20k a year sounds about right. I am in former ost block EU country, median pay would be ~10k, monthly rent ~300$. I might know a few people around here that mi

20k a year sounds about right. I am in former ost block EU country, median pay would be ~10k, monthly rent ~300$. I might know a few people around here that might make more than 100k as programmers but, they are either project leads with a lot of responsibility, or they own the business and have a few large US clients. Of course, all of my US colleagues earn much more.