Microsoft Top Software Engineer Salaries: How High Do They Go?
Senior Software Engineer Salaries, Microsoft Level 67 vs. Google L7
| Company | Microsoft | Google
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| Salary | $222,714 | $256,059
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| Stock | $226,000 | $286,176
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| Bonus | $73,143 | $83,294
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"Salary-wise, level 67 is a pretty steep upgrade from a Microsoft SDE, which is the software-engineering position that you’d basically land right after graduating college; they’re paid $130,287 as a base salary, supplemented with a $16,824 average signing bonus and four-year stock options totaling $25,902.
Google, by comparison, pays entry-level engineers an average of $115,000, combined with a $44,000 signing bonus, stock options worth $139,000, and an annual bonus of $22,000."
