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Re:Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership by browseatwork on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:10PM (#10261339)
By average developer do you mean in terms of general deveoper skill or in terms of average salary? I'd be surprised that even that the companies you list, the average salary for developers is 250k. And I'd be even more surprised if it's the median salary.
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Re:Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership by Patrick_Devine on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:01PM (#10261683)
It's close to that when you factor in benefits and perks. That said, proximity has a lot going for it, and software is a high margin business. I don't see companies moving away from the Bay Area any time soon, and I don't see developers salaries falling soon either.
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Re:Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership by browseatwork on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @07:26PM (#10262425)
It might be, but it's still hard to believe. Has anyone written a blog post with some reasonable napkin math? Some breakdown of a prominent company of engineers by salary range?

Fully agree, a lot of software will be entrenched in the Bay for decades to come.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Economic Indicator: Caltrain Ridership by pm24601 on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:23PM (#10266441)
Maybe look at glassdoor: http://www.glassdoor.com/ ?
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