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Gen Z is starting to graduate from college and enter the workforce.
- Colleges graduates from the class of 2019 represent the first majority-Gen Z class entering the full-time workforce.
- For recent grads looking for tech jobs, there are several high-paying options, including senior developer, lead engineer, and mobile developer.
- Employees in the San Francisco Bay Area have the highest salaries for 12 of the 15 jobs.
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Colleges graduates from the class of 2019 represent the first majority-Gen Z class entering the full-time workforce. Many of them will be considering roles in tech - though, jobs at places like Facebook are seemingly less popular among this crowd - and looking for the highest-paying positions.
According to a recent study by salary and compensation website Comparably, 88% of Gen Z college graduates are conservatively optimistic about their futures - hoping for the best, but expecting to work harder than their elders. One-third believe gender has been an obstacle in their burgeoning
Comparably found that in more than half of the 15 roles it highlighted, women are paid more on average. However, Comparably clarified that this appearance of higher salaries for women could simply mean that there are less women holding these roles, and those few women are being paid more in progressive cities.
The study also broke out cost of living by city: Employees in the San Francisco Bay Area have the highest salaries for 12 out of the 15 tech jobs listed, but those employees also have the highest cost for apartment rentals. Seattle pays the most for the remaining three tech roles.
Here are the top 15 highest-paying jobs in tech for recent grads:
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