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The US tech market is the world's largest and most competitive. Compensation includes meaningful equity, bonus, and benefits beyond base salary. Notice periods are typically 2 weeks.
United States at a glance
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Where we hire in US
Ranked by salary uplift vs national average
San Francisco
+25%San Francisco and the Bay Area remain the global epicentre of tech compensation, AI, and venture-backed startups. Total comp at growth-stage companies routinely exceeds $300k.
New York
+20%NYC blends fintech, ad-tech, and media-tech with one of the densest engineering talent pools in the world. Hybrid is the norm and compensation is on par with the Bay Area.
Seattle
+15%Seattle has the world's deepest cloud-engineering talent pool thanks to AWS and Azure. Strong supply across distributed systems, data infrastructure, and ML platform engineering.
Boston
+10%Boston is a hub for enterprise SaaS, biotech-tech, and AI research, fed by MIT and Harvard pipelines. Mid-senior platform and ML talent is plentiful.
Los Angeles
+10%LA's tech scene spans Silicon Beach SaaS, media-tech, gaming, and aerospace software. Talent is increasingly senior-heavy with strong design-engineering crossover.
Austin
+0%Austin has emerged as a primary US tech hub, with deep talent in dev tools, infra, and platform engineering. Pay is 15–20% below SF with materially lower cost of living.
Chicago
+0%Chicago combines enterprise SaaS, ad-tech, and trading-tech with strong mid-market hiring. Compensation is competitive with non-coastal hubs and notice periods are short.
Remote (US)
+0%US-wide remote hiring opens access to talent across all time zones. Many engineers prefer remote at 90–95% of in-office comp.
Side-by-side
United States vs other markets we cover
Average mid-level salary uplift and notice periods by country.
| Metric | UK | DE | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median mid salary | £70k | €74k | $130k |
| Typical notice period | 1–2 months | 3 months | 2 weeks |
| Hybrid default | 2 days office | 2 days office | 3 days office |
| Cities live on Haystack | 8 | 8 | 8 |
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