This is a serious question: are your salaries competitive for that area? Your lead iOS engineers make far less than most staff (entry level) iOS engineers in SF. I ask because my wife and I are thinking of possibly moving to Virginia in a year or so.
That does not sound competitive for the DC area - lead frontend engineers make $120k+ easily around the area, I find it hard to believe more than $90k can't be offered to an iOS lead.
There are definitely DC area companies paying those salaries, but they are much more established and well funded (of course) and for seed size companies in the area we are competitive. Note what I mentioned about our team size.
Our salaries will rise as we grow past the bootstrap/seed phase.
Based on the market data we have access to [1] and the other startups we talk with our salaries are in the average range.
This area is kind of hurting for mobile talent, but the funding landscape isn't good enough to allow for startups to push SV level salaries unfortunately.
