At an average pay package of Rs 91 lakhs, these are the highest paying companies in Silicon Valley

Who doesn’t know Silicon Valley? The southern portion of California's San Francisco Bay Area is home to thousands of startups and dozens of the world's largest tech companies, including Apple. What's more exciting is the fact that most of India's successful start up entrepreneurs at some point of time has worked there.

You must have at some point of time wondered how much do the people there earn! Well to get answers of this 'tricky' question, we analyzed Glassdoor.

Glassdoor has scrutinized thousands of salary reports submitted to its website by employees between March 2015 and March 2016 to find the highest-paying companies.

To be eligible for the list, each company had to be headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and must have received at least 50 salary reports during that year-long period.

Here are the 17 companies in Silicon Valley with the highest median total compensation package as reported to Glassdoor. They include base salary and other forms of compensation, such as commissions, tips, and bonuses: