Boy, talk about "the perfect is the enemy of the good"! Is salary negotiation a branch of particle physics now? Yes, this survey is much less valid than if we

Boy, talk about "the perfect is the enemy of the good"! Is salary negotiation a branch of particle physics now? Yes, this survey is much less valid than if we could magically collect all salary data for all developers in the area. But I don't have that magic wand, and this survey is far more useful to me than its closest competitor, which is "a buddy moved to the Bay area a few years ago and told me what he'd been offered".