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I created salarytalk.org/h1bdata . Hope that helps some people gain insight as to where they lie on the salary distribution.

That's cool. There's a bunch of site that have this data. http://salarytalk.org/h1bwage has similar information on the data set.

This is pretty cool. I created a similar site http://salarytalk.org/search. I has has more charts and search capabilities for the same dataset across 2010-2014. For aggregate information per company go to http://salarytalk.org/companies

Shameless plug - Find all salaries reported by H1B employers including startups at http://salarytalk.org/search

Thanks for the observation. Yes, averaging over all companies will give you those results. Remember that is a comprehensive list over all companies in the USA. If you're targeting companies like Google, sort by descending order in wage, and then scroll through the first 50 records, about 40 of those are software engineers with salaries way above 200K. I think that's phenomenal.

If you want to know what companies offer as base salaries check this website I made that uses H1B wage data. The tech companies have a very wide range for negotiation at each level and it's important to know that when you go into salary negotiations. Although this is H1B data, for top companies these are the same base salaries that US residents are also making, and they are pretty damn high....Look at google for example: http://salarytalk.org/search#%7B%22qcompanyName%22%3A%22goog...