If you are good. That's for a recent hire. Wages rose last 2 years if you haven't been keeping up with the news.
7 replies (most recent on top)
30% more pay isn't worth it for me to move to SV. It's a downgrade in lifestyle because of a higher mortgage and property tax, traffic, smaller house, no yard,...At some point the more you make the more the government takes and you get less.
No they don't. AAPL starts equivalent of "Staff engineer" at 140-150k base with shit bonuses but tons of stock.
There is nothing wrong with Mira Mesa. It's a good place, and relatively safe place, no environmental issues. The point is to get into a neighborhood like Mira Mesa in Silly Valley, It costs you about $1million. So that 20-30% pay bump people keep saying you'll get isn't going to pay you enough to keep your quality of living by moving up to Silly Valley.
what wrong with Mira Mesa? It's not as ghetto as you think. You snobs
Sunnyvale in Silly Valley equivalent to Mira Mesa in SD
http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Sunnyvale-CA-94087/house,condo,apartment_duplex,townhouse_type/19623596_zpid/97549_rid/37.387208,-121.954165,37.31939,-122.106944_rect/12_zm/
$1.4million for a 1600sqft home (or $988 per square foot) that was built in 1955!!!...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1099-Susan-Way-Sunnyvale-CA-94087/19537501_zpid/
My favorite is if you want to live in nicer places with nicer public schools equivalent to North County Coastal...That would be closer to Cupertino...
http://www.zillow.com/homes/Cupertino-CA_rb/
HAHAHAHAHA.... If you thought you were bending over for home prices here in San Diego... You are getting gangbanged up in Silly Valley.
Uh, no... not even close. 5 years experience. In bay area, around $150k-160k. 10 years, is closer to about $180-190k base. Bonus+ stock will push most 5 year folks to around $180k, and most 10years or more around $240k... The problem is that while your salary might be 20-30% higher, you're home prices are going to be about 30% higher, and that won't even put you in the same neighborhood. Here, people pay $350-400/sqft for the best hoods. There, you pay around $600/sqft for something in the equivilent of Mira Mesa. Not to mention, if you make over $200k as a single earner on a W2, you pay a heck of a lot more taxes (both fed and CA state) because you are considered a high net worth individual, so your tax rate is ridiculously much more. You really aren't "better" off, unless you strike it rich by being lucky with the stock options...
Plus bonus and stock put it up to $250K.