35% Of Tech Professionals Are Willing To Leave Their Bay Area Salary Behind

Last week, Blind, an anonymous community of verified professionals with 3.6 million users, learned that 66% of professionals are willing to relocate out of the Bay Area, New York, and Seattle. After Facebook’s future remote work and pay cut announcement, Blind learned that 32% of working professionals would consider relocating with a pay cut. 

2,800 users across Silicon Valley, NYC, and Seattle show their willingness to reduce their salary.  Other Key Learnings include:

• 38% of Facebook professionals would consider relocating with a pay cut. 

• 20% of Bay Area professionals would you be willing to accept a 10-20% pay cut 

• The Bay Area (35%), New York (30%), and Seattle (31%) showed similar proportions of intent to relocate with a pay cut.
• New York (75%) has the highest proportion of those wanting to leave the Metropolitan Area.
• Only (25%) of New Yorkers would not consider relocating out of the metropolitan area.

Download the full report Here.