There are still some jobs to be had at Twitter, and high-paying ones, even as the company deals with an ongoing and bumpy takeover by Elon Musk.
Twitter hired nearly 400 workers who required visas during the second quarter of 2022 and is paying them all well into the six figures, according to hiring data submitted to the US Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification. The data has its limitations, like not including grants of stock most workers receive that make up a sizable portion of overall compensation packages. However, the company does have to disclose the base salary for any position it's hiring a foreign worker for, and that salary has to be the same as a US worker would be offered, making it a good guide for pay.
And, should Twitter in the coming weeks become a private entity under Musk, Twitter workers will no longer receive grants of stock associated with public companies.
Part of the second quarter covered by the data came before Twitter imposed in May a hiring freeze affecting most areas of the company. It could account for an apparent increase in hiring compared to the first quarter of this year when Twitter only hired around 100 international workers. Another reason for an apparent bump in hiring could be that attrition at Twitter has increased so much, in large part due to the tumultuous Musk takeover, that the company has needed to fill positions left open. Nearly all of the jobs in the DOL data were for software engineering roles.
At any rate, the hiring and salary data show Twitter continues to pay most of its workers, engineers in particular, well into the six figures, as most other tech companies do. One engineer hired during the second quarter is getting a salary of $332,000 and most others are being paid around $200,000 and above. Of the only two jobs making less than six figures, neither was in engineering.
See below for a complete breakdown of what Twitter agreed to pay employees in the second quarter. Roles are listed below only if there are at least two candidates. When you're done, take a look at Insider's Big Tech salary database to see how much workers are making at Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and other major tech companies.
Engineering
IT apps engineer I: $135,000 to $140,000
IT apps engineer II: $155,000 to $171,700
Software engineer I: $138,320 to $150,000
Software engineer II: $121,763 to $190,000
Senior IT apps engineer: $175,000 to $195,000
Senior software engineer: $123,614 to $210,000
Staff software engineer: $215,220 to $271,780
Senior staff software engineer: $271,130 to $332,000
Manager, software engineering: $200,000 to $230,000
Security engineer II: $148,050
Senior security engineer: $175,770 to $205,000
ML engineer I: $139,000 to $158,000
ML engineer II: $148,000 to $195,000
Senior ML engineer: $167,310 to $202,520
Staff ML engineer: $215,280 to $255,000
Site reliability engineer II: $160,000 to $162,000
Senior site reliability engineer: $153,920 to $195,000
Software engineer test II: $141,490 to $170,000
Analysis and data
Data analyst I: $122,000 to $142,000
Data scientist II: $130,000 to $180,000
Senior data scientist: $170,000 to $191,480
Senior enterprise data manager: $206,880
Project and product managers
Product manager II: $170,000 to $200,000
Senior product manager: $190,000 to $210,000
Senior engineering technical program manager: $196,650 to $200,000
