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sawar
Sadly those salaries shown are 2X to 4X salaries in the DC area.
minimaxir
Cost of living is 1/2x in the DC area too.
ovulator
These are average salaries, so the head brass pulling in million dollar salaries will skew the numbers higher than the normal employee pulling in $60k will skew the numbers down.
gms7777
Right. The more telling number to use here would probably be a median salary.
lauradhamilton
Overall average salary is a pretty meaningless metric.

Median base salary for software engineers right out of school would be far more useful.