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I am in college as an IT major and I am a junior. I have been doing research on IT jobs in Santa Fe that pay at least $50K on Indeed.com and it seems like Santa Fe has more $50K (or slightly more) IT jobs that require less experience, while ABQ had IT jobs that required a stricter and sophisticated experience.
I am in college as an IT major and I am a junior. I have been doing research on IT jobs in Santa Fe that pay at least $50K on Indeed.com and it seems like Santa Fe has more $50K (or slightly more) IT jobs that require less experience, while ABQ had IT jobs that required a stricter and sophisticated experience.
In terms of quantities of jobs, there will be more of everything in Albuquerque.
In terms of market pricing, I would not be surprised to see a very modest boost to SF salaries versus Albuquerque ones, but it wouldn't be enough to cover the increased cost of living.
These $50k jobs are comparable to $100k jobs in other major metro areas and $160k jobs in the bay.
In terms of quantities of jobs, there will be more of everything in Albuquerque.
In terms of market pricing, I would not be surprised to see a very modest boost to SF salaries versus Albuquerque ones, but it wouldn't be enough to cover the increased cost of living.
These $50k jobs are comparable to $100k jobs in other major metro areas and $160k jobs in the bay.
Getting paid a lower amount of money is what is expected in a smaller metro area. Maybe when I become middle aged, who knows if I end up getting a pay raise up to $100K (an SF Bay type of pay).
A reason why I am glad I chose a small metro area over a large one is due to the less competition. Here in NJ, you have to prestigious person to get a job out here. A ton of white collared workers who live in NJ have a nice job and owns a luxury car. I would never be able to make that out here in NJ. New Jerseyans seem like they are prestigious and have prestigious jobs. My resume and experience is not decent enough to get a job in a large metro area unless I absolute know someone.
Larger metro areas = higher paying jobs but more competition to get them.
Agree with the others that bigger (ABQ) is typically better when it comes to IT. I will note that many of the IT positions in Santa Fe may be state government jobs. While the state jobs pay below market pretty much across the board, the pay scale for IT is a bit better because they realized a few years back that they simply couldn't fill the positions otherwise. That being said, the COL in SF is definitely higher than in ABQ. Many, many state employees live in Rio Rancho or ABQ and commute.
There's IT jobs in Santa Fe but they are almost 100% state government jobs. Albuquerque has more of a variety of private sector/engineering and government contracting IT stuff. A lot of those require you get a clearance, but there's also some "regular" engineering stuff scattered around town.
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