---
id: 3515
title: "How Hackers Spend Their Bounties"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/how-hackers-spend-their-bounties"
published_at: "2018-02-08T18:00:00Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "community", "hackerone", "india", "payouts", "economics"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3515"
lang: en
---

# How Hackers Spend Their Bounties

## Summary

HackerOne asked top hackers how they spend bounty earnings: college savings, family cars, even a house for parents—and in India, hackers can earn up to 16x a local software engineer's salary.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2018-02-08T18:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/how-hackers-spend-their-bounties
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3515