Assuming their revenue is really moving from 4.5b to 11b+ in 2023, yes. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/rocket-report-spacex....

You can get higher salary with writing REST apis in Ruby. And fully remote

For something as specialized as aerospace engineering software? Definitely yes.

Seems to be supply and demand thing. It’s easier to attract people to work in the space industry, or the video game industry, than in the ads industry or the data driven PowerPoint slides for the management industry.

Plenty of difficult, ultraspecialized jobs don't pay much, because they're in industries with low margins.

Aren't they mostly in Los Angeles? Yes that's low, and it's especially low for writing spaceship software.

That is quite low. Senior level at most FAANGs will pay quite a bit more than that in salary and the RSUs will be more liquid.

a decent quality house in a te ch metro is 1.5-2 million

so you are looking at 14k per month in payments