If you're lucky enough to have a tech salary, these are the 10 cities to get the most bang for your buck

September 30, 2017

If you're lucky enough to have a tech salary, these are the 10 cities to get the most bang for your buck

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If you're a tech worker and command one of the industry's typically much-better-than average paychecks, where's the best place to live?

The easy answer is San Francisco or Silicon Valley, given that they are collectively ground zero for the tech industry, and area companies are well known for offering huge paychecks and benefits to woo workers away from the competition.

But the Bay Area also has some of the highest living costs in the country. All those young, talented employees pulling down sky-high salaries have driven up the price of everything from housing to avocado toast. And other metro areas more than make up for lower salaries when the cost of living is factored in.

So the answer isn't as simple as it might seem.

Enter Indeed. The job site has taken a look at which cities offer the best deals for tech workers. It took the annual salary information users from the top 25 metro areas submitted to it between August 2016 and July 2017 and adjusted for each area's cost of living.

Here's its list of the top 10 best metropolitan areas — including big cities and their nearby suburbs — for techies to work, ranked in order of adjusted salaries: