, a website that monitors the posted salary ranges of tech companies, tech companies with positions available in California are currently paying software engineers between $135,000 and $202,000 — a healthy chunk of change even in the pricey Bay Area.
The San Francisco Bay Area tech company paying software engineers the best is Google, with a pay range of $174,000 to $276,000 for Android or Google Cloud engineers. Social media, self-driving software and corporate productivity companies are also high payers. San Francisco’s Pinterest comes up next with software engineers getting paid up to $259,000. Reddit, headquartered in San Francisco, comes next with a base pay as high as $256,000.
The companies that are currently hiring and pay entry-level workers the best — meaning that they require two years of experience or less — are Apple and Niantic. Apple, which has yet to conduct layoffs during the tech industry's recent downturn, is hiring a software engineer for its photos service that pays up to $196,500 in base salary. Niantic, the San Francisco mobile gaming company responsible for Pokemon Go and Pikmin Bloom, is hiring an engineer for a base pay of up to $158,550.
Good luck on the interviews.