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According the salary statistics (which I'm not sure one should trust), the median programmer salary in the US was $89,190 in 2020: https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/computer-programm... So expecting 200k in starting salary is quite unrealistic.

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Agreed. I'm wondering if there's some missing context in the original post, e.g. his intention is to work on-site w/ high-CoL at FAANG/MAMAA only.

(I've been looking around at SWE manager jobs, and it seems fewer than half of them have a salary range that rise above $200K. I have decades of serious product development experience as a programmer, several years of experience as an engineering manager/director, AND I live in the city of San Francisco. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.)

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