How much do you make as an SE?

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I have a 70/30 split as well
Year 1: $85K base, $122K OTE
Year 2: $93K base, $132K OTE
Promoted to Senior SE for year 3: $120K base, $171K OTE
Could always go for more money, but love the firm I’m with and have a phenomenal work/life balance, so hard to complain

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I’d say both.

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My last company under paid me at $76K + Bonus/Commission split of $30K, but they never paid out in full (Made about $90K). Total OTE $106K. No RSUs.

Jumped ship (couple of weeks ago) to Sr. Solution Architect $125K+ Commission of $24K for $149K.

YoE = 5 and will be looking to go to lead/Principal in a 2-3yrs after reading this thread as I want to grow and obviously make over $200k.

Should I wait a couple years before jumping again to get more experience?

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Agreed, I stayed at my last job for 5yrs and the one before that 4.5 years. This one maybe a 1-2yrs max to get additional experience I'm guessing but I'll start looking. And it appears I need to look at Microsoft or google from what I'm reading...haha! Thanks for the advice, much appreciated!

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95.5k OTE, 12 months experience ( internal promotion)
Grossly underpaid looking at this thread lmao

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Yes the progression can be quick.

When I started I was at
Year 1: 90k
Year 2: 126k
Year 3: 190k without stock included

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240k OTE 60k per year in stock for a TC of 300k 5 YOE (senior in title, used to be a lead at Salesforce making 250 TC)

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Wow! That is outstanding compensation, Msft 2. Congratulations ! I’ve never been anywhere close to that working for big technology companies. I’m obviously doing it all wrong 😑

My last company grossly underpaid me at 80/20 split, $107k OTE

Now I jumped ship and am getting 80/20 split, $180k OTE

2.5 YoE

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SC1, when describing YoE, are you counting SE specific experience or overall experience in the industry?

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Currently a Lead SE. I make about $205k on target earning with 70/30 split on salary and commission. I also received stock option in the 40k range that vest over 4 years.

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So it’s $143k base $62k commissions and $40k stocks vested over 4y?

I'm at 230 OTE with a 70/30 split.

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Beast mode

135 base
60 commission if we hit targets

I’m a solutions engineering manager based in Canada

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Lead SE - $222,575 OTE 70/30 split. RSUs granted at $50k, but have become much more valuable since hired back in 2019.

9 YoE as an SE.

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S3 when and how did you get your rsu’s? 3 years ago when hired? Any refreshers?

Lead SE, 200k (140k base / 60k commission)
40k RSU grant (10k per year essentially).

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$205k OTE 70/30 split

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Test

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123k base
18k commission
50k per year in RSUs

“Senior SE” with 5 years of work experience. 3 years of SE experience.

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Update. I now make:
130k base
19,500 bonus
~50k per year in RSUs.

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About 240k OTE - in cybersecurity/cloud software. Speaking to some AWS/GCP SE’s they’ve got a low base but huge stock plan and pulling in 400k… but seem to be overworked and leave after an initial 2 years of vesting.

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Over 10 years as an SE and a few years in the industry prior to that.

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150 OTE 70/30 split. Annual tends to be around 161 after accelerators, etc.

Potential value of $20-30k worth of options every 9mo w/ 4yr vesting period

working in SaaS.

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Company?

230 OTE 70/30 split; Senior SE & 4 YoE

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That’s really good! Congrats!

Senior SE in Bay Area, 200 OTE (160 Base, 40 commission) 100K in RSUs over 4 years + refreshers TC around 260 due to stock growth

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Nice!!

Started this year in an SE job with 5-6 YOE in cloud. $135k base and $170k-180k OTE

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Is there any SE or Customer Success Engineer working in Italy?

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I’m happy for all the people raking in the $$ as sales engineers. It also makes me feel like a failure 😞. I’ve done SE work for Oracle and IBM and never close to these numbers

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What are your numbers, what’s your location (US or abroad) and how many years of experience do you have? This should be factored in. And yes, this is a skewed sample so don’t take too literally.

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