Side by side

Raleigh vs San Diego

San Diego pays more: a median of $92,500 against $83,000. There is 1.7× more demand for Raleigh. Listings for Raleigh move faster — median age 53 days against 63.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureRaleighSan DiegoGap
Open postings69,13039,556+29,574
Posted this week3,2351,459
Median salary$83,000$92,500$-9.5k
25th percentile$65.5k$73k
75th percentile$103k$115k
Salary disclosed6.2%5.0%
Remote share13.3%12.0%+1.3pp
Median age of posting53d63d
Open over 60 days49.1%45.1%
Visa sponsorship18.2%11.4%
Pay

Pay distribution

Raleigh

$37k$144k

San Diego

$42k$160k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Raleigh

just posted53d median90d+

San Diego

just posted63d 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%

San Diego — technologies

Tableau
72.0%
Python
65.8%
dbt
59.6%
Swift
53.4%
Spark
47.2%
React
41.0%
Figma
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%

San Diego — employers

Rivergate Media
9.4%
Fairmount Legal
8.7%
Cobalt Financial
8.0%
Ironbark Manufacturing
7.2%
Pinewood Education
6.5%
Umbra Security
5.8%
Lakeshore Hospitality
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%.