Someone I know in Chicago with 2 years post-school experience has entertained several offers in the 90k range for front-end dev positions this past year, and th

Someone I know in Chicago with 2 years post-school experience has entertained several offers in the 90k range for front-end dev positions this past year, and this is with a 2-year degree. I assumed back-end/compsci grads were pulling much higher than that, am I missing something?