I have an offer pending from AirBnB but they won’t give me numbers until I pick a city. My preference is Portland but comp is obviously a factor and if it’s too much of a drop I would opt for Seattle. Does anyone have a rough total comp comparison between the two cities? The offer is for an L5 engineer
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I realize most people won’t have this but I’m hoping someone that’s maybe transferred within AirBnB might. Or anyone that’s gotten an offer in Portland as I can’t find any salary data there at all while there’s a good bit for Seattle.
With the lower cost of living in Portland, I’d take the Portland offer.
That being said, while many big companies have satellite offices in Portland, Seattle has far more big companies here. So long-term, if that’s what you want, you may want to move here. However, a good compromise is take the job in Portland, as you can always move north in a few years - after you save the money you would’ve spent here in the first place.
And I call bullocks on this data from Sperling’s. I used $100K as the base salary. I’d say you’d need more like $150K if living in the city.