Google Is Tops for Software Engineer Salaries [REPORT]

Attention software engineers: If you're searching for the best payday, tryGoogle.

Glassdoor, a career website, culled data from 3 million salary reports, company reviews and interviews from employees at more than 210,000 companies and found Google had the highest average base salary for software engineers at $128,336. Facebook came in at number two with a base salary of $123,626.

Here is the list of salaries at 15 hot firms, in alphabetical order:

In an encouraging sign, Google's base salary jumped $13,740 over 2011, according to Glassdoor, while Facebook's rose $15,882, showing Facebook is eager to close the gap with Google.

The numbers appear to be a big improvement over th…
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