These 12 cities pay software engineers the most

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Software engineers are some of America's highest paid workers.With remote work threatening to disperse engineers across the country, we wanted to find out where they're paid the most.
The highest-paid engineers are all either around Silicon Valley and San Francisco or New York City.
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Software programming of all stripes has become an essential part of the economy, to the point where coding has become part of children's educations, an