One thing I have noticed during a recent job search - I used the cost of living calculator from bankrate.com[1], relocation from city A to city B from wolframalpha [2] and the salary information available on websites like glassdoor, indeed and salary.com to get an estimate of a par salary at different locations for a particular position. In these websites, I noticed that indeed.com has extremely optimistic estimates of the salaries for most positions when compared to glassdoor or salary.com, so much so that I stopped using data from indeed.com e.g. here are the salaries for a software engineer in Chicago, IL
- glassdoor.com ( avg $74,426 ) [3]
- salary.com ( median $62,257 ) [4]
- indeed.com ( avg $114,000 ) [5]
Even when verified by converting the par salaries from 2 different locations using bankrate or wolframalpha the indeed estimates were quite high. Since, the author used data from glassdoor and indeed, I wonder how accurate the analysis is considering the underlying data from indeed isn't necessarily accurate.
[1] http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l...
[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+seattle...
[3] http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/chicago-software-engineer-...
[4] http://www1.salary.com/IL/Chicago/Software-Developer-I-salar...
[5] http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Software-Engineer-l-Chicago,-...