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Like it or not they are right, you are wrong IMO, maybe not 1/3rd but much less. Salaries are what they are in SF, because that's what it takes for people to li
by onetimemanytime 8y ago
Like it or not they are right, you are wrong IMO, maybe not 1/3rd but much less. Salaries are what they are in SF, because that's what it takes for people to live there and have a sorta decent life.
Rent, food, taxes, transportation etc etc reflect on salary. Also competition has a major impact on salaries. Companies fight a lot over SF engineers, not so much for those in Asia. (unless they're super brilliant)
Edit:
Google has ~ 85,000 employees.
If they give each employee an extra $100K bonus it would cost them $8.5 Billion. They can afford it. Why they don't give it? Because they don't have to.
- underwater 8y agoSalaries in SF are driven by competition, not living costs (in fact living costs are driven up by the high salaries). There are plenty of cities with comparable living costs to SF, but with much lower salaries.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoFine, but en engineer looking for a job today has to live in SF, with SF prices. The chicken/egg question doesn't matter at this time. What would happen to salaries if 150,000 more engineers from middle America started to apply to jobs in SF?