Facebook Inc(NASDAQ:FB)’s engineers are paid just a
tad lesser than Google Inc(NASDAQ:GOOG)’s engineers according to a survey which
covered 15 tech companies in terms of average base salary.
The survey was done by social jobs and career
community company Glassdoor and Google topped the chart for 2012 at $128,336,
with Facebook coming in second, at $123,626. The companies’ respective averages
for 2011 were $114,596 and $107,744.
The national average for base salary was $92,648 and
both companies were ranked well above this average, which was computed using
more than 5,000 anonymous salary reports.
In fact, of the 15 tech companies surveyed, 13 were
paying their engineers well above the national average.
Glassdoor which spoke to Facebook employees on
condition of anonymity said that the engineers felt that their jobs with the
company offered `amazing perks, job opportunities, co-workers, and compensation
(in the tech industry), extremely high levels of autonomy and work flexibility.
Facebook has been under a lot of pressure to raise its
revenues and profitability, while advertisers and marketers want the company to
do more in terms of monetising its huge base of subscribers who have migrated
to mobile devices.
In a rare appearance in San Francisco last month,
founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said that the company was aware of
the need to shift to the mobile platform in terms of its ads and it was setting
in motion its plans for that.
However he did not provide much clarty on what that
strategy was. Since then, the company has been unveiling more features on its
site designed to garner revenues such as Gifts and Promoted posts.
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