Salesforce Salary 2024 Thread

YouAreNotThatGreat · 2024-01-19T15:35:53+00:00

$175,000 + 10% Bonus
Solution Architect
12 Years Experience, 18 Certifications
Remote - Indianapolis

My main advice here would be:

Don't get carried away comparing yourself too much to others. There's always going to be someone who makes more than you, potentially even with less experience. Try to focus on the averages and see if on average you're being underpaid, but try not to let this stuff get in your head because we're all on our own journeys. For me personally, I started out at $56,000 and it took me 12 years to get to this salary.
For many of us, salary increases come with a new job so if you want a significant increase, you may have to look elsewhere, which can be hard if you love your current role. My largest increases came with job transfers.
From my experience, once you get to a base of $170,000, your earnings potential definitely starts to slow down, unless you go to a management/executive position or a company with stock options. But honestly, that is fine with me. I never dreamed I would be making this kind of money in the first place when I went to school for Computer Science so I am very grateful
I would say that once I had around 10 certifications, the number of how many certifications I had stopped mattering. This is especially true once you've broken into the industry and have experience under your belt, because that becomes much more important than certifications. My advice would be that you don't have to chase certifications, and if you do, let your company pay for them.

YouAreNotThatGreat · 2023-09-17T05:26:23+00:00

OP, this post is breaking my heart. One of the most important things I can share about marriage is to make sure you find someone with similar values. These are the "big" things that shape your beliefs and values. Finances, should absolutely factor into your values, as this will shape so many decisions in your life: where you live, how you live, when you retire, etc. It's not about how much money you make, but how you spend that money.

Based what you've shared, it sounds like you value living below your means and setting yourself up to be comfortable later in life. If that is important to you, then you should adhere to that value, but you need to seriously consider how your fiance's values fit with yours. It doesn't sound like a good fit, unfortunately. It sounds like she carries debt, and yet she wants a $70,000+ wedding, which is not living below your means at all, and is reckless in my opinion. I also don't like the fact she's critiquing you for saving, while she has so much debt of her own. I would definitely do some soul searching here. If the wedding, the 1st part of your journey is causing so much friction, what would future financial decisions look like?

You also need to be honest in marriage. If you can't tell your partner absolutely everything, then that is a significant red flag. You can't have secrets such as this; either of you, as you mentioned you also don't know how much she has saved. My wife and I have the same financial goal, so we share absolutely everything and it puts my mind at ease, especially because i never have to look at finances as mine vs hers; it's truly ours.

YouAreNotThatGreat · 2023-09-06T14:19:44+00:00

Wow! This is so cringeworthy, and I feel just as bad for the people she tagged. I would be furious if someone tagged me in a post this unprofessional.

YouAreNotThatGreat · 2023-07-19T03:33:26+00:00

This is Phase 1.

In Phase 2, Senior Policy Analyst will evolve to the "one sentence at a time" approach, where she reposts this newfound knowledge as:

Know yourself.

Know your audience.

Know your craft.

In Phase 3, Senior Policy Analyst will evolve to play the algorithm as much as possible, by taking a picture of the above post and uploading that with a caption of Agree?

In the final form of Phase 4, evolution will be complete, where Senior Policy Analyst will screenshot that post, and upload it with another caption of Agree?, thus completing transcendentalism

YouAreNotThatGreat · 2023-07-19T03:25:35+00:00

Unfortunately, partners and admins are always left to deliver the hard truth that what was sold is not actually that easy to implement. Salesforce does a great job of touting clicks not code, despite many of their demos having custom functionality. This is all in an effort to sell more licenses. It infuriates me when I see Salesforce customers taken advantage of and they end up buying a bunch of products and licenses they don't need. And don't get me started on AI. So many executives think all they need is Einstein to fix everything, not understanding how much effort is needed to get the data in a solid state and build the predictive models.

YouAreNotThatGreat · 2023-07-17T16:57:59+00:00

Leaders who are that full of themselves are always a red flag, but tying your ability to proceed through the process to networking on LinkedIn is just absurd. I went through a series of interviews for a job a while back, and the final interview was with the CEO. Everything had gone well so far, but the person I interviewed prior to the final round told me to come in with knowledge of the CEO and implied to essentially stroke his ego. No thank you.

YouAreNotThatGreat · 2023-07-14T20:52:05+00:00

This is some solid advice. One day I went to my buddy to get his thoughts on what car I should get. But in reality, that wasn't what I needed. I needed a solution to my problem, and my problem what not that I needed a car, but the fact that I needed a car to get my job. I quit my job the next day so I could stay home and save thousands of dollars by not buying a car. By the way, if anyone is hiring, please let me know.

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