Leaving a comment on my own submission here… unfortunately, I do think the title may give the impression that this is just another "boy do those engineers make the big bucks!" kind of story, which are common enough that I think a lot of people might just pass over this one.
I think this article is more interesting that than that - it actually presents aninteresting debate on whether it is a good business practice to pay high value engineers, especially at startups, salaries that are well above market rate. It includes discussion market salaries in the context of the very high cost of living (mortgage and child care) in SF, raising a family, and so forth. It also includes input from Sam Altman at ycombinator on the notion of high salaries creating a "mercenary" mentality that would not be good for early stage startups.
I avoid editorializing in the title field for HN, so I stuck with the published title. But if you're reading the comments first (as I often do), just want to mention that this may be a more interesting article than you'd realize from the title here.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 22.7 ms ] threadI think this article is more interesting that than that - it actually presents aninteresting debate on whether it is a good business practice to pay high value engineers, especially at startups, salaries that are well above market rate. It includes discussion market salaries in the context of the very high cost of living (mortgage and child care) in SF, raising a family, and so forth. It also includes input from Sam Altman at ycombinator on the notion of high salaries creating a "mercenary" mentality that would not be good for early stage startups.
I avoid editorializing in the title field for HN, so I stuck with the published title. But if you're reading the comments first (as I often do), just want to mention that this may be a more interesting article than you'd realize from the title here.
Certainly better than suppressing artificially them as Apple and Google did not so long ago: http://valleywag.gawker.com/apple-and-google-face-9-b-lawsui...
In this case, though, the title was linkbait, so you would have been well within the guidelines to change it.
When doing so, we always look for a subtitle that is less baity, or (failing that) a sentence from the article that neutrally describes the topic.