Worst paying cities for engineering jobs?

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The cities with the lowest average salaries for engineers are Memphis, Tennessee; El Paso, Texas; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In each of these cities, the average salary for an engineer is less than $60,000 per year.

Based on the data, the three worst paying cities for engineering jobs are Memphis, TN; Buffalo, NY; and Birmingham, AL. In each of these cities, engineers can expect to earn an annual salary of less than $65,000.

Worcester, it's the worst of all. I recently received a wave of job offers from companies that are in that city and they were all very low, I thought it was curious and I googled it, and it turns out that it is the worst place for an engineer, you can imagine my answer.

I recently worked in Miami and received a job offer from Orlando, for the same job I was doing, they offered me a 15% increase in an entry-level position, and now I work in Orlando, but I know that Miami is one of the worst places for engineers.

I agree I live in Miami and companies like to lowball people.

I was around Tampa, the offers weren't great. A lot of temp/ no benefits for the first year, around 60k. Ended up moving to Omaha making 85k around 120k counting my bonus.

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