At $170K, Brocade pays $34K more per year in average salary than Cisco
Thu, 04/01/10 - 11:33pm Add your comment
According to Fortune Magazine, on average, Brocade pays its software engineers $170K per year in salary.
Now that's $34K more per year than Cisco on average pays its software engineers, $135K per year.
And most interestingly of all, Brocade also pays more in average salary than NetApp, Microsoft and Intel too.
However earlier this week, Cisco bragged with much ballyhoo that Mark Chandler, its general counsel and senior vice president, was named one of the decade's most influential lawyers, principally because:
"Chandler is singled out for identifying changes to information technology that impact the world of legal services, and developing innovative methods to drive efficiency and collaboration between companies and their outside lawyers. The NLJ describes him as an outspoken champion of cutting costs before cutting costs was cool."
Personally, I find it quite humorous that Cisco's bragging that Mark Chandler was "an outspoken champion of cutting costs before cutting costs was cool."
Why so you may ask?
Well, I find it very ironic Cisco's bragging that its "chief legal beagle" is a champion at cutting legal costs, especially since Cisco's outside law firm, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, is still ranked 3rd on Fortune's 25 top-paying companies list (it was also ranked 3rd on the Fortune list the year before too).
Please try to keep in mind that the above average salary is for Cisco's Orrick lawyers who most unfortunately happen to be the lowest on Cisco's Orrick legal totem pole hierarchy, associates.
Also take note: Cisco's Mark Chandler and Cisco's outside law firm, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, were featured in The New York Times today:
