> Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft ... proposed to pay their workers a median salary of $117,000." > Indeed.com quotes the average SD salary in Seattle (

> Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft ... proposed to pay their workers a median salary of $117,000." > Indeed.com quotes the average SD salary in Seattle (think Amazon and Microsoft) as 126,000 and San Francisco at 134,000. You cannot compare a median salary with an average salary. Salaries are going to have a long tail of large numbers.