43,069 (theregister.com)
CEO salary watch IBM emperor Arvind Krishna's total financial package went up by double digits in 2024 to more than $25 million.

Business, Salary, Technology, Compensation

7 points by rntn 43 days ago | 0 comments

Software Engineer Salary Bubble Plot Map for Europe (levels.fyi)
Explore the interactive map of total compensation pay ranges across Europe, organized by cities and accompanied by a color-coded legend

Software Engineering, Salary, Europe, Data Visualization

7 points by zuhayeer 59 days ago | 0 comments

Google Pay Study Finds It Underpaid Men for Some Jobs (2019) (npr.org)
When Google conducted its annual pay equity analysis for 2018, the tech company found something nobody expected: It was underpaying men for doing similar work as women.

Google Pay, Tech Industry, Employment, Salary

78 points by wslh 75 days ago | 81 comments

Show HN: Compare salaries, tax, & living costs globally (takehomepay.city)

Finance, Comparison, Salary

20 points by bentoboxop 80 days ago | 8 comments

Pros and cons of greater pay transparency (economist.com)
How much do your colleagues get paid? In a few countries, such as Norway, you can take a good guess by looking at public records on individuals’ overall tax payments and income. But in most places, finding out people’s salaries means asking them what they earn. And that is about as socially acceptable as saying “What an ugly baby.”

Salary, Work Culture, Transparency, Economics

8 points by pseudolus 91 days ago | 2 comments

Levels.fyi's annual compensation report 2024 (levels.fyi)
Levels.fyi's annual compensation report. View top paying companies, cities, titles & other trends.

Compensation, Salary, Data, Trends, Technology

10 points by Garbage 109 days ago | 1 comments

Levels.fyi Annual Pay Report (levels.fyi)
Levels.fyi's annual compensation report. View top paying companies, cities, titles & other trends.

Compensation, Data Analysis, Employment, Salary, Trends

10 points by darth_avocado 110 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I Built a Simple German Gross-to-Net Salary Calculator (netsalarygui.de)
In Germany, a monthly gross salary of €3,000.00 ( ) results in a net salary of €2,052.50 ( ). This would be 68.42% of the gross salary.

Germany, Salary, Finance, Tools

11 points by pipoka 156 days ago | 2 comments

What If the Fix for the Geospatial Workforce "Crisis" Is Better Pay? (2023) (mapbrief.com)
I saw some of the most talented Spatial Minds of my generation…take non-spatial jobs for better money.

Geospatial, Workforce, Salary, Employment, 2023

5 points by mooreds 165 days ago | 1 comments

Software Engineer Pay Heatmap (levels.fyi)
Explore the interactive heatmap of total compensation pay ranges across the United States, organized by DMA regions and accompanied by a color-coded legend.

Software Engineering, Salary, Data Visualization, United States

10 points by plurby 204 days ago | 1 comments

The Atlantic: Studies Show Short People Are Dumb, Poor, Criminals (theatlantic.com)
There are plenty of studies that claim it pays to be tall. A 2004 report found that each inch of height amounts to a salary increase of about $789 per year (controlling for gender, weight and age). Another concluded that taller people are flat out smarter. Indeed, no American president has been below average height since 1888.

Height, Social Science, Salary, Intelligence

5 points by popcalc 209 days ago | 0 comments

Low salary likely to cause exodus of European tech talent (tradearabia.com)

Tech Industry, Labor Market, Europe, Salary, Talent

44 points by WWWMMMWWW 290 days ago | 88 comments

The pay raise people say they need to be happy (wsj.com)

Salary, Happiness, Economics, Work

21 points by yamrzou 313 days ago | 59 comments

Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014) (forbes.com)

Compensation, Employee Retention, Business, Economics, Salary

379 points by AlgoRitmo 325 days ago | 324 comments

CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023, widening gap with the workers they oversee (abcnews.go.com)