Maybe it depends on the company? I know for a fact that some of the larger companies I looked at paid significantly less for the same position and experience. Now, if you’re talking about small companies that aren’t doing well, they’re going to be cheaper and tightening up their belts, so to speak, but I guess I’ve found in general that smaller companies that are succeeding offer more than large companies - unless the company leaves the “normal” realm, i.e. Apple or Google or such.
I could be wrong though.
Yeah, my thoughts are in my own limited experience and what I’ve read/heard around colleagues and the web, so I could be decidedly wrong. Or I suppose it could be a mix of both, depends on the companies, no particularly strong trends. Or maybe industry (the company’s industry) specific trends? IDK.