The Per Capita Income is Not the Average Skewed Income With Billionaires Like Gates Averaged In Meaning the $28/hr average income in 2019 is $19/hr per capita. This agrees with other SWE raw data sources at about $20/hr in Seattle [or Kansas City, SF, NYC, etc,etc]… “…The 2017 nominal median income per capita was $31,786. Because there are quite a few extremely wealthy individuals in America, the mean is much higher. In 2017, the mean income per capita was $48,150. The Census Bureau reports it in the Current Population Survey, Table PINC-01….” https://www.thebalance.com/income-per-capita-calculation-and-u-s-statistics-3305852 I’ve been documenting this for years and all the MSM [even FOX] has deaf ears to the real per capita pay raw data….LOL…BTW, the avg number of “per capita pay” workers per Seattle household is 1.2, about $48K per Seattle area household IOWs. Not near the $250K/Yr to be Middle Class in Seattle…

Will Seattle Need More S/W engineers? Gosh, the Raw Data is Missing on Software Engineers Actually Hired in 2019 in Seattle I see national predictions that 300,000 may be added over the next decade, but how many actually hired in Seattle in 2018/2019? Without that raw data the trending is just “brainwashing” hot air…. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/Software-developers.htm Also, notice how S/W development is mixed in with software engineering alleged needs? What’s S/W development with company source code not taught in engineering colleges got to with engineering anyway? S/W development is a “lion’s share” randomizing code “hacker” type job that really only requires a high school diploma, ask Bill Gates. Or a good gambler from Vegas…LOL

I Was asked This Question Yeterday by a Seattle Real Estate Investor "Isn't Seattle hiring a whole bunch of $250K/Yr Software Engineers for High Tech?" Gosh, the Raw Data is Missing on Software Engineers Actually Hired in 2019 in Seattle I see national predictions that 300,000 may be added over the next decade, but how many actually hired in Seattle in 2018/2019? Without that raw data the trending is just “brainwashing” hot air…. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/Software-developers.htm Also, notice how S/W development is mixed in with software engineering alleged needs? What’s S/W development with company source code not taught in engineering colleges got to with engineering anyway? S/W development is a “lion’s share” randomizing code “hacker” type job that really only requires a high school diploma, ask Bill Gates. Or a good gambler from Vegas…LOL I conclude that Seattle recently hired 0 degreed American legal citizen software engineers [no experience needed], unless I see the "raw data" in writing.