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Moving to California from the East Coast nearly doubled my salary. Cost of living went up, but by around a factor of 15-20%. Of course, since lots of people ar
by scarmig 14y ago
Moving to California from the East Coast nearly doubled my salary. Cost of living went up, but by around a factor of 15-20%.
Of course, since lots of people are really fucking rich in the Bay Area, it's easy to get caught in the conspicuous consumption game (the biggest part of which is probably housing and location). But if you can avoid that, moving to California can easily mean a whole lot more money, even with taxes + cost of living.
- toomuchtodo 14y agoI'm an infrastructure guy. I interviewed with a fairly well known startup in Mountain View. I was making $120K in Chicago, and was offered $110K to move to Mountain View/San Jose. In what world is that an intelligent choice, when you can make $ITMONIES somewhere where the cost of living isn't going to eat you alive.
- lern_too_spel 14y ago$110k plus equity, right? If you got an offer from an established public company, the salary portion of the compensation package would likely be much higher.
- toomuchtodo 14y agoVery little equity. Not worth the salary differential.
- ktsmith 14y agoYou should assume that any equity you are offerred by a startup has a value of $0 because the odds are that's what you are going to see from it.