[TaylorPhebillo]

Is there meaningful, comprehensive data on anything like "What cities are focal points for technology work"? For example, number of software engineers, total software workforce compensation, number of funded startups, etc?

Edit: As a poor proxy, checking the most recent 200 levels.fyi entries for ", CA |" finds 37 entries when I checked, vs 12 for TX. Wikipedia says the San Francisco CSA has 9 million people, vs 2.2 million for the Austin MSA. There's lots of issues with that analysis (first, I think CA programmers are more concentrated than TX programmers), but to my surprise, it implies the the bay has more programmers, but Austin has more programmers per capita?

Do people have suggestions for better data, or better analyses of data?

https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer