[cr4nberry]

This post fails to acknowledge cost of living. If you work in SV, you're going to be paid well just because of COL. I've seen programmer jobs only paying 50k (in the US, at large companies, in 2022), all because of low COL.

Why is it that there's all this griping about salaries when PMs, EMs, data scientists, etc make similar pay in a similar COL situation?

COL aside, imo SWEs could make twice as much and it still wouldn't be adequate. Apple's revenue per employee is over 2 million, their median SWE comp is probably only 1/8th of that

We should unionize