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Here's what people say about making $120,000 in Silicon Valley

Jun 19, 2016, 19:01 IST

Jaimie Trueblood/HBO/&quotSilicon Valley"

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An annual salary of $120,000 would sound like a pretty good deal anywhere around the world.

But that may not always be the case in Silicon Valley, where soaring rent prices and its brutal cost of living make $120,000 look almost average - even though it's more than double the US median household income.

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We went through a Quora thread started by an engineer who claims to be making $120,000 a year in the San Francisco Bay Area to see what people think about that pay.

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