Recruiting battles are a perennial tale in Silicon Valley, where technology companies wage war on one another for top prospects by doling out six-figure salaries and generous stock packages as if they were Halloween candy.
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In Silicon Valley you can get a studio apartment with an income like that.
In your dreams. You might take home $65k of a $100k salary. Of that, you will spend $35k on a small apartment. Leaves you $2.5k per month to live on which doesn’t go very far especially if you want to sock away $1k per month in savings.