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Except you are missing how salary works. It is never "You create X value. We will pay you .5x" (Outside of very niche places like Trading). 99% of the world i
by brianwawok 10y ago
Except you are missing how salary works.
It is never "You create X value. We will pay you .5x" (Outside of very niche places like Trading).
99% of the world is "Oh you made X at your last job? We can pay you X + 10k.
Hence the older dev tends to make slightly more salary than the younger dev, even if the skillset was similar. And by older, I mean years of coding not physical age. If a guy was a chef for 20 years and a programmer for 3, he is the same programmer age as a 3 year out of college guy.
- sokoloff 10y agoI agree that many places work that way, particularly if they have no idea how much value a dev creates. I don't know if it's 99% or not; that seems high to me, and even at such places, if I go in with proof/truth that I made $500K at my last job, I'm not getting an offer for $510K as a dev...
- brianwawok 10y ago500k will not lead to a 510k offer. If you aren't someone famous, likely true. But if you have two identical guys going for 2 spots.. one guy last made 120, one guy last made 160. I bet their offers are 130 and 170, despite their IDENTICAL skills. This is why the salary of your first few jobs after college matters so much. Screw it up by 10k and you can EASILY lose 200-300k of salary over your career.