That's why we created a job board with mandatory salary ranges (provided directly by the companies), you can find it below in the thread.
They'll overvalue some little things, like the "free pizza in meetings", "childcare discount" or the "airport lounge access", while not paying anywhere as much attention proportionally to the $150k of salary.
That (and tax breaks) are the only reason for employment to give any benefits apart from raw salary anyway. In an economists world, the employee is always better placed to decide what to spend their compensation on, so it should all be money.
Employers need to start offering a perk where they enrol you in all the relevant perks.
But clearly, as you can see from the Show HN title, not everybody is so focused on the monetary side.
For some of us work-life balance, interesting work, meaning and other non-monetary factors are worth considering and are very, very important.
I thought the same thing until a senior engineering role paid me >500k/year. I realized then how hilariously ripped off I was getting prior to this job (lured by "free" lunches, coffee, massages, &c). I could make my own meaning and exciting life outside of work with what essentially amounts to several combined disposable salaries. These companies extol benefits because they're tax-deductible and saves them money, not because they are meaningful to individual employees. I can appreciate their business dilemma because high paid employees are more difficult to retain, but that should be encouraged and celebrated by us laborers.