(Photo: AngelList)

AngelList, the Facebook for startups, just did NYC job seekers in the tech sector a major solid. Today the company released a graphical breakdown of the average salaries of tech companies, drawn from data collected through its jobs portal, which helps match startups with prospective talent. The information is quite revealing, and much more detailed than what you'd find on a site like GlassDoor.

First thing's first: the average salary of a startup employee in Silicon Valley is $101,000, whereas those in New York average only (lol) $90,000. We probably shouldn't complain, though: there are a host of cities with lower average salaries than us, like Denver and Houston (though those cities have a much lower cost of living).

According to PandoDaily, the average salary for a dev across all the job postings is naturally higher than for other positions, at $93,000; for marketers it's slightly less at $92,000 and designers are earning $88,000 on average.

As for the NYC companies with the highest average salary: Stylecaster boasts an average salary of $176,000, so if you have any friends who work there, they better not even think about asking you to split the brunch bill. Rewind.me, Bonobos and Bookish dole out an average salary of $126k, while Venmo's average is $123k. Most jobs fall into the $80-90k range, with an average salary of $87,000: Fitocracy, Seatgeek and Skillshare all fall into this category.

It's worth noting that these averages are only based on job listings posted to AngelList, so if a company is only advertising developer positions on the platform, its average salary will probably appear higher than it actually is. Still, the tool is helpful both for the job seeking and the cripplingly nosy: you can also break down average salaries by role, like developer, or skills, like specific programming languages you know.

Now go, Betabeat readers. Tell your boss you deserve to be paid more! But once you get that raise, we hope you'll remember the little people.

Give me your tired, your (not) poor, your coding masses yearning to breathe free.

The folks at Focus have put together a handy infographic about earning potential in Silicon Valley where the number of jobs at internet companies (currently clocking in at 48,000) has surpassed the excesses of the dotcom boom. As Business Insider points out, the salaries listed (product and marketing managers make more than web developers and software engineers; Google engineers make more than those at Facebook and Twitter), don't account for stock-based compensation.

But the chart does delve into cost of living, typically an area where New York City loses out, although apparently not compared to the Valley.

The average tech salary in the Valley is around $92, 299 a year. Once you factor in the average price for a home in Silicon Valley (which is more than 191 percent above the national average) and the average apartment rent ($2,241/month or 76 percent higher than the national average) and California's 9.3 percent income tax on anyone making over $46,776 (New York state's rate is 6.85 percent on income between $20,001 and $200,000), Focus says become techies would have to earn just $74,808 for the same cost of living in New York City.

These numbers are all just for context because no one would ever leave New York City's burgeoning tech ecosystem for the Left Coast, right? Right?!

Update: Focus just reached out to Betabeat with another infographic comparing the Alley and the Valley. This one looks at the cost of operating a business in NYC vs. San Francisco. After examining everything from salaries to payroll tax to cost of utilities, Focus concludes, "San Francisco remains a more reasonable location to operate a business. Unless of course you plan to take your company public." That's because San Francisco's payroll tax counts employees cashing out stock options as gains. In Twitter's case, TechCrunch reported, if the company went public and raised $100 million, they would owe the city $75 million.

Like we said, keep on keepin' on. Nothing to see there, folks.