Highest Paid Software Engineers in Technology
9. Oracle
Average yearly salary: $99,391
Oracle an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems has its headquarters at 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, Redwood City, California, United States.
Larry Ellison, a co-founder of Oracle Corporation, has served as Oracle's CEO throughout its history. He also served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004. On August 22, 2008 the Associated Press ranked Ellison as the top-paid chief executive in the world.
Oracle employs 111,297 people across the globe. It is a huge brand and a lot of the largest companies in the world use its technology. So we can expect big pay packages from them for sure.
8 Zynga
Average yearly salary: $100,494
Zynga the social network game development company located in San Francisco; California employs about 300 employees and was founded by Mark Pincus in April 2007under the name Presidio Media; which was later changed to Zynga in July 2007.
The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, Google+ and Myspace. Better known for developing addictive games such as zinga poker, Farmville, cityville, draw your things zinga has over 240 million monthly users on facebook.
Zynga filed with the SEC to rise up to $1 billion in an initial public offering on July 1, 2011, and began trading on NASDAQ December 16, 2011. With its entry into the big league we expect zynga to pay its employs some serious big bucks. They usually hire people working with competing companies like EA so they necessarily need to pay employees more to hook them on.
