On December 16, according to businessinsider media reports, they found the salary packages of more than 1,200 Microsoft employees from the salary spreadsheets and visa applications leaked by Microsoft employees, revealing the salary level of the technology giant.
According to the data, the average annual salary of software engineers in all business units is 185,000 US dollars (about 1.18 million yuan), of which the salary of junior engineers is only 132,900 US dollars (about 850,000 yuan), while the starting salary of senior engineers is 217,000 US dollars, and the highest is more than 500,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to an annual salary of more than 3.2 million US dollars.
Half of the more than 1,200 employees who leaked salaries are from Microsoft's enterprise business, including Azure cloud computing, office and Windows software departments. Spreadsheets also include employee reports on unequal pay and promotions, and dozens of women in skilled occupations share unequal treatment they suffer.
Businessinsider found from the exposed data that Microsoft will divide the promotion of different genders, races and ethnicities, and stipulate the salary range for different positions. We did not see the details of this data, and it is not easy to determine whether Microsoft has gender and racial discrimination. Only from the perspective of salary, although the gap between different positions is far away, it is also in line with the normal laws of the workplace, and there is nothing wrong with it.
A while ago, the Internet also exposed the employee salaries of another technology giant, Google, whose minimum annual salary for software engineers was around $102,000, the highest was $341,000, and the salary for vice president positions was as high as $475,000. Although it is already very high, it is still not as good as Microsoft, and it seems that Microsoft will be more conscientious in comparison.
However, even if Microsoft's salary is still inferior to some big manufacturers in China. The Internet has also exposed the salary of Ali, Tencent and other technology companies, the basic salary may not be as good as Google and Microsoft, but counting the performance, bonuses, stocks and other income, the comprehensive salary should exceed Google and Microsoft.
This year, Tencent has repeatedly given outstanding employee stock rewards, each time hundreds of thousands per capita. The year-end award of the big factory exposed online, the technical department of the Xiaomi smart factory issued 8 months' salary, and the year-end award of the Tencent "League of Legends" project team also exceeded 1 million.
In fact, for any Internet company, the basic salary of employees only accounts for a small part of the income, and project rewards, performance commissions, bonuses, etc. are sometimes more. Now that Google and Microsoft's employee salaries have been exposed, is it Apple's turn next?