Dice
By crunching the data from levels.fyi, which crowdsources salary data from the biggest tech companies, the media site estimates salary pay scales of Google and Microsoft engineers. At the L7 level, which is considered a senior staff software engineer, the annual salary can top $256,059, along with $286,176 in stock options and a bonus of $83,294. Microsoft engineers who hit level 67, considered principal software development engineers, are roughly equivalent to Google’s L7. They are paid about $222,714 in salary, along with $226,000 per year in stock options, and a bonus of $73,143.