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Unsurprisingly, Seattle companies are paying tech workers pretty well.
But data from San Francisco-based employment website Hired’s 2017 Global Tech Salaries report shows much more than just that.
Seattle has the second-highest average salary for software engineers among the cities surveyed in the U.S. Even with adjustment for San Francisco’s obscene cost of living, Seattle ranks third for the value its salaries can buy.
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Hired ranked cities in the U.S. and some beyond our borders for the best tech salaries, but they went a step further and compared the salaries to the value they would buy in San Francisco, where the cost of living is, shall we say, out of this world.
In Austin, for example, even if the average salary is $110,000, that money is the same as making $198,000 in San Francisco. Not bad.
On that note, Hired also found that most job offers in Seattle are made to people who live outside the area — primarily from the Bay Area.
The region gets a hefty amount of transplants from New York, Los Angeles and Boston as well.
We included the top 15 cities in our slideshow above. Click through to see how they compare to the Emerald City.
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