u/InTheDarkDancing wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
CIRR only takes into account the base salary, so it's not as essential to track the additional compensation. And it's not as if they don't track it at all, and the data you collect is limited to what the respondent offers, so for this sub's perspective it's not really relevant in
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I added these to my comment above that I think are super interesting from this data,
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>It's really interesting to see "past salaries", the number of people making six figures BEFORE CODESMITH is an anomaly for bootcamps, and one of the things that skews the numbers. 16, or 20% of the people made over 90K BEFORE with and I would say most people on here are hoping to make 90K AFTER. People really need to know this going in... that part of the success is that a number of people going in are already successful.
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>2. This gives more insight into the split distribution - lots of high salaries, lots of low salaries - which, like 2., is not the norm for bootcamps. You can see personas in the data. Some people with $140K+ salaries started with high salaries anyways. Some didn't, those people are the "all in Codesmith" people who defend it to the bitter death - but it's like 5 people out of 73. The more typical case is someone making 50 to 80K in a good job before Codesmith going to low six figures after, and this is a fantastic outcome and the bread and butter Codesmith-supporter who thinks it's absolutely worth the tuition but acknowledges the imperfections.