Side by side

Raleigh vs Salt Lake City

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 2.5% apart. Demand is comparable on both sides. Raleigh is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 7.6%. Listings for Raleigh move faster — median age 53 days against 62.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureRaleighSalt Lake CityGap
Open postings69,13059,349+9,781
Posted this week3,2351,906
Median salary$83,000$81,000+$2k
25th percentile$65.5k$64k
75th percentile$103k$101k
Salary disclosed6.2%8.2%
Remote share13.3%5.7%+7.6pp
Median age of posting53d62d
Open over 60 days49.1%45.5%
Visa sponsorship18.2%4.1%
Pay

Pay distribution

Raleigh

$37k$144k

Salt Lake City

$36k$140k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Raleigh

just posted53d median90d+

Salt Lake City

just posted62d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Raleigh — technologies

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

Salt Lake City — technologies

GCP
72.0%
Terraform
65.8%
Python
59.6%
AWS
53.4%
Kubernetes
47.2%
SQL
41.0%
React
34.8%

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%

Salt Lake City — employers

Pinewood Education
9.4%
Rivergate Media
8.7%
Halcyon Energy
8.0%
Northwind Systems
7.2%
Lakeshore Hospitality
6.5%
Quarry Analytics
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%.