You can&#x27;t afford rent in San Francisco at $50,000 a year, period. The going rate for a <i>single bedroom</i> (usually with no tenant&#x27;s rights) is somewhere around $1,200 a month, well over 30% of your monthly take-home at $50,000&#x2F;year.<p>If you&#x27;re going to force people to move to the Bay Area to work for you, you need to pay them enough to afford it. Good luck hiring though.