If you don’t make $100k as an engineer in CA, either you are working for your own startup, you feel very charitable with your labor, just graduated with maybe 1-2 years or aren’t really good at what you do.

Tesla design engineer that wanted to lease a home in Bay Area reported total comp for the past 2 years was about $600k/year. Kinda said that they still need to rent. lol.

The clampdown on H1-B’s is only going to make employing tech workers even more expensive. lol.

How does the saying goes in the current tech world?
“Gee, I’d like to work for your startup you think is the next big hit, but no offense, you can’t afford me”