[mjirv]

unless you know what you’d be getting paid at silicon valley tech companies, don’t say you’re “overpaid”

your comps are with “working in San Francisco”, not with your peers

[gambiting]

That has the same energy as saying "don't say your house was expensive until you compared prices with bay area houses" - not everyone in the world can work for silicon valley companies even if they wanted to. They are a nice aspirational things up in the sky to sometimes think about, but realistically, 99% of programmers are never going to work there and should be comparing their pay against peers within their industry.

[underdeserver]

This is true, he should be comparing with software engineers in his COL area, but not with other people with random jobs in his office.