It's fitting that the lengthiest non-anonymous example is the English teacher at San Jose state. Her salary might seem normal in other parts of the country, but it's very skimpy in San Jose/Silicon Valley/Peninsula

http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=ellen+Pe...

For comparison's sake, here are what physical education teachers in Palo Alto Unified make:

http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=school-d...

Here's San Jose Unified teachers (they don't seem to have P.E. in the job titles):

http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=school-d...

Not singling out P.E. teachers or K-12 in general -- look up any Palo Alto area job type (police, technicians, etc), and they're all in the same range. And living in this area myself, I completely believe that scale of salary and benefits is needed if you want employees who can live within 50 miles of Palo Alto.