The 17 highest-paying companies in Silicon Valley

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.

To find out which of them offer the fattest paychecks, we turned to Glassdoor.

Glassdoor sifted through 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: