[quote=deadzone]Still waiting for an example of Engineer making 175K in San Diego.

Nobody claimed 175K (or 200K) salary in California is “rich”. But if you don’t think someone with that salary is very well off you are delusional.[/quote]

Well..if you must know. I could tell you specially what my comp package was at Intuit …8 years ago….but then if I were to do that, your next request would be to post picture of the pay stub…. And I didn’t say salary, I said total comp package. Intuit consistently pays out a 20% cash bonus, at leat they did when I was there for reasonably good performers.
No, I didn’t manage anyone. Though I was project lead many many times and still hands on.

That’s comparable to a staff engineer with many years or senior staff engineer at Qualcomm, well at least before the layoffs. And among the wireless companies, its about the same give or take slight bumps when you cross over to a competitor because they want you (again before all the Qualcomm meltdowns)
So nothing special really. Plenty of people make what you say can’t be made here. Just go figure out how many staff and senior staff engineers there are at Qualcomm.

Why do I get the feeling a bunch of people are going to apply to Intuit now???