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jonathansizz on Aug 16, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley

$52,000 is the median household income, not median salary.

mcbits on Aug 16, 2016 [–]

For reference, "median net compensation" appears to be just shy of $30,000 (if it's safe to extrapolate from 2014). https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html

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