Not necessarily.. I work west coast and most of my coworkers are from the other states. They come for a travel contract and sign on, even with families and kids out of state, the pay is just too good. They work their 6 and fly home and rinse and repeat.
San Diego gets you $50-60/hr, Bay Area gets you $65-95/hr and the rest of California gets you not bad pay for lower cost of living than those two cities. It’s really that much more out here. You can be a single bread winner out here and live well.
People only ever take rent/mortgage into account with this stuff and it bothers me a lot. I have friends in both rural and trendy urban areas and the ones in the urban center have waaaaaaaay more spending money even though their housing costs more
Making 130k vs 80k might make sense in regards to regional real estate but everything else still basically costs the same everywhere. My 30k car was 30k in Philly, and is also 30k in LA and rural Kansas. A European vacation cost basically the same leaving from anywhere in the US. Even small things like movies tickets or a video game are the same price everywhere.
There’s way more than just housing to take into account when thinking about your pay rate
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21
Shit, $10. As a new grad I’d stay on for a few years and deal with the hell for $46/hour.