Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities

Re:Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in thes... by asdff on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @02:40PM (#24700954)

I think you'd sooner see wages fall than rise. People are working those salaries in cheap areas because they couldn't get a higher salary elsewhere, after all. There is a finite amount of these highly paid positions and far more qualified people.

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Re:Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in thes... by whimsicalism on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @02:51PM (#24701080)

> There is a finite amount of these highly paid positions and far more qualified people.

Disagree - I think that the reality is that most of those in the US who are qualified are already living on the West coast. People underestimate the entry barriers to tech because they are already good at tech.

Salaries will fall as more Gen Z (grew up with tech) enter the labor market, but I'm already seeing higher offers in LCOL areas because the tech labor market remains tight in tech right now.

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Re:Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in thes... by 35fbe7d3d5b9 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @03:37PM (#24701506)

The real differentiation between west coast/{"non-traditional"|LCOL} areas seems to be around non-base compensation offerings.

I've got a friend who is a remote L6 solutions architect with AWS. His compensation is decidedly west coast: ~30% annual bonus and insane RSU grants, while his base is near or below mine. Stock offerings are atypical in the companies in many of these areas, and 30% bonus is unheard of for technical people.

So while LCOL areas may have better base comp, people expecting six figures worth of stock grants aren't going to bite.

What that means I'm not smart enough to know. :)

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