Is there any sense of how corporate benefits effect the real cost of living?
Meaning, companies which offer free food, transportation, even limited housing, the net effect of cost of living increases could be somewhat offset?
2017 State of Global Tech Salaries
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#12Hah, I'm actually somewhat disappointed. I read "making" as "creating" - as in what people are making app-wise around the world right now.
Free idea if anyone fancies it (I wish I had the time!) - a live update map that sources geo-tagged tweets with a specific hashtag (#ShowHN?)
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#13Hah, I'm actually somewhat disappointed. I read "making" as "creating" - as in what people are making app-wise around the world right now. Free idea if anyone fancies it (I wish I had the time!) - a live update map that sources geo-tagged tweets with a specific hashtag (#ShowHN?)
Would be more clear with "earning" instead of "making," wouldn't it?
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#14Austin and Seattle average salaries of $190K for developers? And yet SF and NYC are still stuck around $130K, which is only 20% higher than what it was 10 years ago, and these cities are far more expensive to live in? What's the draw, why don't more developers move to Austin or Seattle?
This isn't the raw numbers. It's based on cost of living adjustment to give what the equivalent would be in SF (at least that's what I understood from the article). It would have been useful to show the raw numbers next to the adjusted numbers in the image.
Yeah it makes it hard to compare how you personally are doing.
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#15Austin and Seattle average salaries of $190K for developers? And yet SF and NYC are still stuck around $130K, which is only 20% higher than what it was 10 years ago, and these cities are far more expensive to live in? What's the draw, why don't more developers move to Austin or Seattle?
"According to her analysis, the $110,000 that an Austin engineer makes is the rough equivalent of being paid $198,000 in the Bay Area"
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#16Is there any sense of how corporate benefits effect the real cost of living? Meaning, companies which offer free food, transportation, even limited housing, the net effect of cost of living increases could be somewhat offset?
Housing would make a difference in high cost-of-living areas, such as SF, but the others are probably rounding errors with what is, after all, fairly high salaries.
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#17Austin and Seattle average salaries of $190K for developers? And yet SF and NYC are still stuck around $130K, which is only 20% higher than what it was 10 years ago, and these cities are far more expensive to live in? What's the draw, why don't more developers move to Austin or Seattle?
Those numbers are adjusted to the cost of living in San Francisco, so the comparison is not quite as bad as you think.
But it means that one should really love the Bay Area in order to sacrifice $60K/year of effective income just to live there. I lived in the Bay Area and when faced with this very issue I moved (cost of living being only one factor). It's a special place -- but not that special (for me). That said, for the first 10 years I was there I too was smitten by the place, and assumed I would never want to live anywhere else. Reality caught up with me, which is really a good thing.
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#18London. The city with the highest cost of living in Europe [citation needed].
Look anywhere else in the UK and it's more like £25000-£35000.
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#19Hah, I'm actually somewhat disappointed. I read "making" as "creating" - as in what people are making app-wise around the world right now. Free idea if anyone fancies it (I wish I had the time!) - a live update map that sources geo-tagged tweets with a specific hashtag (#ShowHN?)
Would be more clear with "earning" instead of "making," wouldn't it?
Aye, I'd have likely not clicked had it been "earning". Love to see what people are creating, not really fussed about what they're earning
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#20I think there data on Cost of Living is outdated, specifically as it regards Seattle, which has recently seen a significant increase in COL. According to their calculations Seattle is cheaper than DC, however the data I can find online suggests the opposite.
http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/seattle-wa/washingt...