1. Twitter

Average yearly salary: $114,917

Twitter is an innovation. It has changed the way our world communicates. A company building a unique brand of this stature will obviously need talent that is best in the industry. So it comes as no surprise that to safeguard its talent, twitter pays its software engineers a big bomb.

Twitter an online social networking and micro blogging website which allows users to ‘tweet’ anything up to 140 characters was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 140 million active users as of 2012^, generating over 340 millions tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.

Twitter is a growing company and employs about 900 employees. Seeing this figure we can easily figure out that twitter focuses only on quality employees and certainly not on quantity. The work life is twitter is hectic but it is certainly well paying.