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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by BoorishBears on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:43AM (#16052456)
I’m not implying everyone is the best talent and making 150k, quite the opposite.

But I definitely don’t agreee the peak is below 150k...

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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by overcast on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:46AM (#16052473)
I mean ryandrake above just stated glassdoor and salary.com showing $110,000 as the medium. So below $150k.
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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by sjg007 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:31AM (#16052915)
This histogram says that the mode is less than <150k too which is the peak.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-jose-software-enginee...

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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by BoorishBears on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:39AM (#16052986)
I see a bar at 159k, and Glassdoor is seems to also be separating by variants of the title "Software Engineer", like "Lead Software Engineer" and "Software Engineer II" which could change results (not sure that those are subsets of Software Engineer in their system)
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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by infinite8s on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:47PM (#16055482)
In addition Glassdoor likely has a self-reported sampling issue.
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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by BoorishBears on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:11AM (#16052693)
Median being 111,000 doesn’t say anything about the peak...
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Re:Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay ever... by BoorishBears on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:46PM (#16054881)
People are downvoting without looking at the graph themselves. The graph is not a bell curve and is skewed, it's median isn't at the peak of the graph.
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