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Old 04-11-2017, 10:33 PM
 
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How do Austin SW Engineering salaries compare to that of the Bay Area and of Phoenix, AZ? Are salaries closer to Phoenix salaries or are salaries in Austin more comparable to Bay Area salaries for SW Engineers?
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Old 04-12-2017, 06:15 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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Old 04-12-2017, 08:23 AM
 
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I work for a Fortune 500 technology company. Salaries are 20-25% lower here, IME, but the cost of living is also appreciably lower. The Robert Half salary surveys will tell you everything you need to know; make sure to look up the Austin-area multiplier.
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Old 04-12-2017, 09:27 AM
 
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salary.com is also a good resource.
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Old 04-12-2017, 10:14 AM
 
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wolframalpha.com will offer you a great comparison.

Also a COL comparison

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/09/wh...rld-right-now/
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Old 04-12-2017, 10:33 AM
 
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It depends, some areas have huge demand in Austin area and for those positions, Austin companies can pay equal or more than Bay Area...
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Old 04-12-2017, 10:52 AM
 
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It depends, some areas have huge demand in Austin area and for those positions, Austin companies can pay equal or more than Bay Area...
Are you comparing adjusted cost of living, or actually dollar for dollar more?

Making low six figures is great in Austin when there are roles in SF that want to pay you only 30-40K more to move out there.
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Old 04-12-2017, 11:10 AM
 
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Are you comparing adjusted cost of living, or actually dollar for dollar more?

Making low six figures is great in Austin when there are roles in SF that want to pay you only 30-40K more to move out there.
Dollar to dollar

And believe me, it's not worth to go to SF just to get 30-40K more. That extra amount will vanish within a second once you get there.

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Old 04-12-2017, 12:31 PM
 
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Dollar to dollar

And believe me, it's not worth to go to SF just to get 30-40K more. That extra amount will vanish within a second once you get there.
Do you have any more information? I'm curious.
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Old 04-12-2017, 02:33 PM
 
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Do you have any more information? I'm curious.
Sure, experience in these fields pay pretty good $ in Austin
- Big Data (Data Scientists, data engineers, architects, etc)
- Cloud (Cloud Architect, DevOps, etc)

Languages/tools they use mostly:
- Scala, R, Python, Chef/Puppet
- AWS (EC2, EMR, S3, Redshift, Cloud*, etc), Spark, Hadoop ecosystems, Elasticsearch/Solr, Splunk, Kafka, Storm

These are based on my experience from last 2 years (hired & got hired). If someone has good experience(4+ years) in most of them, they get the most $. Getting $150K-$200K (base salary) is not very rare here.

I'm pretty sure some other fields pay good money too but I can't comment about that.

Most importantly, how much you are up-to-date with the latest technologies - that's the key thing.

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