Apple losing engineers due to low salaries? Not so fast

I live in NYC where I know I could be making much more than I do now. The fact is, I am reasonably happy at the company I work for, and I've heard enough horror stories about companies that do pay more, that I'm just not interested in looking for higher pay at a different company right now. There's much more to a job than just compensation.

As for Apple - I couldn't care less if they're over- or under-compensated, as long as the software continues to reflect the care that's evidently put into it.

I can earn that and much more in Atlanta where I live, and the cost of living is much, much lower. I can actually own a house! The down side is that I have to do boring engineering work for boring companies. Going to a job that I like and making products that I'd actually be proud of would certainly be worth a little cut in pay.

Does the salary average for Apple include the retail employees? I bet they would skew the average down pretty hard.

Having interviewed at Apple several times (and turning down all offers), my opinion is that it is not a good place to work. It is a highly political and toxic work environment.

I think I remember a quote from that documentary that's going around now where a guy says something to the effect of "it's a blood bath in here. You don't want to know how we create these products..."

Given the astronomical rise in Apple's share price over the last couple of years, I seriously doubt that any Apple engineers are crying about their "inadequate" compensation! Apple employees who manage their stock options wisely and take advantage of the employee stock purchase program are almost certainly doing very well indeed.

First, this is a pathetic study that only has 10 respondents from Google. He never says how many responded from Apple: which probably means only one.

Boo hoo, to some poor college grad (who has at least a B.S.) working at Apple for a paltry $89,000 in this economy. Be lucky you have a job. I'll trade you my unemployment for your truly massive salary.

I guess it's because they have to pay the interns :)
My friend in France got a 3 month internship at Cupertino, paid about 6000$/month + accomodation + airplane ticket + visa (visa costs about 1000$)

As a fellow silicon valley tech company employees, I know that almost all tech companies here do their compensation with stock options + salary. I'd rather have $20k less in salary and have apple stock options than $20k more and have yahoo stock options...

You cant really do an apples to apples comparison

what is this "loving what you do" everyone is talking about? you mean..wait a minute...i can ENJOY my job?

$100K probably doesn't go very far in Silicon Valley.