[zafka]

The part that bothered me was the fact that the Web developer made 40K to start, and he worried that getting a boost to 70K might make him too satisfied to better himself. I was under the impression that west coast salaries where a bit higher.

[hueving]

In tech companies they tend to be.

It sounds like the dev was inexperienced which is why he was talking about improving skills to work at a tech company.