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So the takeaway here is that in the hot/big markets (LA, SF, Boston, NYC) a decent engineer can earn 90-140k without much hassle and a bit of luck to get the job in teh first place. In the secondary markets, an engineer can earn 60-100k. Not at all surprisingly, secondary markets now includes what would have been developing countries ten years ago. Europe still lags the US overall, and software is undoubtedly a global economic force doing much good in what are still developing countries.