Google blamed for jump in high-tech pay — SFGate

The Mountain View search engine, they say, has pushed up salaries with its deep pockets and huge appetite for technology workers.

‘It’s driven up software engineering wages by 50 percent in the past couple years,’ Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, the online DVD rental firm in Los Gatos, said recently at a conference for the technology industry’s lobbying group.

I’m certainly not complaining.