Just because you take home a bigger paycheck doesn’t mean you ‘earn more.’ It’s all relative to where you live. With high demand for software engineers in cities across the country, where do software engineers really get paid the most?

Given cost of living factors – including housing costs, transportation, food, recreation and more – Glassdoor is revealing the 25 Best Paying Cities for Software Engineers, by identifying the ‘real adjusted salary’ for software engineers in each city. ‘Real adjusted salary’ is determined by looking at the ratio of each city’s local median software engineer base salary to its official cost of living figures from the federal government. (Note, government figures compare the average cost of living price level in each city to the national average, which is set at 100).

[Related: Employers, learn the best ways to recruit software engineers: what to do and what not to do.]

To help you understand more, for example, a software engineer in San Diego, CA earns $100,000 per year, while a software engineer in Portland, OR earns $90,000. But when cost of living is factored in, the software engineer in Portland earns a 5.1% higher real salary ($89,374; #9) than the engineer in San Diego ($85,034; #19).

Which cities really pay software engineers the best? Check out the full results. Plus, further below, see more on how to get hired and our full methodology:

Seattle, WA – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $105,735

+7.1% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $113,242

Job Openings: 4,205

San Jose, CA – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $100,989

+21.3% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $122,500

Job Openings: 2,017

San Francisco, CA – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $99,751

+20.3% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $120,000

Job Openings: 2,232

Madison, WI – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $97,236

-2.3% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $95,000

Job Openings: 105

Raleigh, NC – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $94,142

-4.4% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $90,000

Job Openings: 416

Austin, TX – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $91,185

-1.3% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $90,000

Job Openings: 828

Boston, MA – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $90,171

+10.9% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $100,000

Job Openings: 1,965

Sacramento, CA – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $89,669

+2.6% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $92,000

Job Openings: 120

Portland, OR – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $89,374

+0.7% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $90,000

Job Openings: 412

Atlanta, GA – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $89,286

-4.8% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $85,000

Job Openings: 1,326

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $88,294

+0.8% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $89,000

Job Openings: 1,376

Durham-Chapel Hill, NC – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $88,143

-4.7% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $84,000

Job Openings: 123

Omaha, NE – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $88,017

-5.7% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $83,000

Job Openings: 121

Phoenix, AZ – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $87,997

-1.4% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $86,765

Job Openings: 595

Salt Lake City, UT – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $87,262

-0.3% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $87,000

Job Openings: 248

Denver, CO – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $85,878

+4.8% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $90,000

Job Openings: 898

San Antonio, TX – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $85,696

-5.9% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $80,640

Job Openings: 151

Charlotte, NC – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $85,653

-6.6% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $80,000

Job Openings: 314

San Diego, CA – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $85,034

+17.6% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $100,000

Job Openings: 675

Pittsburgh, PA – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $84,926

-5.8% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $80,000

Job Openings: 473

Houston, TX – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $84,493

+0.6% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $85,000

Job Openings: 380

Boulder, CO – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $84,424

+9.4% above national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $92,360

Job Openings: 183

Palm Bay-Melbourne, FL – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $84,122

-4.9% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $80,000

Job Openings: 110

Tucson, AZ – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $83,248

-2.7% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $81,000

Job Openings: 60

Huntsville, AL – See Open Jobs

Real Adjusted Salary: $83,242

-8.7% below national average cost of living

Median Base Salary: $76,000

Job Openings: 269

Now that you know the 25 Best Paying Cities for Software Engineers, see more to help you find a new job you’ll love as a software engineer:

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Methodology: Glassdoor’s 25 Best Paying Cities for Software Engineers identifies U.S. cities with the highest real adjusted salary for software engineers, indicating where a local software engineer’s base salary stretches furthest when compared to local cost of living. Real adjusted salary is determined by the ratio of median annual base salary to cost of living for each city. To be considered, a city must have received at least 100 salary reports shared by local software engineers over the past year (6/20/15 – 6/19/16). For simplicity of reporting, ‘cities’ refers to U.S. metros as defined by the U.S. Office of Management & Budget, and cost of living refers to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis’s Regional Price Parities (RPP1) Index (RPP1 compares the average price level in each metro to the national average, which is set at 100). This report takes into account job title normalization that groups similar job titles. Job openings represent active job listings on Glassdoor as of 6/20/16.