The Highest-Paying Jobs at Google

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If you are planning on joining the ranks at Google, but you’re not a software engineer, there are still plenty of high paying jobs available at the company for non-engineering types that rank well on the pay scale. Glassdoor has put together a list of the 20 highest paying jobs within the Google organization.

Salary data on Glassdoor is based on anonymous salary reports that were voluntarily shared by both current and recent employees.
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Wow, I did not know engineers make that much. How many hours a week do they work?
 
If web articles are any guide, it was the people who graffiti'd the walls, gave massages and worked in the cafeteria.
 
markkin said:
Wow, I did not know engineers make that much. How many hours a week do they work?
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It varies a lot....

If you are on some busy projects, you are going to spend pretty much all your time on it.
8 Hours a day role does not apply here.

Other than busy project, it's pretty chill............
On record, they expect you to actually working for about 3 hours a day.
 
I like how all the real highest paying jobs were left off the list.

CEO, COO, board members, top tier managers etc. They also ignored the fact that most of those salaries are shit when you consider the cost of living in that area.
 
Those numbers are significantly lower than I was expecting. Wonder what the geographic spread is. 100k in Chicago goes a hell of a lot further than 100k in SF Bay.
 
I'm gonna assume there are also stock options or other bonuses. That seems to be the case with a lot of companies in the Bay Area. The salaries are pretty good(100k is fine if you live on your own), but it's the stock options that really pay down the road. Remember, even CEO's make most of their money off of stocks.
 
Depending on the role and the number of options given, stock options may add a lot to the listed salaries, once the shares are vested.
 
Also, total comp does not equal salary. I and everyone at my company gets paid quarterly bonuses in the 25% to 50%+ range based on hard criteria that does not require judgement calls. Completely automatic. Any company that pays well will do something like this.

And reps of course get the majority of their compensation from commission, not base pay.
 
There are a fair amount of stock options and bonuses that many employees also get at Google. Plus there are the benefits/perks like free food, transportation, ridiculously good insurance, on campus medical/dental, on campus gyms, etc., etc. Google as a company takes care of their employees better than most.
 
Those numbers are almost certainly inaccurate and leave off a lot of jobs. I guarantee they pay their in-house lawyers more than $150k.
 
I would imagine that the "I work at Google" badge is worth the gap in pay compared to other geographical locations.
 
atp1916 said:
I would imagine that the "I work at Google" badge is worth the gap in pay compared to other geographical locations.
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Because, clearly, you can take that badge to the bank and make a mortgage payment with it. :rolleyes:
 
First off, people need to understand when they did those surveys, they take an average. Google has jobs all over the world, and most likely these statistics are based on the averages within the US. You can do your own COLA calculations to those numbers.

Also, just from my experience, I interviewed for some positions at Google not too long ago and i can tell you those salaries are misleading. The hardest thing about judging salaries at Google is they offer crazy compensation packages as part of your employment. Basically everyone has their own compensation package and depending on what is in your package will also help determine your final salary.

To give an indication here are the Variables:

Vacation Time, Medical Benefits, Travel Benefits, QoL benefits, Bonuses, Options, etc.

You can negotiate some of these with most companies, but at Google, they tailor fit your entire compensation package to your preference.
 
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