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It depends. The big X tech companies, and hot unicorns in the bay area pay crazy salaries for engineers. 3k a month doesn't seem too bad when you are making 20
by stale2002 9y ago
It depends. The big X tech companies, and hot unicorns in the bay area pay crazy salaries for engineers.
3k a month doesn't seem too bad when you are making 200k+, which is close to ~triple what you'd make in some rando mid sized city.
Working for the average SF startup though? Yeah, you'd be better off somewhere else.
- Apocryphon 9y agoAnd yet, the housing market still makes buying prohibitive in that same region.
- BadassFractal 9y agoAre that many SF tech workers making over 200 grand a year?
- stale2002 9y agoThe ones at the big tech companies and hot unicorns are. The ones at your rando tech startup are not.
- pmorici 9y agoI hope so. If they aren’t then they would be better off finding work in some other part of the country.
- vladimirkon 9y agoPretty sure that not too many. Some do, but again, most are capped at about 180k (that if with 7+ years of experience) For some stock options make a difference, but again, that is if you're lucky
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- solotronics 9y agoWhenever I look at cost of living comparison it doesn't seem advantageous to me to be in SV unless you get lucky on equity ( how do you even measure that? ). $150k in Dallas is something like $265k in San Francisco. And I would think in SF your housing would be pitiful compared to the midwest at $3k/month mortgage. Engineers at my company can make upwards of $300k in Dallas and that gives a standard of living thats comparable to making $1m in the valley which is probably pretty rare.
- atomical 9y agoWhat sort of company pays engineers $300k in Dallas?
- toomuchtodo 9y agoOil and gas, and finance, to name two I’m familiar with.
- Judgmentality 9y agoWhat company in Dallas pays over $300k for engineers?