A $100K salary in Seattle will bring you about $49,000 worth of take-home pay. In addition to that, Seattle was recently ranked the city with the smallest apartment sizes in the United States. A report found that new Seattle apartments are the smallest nationwide. Tallahassee, FL, led the nation with the largest apartments.
Not all good jobs in Seattle are in the tech field. Salaries in Seattle range between $54,823 to $93,090 annually. Some of the top paying kinds of jobs in Seattle are Neuroradiologist, Anesthesiologist, and Otolaryngologist. The average salary in Seattle is $88k. The cost of living in Seattle, WA is a whopping 50 percent higher than the national average.
The most popular occupations in Seattle, WA are Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Project Manager, which pay between $54k and $149k per year. The most popular employers in Seattle, WA are Amazon.com Inc, Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI), and Microsoft Corp.
With the cost of living comes smaller apartments. Seattle apartments have continued to shrink in size throughout the last decade, according to RentCafe. The average size of new apartments in 2022 was 887 square feet — a 54 square-foot drop since 10 years ago. It was also the largest year-over-year decrease, down 30 square feet.
A new report finds that apartment sizes in the emerald city have decreased 5%, or 30 square feet, when compared to 10 years ago. Seattle’s average size of new apartments is 659 square feet with the average size of all apartments at 689 square feet. After Seattle, Queens, New York is in second place with Portland, Oregon in third for smallest apartments.
