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In San Francisco, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough

July 1, 2026/

“I feel a little bit like I’m not good enough to live here anymore because I don’t work at an A.I. company,”

The overall cost of living in the city sits 65.6 percent higher than the national average.

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.

By Emmy Martin

Reporting from San Francisco


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