I keep hearing about a shortage of experienced Sr. developers, but am not sure how that affects what developers are getting paid.<p>I am wondering, what people are roughly being paid for fulltime salaried Sr level dev jobs. I have 7 years experience with 2 years previous exp at a fast-paced and well-known startup. I do Ruby/Rails development and quite a bit of JS development. I also have exp with System Admin and project development/management.<p>Lets imagine, that I live in the Chicago area, but the job is a remote job where the entire team is remote and I can work from anywhere.<p>What salary ranges are people getting for a remote Sr. Developer job?<p>Any feedback would be appreciated.
The 'remote' will be the biggest hit, and the salary will be more based on where that company is rather than where you are.<p>My own limited experience in this would say that for a US-based company, with the 'remote' thrown in, you likely would be looking at north of $80k.<p>This is based on my own experiences working remote (not full time, but contracting) and talking with others who are doing full and part time work remotely.<p>The 'remote' thing will be the hardest. I've talked to companies all over that are willing to shell out >$120k for a good sr level developer, but will not entertain the idea of a remote worker under any circumstance. I am somewhat sympathetic to this - a company needs to really be set up to take advantage of remote workers. Just having someone working from home without a strong culture of communication and inclusion will benefit no one. However, given the supposed shortage of good developers available, this seems to be an area where fwd-thinking companies could have a great advantage over their competitors. But, it'll take a lot of time and investment to develop that culture, and that's something few companies seem willing to do.