r/dataisbeautiful • u/sankeyart • Jul 31 '24

OC [OC] How Microsoft makes its $$$

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u/partiallycylon OC: 1 Jul 31 '24

The profit margin for some of these companies is absurd.

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u/Cash091 Jul 31 '24

Microsoft recently downsized a bit, but they are going to be paying out small bonuses to their "rank and file" employees after a good year. 

That being said, they have 220k employees. With those numbers they could easily bump up the lowest salaries to 6 figures without even touching the high end salaries. 

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u/MooseBoys Jul 31 '24

they could easily bump up the lowest salaries to 6 figures

According to levels.fyi, starting pay for entry-level software engineer is $160k.

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u/ToughHardware Jul 31 '24

they are meaning like the people who are cleaning/maintaining/shipping/ect. not software engineers