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Originally Posted by the urban politician
^ The article specifically says that this will be a major engineering office.
Obviously that doesn't mean 2000 new engineers. Perhaps salaries will average out at $100k with engineers being higher paid and others lower. Definitely possible.
Also, keep in mind that all 2000 new people won't be hired in 1 year.
To be honest, none of us really knows what the hell they mean when they say they will "invest" $200MM per year. But I'm pretty sure that the engineers, at least, will be making a lot more than $100k per year
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Different articles say different things. Read the Chicago Tribune article and they do mention tech/engineering but also mention other things before it. I mean that makes sense - if you're an engineering hub then you need product there too usually if building out products, especially if you're all about co-location. They aren't true tech people, though they work with tech people to develop various software. That was really my initial thought when I heard about this. You're making it a tech hub and HQ of one of your lines of business. You're going to have a lot of product management there too, along with some of the management to make it all run, and then a number of tech type of people. Will probably run the full spectrum of people even from content/writer type of folk to visual designers to software developers to QA to pure management to product managers. Maybe the lines are blurred between QA and software developer, but yeah - you get the point. Big operation. Should be a lot of nice paying jobs that could fuel a few more luxury towers downtown (or areas like Logan Square or West Loop) easily.