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Yes, in places like Seattle, NYC, Boston, DC, etc., where the housing costs are also astronomical, and your salary is commensurately lower.
by Arizhel 9y ago
Yes, in places like Seattle, NYC, Boston, DC, etc., where the housing costs are also astronomical, and your salary is commensurately lower.
- scarface74 9y agohttp://www.businessinsider.com/cities-us-software-engineer-ranked-salary-cost-living-2015-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/cities-us-software-engineer-r...
- Arizhel 9y agoAccording to your link, San Jose is #2, right behind Seattle, for software engineers as far as salary/CoL ratio. So it really doesn't get much better than Silicon Valley's insane cost of living. It's just like I said: the housing costs may be lower elsewhere, but the salaries are even lower so it isn't worth it. Seattle is the only exception, and it's not that much better.
- scarface74 9y agoI can personally tell you that salaries for your run of the mill enterprise senior softwares developer is between $120K and $145K in Atlanta and you can easily buy a house in the burbs with a good school system for less than $400k. From what I've seen, the same is true for at least the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.