There are plenty of developers working at startups earning close enough to $110k plus "equity", and even plenty in other more mature businesses. For example, th

There are plenty of developers working at startups earning close enough to $110k plus "equity", and even plenty in other more mature businesses. For example, the company I work for has that as the midpoint for our entry level software engineers: we're a mature, public company with over 300 engineers and about 10% of our staff is in that classification. Take a look at angel.co. I haven't run an analysis but there are plenty of Bay Area jobs posted there for sub-$100k salaries: some of those are going to be filled. Then we have a number of older tech giants and tech divisions of companies who haven't caught up with salaries paid elsewhere: IBM, Visa, Raytheon, Oracle, etc.