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One reason for that is way more variability in developer compensation. A company hiring a senior SWE in SF might be paying 130k or 400k. But until recently there wasn’t much transparency.

My buddy is a nurse in Bay Area with a CRNA, it’s pretty much understood you make 225k plus any overtime so there’s not much more to discuss.

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$225k for a nurse? And I thought there was a lot of desperaity of tech wages between Europe and the US... The average salary of a nurse in the UK is £25,000.

I know a dozen nurses making far less than six figures in the US. San Francisco and the Valley should be considered almost its own economy at this point.

yeah. I know of a firefighter making over 200k in SF (firefighter salaries are public).

That is a nurse anesthetist, very different from someone who is an RN (registered nurse) which is (in my incomplete understanding) an "average" nurse.

That's for a CRNA. A regular RN in a city like Los Angeles will be making 60k and up.

CRNA is an upper extreme of nursing salary, and education/experience requirements

CRNA is a very specialized/advanced nurse, and OP used one of the highest cost of living areas in their example. CRNA nurses are called "medical nurse anesthetist" in England, and make around £100K/yr.

Nurses can pull $120,000 a year here in Toronto

https://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/2020/09/21...

225k for a nurse? Nurses in the US must be way more qualified than here to command that kind of salary.

CRNA is very specialized nurse that is near the top of the ladder of education and credentials. Then tack on a bay area salary and you have 225k.

It's not the US, it's the Bay Area... prices for many things, including wages, are very different here than elsewhere in the country.

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