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title: The West Coast looks east for hiring
description: 43% of West Coast tech company jobs are now listed outside of the region.
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# [The West Coast looks east for hiring](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/03012022-hiring-tech)

 Written by [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/author/jacob-cohen) | Mar 2, 2022 3:49:15 AM

Working in tech outside of Silicon Valley is a trend that started pre-covid, but accelerated rapidly with it.

At the start of 2019, [30%](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-22/over-40-of-west-coast-tech-job-listings-are-outside-west-coast?sref=3Ac2yX40) of the jobs for West Coast tech companies were listed outside of the region. That’s now 43%.

You could say the big winners here are states that attracted lots of this talent like Texas and Virginia, but then again, rent in Austin was up [~25%](https://www.kxan.com/news/ut-researcher-austin-rent-spike-to-hit-struggling-families-even-harder/#:~:text=AUSTIN%20(KXAN)%20%E2%80%94%20New%20data,at%20the%20Austin%20Business%20Journal.) last year.

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