
Senior-and-Above Compensation in Tech

At the expertise end, it is appropriate (and not uncommon) to find profit-sharing and bonus pool systems for junior professionals, while in experience-based practices greater use is made of straight salary, with increases deriving from seniority and the accumulation of increasing amounts of experience.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
To benchmark offers, companies currently pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for manually collected annual compensation data; this data is immediately stale and often difficult for companies to put in their own context. Employees and candidates suffer, too. They are often left in the dark about how to interpret and value the equity portion of thei... See more
Kristina Shen • Investing in Pave | Andreessen Horowitz
DM shares a pay formula that accounts for Years experience* + x (+15% for freelancers) x 1000 = gross pro rata pay