A few more surprises are coming to light as more of the region's biggest tech employers reveal how much they pay a typical worker.
Since we
originally published a ranking of the median salary at many of the Bay Area's largest tech employers in May, a handful more have disclosed details on their workforce compensation. Again, it's clear that the most established companies aren’t necessarily the ones that pay the highest.
Take for example chipmaker Intel Corp. With revenue last year of almost $63 billion, the Santa Clara-based chipmaker is neck-and-neck with Samsung for the title of the world's biggest semiconductor maker. But the median Intel worker makes $45,540
less per year than his or her peer at Nvidia Corp. — its much smaller rival down the street.
The case is similar at Palo Alto-based server virtualization company
VMware Inc. and personal computer maker
Dell Technologies Inc., which are both new additions to this list since our previous ranking. Interestingly, the median employee at VMware — which is majority owned by Dell — makes $54,000 more per year
more than the median employee at Texas-based Dell, another significant employer in Silicon Valley.
You can see how many of region's biggest tech employers — including Facebook, Google parent Alphabet, Intel Corp., Salesforce.com, Tesla, Netflix, Twitter, eBay, GoPro, PayPal Holdings, Box, Zynga, ServiceNow, Autodesk, Intuitive Surgical, Netgear, Nvidia Corp., Arista Networks, Square and Yelp — compare in the gallery below.
Median pay at 24 of the biggest Bay Area tech employers
As more public companies are required to disclose median worker pay, we look at which big Bay Area tech employers pay their employees the most — and least. Here's the ranking, from lowest to highest.
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Redwood City-based video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. and San Jose-based semiconductor manufacturer Xilinx, Inc. are also new to the list, which now includes a total of 24 major Bay Area technology employers.
Many of the region’s biggest tech employers — including Apple, Inc., Cisco Systems, Oracle Corp. and Adobe Systems — have not yet disclosed their median pay figures. We’ll update this list again when they do.
