[vonmoltke]

> In today's market, a person with multiple offers would command at least twice the listed compensation at any of the software majors.

StackOverflow is probably OK with missing out on these comparatively rare beasts. For me, their formula would give me almost a 20% raise (if I could stay in Dallas), and that is not counting my six years of non-software engineering experience.

[serge2k]

I'm in Seattle, and to match my base I would need to be a few levels above where I am (4 years, probably about a 1).