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You clearly don’t work in the area the article is about them, do you? It sounds like you likely don’t even live in the same country, let alone that specific reg
by djrogers 8y ago
You clearly don’t work in the area the article is about them, do you? It sounds like you likely don’t even live in the same country, let alone that specific region of that specific state.
- closeparen 8y agoI do work in the Bay Area. Santa Clara, San Mateo, and San Francisco counties all have median household incomes over $100k. It’s not at all unusual for a single software engineer to be in that ballpark. Look at college graduate incomes and you will find software engineering compensation even less exceptional. At the national level, anyway, personal college graduate incomes around the same as overall household incomes.
- mamon 8y agoLiving in California recently I actually met a few software engineers that were driving Uber as their second job, because their SWE salary was not enough. This really shocked me.
- closeparen 8y agoIt’s enough to be okay, certainly, but not enough for the lifestyle you would have anticipated by getting an education and entering a lucrative white collar field.
- EpicEng 8y agoIt's not like every SWE working in the vast is making $200+ / year. Not even close.