California
Monday, 6/29, 04:48 PM
Six Figures, Stretched Thin: Why $180,000 Barely Gets By in San Francisco
- As the AI boom draws a new wave of richly paid engineers back to San Francisco, a brutal arithmetic has set in: even a $180,000 salary — the envy of most of the country — is a strained proposition in a city where a one-bedroom rents for nearly $3,700 and a typical home tops $1.3 million.