was going through remote compensation sheet why is there such large variation when more or less most of skills/tech stack is somewhat same

There are many reasons. Here are a few important ones: • Lack of awareness of right compensation figures • Lack of negotiation skills or opportunities (often people think they need a job and so they are unable to negotiate, whereas the company doesn't know they need the job • Lack of communication skills -- this is one of the major reasons. Often, people simply don't have good enough communication skills and this affects their initial impression and subsequent performance (software development is not just coding after all)

The salaries mentioned in the sheet are remote salaries or candidates working from Organisation location?

One other thing to consider as well is the location. Some locations pay much lesser than others and that is totally normal. So depends also on where your organization is based out of.

Another thing to keep in mind, similar software stacks in the hands of the best programmers behave very differently than in the hands of average programmers. Think facebook vs. irctc in handling scale. So some of those outliers in the spreadsheet probably deserve the premium. You get what you pay for.

The director of product of a SF company is probably the most underpaid of them all. Where did the sheet come from?

Hey Piyush, It's an ongoing survey done by the community https://remoteindian.slack.com/archives/C6MCFN6TB/p1592901025149600

oh sweet! I think some of them have written monthly income instead of annual.

@dry-monkey-93718 It is mainly sweat equity (I think). Considering the person is a Founding member & 60+ hours, very possible that that they are pitching in, taking lesser $$$ now and will cash out later.

Well, I hope it pays off.