7. Raleigh, N.C.

Cost of living as a percentage of salary: 50.3%

Covering the eastern side of the tech-heavy Research Triangle Park, the region hosts such big-name tech vendors as Cisco, Citrix and Red Hat, which – with two other companies – account for about 16 percent of more than 9,000 open tech jobs, according to Paysa.

Raleigh has the fifth-lowest annual cost of living in the Paysa survey, at $43,964.