Okay, maybe lowest was not the best word to be used. What I meant was a lot of the city employees get paid six figure salary. And that's because it's expensive

Okay, maybe lowest was not the best word to be used. What I meant was a lot of the city employees get paid six figure salary. And that's because it's expensive to live here. Comparing game dev salaries from the bay area to UK kind of misses that point. Sure those numbers exist, because the city has to have pay scales for every job category, but I think the more important thing to ask is what percentage of the workers are actually low paid employees. I couldn't find a report that would easily displays that info, but here's a news item from a couple years back where 75% of the bay area city employees were earning 6 figures. [0] Another question you want to ask is what positions exist in that excel spreadsheet, do people even take those jobs full time and what percentage of people do sit in that spectrum? For example here's another story that reports a starting wage of almost 50k for a Janitor. Of course there's going to be a few jobs that exist in lower end of the spectrum, but that still doesn't take away from the fact that it's expensive to live here and therefore, you shouldn't compare high salaries in the bay with others elsewhere one to one. [1] [0]https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/75-percent-of-bay-area-city-workers-get-100000-or-more-in-total-compensation/ https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfi... [1]https://sfist.com/2016/08/29/san_franciscos_city_worker_salaries/ https://sfist.com/2016/08/29/san_franciscos_city_worker_sala...