In 2019 my employer posted the necessary H1B notices, and the new grad jobs were 115-130k. This was cash salary, and I believe the stock grants were minimal/non

In 2019 my employer posted the necessary H1B notices, and the new grad jobs were 115-130k. This was cash salary, and I believe the stock grants were minimal/nonexistent at that level. This was not a faang-level public company, nor a high-prestige/unicorn startup, in Seattle. 150k seems to me to be a pretty reasonable ballpark number for a software developer working in one of the cities with a high cost of living with a well-established ecosystem of companies competing for developers.