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The competition to get the best software talent is accelerating. Salary is the first criteria to attract the right talent and companies are offering higher and higher pay to get the right person.
Last week Twitter’s Christopher Fry was in news for a package of $10.3 million. He is one of the highest paid employees in the company earning $1.2 million less than the CEO. And. if you look at some of the highest paid men, majority of them belong to technology firms.
To look at the rising competition among companies to secure the best talent, Glassdoor looked at the base pay of the tech firms. Surprisingly, the well-known names such as Google, Apple, and Facebook don't feature in the top three companies.
Let’s look at the best paying companies for techies.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Qualcomm
Average base salary: $101,094
Rank: 25
Qalcomm is global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Broadcom
Average base salary: $101,808
Rank: 24
Broadcom Corp is a semiconductor company that develops chips for wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in California.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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FactSet
Average base salary: $102,476
Rank: 23
FactSet Research Systems is a financial data and software company headquartered in Norwalk. The company provides financial information and analytic software for investment professionals.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Ericsson
Average base salary: $102,610
Rank: 22
Ericsson is a Swedish multinational technology company that provides and operates telecommunications networks, television and video systems, and related services.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Expedia
Average base salary: $105,126
Rank: 21
Expedia is an Internet-based travel website that has localised portal for 29 countries. A user can book airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages and so on using Expedia.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Intuit
Average base salary: $107,440
Rank: 20
Intuit Inc. develops financial and tax software and related services for small businesses, accountants and individuals. It is headquartered in California.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Image: Intel CEO Paul Otellini looks over a prototype solar-powered computer during his keynote address at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco.Video: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
Intel
Average base salary: $108,210
Rank: 19
Intel Corporation is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker. It is headquartered in California.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Image: General view of Microsoft Corporation new headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris.Video: Charles Platiau/Reuters
Microsoft
Average base salary: $108,611
Rank: 18
Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Cisco
Average base salary: $109,491
Rank: 17
Cisco Systems designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. It is headquartered in California.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Brocade
Average base salary: $110,069
Rank: 16
Brocade Communications Systems specialises in data and storage networking products. Founded in 1995, Brocade is headquartered in California.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Image: A logo of HP is seen outside Hewlett-Packard Belgian headquarters in Diegem, near Brussels.Video: Thierry Roge/Reuters
Hewlett-Packard
Average base salary: $110,506
Rank: 15
Hewlett-Packard Company provides products, technologies, software, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses, large enterprises, and government departments. The company is headquartered in California.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Amazon
Average base salary: $110,907
Rank: 14
Amazon is the world’s largest internet retailer headquarters in Washington. It started as a bookstore and added a whole host of products over time.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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eBay
Average base salary: $114,720
Rank: 13
eBay is an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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NVIDIA
Average base salary: $115,649
Rank: 12
Nvidia Corp manufactures graphics processing units, as well as mobile chips. The company also sells handheld gaming device Nvidia Shield.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Arista
Average base salary: $116,067
Rank: 11
Arista Networks designs and sells multilayer network switches to solutions for large datacenter, cloud computing, and high-performance computing.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Integral
Average base salary: $117,927
Rank: 10
Integral is a technology and application provider for private, white label, trading solutions to foreign exchange market participants.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Image: U.S. President Barack Obama attends a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters with CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Palo Alto.Video: Jim Young/Reuters
Average base salary: $121,507
Rank: 9
Facebook is the largest social networking company. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students in 2004.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Walmart
Average base salary: $122,110
Rank: 8
WalMart is the largest retailer in the world and runs chains of large discount department stores. It is also the world’s biggest private employer that has a staff of over 2 million. The company also runs online store managed by WalmartLabs.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Oracle
Average base salary: $122,905
Rank: 7
Oracle Corp specialises in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and database management systems. It is the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Image: A visitor walks into an Apple store in Clarendon, near Washington.Video: Jason Reed/Reuters
Apple
Average base salary: $124,630
Rank: 6
Apple designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. The company is best known for its consumer devices iPhone and iPad.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Image: An illustration picture shows the log-on icon for the Website Twitter on an Ipad in Bordeaux, Southwestern France.Video: Regis Duvignau/Reuters
Average base salary: $124,863
Rank: 5
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read messages limited to 140 characters.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Image: The Google logo is seen on a door at the company's office in Tel Aviv.Video: Baz Ratner/Reuters
Average base salary: $127,143
Rank: 4
Google started as an online search engine. The company now has diversified into many more online products. It also develops operating system for mobile phones and tablets, and sell consumer electronics.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Yahoo
Average base salary: $130,312
Rank: 3
Yahoo! is known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services. It also offer whole range of online services such as email, photo managing services (Flickr) and owns photo blog website Tumblr.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
Image: US President Barack Obama participates in a LinkedIn town hall-style meeting with Linked In CEO Jeff Weiner (L) in Mountain View, California.Video: Jason Reed/Reuters
Average base salary: $136,427
Rank: 2
LinkedIn is a professional networking online portal. It has over 225 million users in more than 200 countries.
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25 best-paying companies for software engineers
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Juniper Networks
Average base salary: $159,990
Rank: 1
Juniper Networks designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services. It is headquartered in California.
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