{"id":99899,"date":"2017-04-12T22:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T06:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=174486"},"modified":"2017-04-12T22:31:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T06:31:50","slug":"150000-only-gets-you-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/12\/150000-only-gets-you-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"$150,000 only gets you so far\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The above salary range seems accurate. I know newly minted PhDs in computer science may “only” get in the low $100,000 range at Google. So a salary in the mid six-figure range is totally reasonable with a few years of experience.
\n\"\"<\/a>Recently a friend who is an engineer at Google in Mountain View got a transfer to Boulder, where they bought a house. He’d been trying to buy in Mountain View for a while…but that just wasn’t happening. Boulder isn’t cheap, with 178% the national average in cost of living. But it’s nothing compared to Mountain View, where the average housing cost is 7.5 times the national average.<\/p>\n

What’s striking to me is the high variation in cost of living in American urban areas:<\/p>\n\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nOverall cost of living<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
San Francisco<\/td>\n272<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New York City<\/td>\n180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seattle<\/td>\n177<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston<\/td>\n170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Los Angeles<\/td>\n166<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
San Diego<\/td>\n166<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Portland<\/td>\n140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Denver<\/td>\n128<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miami<\/td>\n123<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Austin<\/td>\n117<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chicago<\/td>\n111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minneapolis<\/td>\n109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Houston<\/td>\n102<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Atlanta<\/td>\n102<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raleigh<\/td>\n102<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Philadelphia<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Phoenix<\/td>\n99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Orleans<\/td>\n96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dallas<\/td>\n95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baltimore<\/td>\n90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pittsburgh<\/td>\n88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cincinnati<\/td>\n86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
St. Louis<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Des Moines<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memphis<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Detroit<\/td>\n73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The above salary range seems accurate. I know newly minted PhDs in computer science may “only” get in the low $100,000 range at Google. So a salary in the mid six-figure range is totally reasonable with a few years of experience. Recently a friend who is an engineer at Google in Mountain View got a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2655,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-living","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99900,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99899\/revisions\/99900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}