It&#x27;s worth nothing that the mean and median salaries of graduating Carnegie Mellon University CS majors, one of the top CS schools, is only $103k&#x2F;105k:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cmu.edu&#x2F;career&#x2F;salaries-and-destinations&#x2F;2015-survey&#x2F;pdfs-one-pagers&#x2F;scs-2015-post-grad-stats-12-17-15-kc.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cmu.edu&#x2F;career&#x2F;salaries-and-destinations&#x2F;2015-sur...</a> [pdf]<p>Having $130k as a baseline salary for the analysis is silly. (However, a total compensation of $130k is not silly)