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Re:Silicon Valley stays on top as tech salaries climb across... by ska on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:23PM (#26335601)
> If you restrict to the FAANG companies,

But then you are talking about a small minority of even SV salaries, and a tiny minority overall.

The real issue as noted elsewhere is that the distribution is at least bimodal, and many conversations get derailed by confusion around this fact.

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Re:Silicon Valley stays on top as tech salaries climb across... by ryandrake on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:55PM (#26338056)
Yea, whenever you read these insane compensations, people forget to point out that we're talking about a small outlier of senior engineers at a small outlier of companies, in a handful of cities in the USA. This bimodal distribution of a (relatively) few insane comps bring the average way above the median.
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