A post on the blog District, Measured, which belongs to D.C.’s Office of Revenue Analysis, got #DCTech talking last week.

Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the post showed the average monthly wage for a startup employee versus an employee of a more established company in D.C., as well as in New York, Seattle, Austin, Boston and San Francisco.

The big revelation — startup employees in D.C. make, on average, 61.2 percent of the salary of all other workers. This number is on the lower end of the spectrum compared with San Francisco, where startup employees make 73.2 percent of that other workers make and Austin, where the average startup salary is 76.5 percent that of the salary at any other company.

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