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I honestly don't care what your salary is, but I think there are things to gain from disclosing. For one thing, we need developers (we meaning people with unmet information needs, which is pretty much all of us) and advertising how stupidly, absurdly high the salaries are might encourage kids to jump in and give it a go. For another, I don't really think that any of us is "entitled" to this money, and we can't consen…
There should really be a choice between areas with "high" 1br-costs-2000-a-month cost of living and Idaho/Kentucky.
Even in SF it doesn't always cost 2k+ for a 1 bedroom.
The unit next door to me has been on the market for some time - it was upgraded to include a washer/dryer - new paint, refinished hardwood floors and replaced kitchen appliances. It is really nice, a one bedroom, parking and pets allowed: $2,600 I have a 2-bedroom and have been looking for a 3-bedroom... The rents are crazy. There was a beautiful 3-bedroom little house near me; they wanted $7200 per month with a $10,…
I live in a (true) one bedroom second-storey walkup in Chelsea, which actually has a new kitchen and bathroom (renovations made after the last tenant left to get it out of rent stabilization) and pay $2,000 a month for it.
And that actually seems to be a pretty good deal.
For a decent building (one with an elevator where you don't hear everything your neighbours do through the walls, ceilings and floors) in this area it gets closer to $3k+ a month and can easily get to $4k+.
Still, work is a 7 minute walk away and I live in Manhattan. That's hard to beat.
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Pervasive lack of transparency regarding going rates helps people use differential access to market data to exploit young engineers, pervasively. All else equal, we should probably strive to decrease exploitation of the disadvantaged side in that relationship. Put another way: some kids are grauduating with CS degrees and taking $25k offers, because they think doing otherwise would be impolite. . That is messed up.
If you are curious about how much everyone else is making, stop. Just stop. It won't make you feel good. You will feel shitty because I would imagine the HN crowd will show better numbers than america as a whole, or even just your city. To illustrate my point, if you asked me to write this poll, I would add 250K, 500K, 1M tiers here (as there are plenty of people who are making salaries in those ranges)
If you are asking because you want a sense of whether or not you are properly being valued in the market, you have to do two things: try to find another job, and try to ask for a raise. Simple as that. You don't know the skillsets of people who show higher or lower salary figures.
Lastly, salary doesnt help if you dont consider bonus potential and hours work. I'm thinking specifically of finance, where bonuses in most groups dwarf base salary (and in some fields, the per-hour rate looks pitiful, but that's because it demands >100 hrs per week)
Even in SF it doesn't always cost 2k+ for a 1 bedroom.
I commute to SF on a weekly basis and stay in a hotel because it's cheaper than an apartment. And my bed gets made every day. Edit: $65/day including tax * 13 days/month ~= $850. Allowing for holidays, vacation and occasional work from home. It's decent, better than Motel 6, more like Best Western. I got a good rate because I negotiated it years ago. It's outside SF itself, but I use Bart.
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The unit next door to me has been on the market for some time - it was upgraded to include a washer/dryer - new paint, refinished hardwood floors and replaced kitchen appliances. It is really nice, a one bedroom, parking and pets allowed: $2,600 I have a 2-bedroom and have been looking for a 3-bedroom... The rents are crazy. There was a beautiful 3-bedroom little house near me; they wanted $7200 per month with a $10,…
If you think San Francisco rents are expensive I suggest you don't move to Manhattan. I live in a (true) one bedroom second-storey walkup in Chelsea, which actually has a new kitchen and bathroom (renovations made after the last tenant left to get it out of rent stabilization) and pay $2,000 a month for it. And that actually seems to be a pretty good deal. For a decent building (one with an elevator where you don't h…