By Susan Adams, Forbes Staff It’s not surprising that California’s Silicon Valley lands in the top spot on a new ranking of metropolitan areas that offer the best-paying jobs for information technology professionals. But there are some other unexpected results in a new survey from Dice, a 22-year-old career site that specializes in tech jobs. One is that while Silicon Valley still boasts the highest tech salaries in the nation, at an average of $101,000, that number is down by 2.8% from a high of $104,000 the previous year. Scot Melland, CEO of Dice Holdings, says the dip in Silicon Valley salaries is probably a result of companies there hiring more people straight out of college, which skews the average salary downward. “Silicon Valley is plucking new grads from around the country and moving them into the Bay Area,” he says.
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