You do realize that the average salary of a tenured professor in the US is around $100k right? It goes up to $200k for some private universities but I would say

You do realize that the average salary of a tenured professor in the US is around $100k right? It goes up to $200k for some private universities but I would say 100-150k is what most top public universities pay. So 130k is a shitton of money in academia. Ignoring all of that, average salary of a senior biomedial engineer is 90k. The rest of the USA doesn't live in the 100k++ bubble that is SV.