The top paying companies in Silicon Valley

Having moved here from Nashville, TN due to the opportunities, the comparable salary buying power chart really hit home. Fuck. Kind of upset now. At least this explains why I feel less well off even though I make so much more.

9.3% is the marginal tax rate, so saying that "anyone [in California] making over $46,776/year must pay 9.3% in taxes" is wrong.

The graph should have indicated whether those were base salaries or total annual compensation.

It seems misleading to quote what "some of the top-paid software engineers" are paid as there is no definition of "top" or "some" - so how can you compare those numbers to any other salary elsewhere?

Interesting how little money designers are paid in comparison to the developers. I would have thought that this changed in the last few years.

It's weird that they use the terms average and median interchangeably. Especially where the heading is Average Salaries in the Valley, and the figures are medians.<p>I'd be interested in viewing both figures, but the median is far more interesting, especially in an industry like SV. They choose to go with the average in most instances, however.

So adjusted for cost of living, the average software engineer in the Valley makes less than one in Philadelphia?

These salaries seem low...are there a whole lot of inexperienced devs compared to people with a few years of experience pulling the average down?<p>I'd be interested in seeing the actual curve.

Its really amazing to me that such cost of living difference can exist inside the US.