I think those are median pay of the areas overall, not just tech So SV has $227k median, but that includes all jobs May be misunderstanding the slide though,

I think those are median pay of the areas overall, not just tech So SV has $227k median, but that includes all jobs May be misunderstanding the slide though, it isn't clear edit: Median salary for SF is more like $95k, so this must be tech only I suppose that means that >50% of the responses at L3, hence the median being ~L3 salary