I do remember 2 things which might have bumped it up. To stem the stream of developers going to pre-IPO Facebook and other Valley up-and-comings[1], they bumpe

I do remember 2 things which might have bumped it up. To stem the stream of developers going to pre-IPO Facebook and other Valley up-and-comings[1], they bumped salaries up 10% across the board + making bonuses part of salary that year, IIRC. Also, a Valley salary corroboration was exposed recently[2]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417577 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417577 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817