> Yes, the whole premise is very US-centric. It's actually even more localized than that: the vast majority of places in the US don't pay that much. Silicon

> Yes, the whole premise is very US-centric. It's actually even more localized than that: the vast majority of places in the US don't pay that much. Silicon Valley, NYC, and some other metros will have higher ranges, of course, and BigCorps can afford to pay it. But if you live in the Midwest or program for a company whose business isn't software—which is likely a healthy minority of software positions, if not a majority—you generally won't make that much.