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Box.net salary for software engineer title is 1.8 million. What?
Yeah and a "junior software engineer" in Wisconsin makes $660,000. I think extra zeroes are getting added somewhere. If not, I hear the cheese is good in Wisconsin. I like cheese.
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?"
Suffolk's median is 120k based on 339 employees. Middlsex's median is 90k based on 929 employees.
Could there really be a plausible reason for these places to differ so much? The only thing I can think of is that the big boring suburban companies are mainly in Middlesex, whereas most of the software companies in Suffolk are likely in Boston where the rents and salaries are higher. Of course, Kendall Square in Cambridge is a bigger and pricier tech hub than downtown Boston, so it might cancel the effect somewhat.
Alternatively, the data could just suck.
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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!
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…
In the last 6 years I've lived in Ohio, Sarasota, FL, and now San Francisco. Two cross-country moves, in neither case was a cost of living calculator remotely relevant.
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…
Cost of living calculators are useless. For entertainment purposes only. In the last 6 years I've lived in Ohio, Sarasota, FL, and now San Francisco. Two cross-country moves, in neither case was a cost of living calculator remotely relevant.
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Cost of living calculators are useless. For entertainment purposes only. In the last 6 years I've lived in Ohio, Sarasota, FL, and now San Francisco. Two cross-country moves, in neither case was a cost of living calculator remotely relevant.
How did reality differ from prediction?
The trouble is that I don't buy Median $PRODUCT or live in median $HOUSING. And it doesn't cover the fact that at higher incomes I don't spend nearly all of what I make. And many of the things I do buy are consumer products that are the same everywhere: A MacBook or a Mercedes costs the same whether you make $60k as a programmer in Kansas or $120k in California.
And for housing, if I spend 50% above the median in Florida, that in no way suggests I'll spend 50% above the median in California. Maybe I'll rent a median flat in California that, due to a more expensive housing market, has many of the amenities I had to pay more for in Florida. Or I choose to accept a smaller house in California.
And for savings, while I now save a lower percentage of my California income than I was able to save of my Florida income, the absolute dollar amount is much higher now. And for retirement savings, I don't expect to retire in the highly-taxed California anyway.
The one area these calculators can get right is to set the appropriate expectation of tax differences.
Oh, I can't wait for the "ly" suffix thing to be over.
Box.net salary for software engineer title is 1.8 million. What?