Tech salaries: Here's how much the top companies pay engineers and other key roles in 2025

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Tech salaries are soaring, and corporate companies are cutting big checks to lock down top talent.

From Silicon Valley giants to retailers, media companies, telecom firms, and gig platforms, the salaries offered reflect just how competitive the market has become.

My daughters inspired me to launch my company. It was acquired for more than $205 million.

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The simple interview question an IBM exec uses to spot entrepreneurial candidates

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Corinne Sklar said she always wanted to be a business person.

Corinne Sklar

I was an executive assistant to the CEOs of Sephora and Twitch. Here are the 4 lessons my front row seat to power taught me.

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Ebony Belhumeur.

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Meet a millennial nurse who supercommutes between Sweden and California. She says the back-and-forth is worth it.

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Courtney El Refai lives with her family in Sweden but works in California.

Courtney El Refai

The job market is hell for us, and heaven for scammers

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After realizing the job she applied to had scammed her out of $4,300, "I felt very alone and just sort of rudderless," says Amisha Datta.

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Two years after graduating at the top of her class in college, Amisha Datta could not believe she'd lost $4,300 in a job scam.

4 tech and business leaders who got their start on an H-1B visa

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President Donald Trump signs executive order on Friday, September 19, 2025.
President Donald Trump introduced a significant fee on Friday to obtain an H-1B visa, which is meant for foreign skilled workers.

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I left a fast-rising career at the world's biggest beer company for startup life. The safe path felt too predictable.

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Yann Schuermans started Baskit, a supply chain distribution company, with his wife and says it's been both the biggest risk and the biggest gift.

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I'm an HR professional who vibe-coded an app while my baby slept. I don't want to be a parent or employee who falls behind.

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Laura Zaccaria, an HR professional and new mom, taught herself to build an AI-assisted web app while on six months of maternity leave.

Laura Zaccaria

I burned out in corporate America and quit my job. Life abroad showed me what freedom really looks like.

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Susan Lindgren left her corporate job in the US a decade ago.

What Susan Does.

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