[LUAU] Top 10 Best / Worst Cities For Software Developer Pay

[Julian Yap]

Out of interests sake, this is what you get when you sort by the Cost of
Living column.

Top 10:
City            Salary
---------------------------------------
San Francisco   $92,570  206  $  44,937 
San Jose        $99,250  192  $  51,693 
Oakland         $92,570  180  $  51,428 
San Diego       $85,280  177  $  48,181 
New York        $89,370  177  $  50,492 
Honolulu        $67,840  175  $  38,766 
Los Angeles     $82,540  153  $  53,948 
Long Beach      $82,540  153  $  53,948 
Boston          $87,540  145  $  60,372 
Washington, DC  $82,100  142  $  57,817 

The figure that sticks out like a sore thumb is that Honolulu pays at
least $14,000 LESS than the next lowest raw salary in the top 10.

Why does Hawaii pay so little when the cost of living is so high?

- Julian

(apologies for the quick post)

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 22:04 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
> Honolulu does not rank well on this:
> 
> http://www.delatores.com/blog/default.aspx?id=14&t=Top-10-Best-Worst- 
> Cities-For-Software
> 
> While Honolulu ranks fourth from the top in raw salary levels, when  
> adjusted for cost of living, Honolulu ranks *dead last*.
> 
> Perhaps Lingle should do something about this, too, if she wants to  
> increase tech in Hawaii.
> 
> jim
> 
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