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Here's What You Can Earn Working At Apple
Who gets paid more at Apple: designers or engineers?
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We've assembled a list of some of the top-paid jobs at Apple, based on data gathered from Glassdoor.
Salary data on Glassdoor is based on anonymous salary reports that were voluntarily shared by both current and recent employees.
Start printing your resume if you see your role on here.
Salary: $44,070
Mac Geniuses are super important to the shopping experience at Apple's stores. But they don't receive a lot of love from Apple, it seems (at least in terms of salary).
Salary: $56,046
Apple needs some people to help run its stores. Assistant store managers get paid better than the rank-and-file Mac Geniuses and sales representatives.
Salary: $82,479
Account executives manage business-to-business relationships and are tasked with maintaining them. Apple has a bunch of relationships with advertisers and hardware component manufacturers, so it needs people to manage them.
Salary: $85,357
These are the leaders of each Apple Store. You may not see them on the front lines with customers, but they're crucial to Apple's success.
Salary: $94,799
Apple also has to have a good team of quantitative crunchers to make sure its business is running smoothly and its finances are in line.
Salary: $99,650
Apple also has to make sure the software it's shipping works properly and will be well-received by customers. That's where QA engineers come in.
Salary: $104,231
With a ton of suppliers and factories, Apple has to manage logistics to make sure its products get shipped on time. Systems engineers make sure the chain isn't broken and manage Apple's risk.
Salary: $113,155
Firmware engineers make sure all of Apple's software plays nice with its hardware. It's a critical role that requires expertise in both hardware and software.
Salary: $117,237
This is actually one of the lowest-paying senior roles at Apple. Still, senior systems engineers get paid more than twice as much as a typical retail employee.
Salary: $118,739
Hardware engineers are around to make sure Apple's hardware is up to snuff.
Salary: $119,336
Software engineers are the brains behind Apple's applications and operating systems. For comparison, software engineers at Google make slightly more on average, at $125,322.
Salary: $122,669
Apple also has to crunch through a ton of data — whether it's usage data, serving apps through the App Store, or making sure some of its web-connected services like Siri are working. Database administrators make sure Apple's databases run quickly and don't go offline.
Salary: $127,464
Apple's products also face a lot of traditional mechanical problems, like dealing with heat and moving parts. Mechanical engineers make sure Apple's products don't fall apart as a result of trivial problems.
Salary: $131,108
Product managers make sure each product gets shipped while meeting Apple's bar for quality, and they interact with just about every part of the process. They're in touch with marketing, design, software, and hardware engineers — and everything in between.
Salary: $140,832
Senior software engineers get paid slightly less than senior hardware engineers. At this level, you're probably working on some of Apple's most sensitive products, like maps or the iPhone operating system.
Salary: $174,140
Surprise! Steve Jobs has said time and again that Apple is a company that sits at the crossroads of design and technology. At its core, it has a bit of creative DNA (infused by music, mostly) that makes its products hum in a way companies like Google can't quite match.
Obviously the guys in charge of the overall visual appearance of a product and how it communicates visually with consumers is a key role at Apple, and a highly valuable one.
Apple design boss Jony Ive gets paid much more than this — in 2011, he cashed out stock options worth more than $30 million, just for an example.
On February 28, Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, joined 31 other media groups and filed a $2.3 billion suit against Google in Dutch court, alleging losses suffered due to the company's advertising practices.
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