The 25 best paying cities for programmers

If you want a great career in the software industry, you don't necessarily have to move to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Although Silicon Valley is the undisputed epicenter of tech, the cost of living is so high that you can do better with a lower salary other cities.

Glassdoor recently sifted through its huge database of salary information to come up with this list of the 25 best cities to be a software engineer, based on average salary adjusted for cost of living.

While several Silicon Valley cities (including San Francisco) still landed on the list, the No. 1 best paying city for programmers isn't even in California.