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SN Member McGruber points us a study by TriNet that provides (buzzword alert!) 'cloud-based human resources services.' The study concludes that Austin is the place to go.
From the article:
"Austin ranks Number 1 in the nation when it comes to offering the largest tech salaries that have been adjusted for cost of living expenses, such as housing, groceries, utilities and other necessities.
The seven major tech hubs, ranked by cost of living adjusted average salaries:
1. Austin: $105,000
2. Atlanta: $103,000
3. Denver-Boulder: $98,000
4. Boston: $79,000
5. Silicon Valley: $78,000
6. Los Angeles: $70,000
7. New York: $56,000"
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Austin has highest "Salaries for Tech Workers"
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by poutine on Friday March 07 2014, @09:00PM
So they adjusted salaries to account for cost of living? Wonderful, what were the salaries _before_ you adjusted them? What was the modifier for each city? This is a terrible article that has no scientific or factual basis, it just exists as spam for trinet.com. SoylentNews editors, I expected more of you.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 07 2014, @09:19PM
poutine--
(Score: 2) by wjwlsn on Friday March 07 2014, @09:24PM
The disclaimer probably should have been attached...
I am a traveler of both time and space. Duh.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Couuard on Friday March 07 2014, @10:01PM
I was left asking the same question. So I went searching and found this:e at0214.pdf [trinet.com]
http://www.trinet.com/documents/smbeat/trinet_smb
Which then made me go hunting for a cost of living calculator, because Seattle wasn't in the report./ [cnn.com]
http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living
Dang! If Austin wasn't in Texas, it would be tempting.
(Score: 1) by captain normal on Friday March 07 2014, @10:19PM
I agree, if I had mod points now I'd mod you up. What were the parameters of the study? What city was the starting basis? I couldn't find anything in the TriNet site that even refered to the study. This looks like another of those PR press releases picked up by the hometown paper cause it makes the area look good. Source= Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(Score: 2, Informative) by McGruber on Saturday March 08 2014, @11:13AM
poutine, I agree with you that this is a terrible article, so let me explain why I submitted it.
The subject (salaries after cost of living) is a topic that I figured would be of interest to SN's community. I think that having an interesting topic is far more important than having a high quality article -- many awesome /. discussions started from really bad articles.
I read SN and /. for the comments posted by the community. Most of what I've submitted to /. over the years were topics I wanted to see the community discuss, digest and breakdown. I feel that my understanding of a topic is improved whenever I get to see the entire community parse that topic.
Finally, while the article was devoid of any detail, the lsited ranking did seem reasonable to me -- I've been to all the places in the article and Austin and Atlanta were certainly cheaper to stay in than either San Jose or NYC! Had the article appeared to me to be blatantly biased (for example, had the article been written by the Austin Chamber of Commerce) I would have not submitted it.