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They Get Paid How Much At Google?

Well, the typical engineer gets a combined salary/bonus of about $112,000. That's according to Glassdoor, a startup that lets users search for and share stats on how much people are making and where.

"The idea is to collect as much detailed salary information and feedback for every job title at a company so that job seekers can know how to evaluate an offer, and current employees can see how they are doing relative to their peers," says Erick Schonfeld.

Users can also write anonymous reviews of their company (and their upper management), and Glassdoor shows the stats in graphical format. For example, Yahoo employee sentiments about Jerry Yang dipped sharply between May 11 and May 15 (his approval rating currently rests at about 59%). Meanwhile, Microsoft types have remained steadily in support of Steve Ballmer, whose approval rating is at 69%.

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