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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by zjaffee on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:26PM (#18455692)
Tech might not have been kind to the cities of SF and Seattle sure, but tech built the greater metropolitan regions of both of these areas, where Seattle metro's population has doubled as a result of the tech boom since 1980, and the bay area's population has grown by ~70% in the same time frame, for reference, this isn't that far off from the nominal growth seen in greater Los Angeles during the same period.
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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by WalterBright on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:56PM (#18455904)
Seattle was created to supply the Yukon gold rush miners. Then it was heavily dependent on Weyerhauser (lumber). Then it was Boeing (will the last person who leaves Seattle please turn out the lights.) Now tech.

Seattle's always been a one horse economy.

(Something like 15% of workers in Seattle are Amazonians.)

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by mulmen on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:53PM (#18456506)
Can you provide a source on the 15% number? Is that 15% of all employed people or just in a specific sector. If it is a specific sector how is that defined?
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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by WalterBright on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:54PM (#18456740)
I read it in one of the flurry of newspaper articles in the last couple days about Amazon, but don't recall which.

Doing some googling:

Amazon Aug 2017 had 40,000 workers in Seattle:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/thanks-to-amazo...

Workers in Seattle are currently 425,827

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/seattle-wa/

So the 15% figure is plausible.

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by Latteland on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:16PM (#18456608)
This person is wrong unless you define the worker market in some weird way that excludes other large employers like Boeing and uw. This article from 2018 lists other large employers, and Amazon looks smaller than expected https://www.tripsavvy.com/biggest-seattle-area-employers-296...
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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by harryh on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:33PM (#18456669)
I think the difference is "Seattle" vs "Seattle area."

Google says that Seattle has a population of ~725k. Let's say that half of them are working. 725k * 50% * 15% ~= 54k.

54k Amazon employees in the city limits sounds at least in the ballpark.

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by WalterBright on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:56PM (#18456747)
The "Seattle area" includes Bellevue, Tacoma, etc., which about triples the number of people.
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