Bloomberg: Seattle Tech Employees Earn 56% More Than NYC Finance Workers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-2…

Thoughts on this? Surprising to say the least. Seattle tech earns more than both NYC finance and Silicon Valley tech? Significantly more according to this article.

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Yeah but they also have to deal with 500% more insanity.

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 
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Junior tech employees at Amazon, Microsoft etc all get stock options. That's why this statistic isn't necessarily a great proxy given some junior software developers at FB are getting 100K in stock options at signing but vest over a four year period. Not a big amount paid in cash which is what junior finance guys have an upper hand in

 

Finance has been mutilated by regulations, tech’s time will come shortly (see democratic policies and increasing European regulations).

 

It's skewed because NY finance includes back office and even things like bank tellers, whereas the "lowest" end jobs in tech are like IT support/networking, which are still 100k+ jobs.

 

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