It’s a great time to be working on the West Coast. In a ranking released today by job site Glassdoor.com, the San Jose area took the top spot for employee satisfaction, followed by San Francisco, Seattle, and Salt Lake City. The Eastern Seaboard didn’t crack the rankings until Washington took fifth place, with the South waiting until ninth-place Memphis.
San Jose and San Francisco are “both recognized as global tech hubs and regions for innovation,” says Glassdoor spokesman Scott Dobroski. Pay, no doubt, played a big role: San Jose also ranked highest for satisfaction with compensation and benefits, a metric that put Seattle in second place and San Francisco in fourth. Household income in the San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose area, at a median $63,024, is higher than anywhere else in the country, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
