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Yeah, my thinking is if you just eliminate the component of salary that is purely dependent on cost of living, and not the part that is due to the extremely hig
by PowerfulWizard 8y ago
Yeah, my thinking is if you just eliminate the component of salary that is purely dependent on cost of living, and not the part that is due to the extremely high demand for tech skills generally at the globally competitive level -- because that is all that you can eliminate by moving. Both of these factors push salaries up but you only eliminate one of them by moving.
- mattnewton 8y agoThere is also the fact that moving costs time and energy, and an engineer in the Bay Area will have a lot more options for employment if they stay in the Bay Area- they can walk between interviews for large multinational tech companies in a lot of cases. Moving from a hub like that has the implicit cost that you may have to move back at some point to find work, or accept the lesser options and negotiating position.