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Anon lives with their parents (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Where do you live that houses are 100-200k and programmers make 75k?

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Where are "programmers" making less than 75k in the west?

[-] Tja@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago

Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, UK (outside of London)...

[+] GBU_28@lemm.ee -8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You work on the internet, my God

Half our team is from Spain and we pay us wages.

Don't be silly, market abroad

[-] Tja@programming.dev 23 points 4 months ago

No, you don't pay us wages. You adjust for local CoL like every company on earth, or you wouldn't hire in Spain.

Even in a fantasy world where your company is a unique snowflake that pays 150k a year independent of location, those are a dozen jobs for a country of 50 million people.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

As a note, my company, a fortune 50 company, does not adjust for cost of living. They adjust to cost of labor.

So if they were to magically hire overseas (not a thing they do), they would pay people from Spain average Spanish wages for the industry.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, that is actually the correct term, cost of labor. I work for a smaller one (NASDAQ 100) and they do hire remote and do adjust for cost of labor.

[-] mstrk@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You're probably talking about contractors and gross pay. That's probably why people here are misunderstanding your statement.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In Germany it's difficult to get past 75k.

I current have 52k and they refuse to pay more after 4 years of experience.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

I highly do not recommend it but if you move to America you'll make triple.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Robbery

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

2015

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

The UK? Sounds about right in GBP.

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