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Meh, garbage. I always see these things that are significantly off, by like $60,000 or more. You're not asking the important questions that relate to earnings:

- Were you born in America or has your employer held your pay down because you have a green card?

- How many times have you changed jobs (each time probably leads to a $15k bump or more!)

What garbage. If you're going to do an analysis like this try to teach us something interesting by looking at numerous factors (race, sex, age, major, do you have a github, public speaking skill, number of raises asked for, etc)

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I'm so sorry that someone created a free tool to explore an interesting and unique data set using basic summary statistics. Shame you had to waste your time looking at that kind of garbage.

Of course you make good points about salary. But this is just using data from the SO jobs board. What do you expect?

> - Were you born in America or has your employer held your pay down because you have a green card?

This might be true for H1-B holders, but a green card gives you the same freedom to leave and join employers as a citizen.

> - How many times have you changed jobs (each time probably leads to a $15k bump or more!)

I don't know about what goes on in the startup world, but at the big-name tech companies you typically get a stock grant vesting over four years every year, meaning your compensation will not top out until at least four years into the job, so switching jobs frequently can actually dramatically cut your compensation, by a factor of two or more.

Can confirm the 15K pay bump. I just did it.