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

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Salarymania ( http://www.salarymania.com/ ) provides the same information for mobile. It is not limited to tech sector either.

Sorry, but the huge, pixelated N1, along with "We do not have a review yet. Send us your review and if we publish it we will give the app to you for free!" kinda put me off.

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 Francisc…

Better yet, Montgomery's a lovely place to live! Best BBQ ribs in the tri-state area!

Source: Grew up around there

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

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The data looks to be way way off. I looked at salaries in NY. There were several software developer jobs with salaries in the 1.6M range. Looking at the result set it looked like everything could be off by 10x. I can't see the site now to give specific examples though.

Why is that so way off? Insane finance salaries also applies to developers.

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

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post #16

The data looks to be way way off. I looked at salaries in NY. There were several software developer jobs with salaries in the 1.6M range. Looking at the result set it looked like everything could be off by 10x. I can't see the site now to give specific examples though.

Well the median is 95k in NY [1], which seems reasonable. Probably the average is higher due to these outliers, though.

[1] According to the spreadsheet that simonsarris shared in another comment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-opUT1wyVtrWuXxfvARV7xt...

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

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post #25

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.

Employers can do that? I guess it makes sense as long as the bottom of the range is higher than the prevailing wage.
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