Why San Francisco Isn't the Best Place to Be an Engineer
The pay packages Bay Area companies offer are less impressive when you factor in lifestyle and the cost of living.
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Pulling a solid team of engineers together may be harder in San Francisco than it is in other cities, a new study shows.
Companies can afford to hire more engineers in such cities as Atlanta, Chicago, and Austin, Texas, than in coastal tech hubs such as San Francisco and New York, according to a report from Hired, a job search website. What's more, because of the high cost of living in San Francisco, those Midwestern and Southern engineers will feel better compensated. Hired reviewed data from 80,000 job offers made through its site at 3,000 companies in 2015 and found that Atlanta, Chicago, and Austin businesses can afford to add roughly three more engineers to their teams on a $1 million annual engineering budget, the report finds.