The goal of this report is to show how much a software engineer can save in the top-paying cities.
Salaries were taken from Levels.fyi's report 2022. Cost of living data was sourced from Numbeo, specifically the dataset obtained from Kaggle dataset.
I have calculated the net income for a single person without children in each city. The yearly cost of living is determined by multiplying the cost of living in New York for a person renting a one-bedroom apartment outside the city center ($4,000) by the cost of living plus rent divided by 100, and then multiplying the result by 12.