I've found a pretty hard salary cap. 15 years exp, Bs degree earned somewhere in the middle, increasing experience, good references... and then I get to SF and

I've found a pretty hard salary cap. 15 years exp, Bs degree earned somewhere in the middle, increasing experience, good references... and then I get to SF and have experienced intense bullying when I ask for anything beyond the norm of a new-grad transplant who works through the holidays. Employment in programming jobs here isn't worth it for experienced people. Now if we restructured engineering orgs a little bit, we could pay the more experienced people proportional to the hidden value they create... but that would require "right brained"/non-Analytical thinking which is basically illegal. So we'll Lemming on until the engineering orgs with data driven decision making are replaced by the new Google of the heart.