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Old 01-28-2015, 07:45 PM
 
Location: Manchester
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I know NOTHING about the tech field, but thought this was interesting. Granted the avg salary is less in Pgh than other places, but it seems to be increasing. Not sure why they pay so much in STL.

The two cities with the biggest tech salary gains are St. Louis, where average compensation climbed 23.1% and Pittsburgh with a 16.8% increase. The average tech salary in St. Louis is $93,800. The gains there aren’t so much a result of technology company hiring, but tech staffing across the board in all sorts of businesses. Says Goli, “Look at any company today and it is turning to technology because its consumers are increasingly mobile.” The same is true in Pittsburgh where tech jobs pay an average of $79,600.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanada...r-tech-jobs-4/
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Old 01-29-2015, 07:15 AM
 
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there's something wrong with their numbers when an average salary in an entire field in a metro area goes up 24% in one year. there is no way that actually happened.
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Old 01-29-2015, 07:46 AM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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OK, start the flaming! That's a pretty low average salary for Pittsburgh. I thought when I saw this thread title that it probably meant the salaries were low to begin with. It's kind of like "most improved". The numbers show I was correct.
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Old 01-29-2015, 07:58 AM
 
Location: ɥbɹnqsʇʇıd
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I wouldn't put much stock in a Dice survey. Dice is about as relevant as Monster.com in 2015. This is coming from both a job seeker and when my team was hiring through Dice. It got us no leads and it was filled with junk contracting jobs. In fact, simply searching for "software developer" in Pittsburgh on Dice right now will get you 90% junk jobs.
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Old 01-29-2015, 08:13 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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OK, start the flaming! That's a pretty low average salary for Pittsburgh. I thought when I saw this thread title that it probably meant the salaries were low to begin with. It's kind of like "most improved". The numbers show I was correct.
Congratulations to you indeed, you've successfully pieced together that lower salaries as a starting point plus an increase will result in a higher salary that is still lower than higher cost of living metros. What would we ever do without you here? Nice work!! Subtle flaming complete!!
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Old 01-29-2015, 08:52 AM
 
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That's a pretty low average salary for Pittsburgh.
Relative to what? $79,600 is almost twice the median family income in the Pittsburgh metro.
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Old 01-29-2015, 12:44 PM
 
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Relative to what? $79,600 is almost twice the median family income in the Pittsburgh metro.
Relative to tech salaries elsewhere. From the article:
"nationwide average of $89,450."

Now, not that much lower, but certainly prior to this year the salaries were much lower, 16.8% lower.
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Old 01-29-2015, 01:00 PM
 
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Relative to tech salaries elsewhere. From the article:
"nationwide average of $89,450."

Now, not that much lower, but certainly prior to this year the salaries were much lower, 16.8% lower.
Sorry, your phrasing was ambiguous. "That's a pretty low average salary for Pittsburgh." I thought you meant, "In the context of Pittsburgh, that's a pretty low salary." Which it clearly isn't.

But I guess what you meant was, "Pittsburgh's average salary is pretty low, compared to other cities." Which I guess is true, but obviously you have to factor in the COL in these other cities. I'm also very skeptical of such a rapid Y/Y increase for St. Louis, and suspect that stat has something to do with small sample size. (No offense to St. Louis, which is a city I really love, but I have never once in my life heard a reference to a substantial tech industry there.)
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Old 01-29-2015, 01:02 PM
 
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Sorry, your phrasing was ambiguous. "That's a pretty low average salary for Pittsburgh." I thought you meant, "In the context of Pittsburgh, that's a pretty low salary." Which it clearly isn't.

But I guess what you meant was, "Pittsburgh's average salary is pretty low, compared to other cities." Which I guess is true, but obviously you have to factor in the COL in these other cities. I'm also very skeptical of such a rapid Y/Y increase for St. Louis, and suspect that stat has something to do with small sample size. (No offense to St. Louis, which is a city I really love, but I have never once in my life heard a reference to a substantial tech industry there.)
Yeah, I could have said it better. I'm totally unawre of what's happening in St. Louis (in re: tech anyway).
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:05 PM
 
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I suspect some posters in this thread wouldn't believe Pittsburgh tech salaries were on the rise given any piece of evidence. But thay are. And rapidly. ATC is right in that there is some catching up to do. But its happening. I can't disclose 3 of my students salaries for jobs post Masters who are starting right now locally, but believe me, none of them start with an 8 ..

And Kat, Google Pgh, the town you used to live nearly 30 years or so ago, now employs > 600 people. Source - horses mouth, and that might be another reason the average salary is on the rise here. And the growth of the IBM Watsom team - you got a job offer from them yet, ATC? They pay well ...
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