SOME Silicon Valley engineers are fairly highly paid. Especially so if you only read HN, where there's always someone who's brother's girlfriend's roommate knows someone at Google who makes $250K, therefore this must be an average salary.

$250k isn't at all unreasonable for a SWE who works at Google. And there are tens of thousands of them in the Bay Area. These are not imaginary unicorns we're talking about.

"Tens of thousands" of $250k/year engineers in the Bay Area at a company that only employs 67k total people worldwide? I find that hard to believe.

> Silicon valley engineers tend to be fairly highly paid...

I mean, yes the worlds most pre-eminent software developer culture demands high prices.

What about the 98% (fake statistic) of American software developers who do not live in or around San Francisco ...?

Even they aren't paid that highly. Most of them make chump change compared to a world class lawyer or a doctor.

I guess we can thank Steve Jobs for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

Silicon Valley is in the US. This article is about the UK.

There are 49.75 states in the country that are not "Silicon Valley."

> Low wages? Silicon valley engineers tend to be fairly highly paid...

But as far as I heard the accommodation costs are also strongly increasing - from which I would conclude that the actual wages do not increase so much.

SV isn't complaining about a skills shortage.