San Francisco’s booming technology sector is a pretty great place to make a living if you’re a man. Men hold 82% of leadership positions, on average, at Google GOOGL -1.02%, Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the industry’s biggest companies. And they don’t have to concern themselves with that pesky gender pay gap. Men with bachelor’s degrees or better in Silicon Valley earn over 50% more than their female counterparts.
Luckily, the Bay Area isn’t the only place for women in tech to grow successful careers. Financial technology company SmartAsset analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data to come up with a list of the best cities for women in the tech sector. San Francisco didn’t crack the top 15.
SmartAsset looked at four metrics across the 58 largest cities in the country: women as a percentage of the tech workforce; the gender pay gap in tech; income after housing costs; and three year tech employment growth.
Washington, D.C. came top of the list, with women in the Census category of “computer and mathematical occupations” making 99.3% as much as men in the same roles. Women fill more than 40% of tech jobs in the nation’s capital, versus a dismal 22.6% in San Francisco.
At two and three on SmartAsset’s ranking: Kansas City, Mo. and Detroit, Mich. In both cities, women in tech actually out-earn their male counterparts, to the tune of 100.8% and 122.8% respectively. The Motor City in particular boasts impressive three-year tech employment growth of 32%. (San Jose saw 15% three-year growth, by way of comparison.)
Based on SmartAsset’s criteria, the top California city for women tech workers is Fremont at number 9. Women earn 87 cents to every male dollar and comprise just over a quarter of the area’s tech workforce.
Here’s the full list: Best Cities Chart.jpg
Reprinted from: Forbes/Entrepreneurs – www.forbes.com – 2.25.16
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