[finolex1]

The acronym has nothing to do with average developer salaries, for there are lots of other contenders that pay more.

[anamexis]

Developer salaries is the only context I’ve ever understood it with.

[clpm4j]

Originally it was about the companies' high performing stocks. The salaries are a downstream effect, and then it just got adopted by the salary-optimizing crowd of engineers and college students.