New York Times’ tech staff threatens strike during Election Day crunch

> A spokesperson for the paper also said that while the union has argued that the strike is a fight for fair wages, the average total compensation of someone in the Tech Guild unit, including salary, bonuses and restricted stock options, is $190,000 — $40,000 more on average than journalists in the Times Guild

while this is true, the total compensation that tech employees get at the times is about 50% of what they’d get at standard bay area-esque tech companies [per levels.fyi](https://www.levels.fyi/companies/the-new-york-times-company/salaries/software-engineer?country=254), which i only note because the NYT’s interview process is modeled after those companies (8+ rounds, leetcoding, etc.)

IMO engineers there do have room to negotiate in that a lot of them, particularly those that are senior + staff level, could probably find higher paying positions in NYC.

Back in the wage cage techies

Send in the Pinkertons.