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Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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It's on Heroku - looks like they're on the free plan, and need to spin up some dynos (and get the caching that comes with paid database)

Sure, but it's always good to keep in mind that spinning up more dynos if you're already the limits for your database is a bad idea.

Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Oddly enough, out of the statistically significant sample-set Suffolk,MA (covers Boston/Cambridge) at $120K beat out San Francisco,CA at $105K. And rent's a bit cheaper in Boston vs. SF.

But perhaps the best statistically significant bet is getting a job at Montgomery, OH where the average H1B salary is $95K which using cost of living calculator in comparison between Cincinnati, OH (the nearest metro) to San Francisco, CA is worth $165K in SF money or $222K in NYC-Manhattan money. Woo! You guys know any companies doing hiring in Cincinnati?

Link to cost of Living calculator: http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/

Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

#35

Since it's getting hammered here's one screencap I just made: http://i.imgur.com/YxDb9Sz.png And here's the top 250 median salary counties as a google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-opUT1wyVtrWuXxfvARV7xt... Are tech job salaries really correlated to anything at all? When I mention my salary to other software people I get either "I wish I made that much" or "why do you make so little?"

448K in Frackville PA? Looks like an extra zero got added. Either that, or it is about to be overrun with hipster geeks toting iPads.

There are only two data points for that

Re: Salar.ly - real salary info for tech jobs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The last time I looked at DOL data they also reported the actual wage. Do they still do that? I'm guessing no since you didn't use it.

They do report the actual wage. Except that's the employer can choose to specify it as a range between a minimum and a maximum. This is optional, it's also possible to specify just one number.

The range can be huge though.

http://www.h1bwage.com/item.php?q=3277027

In this example, the wage rate is $106,600, while your site report, I believe, the max rate of $193,400. I was shocked for a moment to see a data scientist making almost $200K!

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