The Department of Computer Science at Stanford released data about the salary statistics for the out going batch of 2007-2008 - and this also included survey of students from Electrical Engineering Dept. We have managed to get our hands on it and here we present for our readers, what the data looks like. The salaries are segmented based on 3 types of degrees, bachelors, masters and PhD.

CS/EE Undergrads

Data: I received 68 responses which described 126 job offers.

92% of the job offers were primarily located in the Bay Area, 7% were from the Midwest and East Coast, and 1% was in Japan.

12% of the job offers were from start-ups.

Salary offers ranged from $58,000 to $96,000. The average salary offer was $74,478. The median salary offer was $ 77,000.

About 50% of students were offered stock options. About 70% of students were offered signing bonuses. And about 50% were offered relocation assistance and there were others who did not report the statistics since relocating did not apply to them. Relocation assistance ranged from $1,500 to $10,000 with an average of $4,423. Bonuses ranged from $5,000 to $20,000 with an average of $8,750. I did not calculate the range of stock options because stock options offered by companies are so different in their actual and potential values.

Students who replied averaged about 2 job offers. However, students may not have reported on all the offers they received. The average student who replied to the survey all had some job experience, nearly all of it through summer internships and averaged 3 summer of work.

Company, location, environment/culture, salary/benefits, scope of work were the important factors in accepting the offers for the undergrads.

CS/EE Masters

Data: I received 116 responses which described 244 job offers.

92% of the job offers were primarily located in the Bay Area, 5% were in the Midwest and East Coast, 2% was in Japan, and 1% was in Korea.

38% of the job offers were from start-ups.

Salary offers ranged from $71,000 to $100,000. The average salary offer was $87,812. The median salary offer was $85,500. The candidates who were offered $100,000 had held 4 full-time positions and 2 internships.

About 78% of students were offered stock options. About 62% of students were offered signing bonuses. And about 43% were offered relocation assistance and there others who did not report the statistics since relocating did not apply to them. Relocation assistance ranged from $1,000 to $6,000 with an average of $3,375. Bonuses ranged from $2,000 to $20,000 with an average of $6,162. I did not calculate the range of stock options because stock options offered by companies are so different in their actual and potential values.

Students who replied averaged about 3 job offers. However, students may not have reported on all the offers they received. The Masters had a little more summer experience than the undergraduates, an average of 3 summer internships.

Like the undergrads, company, environment/culture, location, salary/benefits, scope of work seem to be the important factors for the MS grads.

CS/EE PhDs

Data: I received 22 responses which described 61 job offers.

76% of the job offers were primarily located in the Bay Area, 23% were in the Midwest and East Coast, 1% was in China.

23% of the job offers were from start-ups. 1% of the job offer was from a university

Salary offers ranged from $90,000 to $125,000. The average salary offer was $104,684. The median salary offer was $110,000.

The candidate who was offered $90,000 (for 9 months) or $120,000 (assuming summer funding) was from a university.

About 55% of students were offered stock options. About 45% of students were offered signing bonuses. Bonuses ranged from $5,000 to $100,000 with an average of $22,200. Relocation assistance ranged from $2,000 to $10,000 with an average of $6,056. However, they may not have reported on all the benefits they received. I did not calculate the range of stock options because stock options offered by companies are so different in their actual and potential values.

Students who replied averaged about 3 job offers. However, students may not have reported on all the offers they received. The PhDs had about the same amount of summer experience as the Masters, an average of 3 summer internships and with the exception of 1 full-time experience.

Like the undergraduates and masters, company, environment/culture, location, salary/benefits, scope of work seem to be the important factors when it came to accepting their job offer.