Interesting post but take note that it's talking about median compensation (not salary) and it covers all roles and positions in a company. This means that the

Interesting post but take note that it's talking about median compensation (not salary) and it covers all roles and positions in a company. This means that these figures are not 100% useful for software engineering positions. Also these companies are mainly US focused and us in the EU can only dream of such high compensation numbers :-/