Well if you actually chose not to work at Google or Facebook, there were obviously other motivating factors than a decent salary. None of these other factors a

Well if you actually chose not to work at Google or Facebook, there were obviously other motivating factors than a decent salary. None of these other factors are listed here. So it's impossible to say. Of course many people here will immediately judge everything by dollar amount alone, but by that logic no one should work for NASA, which has crappy pay.