<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SamvitJ</author><text>Note: this data is from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sequoia.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sequoia.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;, which is a company unrelated to Sequoia Capital.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Compensation Data and Trends in the USA</title><url>https://dataforest.sequoia.com/reports/compensation/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gregdoesit</author><text>The data points on pay gap by gender and ethnicity are ones I’ve not seen before and it’s great that this dimension is visualised.&lt;p&gt;A surprising finding here - that doesn’t match what I would have expected - is how Engineering is compensated 90% in cash. I would have assumed equity is pretty heavy for software engineers, especially in senior and above positions.&lt;p&gt;I do wish there were more takeaways to what seems to be data confirming these:&lt;p&gt;1. Compensation is going up, and especially software engineering compensation.&lt;p&gt;2. Startups are starting to compete stronger on cash compensation (thanks to a strong funding environment, and the market).&lt;p&gt;3. Remote work is slowly eroding regional differences in the US (and, as a note, globally, as well).&lt;p&gt;Sadly, there’s no data on remote work here, nor is there anything on what % the market moved up the last year in various disciplines. At least for engineering, the past year has been a major jump upwards in compensation.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Compensation Data and Trends in the USA</title><url>https://dataforest.sequoia.com/reports/compensation/</url></story>