Let's see, a search turns up "price per square foot for office space in San Francisco reached $72.26 in the fourth quarter of 2015". (Per year, right?) Say a small private office takes 200 ft.^2 more than your share of a cattle pen would -- by my memory of Xerox PARC, many of the researchers' offices were smaller than that in total. Extrapolate to $100/ft^2 in the future and it's still $20k, a fraction of your salary. (If it's a monthly figure, than yeah, you need to move out of SF.)
A private office shouldn’t be bigger than 100 SF, for a typical Frisco engineer that’s less than 5% of carrying cost. Being able to only need three engineers instead of four because of the greater productivity of private offices makes it a no brainer.
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