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I live in the Atlanta area. I could literally have the same job in the SF area (where I used to live) for 20% more - my company has an office in Palo Alto wher
by madcaptenor 11y ago
I live in the Atlanta area. I could literally have the same job in the SF area (where I used to live) for 20% more - my company has an office in Palo Alto where there are people with the same job title and the same responsibilities. However this would more than be eaten up by the increased cost of housing. Say my take-home pay is 100 arbitrary units; my housing costs about 20, leaving 80 for everything else. In the Bay Area I'd make 120 but I'd pay at least twice as much (40+) for comparable housing, leaving 80 or less for everything else (and everything else costs more there). Salaries are higher in higher-cost markets but that difference usually doesn't make up for the cost of living difference.
- draw_down 11y ago20% bump is surprising, my company has an SF office and I've been told that as a rule, salaries are twice what we get in Portland. However I still feel that increase would be eaten up by housing costs.
- madcaptenor 11y agoThese salaries are supposedly tied to the cost of labor in various markets, and we're a large enough company that they do a lot of surveys of economic conditions, what competitors are paying, etc. to set salary bands. But the cost of the sort of technical labor we're talking about here might vary more between SF and other markets than the general cost of labor.