The median salary won't buy a home in SF, or most communities around SF.
Buying a home on median would require a large down payment (achieved with a windfall from vesting of stock options), or dual incomes, or one large income (which many people make). The median is the "midpoint" of a statistical distribution, meaning 50% of the population make higher than 128K and 50% make lower than 128K
(for a software engineer position).
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Originally Posted by Fleetlord
What do people really earn in SF?
I see the salary range numbers and they seem too low to support the housing values..
They must be considerably higher than the generic $128K software engineer salary that is listed for SF on Glassdoor and where ever...
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