I, too, am curious about how much of this is driven by housing costs. The salaries sound impressive until you start adjusting for cost of living. I live in a p

I, too, am curious about how much of this is driven by housing costs. The salaries sound impressive until you start adjusting for cost of living. I live in a part of the country with a very low cost of living, and make what I consider to be a decent salary for a developer (less than six figures). According to CNN Money's Cost of Living Calculator (http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/ http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/), the equivalent standard of living in San Jose would require a salary of $131K (or $140K in San Francisco). Suddenly, the base salaries the article cites don't sound so impressive.