Looking to move to Austin and wanted to get a ballpark on the salary difference for a senior software engineer in California vs Austin.
Call companies out on their bullshit. Don't let them pull the "oh we adjust for location". Just say, "oh fine I'll stay here then".
I like it haha
People forget you're doing them a *massive* favor by moving lol. The salary usually is for people who lived there previously and try to find a job. You bring your "expertise" from the valley, whatever that is. Then again I negotiate hard like Larry Ellison ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Use Glassdoor to check on salaries
And this calculator to compare cost of living: http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/index.html
Thanks folks. That gave me what I needed
Few good companies pay ca equivalent salary . Few pay 10% low . Except state tax and rent (10 to 18k) , no diff in expenses . Things getting expensive in Austin as well
Exactly. All major cities are in reality almost all the same in terms of CoL, minus housing costs.
My Husband works for Trion and when people move from RWS, the company dings them with a 20% pay differential. When Oracle relocates people to ATX, no pay change.
If they reduce 20% , what's the point in moving to Austin unless company forcibly moving employees . If that's the case. Make a move then jump
Because by most CoL calculators Austin is 30% cheaper with no state income tax.
The burbs are cheaper, but not Austin proper (except for no state tax)
SSE from California is like a CTO in Austin. You're gonna have a bad time unless you dgaf. Highest base I've heard of was 165 at Paypal which is like 250 base in CA... equity comp is like 10-25% of what you get in CA... A nice new 3bd apartment 1-2 miles from downtown Austin is like 2400/mo, the high rises in DT are all SF prices, houses are old and shitty and 300k and up...
But an ok shitty house in Sunnyvale apparently goes for 2 million so that is downright cheap. Outside of high rises rent is much more reasonable. I have friends that live just south of lady bird lake in Austin. Walk to work in downtown in a brand new nice apartments for less than 2k month. I'm 5 miles out or so and rent is less than 1500.
A house in Sunnyvale being 2m should tell you people want to be there much more than they want to be in Austin. If you hustle you can learn a lot in tech for much less money spent by going to Austin but you'll probably still want to come back to California later in life. Personally if I were starting my career today I would go to Denver...
Check the linkedin salary tool