"Wow. I want to work where you work! Most interaction designers I know in the Bay Area don't make anywhere close to this amount. I'd say about half of this ($75-100k) is about average."
Therein lies the problem in the Bay Area Dan. How much is proximity to all those great places/people/companies worth? Assume you live in a city with a base cost of living index of 100, pay 1800 per month for rent or mortgage, and make $100K -- and the same job in SV/SF pays $100K, but the cost of living index is 132, you can naturally see why it would cause huge shortages. Of course - in good times like these - SF grows in our sector faster than most other regions b/c of all the access to capital to fund new ideas. I would seriously consider moving someday, but not for an effective pay cut. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Dan Saffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:05 PM, dave malouf wrote: > > > 2) Like what David Shaw said. You've gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just > > insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to SF unless you were > > guaranteed something between $150k-$200k, and HUGE relocation package > > upwards of $20-$30k. Having done relocates to both coasts I'm pretty > > familiar with what it takes at this point. > > Wow. I want to work where you work! Most interaction designers I know > in the Bay Area don't make anywhere close to this amount. I'd say > about half of this ($75-100k) is about average. > > I moved to SF in my mid-30s (with a family I should add) and yes, I > won't be buying a house anytime soon, but if what's important to you > is doing really interesting work surrounded by a high calibre > interaction design community, the Bay Area is hard to beat. The access > you get to some amazing people and companies (startups and giants > alike) is almost unreal. In a few block radius from my office there is > frog, Twitter, Yahoo labs, Cooper, Hot, IDEO, Six Apart, Technorati, > Adobe, Nokia...the list goes on and on. > > Location still matters. > > Dan > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it." Alan Cooper - "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" ------------------------------------------------------- will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
