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GS in particular pays crap wages according to salar.ly.

That's because you're looking at the wrong job title. For experienced engineers look at Vice President and Senior Vice President.

I'm well aware of the "everybody's a VP" system at Goldman. Those are the titles I'm looking at.

Do the stats include bonus? If you're a Goldman VP then your salary might be mediocre but your bonus will be significant

Salar.ly gets it's data from foreign worker visa applications how representative of the wider work force can that possibly be?