[geebee]

"I've seen reputable, multi-billion dollar companies offering in the $140k range for this type of role in New York. That's wildly below anything reasonable for this sort of thing [in NY/SF"]

Man, do I ever agree. This is where the "shortage" argument falls apart.

This is why I'm so uninterested in the abstract arguments happening elsewhere on this topic about whether markets are failing and basic laws of supply and demand no longer apply at theoretical salary levels (10 million was offered as an example).

Why are we bothering with this debate, when it's so far from reality? I'd say that if you're trying to hire a very high skilled and critical tech worker in SF, and you just can't find one no matter how hard you try, and then I find out that you're only offering 140k a year?

In San Francisco and New York (and anywhere else in the US, really), that's nowhere close to the kind of pay where we should start scratching our heads about a shortage and start wondering why the usual laws of supply and demand aren't working anymore.