I've decided to start looking for jobs out west (mostly seattle), I make decent money for my age in Atlanta, and I want to make sure I can afford my lifestyle in Seattle as well. Is there a good cost of living calculator you've used to decide what your TC should be when relocating? I don't want to be dazzled by high numbers without realizing how far it actually goes in Seattle. Also, if anyone at @Microsoft is hiring global training/comms/strategy roles - hit a girl up. Lol
Always post your total comp and years of experience
you can do it in a more fine grained way. look up basic fixed cost things like rent and utilities for the equivalent to what you have now. then how much food and entertainment that you enjoy now would cost there. then you can back into the tc necessary to maintain your lifestyle and savings rate. for example if you rent a shitty room and eat beans and rice every day the tc increase necessary is going to be negligible compared to if you live in a nice apartment alone and go out a lot.
Agreed. I'd say research the neighborhood s you'd like to live in and then find how much you'd have to pay in rent.
There are a lot of different cost of living calculators you can find online. The problem I have found is some of them give very different answers. So there is a relatively large spread in the answers you may get. If anyone has some clues as in which calculators are more accurate I’d love to hear that feedback as well. Otherwise you can just use google to find a bunch. The problem being I am not sure which should be more trusted.
COL calculators are useless. Housing/schools are really the only major costs to consider. Everthing else is noise, especially considering the career upside youd be taking moving to a tech hub. Do this instead of COL calculator: 1.Just figure out neighborhood you want to live in, then look up housing on craigslist/Zillow to see how much it would cost (rent/mortgage). 2. Calculate your after tax take home income in the new position 3. Estimate yearly savings based on 1 and 2. If it's signigicantly higher than what you currently save it's worth it.
A living calculator usually costs $100-$200
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