Team Size
TEAM SIZE IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN COMPENSATION. Generally, people on larger teams make higher salaries. One-person teams make around $69K median salary, whereas folks on 20+-person teams have a $99K median salary. This could simply be explained by the fact that, in order to have a large team, you need a larger company and, as we’ve seen, the larger the company, the higher the median salary.
However, team sizes of one don’t necessarily mean small companies. One-person and small teams could simply mean that these respondents are on small teams (or work by themselves) inside large companies that don’t have many programmers or are not in the Software industry.
It seems that it is better to work with more people, at least in terms of salaries. As they say, a high tide raises all ships.
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