{"id":294566,"date":"2026-05-22T14:14:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/?p=294566"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:14:03","slug":"startup-tech-compensation-trends-it-manager-pay-has-nearly-doubled-software-engineer-pay-hasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/?p=294566","title":{"rendered":"Startup Tech Compensation Trends: IT Manager Pay Has Nearly Doubled. Software Engineer Pay Hasn&#8217;t."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/katherine-bindley-a8212063\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Katherine Bindley<\/strong><\/a> from <strong>The Wall Street Journal <\/strong>published an article on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/the-tech-jobs-that-are-safe-from-ai-8d415383?eafs_enabled=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Tech Jobs That Are Safe From AI<\/a>.&#8221; She reported that senior IT and computer science job postings are up YoY &#8211; while entry level postings are down &#8211; which motivated us to look whether the same was true for compensation at tech startups. Using the year-over-year compensation trend dataset on the <a href=\"http:\/\/platform.jthelander.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thelander Platform<\/a>, we looked at tech startups who have raised less than $50 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s what the data told us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Median total cash for entry-level (associate) software engineers has stayed steady since 2022 &#8211; hovering around $80,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the median total cash for an IT manager has nearly doubled since 2022. Jumping from $77,000 in median total cash to $134,000. At the 75th percentile, the total cash more than doubled over the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-05-22-at-2.23.48-PM-700x363.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294568\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2026-05-22-at-2.23.43-PM-700x366.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294569\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether you&#8217;re an individual looking to work at a private tech company or the CEO of one, fill out the Thelander Private Company Compensation Survey to see how your compensation compares to real-time benchmark data like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/survey.jthelander.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here to Participate Today<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Katherine Bindley from The Wall Street Journal published an article on &#8220;The Tech Jobs That Are Safe From AI.&#8221; She reported that senior IT and computer science job postings are up YoY &#8211; while entry level postings are down &#8211; which motivated us to look whether the same was true for compensation at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-294566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-drops","tag-private-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}