Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth (2024)

		Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth (dataconomy.com)
		13 points by pg_1234 on Sept 8, 2023 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 10comments

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computerliker69 on Sept 8, 2023 | next [–]

Although the title matches the article title, it may be nice to use "Salary" instead of pay here. That would reduce confusion. I thought that this article was about "Google Pay" the product.

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hgsgm on Sept 8, 2023 | parent | next [–]

No, the article headline and body incorrectly capitalize Pay

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hgsgm on Sept 8, 2023 | prev | next [–]

> The leaked salary data from Google reveals that employees with longer tenure with the company and who held higher-level positions tended to have higher salaries.

And Women and Black people are underrepresented in higher level roles.

Saved you a click on barely English articles.

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kotaKat on Sept 8, 2023 | prev | next [–]

Oof. Google (salary) pay data. Thought there was a Google Pay compromise for a moment. Even the article seems to capitalize Google Pay in lots of places throwing one for a loop.

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zuhayeer on Sept 8, 2023 | prev | next [–]

We have quite comprehensive Google compensation information available on https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

You can even see the recency of each individual data point, and filter for specific levels. (Disclosure: I'm one the founders)

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lfmunoz4 on Sept 8, 2023 | prev | next [–]

where is the data? Also article greatly exaggerate base pay, they confusing it with total compensation, I guess it makes the article more news worthy and clickable the higher the wages are.

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shevis on Sept 8, 2023 | parent | next [–]

Not sure what you’re talking about. They pretty clearly distinguished between base and total pay even for the highest earners…

> For instance, the highest reported base salary was for a level 7 software engineer, earning $718,000 in base salary and a total compensation package of nearly $800,000.

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hgsgm on Sept 8, 2023 | root | parent | next [–]

There's no way that's true. It may be "reported" as a typo or troll in the document.

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drewg123 on Sept 8, 2023 | root | parent | next [–]

Yes, I think the bonus factor over base salary is 25% or more for L7, so I'd expect salary + bonus to be $900k. The total comp would likely well over $1M, since GSUs (Google's version of RSUs) were not even mentioned.