On: The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are not software engineers

[frozenport]

You are wrong. Interns are paid 75% of starting salary and don't work more than a few months. Many of these people are a year away from entering the labor force. With housing costs it's hard to take home more than a few k.

[lucozade → frozenport]

Fair enough. So it's the 105k graddie salary that's the bubble signifier rather than the intern salary per se. Makes sense.

[superuser2 → lucozade]

It actually doesn't. New grads at Google were getting ~$85k in 2006. By the CPI, that's ~$101k now. If "graddie" salaries were any less than that, wages would have actually decreased.

[frozenport → lucozade]

Where I work, engineers make the product. I'm noy sure what the other people do. I welcome the techno meritocracy.