[austinengineer]

IBM, Austin, TX, band 10 (Senior Technical Staff Member)

Base salary: 190k / yr base salary, ~6k / yr performance bonus

Equity Grant: ~$125k stock grant, vesting twice in four years, so ~$31k/yr stock presuming I stay for all four years

So - total annual compensation (excluding healthcare benefits and our 6% 401k match) is about $216k annually.

[SmellTheGlove]

You and the other poster at Google in Boulder have probably found the sweet spot between comp and cost of living. Nice work!