Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052727 (What up with these startup salaries?) I tried to do a rough calculation of whether it makes more economic sense to work for a large tech. company (apple, google, etc...) or startups. Modulo other factors, it seems that working for a large tech. company pays more on average. Here are the calculations: https://gist.github.com/MichaelGLarson/d916a6984271ea136e3fAm I missing something here?