San Francisco's software engineers are making bank.
The Bay Area remains the world's most lucrative place to code, with engineers pulling in a median income of $272,229 a year — the highest globally, per a new report from the hiring firm Karat.
Big Tech giants like Apple, Google, Meta and NVIDIA — plus thousands of venture-backed startups — are dominating the hiring scene.
While some industry layoffs have added a bit more talent to the pool, the AI boom is keeping competition fierce and wages high, the report shows.
Bottom line: If you can code here, you're probably doing just fine. Well, at least for now, that is.
