{"id":2177,"date":"2017-11-10T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2017-11-05T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T17:23:22","slug":"tech-workers-biggest-savers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/tech-workers-biggest-savers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Workers in Seattle, San Francisco Are the Biggest Savers"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the average American saving less than 5%<\/a> of their disposable income each month, it’s quite the feat to be saving 10% or more.<\/p>\n

And yet 41% of workers across the tech world say they save at least 10% of their paychecks each month, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 employees participated in the query.<\/p>\n

The cities with the biggest savers<\/b><\/p>\n

Seattle and San Francisco were the cities with the highest percentage of workers who saved 10% or more of their paycheck each month (66% and 65%). Nearly 40% of workers in each of those cities claim to save at least 20%.<\/p>\n

Seattle<\/p>\n

\"SEATTLE\"<\/p>\n

San Francisco<\/p>\n

\"SANFRAN\"<\/p>\n

The higher the education, the higher the savings?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workers who completed their bachelor’s degree, master’s or doctorate reported saving at least 10% or more at a higher rate than workers who completed only high school or some college.<\/p>\n

Sampling:<\/p>\n

High school<\/p>\n

\"djd\"<\/p>\n

Bachelor’s<\/p>\n

\"dd\"<\/p>\n

Savings overall<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fifty-one percent of workers in tech claim to be saving at least 10% of their paychecks, with half of them saving 20% or more. Twenty-three percent of workers in tech say they save 5%, 20% say they save “nothing,” and 6% say they spend more than they make.<\/p>\n

\"hdh\"<\/p>\n

The latest reading is as of Nov. 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the average American saving less than 5% of their disposable income each month, it’s quite the feat to be saving 10% or more. And yet 41% of workers across the tech world say they save at least 10% of their paychecks each month, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}