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This is not relevant: > The best city for software engineers was Menlo Park with an average salary of $130,640 The best city for software engineers should not

• Swizec 12y ago
  You're right. But I had to use some metric and I thought it was interesting to show some data about cities. As an interesting point, engineers in Menlo Park earn $30k more than in San Francisco. I'm not sure Menlo is that much more expensive to live in.
  • CHY872 12y ago
    Remember that Facebook is the largest employer in Menlo Park by a factor of about 10, which will totally skew those rankings. Edit: to be more clear, I'm making two points. Firstly, Facebook is not known for the sort of Tata/Infosys style abusive H1b (and there'll be almost none of them in Menlo Park) whilst SF is much larger, and there could easily be such a company with an office in SF. Furthermore, the bar for entry to work as an engineer at Facebook is possibly higher than in SF as a whole.
• jure_z 12y ago
  Good point, would be interesting to see a comparison with cost of living included.
  • canistr 12y ago
    May further want to account for income tax laws according to state. Take-home pay is really what we're after.