http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm collects salary information from self-reporting employees of various companies. Twitter,

http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm collects salary information from self-reporting employees of various companies. Twitter, Uber, and other startups are in SF. Google, Facebook, and Apple use private buses to move employees from SF to their campuses in Silicon Valley. A new grad from a leading CS school would start at over $ 100k, plus tiny stock option. Of course you need free food (at least lunch), and other perks. http://h1bdata.info/ http://h1bdata.info/ is a searchable database of H1-B visa requests. It can be searched by company, city, job title. Set the year to 2015. For example: Twitter software engineer median $127K, Senior SE $155K, Staff SE $ 169K, etc.