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I'm not seeing a place for location when it comes to the salary reported. Location (cost of living) is a big deal when it comes to market rate salaries. I'm sure a Software Engineer at Google makes more money working in CA or NY compared to the market rate for the same job here in Boston.

Am I just not seeing these details since I haven't signed up?

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I signed off and still couldn't find it, but I didn't look for it too much time. Location is very important. It seems that I'm the best paid programmer in Madrid :-) But if I want to keep that smile, I better don't look to other EU countries.

That results are from payscale.com, that I tried before and have to say that: interface is pretty much the same, except that Payscale didn't force me to register and gave me some information, right after submitting the last page.

Glassdoor not only required the registration and later took me to a useless (for me) page, but also told me that I'll be able to see results for a certain time. What results, BTW?

Also, it says they've started in the Bay Area. There's a definitely bias there, as the top-paid Google, Yahoo, and Cisco employees will be there, but the top-paid MSFT employees are surely in Redmond.

If you look at the screenshot on the techcrunch article it says they'll be able to show salary by location and years of experience when they have more data.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I wonder what their collection threshold is before they begin publishing this data. I imagine it could be a static number or a percentage based on the population and industry in the locale.

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