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By the Numbers: The Highest-Paying States For Tech Professionals
Nerval's Lobster writes The average technology professional made $89,450 in 2014, according to Dice's latest salary survey. When it comes to salaries, however, not all states and cities are created equal. Those tech pros living and working in Silicon Valley are the highest-paid in the country, with an average annual salary of $112,610—but that salary grew only 4 percent year-over-year, lagging behind cities such as Portland and Seattle. Dice has built an interactive map that shows where people are making the most (and least). As you click around, note how salary growth is particularly strong in parts of the West, the Northeast, and the South, while remaining stagnant (and even regressing) in some middle states. If anything, the map reinforces what many tech pros have known for years: that more cities and regions are becoming hubs of innovation.
the cost of living here is oh so very cozy that ~$70,000 here probably equates to ~$140,000 in Silicon Valley and other parts of the country where the cost of living is high.
That's great if you're the kind of person who fits into the midwest, but what you're getting for your additional money out here is tolerance. You get to live in a place where diversity isn't shit upon immediately. This is why culture comes from the coasts and heads inland; the inland is racist as shit, and a lot of other -ists as well. This seriously reduces the amount of culture it's able to produce that doesn't come from your ass crack.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Kansas City is about as diverse as a place gets in this country, which is to say very much so.
Great, now step outside Kansas City and see what the rest of the fucking state is like. I don't want to be held prisoner in a specific metropolitan area because any time I venture outside of it, I am in a world of shit.
If you spent one day in this town you would apologize for your ignorant comment.
No, I wouldn't, because I am not fixated on the tiny little piece you have clearly walled yourself into.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"