[Klinky]

I think seeing a PPP/COL breakdown between major metropolitan areas would be more useful than country-wide averages/medians, the US has huge variations with regards to compensation & cost of living. Most people in the US are not making $100K. Even in tech, many are not making $100K. A lot of people fail at getting those FANG salaries(partly due to the exhaustive hoops you need to jump through to get them), and even if you're getting those high salaries a lot of those benefits can be negated by very high localized costs.

That said, absolutely there is an arbitraged disparities going on where some contractor in India is making $10K/yr while someone in the US is making $250K/yr. Are statically priced global goods fair? Perhaps not, or perhaps the issue is our inability to agree on the worth of a human's labor, and the people who exploit that deficiency. Many US companies are now looking outside the US towards Europe for lower cost engineers, so who knows how long the levels.fyi salaries are going to last in the US.