Riviera Partners recently compiled salary data for our 80+ engineering and software developer placements from 2011. We summarized our findings in the graphic below, and the data speaks to the boom that is currently taking place in Silicon Valley.
We looked at several different categories including:
1. Average salary of an engineer in comparison to a startup’s current company funding stage
2. Average salary of an engineer in comparison to their years of engineering experience
3. Average salary of an engineer in comparison to where they received their degree
4. Average salary increase of an engineer after joining a startup