Salary foo

[danaeris]

My current salary this year is 25K.

According to the salary calculator at www.homefair.com, that is equivalent to:

NYC(Manhattan) $24,726
Boston $23,202
Cambridge $21,351
Washington $21,229
Long Island $20,767
Toronto $20,145
NYC(Bronx) $19,856
Seattle $19,732
NYC(Queens) $19,629
Los Angeles $19,376
Vancouver $19,082
NYC(Brooklyn) $18,604
Montreal $18,494
Portland $17,561
NYC(Staten Is) $16,913

I find it tough to believe that SF is more expensive than Manhattan... I wonder if this data was gathered during the dot com.

Hmm.
Do these numbers look right for the most part to y'all?

Comments

[tunape.livejournal.com]

Perhaps NYC/SF is a close call, but SF is definitely expensive to live in! I know a few grads who couldn't make it in SF with a 30k salary.

[auros]

Yep, looks right to me.

As I understand it, NYC economy (unlike the national economy as a whole) was pretty severely impacted by 9/11. Rents went up for a while due to office-space shortage, but as that has been restored, and businesses have found digs outside Manhattan (or in some cases, outside the US -- yay for outsourcing), they went back down a bit. So the Bay Area retains its status as the highest cost-of-living region in the country.

(Bear in mind that we very briefly, before the bubble burst, passed Tokyo, to claim the title of most expensive city in the world.)