Side by side

Atlanta vs Raleigh

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 1.8% apart. There is 3.1× more demand for Raleigh. Raleigh is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 10.1%. Listings for Raleigh move faster — median age 53 days against 64.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureAtlantaRaleighGap
Open postings22,15769,130-46,973
Posted this week8363,235
Median salary$81,500$83,000$-1.5k
25th percentile$64.5k$65.5k
75th percentile$101k$103k
Salary disclosed8.5%6.2%
Remote share3.2%13.3%-10.1pp
Median age of posting64d53d
Open over 60 days44.1%49.1%
Visa sponsorship19.2%18.2%
Pay

Pay distribution

Atlanta

$37k$141k

Raleigh

$37k$144k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Atlanta

just posted64d median90d+

Raleigh

just posted53d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Atlanta — technologies

Spark
72.0%
dbt
65.8%
Airflow
59.6%
HubSpot
53.4%
Go
47.2%
TypeScript
41.0%
Kubernetes
34.8%

Raleigh — technologies

Python
72.0%
Go
65.8%
Snowflake
59.6%
Terraform
53.4%
Tableau
47.2%
Azure
41.0%
PostgreSQL
34.8%

Atlanta — employers

Fairmount Legal
9.4%
Quarry Analytics
8.7%
Northwind Systems
8.0%
Halcyon Energy
7.2%
Umbra Security
6.5%
Ironbark Manufacturing
5.8%
Meridian Software
5.1%

Raleigh — employers

Vantage Logistics
9.4%
Fairmount Legal
8.7%
Brightline Retail
8.0%
Solstice Biotech
7.2%
Rivergate Media
6.5%
Halcyon Energy
5.8%
Kestrel Health
5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.