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Then, congratulations for being a significant outlier! But a handful of outliers does not say anything about what's normal.

My suspicion is that the $103K figure is itself quite high, since Glassdoor and Payscale base their numbers on self-reporting and surveys. My guess is that people with lower salaries tend to not want to self-report that fact, whereas people with high salaries have no problem doing so.




Oh okay. You're one of those people that Google a few links and then claim domain expertise.

Never mind then. You're right the average salary for programmers in Silicon Valley is below $100k.




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