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The top 10 US tech companies that pay the most when poaching employees

Netflix tops the list, beating out Facebook which offers more in stocks and benefits

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The talent wars are alive and well in the tech industry, according to salary research site Paysa.

And there’s one company willing to go to the nines to win them: Netflix.

Paysa recently looked at hiring, staying, and poaching trends for a number of top tech companies and discovered that Netflix spent more than 10 times than the others to acquire new talent from places like LinkedIn, Facebook, and PayPal.

The research firm came up with these stats as part of a bigger project that analysed salary trends of over 31,000 employment transitions. 

While Netflix was, by far, offering the biggest increases, it wasn’t the only one willing to pay big. Here are the top 10 tech companies that pay the most when poaching employees, according to Paysa:

1: Netflix was willing to give employees it lured away from other tech companies a median raise of 167 per cent. They were earning US$130,814 on average when Netflix sought to hire them, and the company agreed to pay them US$329,174.

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