Most employees even in Google don't make $250k base. Most of bay area is littered with low-profile companies like Brocade, Broadcomm, McAfee, KLA-Tencor, Micro

Most employees even in Google don't make $250k base. Most of bay area is littered with low-profile companies like Brocade, Broadcomm, McAfee, KLA-Tencor, Micron, Hortonworks, Arista etc. Most "senior" engineers in these companies don't make $150k base. Some guys just have a retarded view of what companies are paying. Outside the top 10 high-profile companies, most engineers in the bay are slaving away in low-mid 100ks