Silicon Valley wages... They're MUCH higher in Frisco. Sh)t out here they got dudes doing desktop support for around 55k and these dudes are barely proficient. Most of the posters of this site could do the job.
I remember at Sohh there was a thread like this and most of them cats said they were making 100k+ one dude even said he thought that was average pay for a college grad. sh)t had me like
If you go the engineer route though, THOSE guys are walking in the door with 80k out here. Good field to get into plus it puts you in a position to come up with your own ideas and projects without having to come out of pocket off top by having to pay someone to code for you
Good luck breh