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If you have to work somewhere like Silicon Valley, a lot of the pay difference might get eaten by housing.
by klipt 6y ago
If you have to work somewhere like Silicon Valley, a lot of the pay difference might get eaten by housing.
- moreisdiff 6y agoTo some extent, but as someone who made that transition from 25-40K as a grad student/post-doc to even a modest tech salary in those areas (e.g., 100K), the difference is more than compensated for with rent/mortgages being ~10-20K more expensive. Plus, more and more data teams are now allowing remote work (though, let's see how long that lasts post-2020).