I don't really know about the midwest vs. California divide, although I would say that 140 is base before options, and that the expected value of those options

I don't really know about the midwest vs. California divide, although I would say that 140 is base before options, and that the expected value of those options is greater. There does seem to be a bit space that's opened up between the bigs, and startups. 10 years ago it was 200K at Apple, 100 at startup + options. Now it's 140-180K at startups and 400K at BigCo. There are lots of BigCos btw. Apple, Facebook, Stripe, Dropbox, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Square, Twitter, Slack. Anyone with 300M+ valuation. (Even if they still call themselves startups :-)). I worry a bit that startups at the 5-50 person level will have trouble getting the talent they need to challenge BigCos. Here's a good discussion from the VC/founder perspective. https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewchen/status/1013877297647095808 https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewchen/status/101387729764709...