I wonder how this works out for take-home pay. Many of the companies listed have offices in Austin as well as the bay area (Cisco, Paypal, Oracle, VMWare, Inte

I wonder how this works out for take-home pay. Many of the companies listed have offices in Austin as well as the bay area (Cisco, Paypal, Oracle, VMWare, Intel). Even ignoring housing costs, the california vs texas state income tax means a 10% difference in take-home. Are facebook and bloomberg engineers really coming out ahead, or are all their developers just living in palo alto and manhattan?