Re:2015 Engineering Salaries Reviewed
by icelancer on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @05:26PM
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Presumably he knows that. Even still, traffic and commute from "the bay area" to San Francisco where most of the startups are located are not reasonable there compared to other parts of the US, even tech-heavy ones.
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Re:2015 Engineering Salaries Reviewed
by jessedhillon on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @06:32PM
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> other parts of the US, even tech-heavy ones
This is not comparable.
SF is unique among other "tech-heavy" environments around the US in that we reward employees with significant pre-liquidity equity here, and the chances are significantly above zero that those shares are worth something in many cases. When you factor that in, compensation comes out to ~$300-500k/yr.
In other areas of the US, even where you have a density of tech startups, the culture is entirely different -- compensation is attractive to a more conservative profile. Likewise, the companies that inhabit those economies are not targeting the same kind of aggressive growth that companies in SF+SV.
So to say that there is a choice between working in SF and, say, the research triangle, disregards crucial differences.