In December 2005, the U-T ran a story about the poor job situation in San Diego. Only a few companies have openings, and one is Qualcomm, with 500 openings they cannot fill because they can’t get people to move here. So this situation with Qualcomm has been going on for a while. My friend’s husband is a VP of one of their divisions, and he has no openings at all, and was surprised at the 500 figure when I asked him about it last month.
What is high paying? Do you mean an engineer earning $90K? That is not high enough for San Diego. How much do their engineers earn?