Seattle's tech salaries are second highest in the U.S. -- and they're on the rise

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Seattle is home to the nation’s second highest tech salaries, according to a new study.

The average tech salary in Seattle as of 2019 was $109,628, a 4.3 percent increase from the previous year, according to a survey of U.S.-based tech workers released Wednesday by the tech career site Dice.

Unsurprisingly, Seattle is second only to Silicon Valley, where the average 2019 tech salary was $123,826 and has risen 4.7 percent since 2018. Seattle’s neighbor to the south, Portland, ranked sixth on the list, with an average salary of $102,703.

Tech fields with the highest pay spikes included software engineers, data scientists and database developers, where the average salary increased from $111,077 to $118,904 in just a year.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2020/01/30/seattle-has-nations-second-highest-tech-salaries.html?ana=e_ae_set1&j=90460221&t=Afternoon&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmprell6Rm1OV0poTlRNdyIsInQiOiJzUEMrbWZGdE40VTd0T25JaUJ5THJYZWhWMnZ0KzFKVmRcL3A0OW45MXNjRXJuSzR0VDd0alhFWTZFWG9nNVc4b2liOXJVbUlGXC9Kd3duVmZWcFdBRW0rUnVndnJYQzZ5NEt0b0FjXC9qMFVGUGtDQUY2eDMweG1yaHFIZ3c3ajJ2SiJ9

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1. Surprise, surprise--housing is now super expensive and rising

Good for the techies, but a lot of us old-timers had to leave.