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I’ve interviewed over the years and kept touch with colleagues who went elsewhere. There are certainly tracks I could have taken to raise my salary more aggress

I’ve interviewed over the years and kept touch with colleagues who went elsewhere. There are certainly tracks I could have taken to raise my salary more aggressively, but at my current salary, I wouldn’t call it a massive amount of money. I’m currently between the 75th and 90th percentile for my area according to the site you provided (closer 90th than the 75th). I have a low stress 8-5 job that allows me to spend time with my family while working on exciting projects with experts in our field who have become like family to me. I’m not earning Silicon Valley money, but I’m also not paying Silicon Valley prices here in Ohio either :).

kodah 4y ago
> I’m not earning Silicon Valley money, but I’m also not paying Silicon Valley prices here in Ohio either :). Folks in Texas used to say this. Unfortunately when average state incomes start to have large departures from each other it creates a chasm of cascading failures. What it really harms is your ability to retire. If your salary is only designed to compete locally then when you have to retire you'll have to select lower than locally. The lower you are on that chain the fewer places there are. Personally, I'd like to see geographic pay incentives die. People in Silicon Valley don't deserve to freely shovel money into their home equity more than anyone else does, so why subsidize it, much less call it equal?