<p>when you look at starting salaries, berkely and ucla are both in mid to high 80k ranges. Is this number really true?</p>
<p>People tend to lie about their salaries. I’d suspect average starting salaries around SF or LA are more realistically in the 70K-80K range. Geographical location will have more to do with your salary than your school.</p>
<p>@simba9 Yea that’s how i felt too. I mean I can’t see a ucla and berkeley computer science grad making 90k+ out of school on average. </p>
<p>Quora gives you the latest
<a href=“http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-salary-for-new-grads-starting-at-Facebook-in-2014”>http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-salary-for-new-grads-starting-at-Facebook-in-2014</a>
<a href=“http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-compensation-package-for-a-new-grad-Software-Engineer-starting-at-Microsoft-in-2014”>http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-compensation-package-for-a-new-grad-Software-Engineer-starting-at-Microsoft-in-2014</a>
<a href=“http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-compensation-package-for-a-new-grad-Software-Engineer-starting-at-Yahoo-in-2014”>http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-compensation-package-for-a-new-grad-Software-Engineer-starting-at-Yahoo-in-2014</a></p>
<p>Here is from EECS UCB
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CompSci.stm”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/CompSci.stm</a></p>
<p>For UCSD, the high salary in the $100K+, probably at big name companies
<a href=“http://career.ucsd.edu/alumni/alumni-survey/actual-jobs-by-field-technology.html”>http://career.ucsd.edu/alumni/alumni-survey/actual-jobs-by-field-technology.html</a></p>
<p>I simply don’t trust any salary statistics that are based on individuals self-reporting their salaries.</p>
<p>The health care company I work at in downtown SF only hires a handful of new grads every year, but for those it does hire, it usually starts them out in the $72K-$79K range, along with about $15-$20K worth of stock a year (the value depends on the stock price.) They can’t cash out the stock unless they’ve been at the company for five years. Where you went to school has no effect on starting salary. What does have an effect is having another job offer and your negotiating skills. If my company wants you badly enough, they’ll bump up the starting salary.</p>
<p>Once people start, there is very little turnover. It’s got to be under 10%, which is pretty low for tech workers in the Bay Area.</p>
<p>Of course you don’t trust but what choice do you have to get an idea. I also don’t trust what people post on CC but what choice do I have?</p>
<p>If you can somehow get it, I would trust salary data from companies over salary data from employees. </p>
<p>Most companies will not release that kind of data because salaries are supposed to be confidential. Most salary information is self reported.</p>