Seriously? People make that little at these startups? I understand making that little pre-funding, but you would expect to be paid in sync with the cost of living in those areas after the company has been funded.

You can't even rent an apartment on that out there, can you? Unless you have a roommate.

I am not saying I expected too much more, but thought at least $90k for anyone with any degree of talent would be reasonable.

I mean, crap, $90k would still be WELL below median income for experienced software engineers in Silicon Valley, wouldn't it? Salary.com seems to indicate it would, but that could be a biased source.