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Seattle has the highest income of any city in the USA at $94,000 a year. And we just got the $15 minimum wage.

Portland has good programs and an OK tech scene. A lot of them are poached/contracted by Seattle firms, since it can be cheaper to pay for a contractor's hotel than it can be to hire a local. The wage differential is that big between the cities.

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According to http://www.seattle.gov/economicdevelopment/business-owners/e... the median income was $52,048 in 2011. I don't know where the $94,000 number comes from, but I find it suspicious.

What is that 94k/yr number from? Is that for industry average?

It's from newspaper-blog articles about the $15 minimum wage increase.

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