To be perfectly honest, 87% of candidates who go through the process and take a job, go with a company OTHER than the one that made the highest offer.

In fact, many more interview requests get rejected for "not interested in the company/industry" rather than insufficient compensation.

It's almost always more about the opportunity & the company, rather than the pay.

Most of the offers I got were below market value, I only received one offer that was /kind/ of close to what people are paying good engineers in NYC but they did not want to continue since apparently they were looking for somebody to work 80 hour weeks.

No thanks.