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Tech jobs remain as concentrated in the same big eight US tech hubs as they have been for several years, despite the high cost of housing and labor in these metros. Furthermore, these big eight hubs are tightening their grip: Higher-salary technology occupations are becoming increasingly concentrated, while lower-salary technology jobs are dispersing slightly to the rest of the country. In this sense, the US technology jobs landscape is becoming more unequal—yet another example of how the country is becoming increasingly differentiated and polarized.
The big eight tech hubs are not replicas of each other—labor markets differ among them significantly. Indeed’s job postings in the first half of 2017 reveal that San Francisco and Seattle, more than any other US metros, share the Silicon Valley pattern of plentiful high-paying and newly emerging tech jobs—cutting-edge occupations like computer vision engineer and machine learning engineer. Seattle is the tech hub with the fastest growth rate in tech-job openings. Two additional hubs, Boston and Austin, have tech-job mixes similar to Silicon Valley’s, but, unlike Seattle, they are not gaining tech-job share. Rounding out the big eight, tech jobs in Washington, DC, Baltimore and Raleigh are more traditional and offer lower salaries, making these metros less like Silicon Valley than their fellow tech hubs.
Outside the big eight, three metros—Boulder, CO, San Diego, and Provo-Orem, UT—have tech occupation mixes that resemble Silicon Valley’s as well as growing shares of tech jobs. But, in these emerging tech metros, tech jobs have smaller footprints than in the eight big hubs. Despite that, they are among Silicon Valley’s closest cousins, offering opportunities for tech workers looking for a change of pace from the big hubs and for companies that want to locate in hot tech markets.
TFA is a marketing piece for Indeed.com, but it's an opportunity to weigh the merits of the different areas or propose new ones. Which areas do Soylentils prefer, and why? Are there places in the US or elsewhere that would make great tech hubs? Santa Fe, NM, for one, would be lovely.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Sunday July 30 2017, @03:49AM (1 child)
To evaluate these hubs I think the equation "salary minus living costs and commuter annoyance" is key. Big salary matters less if you have to pay up for expensive housing only reachable with a long commute with traffic jams everyday. What can be saved on the bank tells the end story. Not that the bank is any good for saving money.
And then it's of course also what kind of jobs available that matters both in profile matching and how interesting they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @05:39PM
You're right.. it's impossible to live in seattle or sf. Nobody can do it unless they're homeless.
Stay away you'll have to commute a year and 4/5ths of your pay will go to rent and taxes... which will be wasted on corrupt social programs intended to bring in more homeless.
Just say away don't come here.