<story><title>21 Years of Income as a Software Engineer in San Francisco</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7zsfhz/21_years_of_income_as_a_software_engineer_in_san/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Meanwhile, Vancouver BC boasted about the famously low salaries of its software engineers and people with similar skill sets, in a failed bid to attract Amazon HQ2:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=vancouver+amazon+hq+bid+salary&amp;amp;num=100&amp;amp;client=ubuntu&amp;amp;hs=4WZ&amp;amp;channel=fs&amp;amp;source=lnms&amp;amp;tbm=nws&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiWjcnCp77ZAhUG2GMKHYE3CH4Q_AUICigB&amp;amp;biw=1337&amp;amp;bih=1301&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=vancouver+amazon+hq+bid+sala...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion a pretty stupid thing to do, considering the low probability of Amazon choosing either Portland or Vancouver as second headquarters. Too close to Seattle and still within the same regional talent pool, and regional market demand.</text></comment>
<story><title>21 Years of Income as a Software Engineer in San Francisco</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7zsfhz/21_years_of_income_as_a_software_engineer_in_san/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>montrose</author><text>The graph seems related to the graph of venture funding over the same period:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;File:US_VC_funding.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;File:US_VC_funding.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which is not surprising considering that salaries are the number one thing venture funding is spent on.</text></comment>