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Tier 1,2,3 is a term made up by New Yorkers and Los Angeles to keep themselves “top tier”. Anybody who says LA is better than San Diego is out of their minds.
This guy...
Tier is based on COL, not how great the city is. Stop getting offend, Tier 3s.
Fair haha.. check out St Petersburg, FL. In line with the short list of cities you listed above.
For us LA is T2 and the cost of living is drastically different between NYC/SF and LA/Chicago. This is based on salary ranges for each city
Good question...I wonder what Philadelphia is
Philadelphia is like a larger version of Brooklyn and queens with a dabble of Manhattan. COL is similar to Chicago, so probably T2. Some hardos might put in T3 if they say only NYC is T1.
This isn’t validated, but I think just about every major city in California is a tier 1 city. Everywhere I’ve had Cali work (AKA the majority of my projects) has been tier 1 for me. LA is tier 1 (or was a few years ago when I had a big client there), and I’ve spent a little bit of time in SD and don’t remember having to charge less. I know this is virtually no help, but it’s something! Lol 😝
there’s only 1 T1 city: NYC #sorrynotsorry
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Who cares?
Idk about cities but I do know all big 4 firms are tier 3 🙊