I recently interviewed in SF area, and as a result did quite a lot of research on salaries, cost of living, benefits, etc, etc.
A typical salary in the Dallas, TX area for a software engineer like you describe is in the $60K ballpark plus benefits. To achieve a comparable standard of living in the Bay Area, you'd have to get a minimum of $85K + benefits, and it's probably closer to $100K + benefits after considering taxes and other hidden costs that I didn't have time to discover.
All that is simply to make an educated guess based on standard-of-living equivalence, of course. I have only very vague ideas of what actual pay scales in SF are.
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I recently interviewed in SF area, and as a result did quite a lot of research on salaries, cost of living, benefits, etc, etc.
A typical salary in the Dallas, TX area for a software engineer like you describe is in the $60K ballpark plus benefits. To achieve a comparable standard of living in the Bay Area, you'd have to get a minimum of $85K + benefits, and it's probably closer to $100K + benefits after considering taxes and other hidden costs that I didn't have time to discover.
All that is simply to make an educated guess based on standard-of-living equivalence, of course. I have only very vague ideas of what actual pay scales in SF are.