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Originally Posted by paul78701
I keep saying this, but, it's not as simple as shear numbers. It's about the quality of the tech workers (for lack of a better way of putting it). A tech support person or whatnot is often counted in those "tech worker" numbers. Those roles are NOT the same as a software engineer. So those numbers can be misleading. Cities with larger populations may have more "tech workers", but they do not necessarily have more software engineers.
Amazon wants/needs software engineers more than anything else. I don't know the raw numbers, but Austin is more than sufficient in this regard. Per capita, Austin is near/at the top of the list. There are reasons why Austin software engineers are paid more than they are in any other city (when adjusted for cost of living--there was a recent listing/article about this that I don't have the link to off hand).
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I did a quick Google search. This list/article is a year old (I couldn't find the more recent one that I saw), but it essentially says the same thing:
San Francisco is actually one of the worst-paying places in the US for software engineers -
https://qz.com/906086/san-francisco-is-actually-one-of-the-worst-paying-places-in-the-us/
Chart graphic from the article:
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