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Re:Silicon Valley’s engineering salaries are finally getting... by InclinedPlane on Saturday February 04, 2012 @06:58PM (#3552735)
Also no mention of how the overall economy and things like SOX have affected programmer compensation.
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Re:Silicon Valley’s engineering salaries are finally getting... by mkramlich on Saturday February 04, 2012 @11:47PM (#3553317)
SOX affecting programmer compensation?! I don't follow.

(And I'm assuming by SOX you mean Sarbanes-Oxley.)

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Re:Silicon Valley’s engineering salaries are finally getting... by InclinedPlane on Sunday February 05, 2012 @12:42AM (#3553391)
Compensation includes equity. One of the primary ways that programmers become millionaires is by gaining lots of stock grants and options by being early employees at quickly growing companies that go public. That whole system has been curtailed somewhat in recent years by SOX.
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Re:Silicon Valley’s engineering salaries are finally getting... by helmut_hed on Sunday February 05, 2012 @04:11AM (#3553684)
Was that SOX, or the (hotly debated but eventually issued) changes to the FASB rules regarding expensing of stock options?
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