{"id":53155,"date":"2022-09-16T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.outsourceaccelerator.com\/?p=53155"},"modified":"2022-09-16T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:50:30","slug":"sf-bay-area-hailed-as-us-wfh-capital-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.outsourceaccelerator.com\/sf-bay-area-hailed-as-us-wfh-capital-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Bay Area hailed as US WFH capital in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
The San Francisco Bay Area is recognized as the Work-From-Home (WFH) capital of the United States in 2021, with over 200,000 people in the area working remotely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n According to the US Census Bureau, 46% of San Francisco residents did remote work last year. This figure is significantly higher than the nine per cent recorded in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Among its residents, white San Franciscans were the most likely to work from home in 2021, with 56% of them doing so. This was followed by 39%, 37%, and 31% of Black, Asian, and Hispanic people, respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, in terms of salaries, the American Community Survey (ACS) said that SF Bay remote workers earned a median of about $120,000 while public transit riders earned about $44,000 in the last 12 months before the survey was conducted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the low wages, ACS revealed that a slim majority of SF workers continue to physically report to their jobs in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n Nationally, the number of Americans working remotely exploded between 2019 to 202. marking the highest number ever recorded by the ACS.<\/span><\/p>\n