For example... The median salary for software developers in 2019 in the US was $107,000, with 50% between $82,000 and $136,000. The mean salary in California w

For example... The median salary for software developers in 2019 in the US was $107,000, with 50% between $82,000 and $136,000. The mean salary in California was $134,000 and the mean in San Francisco was $145,000. (https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer/salary https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...) The median household income in the US in 2019 was $69,560 with a 90% confidence interval of <$1000. The "median earnings of all workers aged 15 and over with earnings" in 2019 was $42,065. (FWIW, the median household income for black people in 2020 was $46,000, and for Asian people was $95,000.) The median household income of those with no college education was $47,000, some college was $64,000, and at least a bachelors degree was $107,000. (https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...) (The median household income in California in 2019 was $78,000.) The median salary for software developers individually in 2019 therefore puts them in the highest 40% of households. (In 2019, 1/5th of households made less than $28,000, 2/5 made less than $54,000, 3/5 made less than $86,000, and 4/5 made less than $143,000. 95% made less than $270,000.) For many of the people frequenting HN, this is your mileage in the act of varying.