tl;dr There was a hasty generalization based on one dibious number made about Google salaries being higher than Glassdoor's poll-based estimate.
..And I am incredibly jealous...why I am remotely working on a Sunday for a fraction of that? Even though my cost of living is less...I live in a major metropolitain canadian city, I know of several people from Uni who moved to the states in jobs like that.
Asking myself the same question today..