Perhaps it would be interesting to look to the following data taken from today's MNBC http://www.msnbc.com/news/248239.asp. There is an article there as an explnation to the table.
Salaries vs. cities
A look at how earnings vary from place to place
San Jose, Calif.
$60,200
New York
$58,200
San Francisco
$58,150
Los Angeles
$56,900
Newark, N.J.
$55,450
Boston
$54,050
Washington
$53,500
Detroit
$53,000
Chicago
$52,850
New York
$58,200
Atlanta
$52,700
Philadelphia
$52,050
Denver
$51,450
Baltimore
$51,450
Seattle
$51,650
Cleveland
$51,050
Pittsburgh
$51,000
Minneapolis-
St. Paul
$50,800
Portland, Ore.
$50,700
Dallas
$50,550
Houston
$50,500
Kansas City
$50,350
Milwaukee
$50,350
Louisville
$50,300
Fort Wayne, Ind.
$50,300
Charlotte, N.C.
$50,150
Miami
$49,600
Phoenix
$49,600
Indianapolis
$49,550
Salt Lake City
$49,500
St.Louis
$49,400
Cincinnati
$49,300
New Orleans
$48,950
Tampa, Fla.
$48,550
Miami
$49,600
Nashville, Tenn.
$48,550
Birmingham, Ala.
$47,050
Little Rock, Ark.
$46,300
Albuquerque, N.M. $45,650
Columbus, Ga.
$43,050
Brownsville, Texas
$41,750
Source: Newhouse
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IMHO, cравнение размера зарплат без учета стоимости жизни имеет мало практического смысла. Ведь если присмотреться повнимательнее к приведенному списку, то налицо довольно сильная обратная корреляция между зарплатами и ценами на жилье, автомобильную страховку, бензин, продукты, и прочие бытовые расходы. К тому же, качество жизни складывается из гораздо большего числа факторов, чем простое соотношение цен и зарплат.
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Exactly. They also wrote about it in the article. So to make things simplier I just copy the article below
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Salaries vary from city to city
In many cases, earnings tied to cost of living
By Mary Kane
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
March 9 —
Got a hot job offer, but you have to move to take it?
That could be good news if you’re headed to Silicon Valley, where a
salary that averages $50,000 nationally typically would pay $60,200, a shade
over 20 percent more, a new survey of salaries and cities shows.
BUT HEAD TO Birmingham, Ala., or Little Rock, Ark., and that $50,000 generally begins
dropping by $3,000 or more, the survey by William M. Mercer Inc., a New York compensation
consulting firm, found.
Take a job in Brownsville, Texas, and it gets worse: Expect to earn just $41,750, or 17 percent
less than $50,000.
Of course, it will cost a lot less to live in Brownsville than in Silicon Valley.
The Mercer survey compared how a salary that averages $50,000 nationally
would fare in 39 metropolitan areas. It did not take into account cost-of-living differences.
Its conclusion
— no surprise to employees who’ve moved in the past few years for jobs
—
is that salaries in private industry can vary widely depending on where you live.
The survey did not look at how companies respond to those differences —
whether they pay the higher area average or let workers deal with a salary that isn’t going
to stretch as far in their new location. Or whether workers who move to lower-cost areas
face a cut in salaries.
Joyce Cain, a Mercer consultant in Louisville, Ky., said employers usually deal
with that issue on a case-by-case basis. Mercer has not surveyed employers about
how they react to salary differentials.
BIG BUCKS IN SILICON VALLEY
“Each employer kind of handles that alone,” she said. “But the typical organization
does make adjustments for location.”
For about the last 10 years, Silicon Valley, with its high-paying technology jobs, has
led the list of higher salaries. New York, which now ranks second, used to top the list.
For about the last 10 years, Silicon Valley, with its high-paying technology jobs,
has led the list of higher salaries, she said. New York, which now ranks second, used
to top the list.
New York is followed by San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, N.J., Boston and Washington.
In the middle are Louisville, Ky., and Fort Wayne, Ind., with $50,300 salaries, close to the
average.
At the bottom: New Orleans, Tampa, Fla., Nashville, Tenn., Albuquerque, N.M., and
Columbus, Ga.
The survey was based on hundreds of types of lower- and mid-level salaried jobs.
It also concluded that at higher salary levels the difference among locales shrinks.
In Boston, a salary that averages $50,000 nationally would average about 8 percent more,
but an $80,000 salary would be $84,320, or about 5 percent above the national norm.
______________________________________________________
Salaries vary from city to city
In many cases, earnings tied to cost of living
By Mary Kane
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
March 9 —
Got a hot job offer, but you have to move to take it?
That could be good news if you’re headed to Silicon Valley, where a
salary that averages $50,000 nationally typically would pay $60,200, a shade
over 20 percent more, a new survey of salaries and cities shows.
BUT HEAD TO Birmingham, Ala., or Little Rock, Ark., and that $50,000 generally begins
dropping by $3,000 or more, the survey by William M. Mercer Inc., a New York compensation
consulting firm, found.
Take a job in Brownsville, Texas, and it gets worse: Expect to earn just $41,750, or 17 percent
less than $50,000.
Of course, it will cost a lot less to live in Brownsville than in Silicon Valley.
The Mercer survey compared how a salary that averages $50,000 nationally
would fare in 39 metropolitan areas. It did not take into account cost-of-living differences.
Its conclusion
— no surprise to employees who’ve moved in the past few years for jobs
—
is that salaries in private industry can vary widely depending on where you live.
The survey did not look at how companies respond to those differences —
whether they pay the higher area average or let workers deal with a salary that isn’t going
to stretch as far in their new location. Or whether workers who move to lower-cost areas
face a cut in salaries.
Joyce Cain, a Mercer consultant in Louisville, Ky., said employers usually deal
with that issue on a case-by-case basis. Mercer has not surveyed employers about
how they react to salary differentials.
BIG BUCKS IN SILICON VALLEY
“Each employer kind of handles that alone,” she said. “But the typical organization
does make adjustments for location.”
For about the last 10 years, Silicon Valley, with its high-paying technology jobs, has
led the list of higher salaries. New York, which now ranks second, used to top the list.
For about the last 10 years, Silicon Valley, with its high-paying technology jobs,
has led the list of higher salaries, she said. New York, which now ranks second, used
to top the list.
New York is followed by San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, N.J., Boston and Washington.
In the middle are Louisville, Ky., and Fort Wayne, Ind., with $50,300 salaries, close to the
average.
At the bottom: New Orleans, Tampa, Fla., Nashville, Tenn., Albuquerque, N.M., and
Columbus, Ga.
The survey was based on hundreds of types of lower- and mid-level salaried jobs.
It also concluded that at higher salary levels the difference among locales shrinks.
In Boston, a salary that averages $50,000 nationally would average about 8 percent more,
but an $80,000 salary would be $84,320, or about 5 percent above the national norm.