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All-in compensation for a top student out of a top college (think Stanford, MIT, Berkeley) in SV can be $200k. But keep in mind that the high cost of living re
by argonaut 12y ago
All-in compensation for a top student out of a top college (think Stanford, MIT, Berkeley) in SV can be $200k.
But keep in mind that the high cost of living really only applies to certain areas (albeit desirable ones like SF, Palo Alto, even Mountain View). There are tons of affordable locations if you are willing to have a 30 minute commute and are willing to accept sketchier environments (Berkeley, Oakland, other East Bay locations, East Palo Alto, etc.).
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoBerkeley is sketchy now?
- argonaut 12y agoThe cheaper parts of Berkeley are sketchy, yes.
- jghn 12y ago"top student out of a top college" doesn't exactly describe a lot of individuals (10? 15?), which makes that compensation value an extreme outlier.
- argonaut 12y agoAllow me to revise that to "top student at a decent school." (School is actually less important). I would say it describes >200 people every year (take the top 5-10% of Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, Princeton, UPenn, UT Austin, Caltech, a couple others, and then maybe the top 2-5% at UCLA, UCSD, CU-Boulder, dozens more schools.