Cleaning up raw data pulled from a Hacker News salary survey conducted on 3/21/16. Latest clean version of the data is available here.

Additional Information

• Hacker News thread
• Google Sheet of survey responses

External data sources

• US and Canadian states
• Countries
• Zip Codes
• Counties
• Google provided currency conversion rates

Notes on validation

• No responses were removed for trolling. Luckily, imposing sane limits on some fields eliminated a lot of them.
• Currency conversion is hard when no one indicates the currency being used. Right now, rows indicating a currency type other than USD are converted to USD and everything else is assumed to be USD. Salary analysis internationally is sketchy at best.